XDA Developers on MSN

I used Meta Llama 4, Qwen 3-Coder and Gemma 4 to develop a Python app, and only one model is worth keeping for developers

Putting some of the best local models to the development test ...
CNN

Coding classes are rewriting futures in a Kenyan youth prison

When Kenyan tech entrepreneur Paul Akwabi visited a juvenile prison on the outskirts of Mombasa, he didn’t see young criminals — he saw himself. “I thought, ‘This could have been me,’” Akwabi recalled ...
TechCrunch

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but the startup, founded by two former early Datadog engineers, ...
Variety

Kore-eda’s ‘Sheep in the Box,’ Hirose Suzu Lead Japan Cuts 2026 Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)

Japan Cuts 2026 has unveiled its full lineup for the 19th edition of North America’s largest Japanese film festival, with Ishikawa Kei’s “A Pale View of Hills” – an adaptation of Nobel Prize laureate ...
Digi Times

Peking University's true-3D EDA tool gives Huawei's LogicFolding chip roadmap critical design link

Peking University researchers have unveiled a prototype electronic design automation (EDA) tool built for "true-3D" chip design, offering a potential missing link for Huawei's LogicFolding ...
TechCrunch

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation

Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation ($26 billion post money), the company announced on ...
Bloomberg L.P.

ING’s ‘Vibe Coding’ AI Is Building Its New Trading Systems

ING Groep NV is turning to “vibe coding” to build electronic trading tools for currencies and credit, its latest use of artificial intelligence to compete with larger peers. “Vibe coding” — telling AI ...
TheWrap

‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: Japanese Film About Grief and Parenting is a Lo-Fi Stunner

“Sheep in the Box,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s movie about androids, artificial intelligence and found family, plays out in exactly the ways you might think a Kore-eda film about those subjects would, and is ...
Engadget

xAI introduces its coding agent called Grok Build

xAI has launched a coding agent of its own to serve as competitor to its rivals' products, such as Anthropic's Claude Code. It's called Grok Build, and it's still in its early beta version that's ...
The Verge

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...
Wall Street Journal

The Tech Jobs That Are Safe From AI

It should be a tough time to be a software engineer: Coding is a favorite early artificial-intelligence use case and layoffs are spreading through the tech industry. But job postings in the ...