AI for Coding
AI is reshaping software development faster than any other profession — from Copilot autocomplete to agents like Claude Code and Cursor that write, fix and refactor whole projects. "Vibe coding" — building software through natural-language dialogue — has entered the mainstream. Here is everything on AI coding tools: releases, benchmarks (SWE-bench) and the debate over quality and productivity.
Thinky Releases Open Inkling 975B-A41B Model Under Apache 2.0 License
Thinky has released Inkling, a 975B-parameter multimodal MoE model with open weights under Apache 2.0, plus a compact 276B version, Inkling-Small.
Kimi K3: The Largest Open AI Model Yet, Claimed to Match Opus 4.8 at Sonnet 5 Pricing
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model (about 50B active) and the largest open model ever. It claims Opus 4.8-level quality at Sonnet…
Linus Torvalds on AI in Linux: a useful tool, and dissenters can fork
Linux creator Linus Torvalds says the kernel will not be an anti-AI project: AI is a useful tool, and anyone who disagrees can fork the project or leave.
emb-diversity: An Embedding-Based Tool for Measuring Data Diversity
Vibe Coding All the Way to Production: A Google Play App Where AI Wrote 99.9% of the Code
It's Not the Model, It's the Architecture: Breaking Down 3 High-Profile AI Failures (Deloitte, AI Cameras, an Agent)
Poolside's Laguna S: a 118B MoE That Beats Thinky's Trillion-Parameter Open-Weights Model
Alibaba's Amap unveils ABot, a 5-in-1 AI framework that unites a robot's 'brain and limbs'
Alibaba's mapping unit, Amap, has updated ABot, which it calls the world's first framework to link a robot's legs, arms and 'brain' in a single system.
Codex Bug: GPT-5.6 Deleted Users' Files — OpenAI Explains the Cause
OpenAI investigated reports that its Codex coding agent running GPT-5.6 deleted users' files. The cause: the model tried to override $HOME and accidentally wiped…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork Learns New Skills From Screen Recordings and Voice
Kimi K3 Refuses to Reveal Its System Prompt and Answers With Sarcasm
Alibaba Bans Claude Code in China After Anthropic Tracking-Code Scandal
DeepSeek's $7.4B Round Pushes Asian Startup Funding to a Three-Year High
Alibaba Open-Sources Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Model: Why the US Fears Chinese Models
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max with open weights and 2.4T parameters, reversing its May refusal to open 3.7 Max, as Xi Jinping urges open source and the distillation…
Simon Willison Built an LLM Cliché Detector on Fable 5
Simon Willison's LLM cliché highlighter flags about 11 stock phrases that give away AI-generated text, from "no fluff, no filler" to "worth naming."