2026-08-04
AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
At Kilo Code, engineers are reading or writing code themselves only about 1% of the time now, according to co-founder Emilie Schario — the rest is agents. That shift is forcing new questions onto dev teams: which systems are safe to hand over, who cleans up when models goof up, how to support multi-model architectures, and whether skyrocketing token bills mean real progress or just burned IT bud [...]
2026-08-04
OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.
The legal fight between Apple and OpenAI turned public and personal this week. OpenAI published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” airing private messages and emails to rebut Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit. On the same day, Apple escalated in court. Two former partners are now trading blows in the open. Apple sued in […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-04
EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres
EVgo is expanding its partnership with Brixmor Property Group to install more than 500 new DC fast charging stalls in the parking lots of shopping centres across the United States. The deal will bring EVgo’s 350 kW chargers to at least 90 Brixmor properties, covering more than a quarter of the real estate developer’s portfolio. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-04
Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud
Nvidia wants self-driving cars to explain themselves. The company has released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open AI model for robotaxis that does not just plan a route but reasons about why, and it is now available for commercial use. The model is Nvidia’s pitch for a more interpretable kind of autonomy. Rather than a black […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-04
A worm tore through npm by making the malware look perfectly legitimate
A self-spreading worm tore through npm on Tuesday. It poisoned hundreds of packages that huge swathes of the software world quietly rely on. Researchers named it ChainDrop. It is a bigger, meaner descendant of the smaller Shai-Hulud attack that hit the registry earlier this summer. It began by hijacking the GitHub account of the developer […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-04
This year's Pulitzer Prizes saw a record number of winners disclose AI use
A record eight entries honored at the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes disclosed using AI, including five winners. Newsrooms such as the Wall Street Journal and AP used LLMs mainly to search large document sets faster. Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller said AI remains off-limits for writing and editing stories.<br /> The article This year's Pulitzer Prizes saw a record number of winners disclo [...]
2026-08-04
It's official - more IT work is now off-prem than ever before, and it's sucking up a whole load of power
Third-party data centers now host more enterprise workloads as operators confront increasing power consumption, workforce shortages, outage costs and expansion challenges. [...]