BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...

A string of startups are racing to build models that can produce better and better software. They claim it’s the shortest path to AGI. Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for ...

The tool, Codex, will be able to handle multiple tasks at the same time, the company said. OpenAI is also in talks to acquire a coding tool called Windsurf for $3 billion. By Cade Metz Cade Metz ...

OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3 AI reasoning model ...

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...

Meta is adding another Llama to its herd—and this one knows how to code. On Thursday, Meta unveiled "Code Llama," a new large language model (LLM) based on Llama 2 that is designed to assist ...

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace has academic institutions wrestling with the question of how best to prepare the next generation of graduates for tech jobs, helping them ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

A Stanford researcher says data on programmer productivity suggests 14 percent of remote software engineers get barely anything done. Yegor Denisov-Blanch is a Stanford business school researcher, not ...