Baidu’s Swift $11 Billion Selloff Shows Struggle to Meet AI Hype

A 20% slide in Baidu Inc.’s shares over the past month serves as a crucial reminder for companies in China’s rapidly intensifying artificial intelligence race: investors are demanding tangible results ...

Startup company forces techie to use AI for coding, then fires him for using AI at work. 'They were delusional'

A junior developer at a small AI-focused startup was pushed to use AI tools to meet tight deadlines. While the approach initially helped him keep up, it eventually led to production bugs. Management ...

Will software engineering profession die in the age of AI? IBM stock bleeds as Claude Code writes COBOL scripts. What it means for techies

AI agents like Claude Code are reshaping software development by automating legacy modernisation and routine coding. A recent ...
Decrypt

OpenAI Says Benchmark Used to Measure AI Coding Skill Is 'Contaminated'—Here's Why

OpenAI wants to retire the leading AI coding benchmark—and the reasons reveal a deeper problem with how the whole industry measures itself.

IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...
InfoQ

Anthropic Study: AI Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill Mastery by 17%

Anthropic research shows developers using AI assistance scored 17% lower on comprehension tests when learning new coding ...

James Van Der Beek tribute set at Fox with encore of 'The Real Full Monty' cancer benefit special

Fox will air a rerun of "The Real Full Monty" in James Van Der Beek's honor Wednesday. The encore of the 2024 two-hour special, which set out to raise awareness for prostate, testicular and colorectal ...
InfoQ

Pandas 3.0 Introduces Default String Dtype and Copy-on-Write Semantics

The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory ...
CNN

Taylor Swift takes it back to the ‘90s with her new video for ‘Opalite’

Taylor Swift is back in the headlines and this time it’s for something more positive than what she’s been used to lately. The superstar singer has dropped the music video for “Opalite,” the newest ...
Rolling Stone

Taylor Swift Goes Back to the Nineties in Star-Studded ‘Opalite’ Video

Taylor Swift isn’t through with her showgirl era just yet. The pop star just released the music video for her next The Life of a Showgirl single, “Opalite” — and it’s full of lightning-strike twists.
USA Today

Taylor Swift was not at the 2026 Grammys. What happened?

Shake it off, Swifties: There's a good reason for Taylor Swift to skip the 2026 Grammy Awards. She had no releases during the Aug. 31, 2024, to Aug. 30, 2025, eligibility window. Since her twelfth ...
NBC News

Taylor Swift inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame as one of its youngest members ever

The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted Taylor Swift into its exclusive club, the group said Wednesday, making the world-famous pop star one of its youngest honorees at 36. The Class of 2026 also ...