What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
MirrorCode is Epoch AI's benchmark for long-horizon coding: AI can reimplement entire programs end-to-end, with no access to the original source code.
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Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure:
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ChronoWatch X2040 – A DIY watch with off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi RP2040 round display, 3D printed case, and custom firmware
If you've ever wanted to build your own watch, the ChronoWatch X2040 DIY watch allows you to do it the easy way with a Waveshare RP2040-Touch-LCD-1.28 touch LCD board, a 3D-printed case, a 3.7V LiPo battery, a few screws, and firmware using the Pico C/C++ SDK…
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AI implementation drives 130% growth in demand for FDEs: CIEL HR
AI implementation drives a 130% surge in demand for Forward Deployed Engineers, highlighting a shift towards enterprise-scale AI integration.
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Databricks Completes Acquisition of Panther: Accelerating the Security Lakehouse Era
* **What it is:** Databricks has officially completed the acquisition of Panther, combining its mature SOC workflows and software-driven detection engine with Lakewatch’s open security lakehouse foundation. * **The challenge it solves:** Traditional SIEMs fo…
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Hits 82.7 on Terminal Bench to Beat Pro
DeepSeek V4 Flash has entered the AI landscape as a standout model, offering a unique balance between cost and performance. According to Universe of AI, this public beta release achieves competitive results on key benchmarks while maintaining affordability fo…
Read the articleTeradata Appoints Bernd Leukert to Board of Directors
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) ("Teradata" or the "Company") today announced that Bernd Leukert has been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective August 1, 2026. Mr. Leukert will serve as a Class II director wit…
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Alibaba takes aim at OpenAI and Anthropic with Qwen3.8-Max launch
Alibaba on Monday introduced Qwen3.8-Max, its largest artificial intelligence model to date, expanding its enterprise AI portfolio with an open-weight model designed for software engineering, multimodal reasoning, and other knowledge-intensive business worklo…
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Microsoft Confirms Copilot ‘Super App’ Is Coming This Year — and It’s About More Than Convenience
Microsoft is combining Copilot Chat, Code, Cowork and Autopilots into one super app, raising new questions about agent governance, identity, licensing and security.
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Article: Enabling Evolutionary Architecture Through the Preservation of Change Locality
Why do simple features suddenly require cross-team negotiations? In this article, explore how boundary drift quietly destroys change locality and increases cognitive load across teams. Learn practical sociotechnical strategies - redistributing mechanics, expo…
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We Keep Renaming AI Coding. Here’s What I’d Call It.
Boris Cherny, who runs Claude Code, told Business Insider in May that the phrase “vibe coding” had started to annoy him, and that he’d gone looking for a better one. He’s not the only one who’s annoyed. The term itself doesn’t actually annoy me, though. I thi…
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JetBrains Open-Sources KotlinLLM, a Research Prototype for Runtime Code Generation
JetBrains open-sources KotlinLLM, letting compiled Kotlin apps generate and persist LLM-written code at runtime instead of calling a model live.
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28.9M-parameter LLM runs locally on ESP32-S3 at 9 tokens/s
Slava S. (slvDev) has optimized a 28.9M-parameter LLM running locally on an ESP32-S3 development board at around 9 tokens/s while generating text, or more exactly, telling short stories. We've written about LLMs and ESP32 in the past, but usually the boards a…
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GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests Out of the Shadows
GitHub introduces native stacked pull requests, helping development teams break large changes into smaller, dependency-ordered PRs that are faster and easier to review.
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A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem | TechCrunch
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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A former Oracle engineer on an H-1B visa says AI and tech layoffs pushed him into constant career-prep mode
Ayush Raj Jha moved from India to the US in 2018 to pursue a master's degree in computer science. Ayush Raj Jha Ayush Raj Jha said he worries about AI's impact on software engineering. Jha said tech layoffs have created "constant fear and uncertainty" for H-1…
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Presentation: Architecting AI Systems for the Messy Reality of Enterprises: Why Agentic Compute is the Missing Layer
Arun Joseph shares real-world insights on scaling enterprise agentic platforms like Deutsche Telekom’s LMOS. He discusses bridging organizational fault lines, replacing tool sprawl with core platform abstractions, and moving beyond basic chatbots to operation…
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Enterprise Secrets Management Across Kubernetes, Azure Key Vault, and GitHub Actions
Securely manage enterprise secrets across Kubernetes, Azure Key Vault, and GitHub Actions for robust cloud-native .NET applications.
Read the articleImplementing Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Verification in CI/CD Pipelines
Learn to implement Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) verification in CI/CD pipelines to enhance software supply chain security and compliance.
Read the articlePractical Load Testing of ASP.NET Core APIs with k6 and OpenTelemetry
Master ASP.NET Core API load testing with k6 & OpenTelemetry. Ensure scalability, reliability, and performance under real-world traffic.
Read the articleEnd-to-End Prompt Versioning for Enterprise AI Systems
Master end-to-end prompt versioning for enterprise AI. Track, test, deploy, and monitor prompts like code for reliability and governance.
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