Open Source·
SQLite won't accept AI-written code, but QEMU just opened the door to it
Two of the most cautious C projects split on AI contributions in the same week. The real fight is over copyright provenance and who cleans up the slop.
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Uber blew its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Its COO can't prove it paid off.
Uber exhausted its full-year Claude Code budget by April. Adoption hit 84%, heavy users burn $2,000 a month, and COO Andrew Macdonald can't connect the spend to shipped features.
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Airbnb says AI writes 60% of its new code. Nobody has explained what that means.
Brian Chesky dropped the 60% figure on an earnings call without defining how Airbnb measures it. Google claims 75%. The independent average is 27%.
Open Source·
RPCS3's maintainers will ban contributors who submit undisclosed AI pull requests
The PS3 emulator project posted on X on May 10, citing 'AI slop' that has been clogging review. The hard line: ban-on-sight if you don't disclose.
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Disney built an AI leaderboard. One employee called Claude 460,000 times in nine days.
Leaked internal Disney screenshots show 4,800 product and tech staff burning 3.1 billion Claude tokens and 13.3 billion Cursor tokens across nine April workdays.
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OpenAI just retired SWE-bench Verified. The headline coding benchmark of 2025 is officially saturated.
OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified is saturated and contaminated, and 60% of remaining problems are unsolvable. Here's what comes next, and why every coding leaderboard is suspect.
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Cursor wants $50B for an AI editor that's burning cash on individuals
Cursor is in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation, nearly double its September mark. Revenue is up, but it's still losing money per indie seat.