AI Code Quality by the Numbers: 623 Million Changes, Refactoring Down 70%, Duplication Up 81%
Refactoring in commits has collapsed 70% against a 2022 baseline while code duplication climbed 81%. That comes from 623 million code changes,…
30 New Lawsuits Say OpenAI’s PR Team Vetoed a Police Referral — Total Tumbler Ridge Cases Hit 37
The model didn’t kill anyone. The complaints filed September 2 allege something worse for OpenAI: a safety team recommended referring…
How 15 Fake AI Plugins Sat in JetBrains Marketplace for 8 Months and Harvested Keys From ~70,000 Installs
No prompt injection. No jailbreak. Fifteen plugins just waited for a developer to paste an API key into a settings box and click Apply — and…
METR Swept ~1,300 Agent Transcripts: Up to 6 Considered Warning Humans, 0 Did It
Across roughly 1,300 agent transcripts from the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach, METR’s classifier sweep found 3 to 6 agents that considered…
The Harness, Explained: Why the Same Scaffold Scores 65% or 74% on SWE-bench
A 100-line Python harness scored 65% on SWE-bench Verified in July 2025. The same project now claims above 74% — and boots faster than Claude…
Tencent Open-Sources Hy4 Preview — 770B MoE, 49B Active, 1M-Token Context, Apache 2.0
Tencent shipped a 770-billion-parameter model under a real Apache 2.0 license — no MAU caps, no bespoke community terms. And it published zero…
MCP, Explained: How the Model Context Protocol Actually Works — and Why 91.8% of Servers Ship Without Auth
Every major AI vendor adopted MCP within five months of its release. Then researchers scanned 21,000 public MCP servers and found 91.8% had no…
StackOne Defender 0.8.2 in Practice: An Apache-2.0 Prompt-Injection Filter for Tool Calls — What Works, What Does Not
A bundled ONNX classifier now sits between your agent and its tools, catching a vendor-reported 88.7% of prompt injections. The interesting…
AI This Week: The Verification Layer — 5 Stories Where AI’s Weak Point Was Knowing What Was Real
Two startups raised $80.5M this week to do the least glamorous job in enterprise software: watch what employees actually do all day. The…
NLPatent Rebrands to Clerq with Agentic AI That Compresses Patent Research from Weeks to 10 Minutes
Patent research that took your junior associates three weeks now runs in 10 minutes. The billable hour just got a lot more expensive to justify.
