Sergey Brin said Google needs to catch up to Anthropic on AI coding agents.
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Google says 75 percent of all its new code is AI-generated.
… Google recently created a “strike team” to improve its AI models’ coding capabilities and catch up to Anthropic, which as of February writes 70 to 90 percent of its code with Claude Code. …
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
… Microsoft now wants to turn GitHub Copilot usage around and have its own engineers once again improving its own AI coding tool. …
China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
… DeepSeek says V4 marks a major improvement over prior models, especially in coding, a capability that has become central to AI agents and helped drive the success of tools like ChatGPT Codex and Claude Code. …
Sennheiser’s new Momentum 5 headphones have upgraded ANC and a replaceable battery
…But under the hood there are welcome upgrades, including improved ANC and, for the first time, a user-replaceable battery to extend their life. The Momentum 5 Wireless will be available starting…
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… GitHub also faces a backlash against its move to usage-based billing for its GitHub Copilot AI coding tool. …
The AI code wars are heating up
… In February of 2025, Andrej Karpathy, a veteran of the AI industry, coined the term “vibe coding.” “I’m building a project or webapp,” he wrote on X, “but it’s not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.” It’s a shame Karpathy didn’t come u… …
The 9 biggest new features in Android 17
… More security features Android 17 is also packed with a spread of small security improvements for the platform. …
Attack of the killer script kiddies
… The concern is palpable across the industry, and improvements to models — along with improved understanding of their capabilities — are happening at lightning speed. …
The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
… Google says the new model is significantly faster, better at handling agentic tasks, offers improved agentic coding capabilities, and generates “richer, more interactive web UIs and graphics.” It also has improved guardrails that, according to Google, will make Gemini 3.5 Flash less likely to gener… …