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Zencoder drops Zenflow, a free AI orchestration tool that pits Claude against OpenAI’s models to catch coding errors

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Zencoder, the Silicon Valley startup that builds AI-powered coding agents, released a free desktop application on Monday that it says will fundamentally change how software engineers interact with artificial intelligence — moving the industry beyond the freewheeling era of "vibe coding" toward a more disciplined, verifiable approach to AI-assisted development. The product, called Zenflow, introduces … Read more

Judge blocks Louisiana’s social media age verification law

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A Louisiana law that would have required social media platforms to verify the ages of their users has been blocked by a judge. The law, known as the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation, was passed in 2023 and required Meta, Reddit, Snap, YouTube Discord and others to implement age verification and parental control … Read more

Grok got crucial facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting

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Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia. Gizmodo pointed to a number of posts where Grok misidentified the bystander — 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed — who disarmed one of the gunmen, … Read more

Why most enterprise AI coding pilots underperform (Hint: It's not the model)

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Gen AI in software engineering has moved well beyond autocomplete. The emerging frontier is agentic coding: AI systems capable of planning changes, executing them across multiple steps and iterating based on feedback. Yet despite the excitement around “AI agents that code,” most enterprise deployments underperform. The limiting factor is no longer the model. It’s context: … Read more

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

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The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking place in February alone. We’re … Read more

State attorneys general warn Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and other AI giants to fix ‘delusional’ outputs

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After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law.  The letter, signed by dozens of AGs from U.S. states and territories with the … Read more

The 70% factuality ceiling: why Google’s new ‘FACTS’ benchmark is a wake-up call for enterprise AI

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There's no shortage of generative AI benchmarks designed to measure the performance and accuracy of a given model on completing various helpful enterprise tasks — from coding to instruction following to agentic web browsing and tool use. But many of these benchmarks have one major shortcoming: they measure the AI's ability to complete specific problems … Read more

Repair iconic 2000s-era gadgets in upcoming indie game ReStory

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We love a little nostalgia mixed in with our cozy gaming, and ReStory looks like a perfect blend of those two. In this upcoming indie game, you play the owner of a Tokyo electronics repair shop in the mid 2000s. The trailer that dropped today shows you tinkering with some very familiar gadgets from the … Read more

FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman

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A stalkeware maker who was banned from the surveillance trade after an information breach that uncovered the private info of its prospects, in addition to the individuals they have been spying on, will be unable to return to promoting the invasive software program, in accordance the U.S. Federal Commerce Fee. The FTC denied a request … Read more