Unless you're coding or stress-testing benchmarks, the "latest and greatest" usually won't change how you use AI.

The discourse around AI often focuses on those who entirely embrace — or deeply despise — the tech. For engineers, the truth ...

Elon Musk has admitted SpaceX SPCX-1.01%decrease; down pointing triangle lags behind rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic and even Google and Chinese open-source models in the race to build out artificial ...

SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. It comes just two days after ...

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but the startup, founded by two former early Datadog engineers, ...

Agentic AI is “opening up a lot of really exciting possibilities” for engineers, MathWorths’s Seth DeLand tells Design News. As a product marketing manager at MathWorks, DeLand works with MATLAB ...

Key insight: Agentic AI systems can appear to be so perfect that they lull the people tasked with reviewing them into a false sense of security, which leads to undetected errors. Expert quote: "If ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Microsoft has expanded its in-house MAI AI model family during Build 2026, introducing several new models focused on reasoning, coding, speech, and image generation capabilities, according to Neowin.