Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of life

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

AI ‘vibe coding’ could put Ethereum roadmap ahead of schedule: Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin says an AI-coded Ethereum roadmap prototype could inform blockchain developers on how to use the technology.
CNBC

Figma partners with Anthropic to turn AI-generated code into editable designs

Figma and Anthropic are partnering on AI coding tools that integrate Claude Code. Software stocks have sold off as AI tools threaten to upend the industry. Figma reports earnings Wednesday. The stock ...
India Today

If AI writes 100 per cent code at Anthropic, what will engineers do? Claude code chief responds

Anthropic says nearly 100 per cent of its code is now generated by AI, so what are software engineers doing? According to Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, while AI is handling most of the coding, ...
Indiatimes

1,500 Amazon engineers to company's leadership: Stop forcing us to use your coding tool, we want to…

Amazon engineers are pushing back against a company policy favoring its AI coding assistant, Kiro, over superior third-party tools like Claude Code. Around 1,500 engineers have formally backed Claude ...
The Financial Express

OpenAI teams using Codex AI to generate full apps, raising questions about future of coding

Software developers are getting more and more signs every day that AI is going to render them jobless. The advancement of models like AI LLM models like that of Anthropic, which has released Claude, ...
Wall Street Journal

Anthropic Takes Big Step in AI Race to Reshape College Coding Courses

Anthropic has struck a deal to help redesign the computer-coding curricula taught in hundreds of community and state colleges, revving up the race among tech companies to get their AI tools into the ...
BBC

AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked

The BBC has been shown a significant - and unfixed - cyber-security risk in a popular AI coding platform. Orchids is a so-called "vibe-coding" tool, meaning people without technical skills can use it ...
Reuters

Anthropic clinches $380 billion valuation after $30 billion funding round

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Anthropic has raised $30 billion in its latest funding round, more than doubling the Claude chatbot maker's valuation to $380 billion and underscoring massive investor interest in ...
GitHub

DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding

We evaluate DeepCode on the PaperBench benchmark (released by OpenAI), a rigorous testbed requiring AI agents to independently reproduce 20 ICML 2024 papers from scratch. The benchmark comprises 8,316 ...