Ai Coding

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  Nothing Launches Essential AI Suite for Creating Personalised Apps; First Step Towards AI-Native OS, Says Carl Pei

  Nothing has announced Essential, it's vibe coding suite aimed at AI-centric devices. It allows users to generate their own Essential apps using natural language commands. These can be shared on Playground, a new community-driven hub. The existing Essential Space app has also been further enhanced with the introduction of Essential Memory.

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  Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 AI Model Introduced as the ‘Best Coding Model in the World’

  Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, calling it its most advanced coding model yet. The AI firm says it offers upgrades in coding, reasoning, agentic operations, and domain knowledge, with the ability to run tasks autonomously for up to 30 hours. The model is available via Claude’s website, apps, API, Claude Code, and a Chrome extension.

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  iOS 26.1 Beta Hints at Better Support for Other Smartwatches; Testers Get Access to New Apple Music Gestures

  iOS 26.1 beta 1 introduces several updates, including AirPods Live Translation for five new languages, expanded Apple Intelligence in eight languages, and a new swipe gesture for Apple Music’s MiniPlayer with Liquid Glass effects and haptic feedback. Beta code of the update reportedly hints at Notification Forwarding, easier third-party accessory...

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  Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Could Offer 'Private Display' Feature Spotted in One UI 8.5 Code

  The Galaxy S26 Ultra is expected to debut a “Private Display” feature, allowing users to protect sensitive content in public. It can reportedly be manually enabled for select apps, like banking, or scheduled automatically, with options for “Manual” or “Maximum Privacy,” which dims the screen for improved protection. The phone may also f...

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  Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Employees Tasked With Training Grok: Report

  The email sent to impacted employees on Friday evening announced that xAI is reducing its emphasis on general AI tutor roles and shifting to prioritise and significantly expand its specialist AI tutor workforce.

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  Grok Code Fast 1 With Agentic Coding Capabilities Released; Users Get One Week of Free Access

  Grok Code Fast 1, a new lightweight coding-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model, was released by xAI on Thursday. The Elon Musk-owned AI startup highlighted that this model comes with agentic capabilities and is designed as a full-stack coding agent that can be used to build both the backend and the front-end of a software.

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  Anthropic Seeks Permission to Train AI Model on User Conversations, Updates Privacy Policy

  Anthropic announced an update to its privacy policy on Thursday, highlighting that it will now train its existing and future artificial intelligence (AI) models on users’ conversations. The San Francisco-based AI company highlighted that it is now giving users an option to either accept or deny this change. This revised policy only affects the en...

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  NASA Launches AI Model To Understand Solar Eruptions, Predict Space Weather

  NASA is raising the bar in solar science with the debut of the Surya Heliophysics Foundational Model, an artificial intelligence system built to decode the Sun's complex behavior.

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  Google Tests ‘Scroll and Translate’ Feature for Circle to Search on Pixel Phones: Report

  Google is reportedly testing a new translation tool within Circle to Search. While some Pixel beta users see it as Scroll and Translate, the app code also refers to it as Live Translate, causing branding confusion. The feature is said to translate entire screens but lacks cropping support, has some processing delays, and uses a text-on-text overlay...

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  OpenAI Announces GPT-5 Family of Frontier AI Models With Improved Performance in Coding, Health, and Writing

  OpenAI on Thursday released its latest family of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models. Named GPT-5, it is said to offer a significant improvement in performance across coding, health, match, visual perception, and health. As per the San Francisco-based firm, customers can select between four types of AI models— GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5 Na...

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  'Got Humbled': Vibe Coder Caught Using AI By Boss Gets Schooled

  As per the now-viral post, the user said they were using Cursor/GPT to ship the product quickly whilst working at two companies.

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  Meta Reportedly Plans to Make Job Applicants Use AI Tools While Taking Coding Tests

  Meta is reportedly planning a new job interview format where the shortlisted candidates will be asked to use artificial intelligence (AI) for their coding tests. As per the report, the new restructuring in the hiring process is part of the company’s growing ambitions in the AI space.

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  "Cheaper, Accurate": Bill Gates Warns Against Artificial Intelligence's Advancement In Jobs

  Artificial intelligence will free us to do better work, but the world may not be ready for how fast it's growing, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said.

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  Z.ai Releases GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air Open-Source Agentic AI Models

  Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab Z.ai announced the release of two new open-source GLM models on Monday. Dubbed GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, the AI firm calls them its latest flagship models. Both of them are hybrid reasoning models that offer a thinking mode for complex reasoning and tool use, and a non-thinking mode for instant responses. Add...

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  Anthropic Introduces New Rate Limits for Paid Subscribers to Stop Claude Code Usage Abuse

  Anthropic announced new weekly rate limits for its paid subscribers on Monday. The artificial intelligence (AI) firm highlighted that the decision to add an upper ceiling to the chatbot’s usage was taken due to some users abusing Claude Code’s usage. As per the company, some users were running the coding tool 24/7 in the background.