9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (300+ words) Thanks to AI, the definition of what makes a great software engineer has fundamentally shifted in just a few years. As Rachyl Jones notes in her piece on vibe coding, even the computer science grads co-founding venture-backed startups in the…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago  (170+ words) Turns out what the growing class of LinkedInfluencers say sort of matters. Chatbots are learning from Reddit and LinkedIn Turns out what the growing class of LinkedInfluencers say sort of matters. Top AI models are mostly citing Reddit and LinkedIn…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (197+ words) Exclusive / Perplexity's "Computer' wasn't always planned'Semafor Exclusive / Perplexity's "Computer' wasn't always planned Perplexity's buzzy new "Computer' super agent wasn't in the product plans until recently. It emerged from breakthroughs in frontier AI models in December, Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (9+ words) Anthropic eases AI safety restrictions to avoid slowing development'Semafor...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (9+ words) AI poses existential threat to software, fund manager warns'Semafor...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (137+ words) Mysterious wave of bot traffic sweeps the web'Semafor Mysterious wave of bot traffic sweeps the web A mysterious wave of bot traffic is coursing through the World Wide Web. In recent weeks, websites large and small have seen dramatic spikes…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (527+ words) Falling in love with a robot was once a sci-fi movie plot. Now, it's a data point. As AI seeps into every part of our lives, once-novel use cases are now becoming ordinary, signaling a shift from merely using these…...

5+ mon, 52+ min ago  (128+ words) A major outage at Amazon Web Services brought down much of the internet Monday, with major airlines, social media sites, and banks among those affected, as well as Amazon's own website. The problem stemmed from "Domain Name System" resolution errors,…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (275+ words) The Red Sea, responsible for 90% of Europe and Asia digital communications, has been the site of critical infrastructure attacks by the Houthis in Yemen. Red Sea cables damage slows internet in Asia Damage to two major undersea cables off the…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (213+ words) Amjad Masad, CEO of AI coding startup Replit, said many companies may be mere months away from being able to develop and operate software without an engineering team. "I don't think we're there yet, where they can run the entire…...