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Of beginnings, endings and contrasting journeys
Bill and Melinda Gates' contrasting memoirs detail their lives, marriage, and divorce, reaffirming their humanity despite ...
The Harvard Crimson3d
When Bill Gates Wrote Microsoft’s First Code on a Harvard Mainframe
Bill Gates arrived at Harvard College in September 1973 as a quiet freshman from Seattle in Wigglesworth Hall. He left campus ...
Alibaba unveils new open-source AI embedding models, a field it leads globally
The Chinese tech giant ranks top on Hugging Face’s benchmark for measuring the performance of text-embedding services.
Anysphere raises $900M for its AI-powered Cursor code editor
OpenAI backer Thrive Capital led the raise. It was joined by several other institutional investors including Andreessen ...
Accounting Today4d
IRS releases source code for Direct File
The IRS has released the vast majority of the code used to develop its Direct File program, theoretically allowing anyone to ...
What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail
Vibe coding leans on standard patterns of technical language, which AI systems use to piece together original code from their training data. Any beginner can use an AI assistant such as GitHub Copilot ...
Computer Weekly6d
Open source adoption faces reality checks
Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort ...