An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Google allows users to personalize their Gemini conversations with new features

Google is launching new features to let users personalize their AI assistants.

CNBC - 5d

You don't need code to be a programmer. But you do need expertise | John Naughton

AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over. Way back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made ...

The Guardian - 3d

The risks of AI-generated code are real — here’s how enterprises can manage the risk

AI generated code is set to dominate application development. Here's what enterprises can do now to lower the risk.

VentureBeat - 5d

How Yelp reviewed competing LLMs for correctness, relevance and tone to develop its user-friendly AI assistant

Yelp found that when it first launched a GPT-4o-powered AI chatbot, usage rates dropped. But training it to sound like a human changed that.

VentureBeat - Mar. 7

Liminal Experiences raises $5.8M for UGC and AI gaming

Liminal Experiences, a new user-generated content gaming startup dedicated to using AI to assist human creativity, raised $5.8 million.

VentureBeat - Mar. 11

Iran using drones and apps to enforce women's dress code, UN says

Iranian officials are encouraging people to report women who refuse to obey the Islamic republic's dress code, according to a UN report.

BBC News - 4d

Who bought this smoked salmon? How ‘AI agents’ will change the internet (and shopping lists)

Autonomous digital assistants are being developed that can carry out tasks on behalf of the user – including ordering the groceries. But if you don’t keep an eye on them, dinner might not be quite ...

The Guardian - Mar. 9

This Strategy Helps Humanize Your AI-Generated Content

Think AI will solve all your writing problems? Think again.

Inc. - 1h

Trump suggests federal government take over DC if local leaders 'can't do the job'

President Trump on Friday suggested that the federal government could take over Washington, D.C., if the national capital’s administration “can’t do the job" as he pursues making the district "the ...

The Hill - 4d

Keywords Studios provides AI-assisted innovation for game devs

Keywords Studios, the international provider of external development for games and entertainment, is launching Keywords Studios AI Solutions.

VentureBeat - 5d

Steve Jobs Hired a High-Schooler to Write the First Mac Guide. Here’s How You Can Use AI to Follow His Example

A variety of AI services like ChatGPT can improve your business’s readability.

Inc. - 4d

Alibaba launches new version of AI assistant tool as competition heats up

The launch comes as its latest effort to gain an edge amid growing competition in AI application front, further intensified by the emergence of DeepSeek.

CNBC - 6d

Lagos business etiquette: the dos and don’ts

How to navigate everything from greetings to meetings to dress code in the Nigerian megacity

Financial Times - Mar. 12

My Friend Is Refusing to Talk Politics With Me. Can She Do That?

A reader feels spurned by a friend’s “self-righteous” declaration that she would no longer engage with him about politics after he revealed he didn’t plan to vote.

The New York Times - 18m

AI Nurses Are Making Inroads Into Healthcare. Humans Have Mixed Feelings

One of the companies to know about is Hippocratic AI, which had initially promoted a rate of only $9 an hour for its AI assistants.

Inc. - 1d

Visa’s AI edge: How RAG-as-a-service and deep learning are strengthening security and speeding up data retrieval

Visa has reduced data retrieval from hours to mere minutes and blocked $40 billion in fraud thanks to gen AI tools.

VentureBeat - 1d

OpenAI urges U.S. to allow AI models to train on copyrighted material

OpenAI is asking the U.S. government to make it easier for AI companies to learn from copyrighted material, citing a need to “strengthen America’s lead” globally in advancing the technology.

NBC News - 5d

MPs scrap judge sign-off in assisted dying bill

Activists suggest replacing judges with a three-person panel featuring a senior legal figure.

BBC News - 6d

Dell is a buy as the AI sector takes a hit, Jim Cramer says

As the market sell-off continues, CNBC's Jim Cramer suggested Dell is a good stock to buy even while investors lose faith in the validity of the AI boom.

CNBC - Mar. 11

Cramer explains why investors are no longer paying up for AI stocks

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday suggested that despite the fervor for AI, investors are no longer willing to pay high prices for stocks related to the technology.

CNBC - 14h

Trump says Democrats would be to blame for shutdown, suggests it could delay tax cuts

President Trump said Thursday that Democrats would be to blame if government funding runs out this week and suggested a shutdown could delay GOP efforts to extend expiring tax cuts. "They do a ...

The Hill - 5d

AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

Wired - Mar. 7

Lando Norris takes pole but ‘learning curve’ continues for Lewis Hamilton in eighth

Lando Norris said he was “not getting ahead” of himself, despite making the perfect start to the new Formula One season in Melbourne. The McLaren driver topped all three qualifying sessions to grab ...

Yahoo Sports - 4d

Ex-player 'poured a brandy' after learning of his 'death'

Petko Ganchev jokes he "poured himself a small brandy" after his former club Arda Kardzhal held a minute's silence in the mistaken belief he had died.

BBC News - 1d

The overseas Apple iPhone encryption battle that could be headed to the U.S. next

Apple's refused to comply with a UK government demand for a backdoor into encrypted iPhone data, leaving users exposed. Other governments may press the issue.

CNBC - 16h

Aethir drives stronger gaming user acquisition for SuperScale

In a partnership with SuperScale, Aethir argued that it drives stronger user acquisition for game companies.

VentureBeat - 5d

X outage affects thousands of users

An outage on the social media platform X appeared to impact thousands of users on Monday morning. According to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 37,000 users reported problems ...

The Hill - Mar. 10

X users report a series of outages

Hours after a series of outages that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk is claiming that the social media platform is being targeted in a “massive cyberattack."

ABC News - Mar. 10

What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI

St. Paul’s Lutheran church in Helsinki has held the first church service in Finland created mostly by artificial intelligence

ABC News - Mar. 8

Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund history because of AI

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by artificial intelligence models.

CNBC - 3d

Rafael Devers walks back refusal to DH, says he'll do whatever Red Sox ask of him as Opening Day approaches

Devers has yet to play a game this spring training, while Alex Bregman has mostly manned third base

CBS Sports - 5d

AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it

It's easy to bypass steps voice cloning services have taken to prevent non-consensual voice cloning, according to the report.

NBC News - Mar. 10

Fernandes central to Man United's much-needed win at Leicester

Bruno Fernandes assisted on two Manchester United goals before netting one himself.

ESPN - 2d

CRM provider Creatio launches first ‘AI native’ platform with agentic digital talent built-in

Creatio unveiled a new CRM paradigm that puts a prompt entry box front and center, allowing the user to simply type in what they need.

VentureBeat - Mar. 11

A Tech CEO Told Me Industry Expertise is the New Technical Expertise

As AI shakes up software teams, coders should learn new skills outside of tech.

Inc. - 6d

Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition

Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used ‘for everything – the writing, the headlines, the quotes … even the irony’ . An Italian newspaper has said it is the first in the world to publish an ...

The Guardian - 23h