Automate Excel with Office Scripts : Getting Started Guide

The Office Scripts action recorder can generate code snippets for Excel changes, but some actions still require manual ...
HR Dive

Leaders say AI skills now are as fundamental as the ability to write

Data and artificial intelligence literacy skills are no longer considered specialized, a new report concluded, and instead have “crossed a critical threshold” as something widely expected in the ...
Scientific American

Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
InfoWorld

How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals

Is your generative AI application giving the responses you expect? Are there less expensive large language models—or even free ones you can run locally—that might work well enough for some of your ...
Fast Company

Why Spotify’s developers haven’t written new code in more than a month

Spotify’s most senior engineers don’t type code anymore. In fact, they have not written a single line of code since December, co-CEO Gustav Söderström revealed during a recent earnings call. It’s not ...
Inc

OpenAI Just Launched a New Vibe-Coding App. Here’s How to Start Building With It Today

OpenAI just lobbed a grenade at vibe-coding startups like Cursor and Windsurf. The company behind ChatGPT has announced the Codex MacOS app, its take on an integrated development environment (IDE) ...
Nature

Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...
MIT Technology Review

Generative coding

AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of entry-level coding jobs. Generative AI’s ability to write software code has ...