How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here’s what makes them tick.
Benj Edwards
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AI // Open the pod doors
OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year
Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.
WIRED
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World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs
Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Anna’s Archive scraped.
Ashley Belanger
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Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi
Google says the lawsuit is its last resort.
Ryan Whitwam
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LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems
LG says it’ll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren’t going away.
Scharon Harding
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We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive
How do four modern LLMs do at re-creating a simple Windows gaming classic?
Kyle Orland and Benj Edwards
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YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers
Google loves AI content, except when it doesn’t.
Ryan Whitwam
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School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error.
Human review didn’t stop AI from triggering lockdown at panicked middle school.
Ashley Belanger
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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy
New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.
Benj Edwards
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Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says
Spotify and Accenture caught in crossfire as Trump attacks EU tech regulations.
Ashley Belanger
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Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, promising improved intelligence and efficiency
Google’s Gemini 3 family is now complete with release of Gemini 3 Flash.
Ryan Whitwam
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Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.
Dan Goodin
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“A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot
Trump’s AI “Manhattan Project” will fail if DOGE cuts are kept, critics say.
Ashley Belanger
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Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.
Ashley Belanger
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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content
Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.
Benj Edwards
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Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
Ashley Belanger
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OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself
“The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex,” OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code.
Benj Edwards
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Google Translate expands live translation to all earbuds on Android
Expanded live translation will come to iOS in the coming months.
Ryan Whitwam
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Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands
Managing each finger separately can, with the right sensors, ease control issues.
Jacek Krywko
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Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to
Trump claims state laws force AI makers to embed “ideological bias” in models.
Jon Brodkin
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Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids
“… AI toys shouldn’t be capable of having sexually explicit conversations, period.”
Scharon Harding
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Runway claims its GWM-1 “world models” can stay coherent for minutes at a time
Runway joins a competitive field alongside Google, Nvidia, and others.
Samuel Axon
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.
Benj Edwards
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Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”
Disney demands that Google immediately block its copyrighted content from appearing in AI outputs.
Ryan Whitwam
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Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora
Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.
Benj Edwards
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Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spending
Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.
Financial Times
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A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options
Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.
Benj Edwards
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US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say
Trump’s odd Nvidia reversal may open the door for China to demand Blackwell access.
Ashley Belanger
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Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents
The Agentic AI Foundation launches to support MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose.
Ryan Whitwam
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Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100
The Pebble Index 01 isn’t quite a smart ring, but it can do some smart things.
Ryan Whitwam
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In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?
Dan Goodin
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Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive
A massive study of political persuasion shows AIs have, at best, a weak effect.
Jacek Krywko
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ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says
Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.
Ashley Belanger
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The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better?
Shrinking AI for your phone is no simple matter.
Ryan Whitwam
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Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill
“Widespread and powerful movement” keeps Trump from blocking state AI laws.
Ashley Belanger
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.
Benj Edwards
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