The Debrief

Perovskite Laser Breakthrough May Crack the Code for Next-Generation Computing and Optical Communications

Perovskite lasers, a long-sought but highly challenging solution for building tiny lasers integrated into silicon chips, have seen a major breakthrough in research from Zhejiang University. A new ...
Wall Street Journal

Cognition Cinches About $500 Million to Advance AI Code-Generation Business

AI coding startup Cognition has secured nearly $500 million in a new financing round. The deal brings the company’s valuation to $9.8 billion, more than double the level earlier this year, said a ...
InfoWorld

A developer’s guide to code generation

I started my career as an architect and coder working on AI algorithms for image processing, natural language processing, and search. Flash-forward to today, my coding is limited to low-code platforms ...
IEEE

Fuzzy-Assisted Contrastive Decoding Improving Code Generation of Large Language Models

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) play a crucial role in intelligent code generation tasks. Most existing work focuses on pretraining or fine-tuning specialized code LLMs, e.g., CodeLlama.
acm.org

Nonsense and Malicious Packages: LLM Hallucinations in Code Generation

The goal of generative AI tools, powered by large language models (LLMs), is to finish the task assigned to them; to provide a complete response to a prompt. As is now well-established, models ...
Bleeping Computer

Anthropic says OpenAI engineers using Claude Code ahead of GPT-5 launch

Anthropic says it has revoked OpenAI's access to the Claude API after ChatGPT's engineers were found using Claude's coding tools. Claude Code is better than any other coding tool in the AI coding ...
InfoWorld

First look: Guided code generation with Kiro

Kiro is the new Amazon Web Services IDE for creating software projects using agentic AI. A developer using Kiro creates a specification for the desired program, and Kiro uses Claude Sonnet (3.7 or 4.0 ...
City Limits

‘We Cracked The Code’: First Hotel-to-Housing Conversion Using State Program To Open in Queens

A pandemic-era program aimed to facilitate hotel and office to affordable housing conversions. After a slow start, and numerous financing and design challenges, its first project is opening in Queens.
san

As QR code use grows, so do ‘quishing’ scams

One of the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is the popularity of QR codes. They’re everywhere, from your table at a restaurant and the register at your favorite coffee shop to random stickers ...
TechRepublic

Hacker Exposes Amazon Q Security Flaws Using Covert Code

Generative AI virtual assistant Amazon Q was unveiled by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky in 2023. Image: AWS A threat actor managed to insert a data-wiping prompt into Amazon’s AI coding assistant Q in July, ...
IEEE

Prompt Alchemy: Automatic Prompt Refinement for Enhancing Code Generation

Abstract: Code generation has gained increasing attention as a task to automate software development by transforming high-level descriptions into executable code. While large language models (LLMs) ...