In September of 2024, I was looking for story ideas for The Guardian’s news desk when I noticed something unusual in the CDC’s latest overdose fatality data—antidepressants had been co-involved in as ...

AI coding agents can now do some of this work. Vibe coding for serious engineers is still evolving. Amazon's Kiro tool aims to offer a more structured approach, starting with up-front planning.

OpenAI’s top executives are finalizing plans for a major strategy shift to refocus the company around coding and business users, recognizing that a “do everything all at once” strategy has put them on ...

After all, the people getting really rich were the software folk: Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon Brookes; Canva’s Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht. Stories abounded of ...

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 ...

Sam Altman sits with his legs pretzeled in an office chair, staring deeply into the ceiling. To be fair, the new OpenAI headquarters—a temple of glass and blond wood in San Francisco’s Mission ...

Learning to code in 2026 involves balancing foundational programming skills with the ability to adapt to evolving technologies. According to Tina Huang, while AI coding agents can automate many ...

Mr. Kagan-Kans writes about A.I., science and ideas. The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of ...