eCousticsOpinion

Is the Algorithm Living Rent-Free in Our Heads? The 21st-Century Thought Police of What We Read, Watch, Think, and Hear

From the music you stream to the rage you post, the algorithm owns you. Orwell saw it coming—control disguised as choice, ...
InfoQ

CodeClash Benchmarks LLMs through Multi-Round Coding Competitions

Researchers from Standford, Princeton, and Cornell have developed a new benchmark to better evaluate coding abilities of large language models (LLMs). Called CodeClash, the new benchmark pits LLMs ...

Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text

Diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they can be even more powerful applied in software ...
Microsoft

SesameOp: Novel backdoor uses OpenAI Assistants API for command and control

Microsoft Incident Response – Detection and Response Team (DART) researchers uncovered a new backdoor that is notable for its novel use of the OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface (API) ...

'Algorithms of oppression': Big tech urged to combat discrimination

Nearly a decade has passed since Safiya Noble googled "Black girls" and found the search results were mostly pornographic - a ...

The best free AI for coding in 2025 now - only 3 make the cut (and 5 fall flat)

I've been subjecting AI models to a set of real-world programming tests for over two years. This time, we look solely at the ...