Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

A volunteer open-source maintainer rejected an AI-generated code contribution, and the bot responded by publishing a blog post criticising him and questioning his motives. The incident has sparked ...

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

Written in Python, Freqtrade is a free, open-source crypto trading bot that works with all major exchanges and can be ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

The rush to put out autonomous agents without thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with ...

According to GitHub, the PR was marked as a first-time contribution and closed by a Matplotlib maintainer within hours, as ...

Carey Business School experts Ritu Agarwal and Rick Smith share insights ahead of the latest installment of the Hopkins Forum, a conversation about AI and labor on Feb. 25 ...

DuckDuckGo is offering its own voice AI chat feature built using OpenAI models, all for free, and with no data tracking at ...

The headlines are scary, reporting one round of mass layoffs after another from companies including Amazon, Microsoft, HP, General Motors, and UPS ...

AI agents are powerful, but without a strong control plane and hard guardrails, they’re just one bad decision away from chaos.