Bengaluru techie builds device to 'kidnap' himself when bored. Here’s how it works

Tired of boring weekends, a Bengaluru techie built a device that sends him on random Uber trips across the city. Combining AI ...

Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient

This efficiency makes it viable for enterprises to move beyond generic off-the-shelf solutions and develop specialized models ...

He Gets Himself 'Kidnapped' When Bored - This Bengaluru Techie's Bizarre Hack Goes Viral

A Bengaluru techie built an AI-powered “kidnap button” that books an Uber to a random location whenever he feels bored. The ...
Communications of the ACM

The ‘Matrix’ for Machines

Kamal Mann is a Software Architect with over 22 years of experience in Industry 4.0 systems. He currently advises on edge ...
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ChatGPT vs. Indus by Sarvam AI: Can India’s 105B Model Beat OpenAI?

At the very recent India AI Impact Summit 2026, the country unveiled its own AI chatbot, called the Indus AI. While OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains the gold standard ...

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...
InfoQ

Anthropic Study: AI Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill Mastery by 17%

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
TechCrunch

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...
CNN

Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake troops: AI videos and images of Iran war spread widely on social media

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, social media was littered with crude fakes that were presented as fresh images of the war but were either photoshopped phonies or mislabeled clips taken from ...
ZDNet

7 AI coding techniques I use to ship real, reliable products - fast

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...

Andrej Karpathy's new open source 'autoresearch' lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...
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The secret Python switch: How one flag makes your scripts run faster

When you're trying to get the best performance out of Python, most developers immediately jump to complex algorithmic fixes, using C extensions, or obsessively running profiling tools. However, one of ...