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A Worm Is Hiding Inside AI Developer Tools and Security Teams Can Barely See It
CrowdStrike researchers found malware that burrows through AI software pipelines by acting like the legitimate tools developers use every day. That camouflage makes it nearly invisible to standard defences.

A Cheap Chinese AI Model Is Making Coders Rethink Their Bills
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 costs a fraction of Anthropic's top models and handles real work. But rate limits, hallucinations, and data-privacy questions mean it won't suit everyone.

The hidden plumbing that connects AI to your apps just got easier to use
A key technical standard called the Model Context Protocol is being updated to make it simpler for AI tools to plug into calendars, databases, and business software without custom engineering work.

Claude Code's Secret Weapon Is the Software Around the AI, Not Just the AI Itself
Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code explains why the smartest move in AI coding tools right now is building smarter wrappers, not just smarter models.

DoorDash Is Building a Tool That Lets AI Software Place Food Orders on Its Own
A new command-line tool from DoorDash lets developers and AI agents search restaurants, fill a cart, and check out without ever opening an app. It is a small but telling sign of where online services are heading.

OpenAI's first piece of hardware is a light-up mini-keyboard for its AI coding agent
The $230 Codex Micro uses colour-coded keys to show you, at a glance, whether your AI coding tasks are running, waiting, or broken.

Grok Build Was Quietly Uploading Your Entire Codebase to the Cloud. xAI Has Now Switched It Off.
Researchers caught xAI's new coding tool sending far more data to its servers than users knew about, including files they had explicitly excluded and sensitive credentials.

AI Is Getting Expensive, and the Executives Paying for It Are Starting to Notice
A major survey finds nearly a third of senior business leaders cannot keep track of what AI is costing them. A new forecast says AI coding tools could soon cost more per developer than the developer's own salary.