Roleplay has been around forever—whether it’s acting out childhood games, diving into Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, or losing yourself in a good book where you picture yourself as the hero. What’s new, though, is how AI chat apps have completely flipped the script. Instead of relying on other people to play along, you can now

Geoffrey Hinton—often hailed as the “Godfather of AI”—jolted the tech world in Las Vegas, suggesting that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could arrive within 5 to 20 years, a major shift from his previous timeframe of 30 to 50 years The Tiger Cub Metaphor: Grow Smart—and Safe Hinton likened advanced AI systems to a tiger cub:

A new report has ignited a spark of optimism, not doom, in Tallahassee’s marketing scene: artificial intelligence isn’t lining up to replace marketers—it’s teaching them a new language. The message is clear: survive, thrive, and succeed. The authors of a coding bootcamp study out of Tallahassee argue that mastering AI isn’t about coding per se,

Publishers are sounding the alarm: Google’s AI-powered search features—like AI Overviews and AI Mode—are quietly devouring their traffic. This shift, known by the stark term “Google Zero,” is transforming how readers find content, often skipping over links and heading straight to AI-generated summaries. The result? A drop in referral traffic that’s got media executives sweating.

A sophisticated supply chain attack has compromised the widely-used Nx build system package and exposed thousands of enterprise developer credentials. The campaign weaponized artificial intelligence tools to enhance data theft operations across enterprise development environments, according to a new report from security firm Wiz. The attack began on August 26, 2025, when threat actors published

Koog 0.4.0, an update to the JetBrains Kotlin framework for building AI agents, features native structured output intended to hold up in production. It also adds Apple’s iOS as a target platform, as well as GPT-5 model and OpenTelemetry support. Announced August 28, Koog 0.4.0 is intended to make agents observable, seamless, deployable in a

Google’s Gemini CLI AI agent has been integrated with the Zed code editor, bringing Gemini models directly into Zed’s Rust-based environment. The result is a fast, responsive AI experience, according to Google. Announced August 27, the integration is anchored by Zed’s partnership with Google to utilize the Gemini CLI as an initial reference implementation. Zed

As developers continue to adopt vibe coding tools to increase efficiency, CIOs may need to rethink their IT budgets. With vendors like Cursor, Claude Code, and Kiro converging on similar pricing tiers, mostly due to infrastructure costs remaining stubbornly high, the era of cheap AI coding assistants appears to be over, at least for now.

By their very nature, agentic AI systems operate with a large degree of autonomy. This autonomy has real value: Cloud-based agents can remediate incidents, optimize costs, or interact dynamically with users. However, when autonomy is unchecked or poorly defined, you often end up with unpredictable behaviors, inefficiency, or even compliance breaches. Let’s look at three

The Python-app-distribution problem gets a little less problematic every week, it seems. PyApp and the popular uv utility are two stellar options that didn’t exist two years ago. This week’s report also looks at how to get the most out of free-threaded Python, and we have a video tour of AWS’s new Claude-powered Kiro IDE,