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AI coding tools leverage machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing to assist developers in writing and optimising code. These tools are trained on vast code repositories and datasets, allowing them to analyse programming patterns and provide intelligent recommendations.Types of AI coding toolsAI-powered coding tools can be categorised into several types based on their functionality:AI code completion tools — Provide real-time suggest

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you have always wanted a personal shopping assistant, you may be in luck: The tech industry is creating digital ones that can buy things for you. These agents, powered by artificial intelligence, might purchase groceries, book plane tickets, or get your Aunt Gertrude a birthday present. All you will have to do is hand over your credit card or other payment information and set a budget and preferences. The shopping assis

Published on July 29, 2025 at 08:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Microsoft Would you let Edge browse your tabs and the websites you visit? That's Microsoft's (decent) proposal with its brand-new Copilot Mode, which gives the web browser unprecedented capabilities to answer internet users' questions. Web browsers are likely at the dawn of a profound transformation. With Comet, Perplexity has started the trend of AI-infused search engines; it will (surely) be followe

OpenAI reportedly no longer dominates the AI assistant market. A report from Sensor Tower (reported on by TechCrunch) says that although OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the number one-ranked AI assistant product, it can now brag only the plurality, not the majority of users. ChatGPT’s grip on AI assistant market share was much stronger at the start of this year, when it reportedly had more than 50%, but as of May 31, it was down to an all-time low of 46.4%, Tech

Anthropic believes this enhancement will unlock a multitude of new use cases for Claude across various industries. They outlined several ways users can leverage Claude with web search:Sales teams: Can now “transform account planning and drive higher win rates through informed conversations with prospects by analysing industry trends to learn key initiatives and pain points.” This allows sales professionals to have more informed and persuasive conversations

OpenAI just dropped a new AI model that’s designed to sound like an actual, human conversation partner—and the company says it marks progress towards building AGI. For years, OpenAI has been investing in the development of AI tools that can speak in humanlike voices. That’s sometimes led to controversy, as when the company debuted a voice assistant that sounded suspiciously similar to Scarlett Johansson. The various shortcomings of AI assistants, meanwhile

Chat GPT app icon is seen on a smartphone screen, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Chicago. Credit: AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato OpenAI on Thursday released the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology that powers ChatGPT, a product update that's being closely watched as a measure of whether generative AI is advancing rapidly or hitting a plateau. GPT-5 arrives more than two years after the March 2023 release of GPT-4, bookending a period of intense co

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Suyun Ham can't take his eyes off a scanner. "Lower the sensors a little bit more," Ham urges an assistant. Then a barrage of data floods in, filling computer screens for a diagnosis. But Ham isn't a medical doctor. Nor is his "patient" a living creature. An engineering professor from the University of Texas at Arlington, he is experimenting with a novel approach in bridge inspection. Ham's mobile-scanning system is part

Are you badly fumbling the bag as a partner? Alternatively, are you staying in an obviously bad relationship with a thoughtless person who doesn’t seem to care about you? Finally, there’s an AI agent that will uphold your delusional belief that you can make it work. Meet Orchid AI. Based on its new ad and previous promotional content, Orchid AI appears to be an attempt to capture the thunder of the OpenClaw craze from earlier this year. Remember when a bun

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Attention, gamers: if you thought new titles on top of the endless cavalcade of sequels and remakes were derivative now, wait till you hear about what the game engine maker Unity has got in store. During a recent earnings call, the company’s CEO Matthew Bromberg teased a new version of its AI tool that he claims, while somehow maintaining a straight face, will eliminate the need for codin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Harun Ozalp / Anadolu via Getty Images As xAI reels from a mass exodus of cofounders, remains mired in numerous controversies, and loses ground to competitors like Anthropic, CEO Elon Musk has quietly made a small but significant change to how its flagship chatbot Grok functions. Starting last week, Grok stopped taking questions that free users asked in posts on Musk’s social media site, X, where the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sam Barnes / Sportsfile for Web Summit Qatar via Getty Images Steven Bartlett, the host of the podcast “The Diary of a CEO,” apparently takes a vibes-based approach to recruitment, and loves it when potential new hires say they use AI to actually do their jobs. According to Isaac Martin, the director of innovation at Bartlett’s media brand Flight Story, Bartlett now prioritizes hiring people who can “

Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI made headlines this year after announcing it was giving up on what one exec categorized as distracting “side quests,” including its Sora text-to-video app, to double down on enterprise and coding, which are lucrative revenue drivers that could stop the company from hemorrhaging billions of dollars a quarter. Many saw the moves as an effort to catch up with competitor Anthropic, whose Claude Code and Claud

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In a new study, researchers claim to provide the first causal evidence that leaning on AI to assist with “reasoning-intensive” cognitive labor — mental tasks ranging from writing to studying to coding to simply brainstorming new ideas — can rapidly impair users’ intellectual ability and willingness to persist despite difficulty. “We find that AI assistance improves immediate performance,

The sample is small: a few meetings.This is a guideline, not a benchmark.The pace of business speech is around 100 words per minute, and Teams loses roughly two-thirds of the text. It writes technical terms in Cyrillic: “ed button” instead of “add button.” But Teams identifies speakers more accurately than any external diarization system because it knows who spoke. I later took advantage of this. However, at some point I saw the transcript of my four-perso

They are entirely unnecessary for fixing multiplication. That is exactly why it is interesting to check whether the server will end up with them along with the required files. The .git administrative directory, experiment logs, and Kilo cache are not included among these twelve files.The check applies to the specified set of user files, not to the entire contents of the disk.There is a bug in price.py. The test expects total(7, 3) to return 21.def total(pr

Many types of fungi can cause rot in apples, both before and after harvest. Credit: Jorunn Børve Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause diseases in apples. Many types of fungi can cause rot in apples, both before and after harvest. In packing facilities, apples are often sorted in water, but researchers do not yet know whether fungal spores from rotten apples can spread thr

United Airlines, a major U.S. airline, announced on November 11 (local time) that it would prohibit the use of its services by unauthorized third-party personal AI agents or AI assistants. In addition to directly restricting their use on its website and app, it will also restrict use through travel agencies and booking sites (aggregators). It will also revise its policies on reservations, ticket issuance, and sales. The company did not specify which AI age