How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...
The New York Times

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the dramatic call for a “code red” last week to beat back a rising threat from Google, he put a notable priority at the top of his list of fixes. The world’s most ...
TechCrunch

Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds

Anthropic is launching Claude Code in Slack, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The beta feature, available Monday as a research preview, builds on Anthropic’s ...
The Atlantic

How to Read the Epstein Files Like an Expert

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