The Register – AI/ML

Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it

Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects

System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore

MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too

Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI

Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend

Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness

Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you

As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized

Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat

Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine

Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement

Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot

Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads

Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone

Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions