Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

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Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the most ambitious product in its three-year history: a multi-model agent orchestration platform ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...

Before speaking with Professor Jae Woo Lee, I had gotten to know him through dozens of campus message board posts and professor reviews of his infamous course, Advanced Programming. According to a ...

A free manual on first principles for building useful AI systems with CLI agents like Claude Code. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's tweet on Dec 26, 2025: "I've never felt this much behind as a ...