
AI still pants at debugging, says Microsoft study
Claude, ChatGPT, and other big names fail to fix even half the bugs in benchmark test
Despite Top Vole Sundar Pichai boasting that a quarter of Google's code now comes from AI and Mark Zuckerberg plotting to unleash AI models across Meta’s dev stack, Microsoft’s boffins have just thrown a bucket of cold water over the hype.

Microsoft trying to wean itself off OpenAI
Has its own plans
The software King of the World, Microsoft, appears to be making a not-so-subtle move to stab its AI partner in the back.

Anthropic wants to raise a fist full of dollars
Would make it worth $60 billion
AI outfit, Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion dollars in a deal that would value it at $60 billion, making it the latest artificial-intelligence startup to seize upon the AI hype.

Hackers take on AI
DEF CON AI Village People looking for flaws
This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.