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Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

#ai #automation #anthropic #aiethics #genai #jobs #compsci #productivity #spotify #developertools

Spotify says its top engineers haven't written code in months as AI handles development

22 days / techspot

Spotify’s best coders are letting Claude Code do the work

22 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Anna’s Archive quietly ‘releases’ millions of Spotify tracks, despite legal pushback

22 days / reddit / /u/tekz

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

23 days / reddit / /u/esporx

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

23 days / reddit / /u/joe4942

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

23 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 8:20 pm / permalink 19111 / 6 stories in 22 days


An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

Mark Sullivan / fastcompany - Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as r…


Agent platforms and corporate adoption reshape real-world workflows

Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents

22 days / techzine / Mels Dees

Uptiq Raises $25M to Add AI Agents to Bank Workflows

22 days / ventureburn / Ekemini

China's Baidu adds OpenClaw AI into search app for 700 million users ahead of Lunar New Year

22 days / cnbc

Case study: AI agent autonomously running digital marketing with real performance data

22 days / reddit / /u/Crumbedsausage

Expedia Embraces Agentic Commerce to Fight Platform Disruption

22 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

AutoNavi Launches ABot-M0 and ABot-N0 Embodied Foundation Models, Tops 10 Global Benchmarks

22 days / pandaily


Agents gone wrong: leaks, copyright errors, and social harms

Hot bots: AI agents create surprise dating accounts for humans

22 days / techxplore

1Password open sources a benchmark to stop AI agents from leaking credentials

22 days / reddit / /u/tekz

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam

22 days / techdirt / Timothy Geigner


AI agent publishes personal hit piece against open-source maintainer

An AI agent got its code rejected so it wrote a hit piece about the developer

22 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

22 days / reddit / /u/CDRnotDVD

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

23 days / fastcompany / Mark Sullivan

'Judge the Code, Not the Coder': AI Agent Slams Human Developer for Gatekeeping

23 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

23 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

23 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

23 days / ycombinator


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Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam At some point, we, as a society, are going to realize that farming copyright enforcement out to bots and AI-driven robocops is not the way to go, but today is no

22 days / bsky / @techdirt.com / techdirt.com

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19099 / 17 stories in 23 days


Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger

David Curry / eweek - Six of xAI’s 12 co-founders have left as Musk reshapes the Grok maker after SpaceX’s xAI deal, raising fresh questions about stability.The post Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #startups #aiethics #genai #business #aerospace #layoffs #xai #elonmusk #grokai

Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.

23 days / techcrunch / Tim Fernholz

Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box

23 days / ycombinator

Takeaways from Elon Musks xAI all-hands meeting

23 days / mashable

Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'

23 days / theregister / Richard Speed

Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger

23 days / eweek / David Curry

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 3:20 pm / permalink 19097 / 5 stories in 23 days


Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Google Deepmind says its upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think mode leads major reasoning and coding benchmarks.The article Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks appeared first on The Decoder.

#ai #ml #google #science #aiethics #genai #deeptech #engineering #research #gemini

Google's upgrade breaks reasoning barriers

22 days / therundown / Zach Mink

[AINews] new Gemini 3 Deep Think, Anthropic $30B @ $380B, GPT-5.3-Codex Spark, MiniMax M2.5

22 days / latent / Latent.Space

Google Gemini 3 Deep Think Hits 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2, Beating GPT-5 and Claude

23 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

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23 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

23 days / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

Hackers Are Trying to Copy Gemini via Thousands of AI Prompts, Google Reports

23 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Gemini 3 Deep Think

23 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks

23 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Gemini 3 Deep Think

23 days / ycombinator

Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini

23 days / reddit / /u/TylerFortier_Photo

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 19087 / 10 stories in 23 days


Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Counter OpenAI-Backed Super PACs in 2026 Midterms

Maria Garcia / implicator - Anthropic puts $20 million behind a pro-regulation super PAC, setting up a direct clash with OpenAI-backed political groups ahead of the 2026 midterms.

#techpolicy #anthropic #openai #aiethics #genai #government #election #ads #regulation

The move is seen as an effort to push back against OpenAI’s lobbying efforts. https://sherwood.news/power/anthropic-donates-usd20-million-to-pro-ai-regulation-pac/

23 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

Anthropic Pledges $20 Million to Political Group Backing AI Safety Rules

23 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Anthropic raises $30bn in funding round valuing AI group at $350bn

23 days / ft

Anthropic donates $20 million to pro-AI regulation PAC

23 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic promises to cover consumer electricity costs from new data center construction

23 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Counter OpenAI-Backed Super PACs in 2026 Midterms

23 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Anthropic gives $20 million to group pushing for AI regulations ahead of 2026 elections

23 days / cnbc

Anthropic to donate $20 million to US political group backing AI regulation

23 days / reddit / /u/app1310

Anthropic Invests $20 Million in Super PAC to Counter OpenAI

23 days / nytimes / Theodore Schleifer

Anthropic Enters Midterm-Election Showdown Over AI Regulation

23 days / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 10:37 am / permalink 19068 / 10 stories in 23 days


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OpenAI head of robotics quits in protest over new Department of Defense deal

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI’s head of robotics, resigned after the company signed a controversial agreement with the Department of Defense. Posting on X, she said the deal conflicted with her principles, prompting her departure. The move spotlights internal dissent over military partnerships, reigniting the perennial ethics-versus-funding debate, and leaves OpenAI seeking new leadership for its robotics program, because nuance never sleeps. More...


OpenAI delays ChatGPT adult mode rollout for verified users yet again

OpenAI has postponed the launch of a ChatGPT “adult mode” that would let verified adults access erotica and other mature content. The feature, already pushed past an earlier December target, remains on hold as the company reassesses content-safety, verification logistics, and moderation risks — because apparently building a safe bedside conversationalist is harder than it looks. More...


AMD VP builds Radeon Linux driver using Anthropic's Claude Code AI

An ecosystem formed around Anthropic’s Claude Code this week as AMD’s VP of AI software used the model to generate a Python Radeon Linux userland driver for testing, while developers released an Argus VSCode debugger for Claude Code sessions. Analysts also flagged potentially huge compute costs versus subscription prices, raising practical and cost‑efficiency questions (and a few raised eyebrows). More...


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