It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

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Google has unveiled Gemini 3.5, starting with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model that promises to outperform Gemini 3.1 Pro in real-world agentic and coding tasks. "3.5 Flash delivers frontier-level ...

Apple released Xcode 26.5 yesterday, with two features that build on the agentic coding capabilities introduced with Xcode 26.3. Since then, developers have been able to plug AI tools such as OpenAI’s ...

When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is ...

The new model ‘excels’ at tasks like writing and debugging code and doing work across different tools. The new model ‘excels’ at tasks like writing and debugging code and doing work across different ...

The system represents an improvement in autonomous or agentic capability. GPT-5.5 “represents a step toward AI systems that can complete complex, multistep tasks on a computer without human guidance,” ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — SpaceX says it has the rights to buy artificial intelligence coding tool Cursor for $60 billion later this year as Elon Musk’s space exploration and AI company looks for ways to ...

The Chinese company said its new open-source model can continue to improve over hundreds of iterations, as AI vendors race to build tools that can handle longer software tasks. Chinese AI company Z.ai ...

President Trump is seeking $1.5 trillion in defense spending as part of the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request, a roughly 40 percent increase from 2026 funding levels. The proposal released ...

The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of US laws barring ...