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AI is automating coding — so why are developer job postings rising?

Software development keeps defying the "AI takes all the jobs" forecast, a new benchmark asks whether agents can actually do research, and voice AI's leaders admit they're still waiting for their breakout moment. U.S. software development job postings have climbed almost 15% since Claude Code launched in late February 2025 — even as overall postings fell 7%. The data comes from Indeed Hiring Lab, and it complicates the fastest version of the AI-displacement narrative: if coding tools were eras

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Shenzhen clears delivery robots to work the night shift

Two stories frame the weekend: China's parcel robots are going nocturnal, and Apple is days away from putting Siri at the center of the home. Shenzhen has become the first city in China to let driverless delivery vehicles operate at night — and the experiment is scaling faster than the robots can be built. The city granted nighttime road access in March 2026, after which after-dark routes grew from 2 to 437, with more than 170 driverless vans now running parcel runs once the streets empty. Chi

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GPT-4o's first API snapshot shuts down on October 23

Eight months after GPT-4o left ChatGPT, the people who refuse to say goodbye are counting down to a new date — and a community tool built on DeepSeek's agent harness lands this weekend. OpenAI will deactivate gpt-4o-2024-05-13, the very first GPT-4o API snapshot, on October 23 — 12 days from now. The company's own deprecation page lists the shutdown with a suggested replacement, and it's the last remaining line item for the model that debuted in May 2024 with Altman's one-word post, "her." The

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Malvertising: fake Claude installers ride Bing redirects

Claude's popularity has made it a lure — and today's campaign shows how much trust an ad can borrow. One story, dissected. Hackers are running a fake Claude download page through Google Ads, and the trick is that the ad's destination looks like a Microsoft domain. Security researchers at Push Security, who dubbed the technique "Adception," found a sponsored Google result targeting people searching for "claude mac" whose click URL was a legitimate Bing search-results redirect — so the ad passe

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Classic console games are collapsing into the web at a pace nobody asked for: in the past two weeks, hundreds of AI-decompiled ports of PS2- and PS3-era titles have appeared online, and several of them play like the real thing. Hundreds of AI-decompiled games — Halo: CE, GTA: Vice City, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Skate 3, The Simpsons: Hit and Run — now run in a browser tab, and the ones we've seen reports of don't look like bootleg garbage. Kotaku's Lewis Parker spent time with the ports and re

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AI agent makers promise privacy — nobody has earned it yet

Every agent pitch now leads with privacy — and this week the gap between the promises and the receipts got easier to measure. Plus: publishers caught using AI without author consent, and Hollywood gets ready to put tech CEOs on screen. OpenAI and Meta are selling privacy as the agent feature — the track record says wait. At OpenAI DevDay, Sam Altman said Dots and its surrounding controls "set the new standard for privacy in frontier AI," taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse along the way — which

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AI 101 — What is voice cloning?

Voice cloning is AI that learns how a specific person sounds from a short sample of them talking — then reads any new sentence in that voice. Type a sentence you never spoke, and it comes back in your cadence, your accent, your pitch. The voice is the output; the sample was just the lesson. Why it matters right now Voice cloning stopped being a research demo and became a price line in September, when Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite — text-to-speech models where

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How to — tell if the person on the video call is real

You will finish this with a rule you can run on any video call in under a minute: which requests must be verified, what to ask on the spot, where to confirm them — so a face on a screen never carries a payment or a password by itself. That rule is now necessary because your eyes have lost. Tavus, a video-conversation startup, ran a one-minute call study with its Griffin model and reports that 48% of participants believed they had been talking to a real person; its previous systems topped out a

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AI 101 — What is vibe coding?

Vibe coding is writing software by describing what you want in plain language and letting an AI write the code — while you judge the result by whether it works, not by reading every line. Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, named it in a February 2025 post; by November, Collins Dictionary had named "vibe coding" its word of the year for 2025. Why it matters right now. Code is the one thing AI does that people actually depend on, and the numbers show it: Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Surve

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Meta's Muse builds a page for everyone in your life

A fresh round of uncomfortable evidence about what AI agents quietly keep on you — and the first concrete sign that AI-generated slop is now breaking security programs, not just feeds. Meta's Muse builds a page for everyone in your life. Extracted system prompts for Meta's consumer agent show an instruction to compile "a page for every person in the user's life," with an hourly background job filling sections labeled Facts, History, The relationship, In common, Open threads, and Strengthening

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Gemini app drops Flash and Pro for free users on October 9

Google is pulling its best models behind a subscription next week, arXiv is rationing submissions against the AI paper flood, and a DeepMind essay is picking a fight with the singularity itself. Starting October 9, Gemini app users without a subscription lose access to both Flash and Pro — free accounts will be left with Flash-Lite only. Google confirmed the change in its own help pages this week, and the model table it publishes draws a hard line: Flash and Pro sit behind the AI Plus tier, mea

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How to — cut an AI app off from your accounts

You connected an AI tool to your mail or calendar once, used it for a week, and stopped thinking about it. By the end of this, every connected-apps list you own will show only apps you can name a reason for — and you'll know exactly how to pull the plug. What you granted wasn't a one-time peek. When you tapped "Allow" on a consent screen, you issued the app a standing key: a bundle of permissions, which the standards call a scope, that keeps working while you're not looking. That's the point of

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