AI is turning Nintendo and Sony products into accidental luxury goods
With component-makers busy supplying data centres, console prices are rising as demand outstrips production capacity
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George Hotz spent six months testing agents on real projects and came away convinced they're creating an avalanche of undetectable slop—and that large organizations won't realize it until it's too late.
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AI coding agents are becoming critical to software development, but the configuration files that guide them, such as Agents.md or Claude.md, can be “smelly.” That means they can contain structural flaws, redundancies, or counterproductive workflows that bloat context, waste tokens, and make coding agents less reliable. Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at Brazil’s Federal University of Minas Gerais hope to shed light on this problem, presenting what they call the “first catalog of smells” for coding agent configuration files. The most odorous? Lint and skill leakage, context bloat, and conflicting instructions. “Our results show that these smells are widespread in practice,” the researchers wrote. Consequently, they “may directly influence how coding agents interpret project conventions, prioritize instructions, and perform development tasks.” Smelly configs in the harness make models misbehave Agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini are increasingly taking
Nvidia's ENPIRE hands an entire robot fleet to coding agents like Codex and Claude Code, letting them write training code, test it on real hardware, and improve without a human watching.
NVIDIA’s self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
Sony, best known to many consumers for PlayStation, music, and film, has been backing and co-developing a public blockchain through Sony Block Solutions Labs since Soneium’s mainnet launch in January 2025. Soneium is an Ethereum L2 that has facilitated more than 500 million transactions to date, all while boasting 5.4 million active wallets and upwards [...]
AirPods Pro 3 shown with an iPhone and live translation features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Now that we're clear of WWDC and all of the new AI-powered features coming to Apple's platforms, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman has more details about rumored new hardware, like the camera-equipped AirPods he'd previously written about. He says they are currently on schedule for a late 2027 launch, and that while we're checking out beta releases for this fall's iOS 27 update, the new earbuds are internally being tested with next year's update, iOS 28. With cameras mounted in their stems and lights to indicate when data is being uploaded to the cloud, they could give the upgraded version of Siri "visual context" about your surroundings, be … Read the full story at The Verge.
iPhone owners are getting real, native AI photo editing for the first time. The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don't think any of us are ready. As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27 are pretty tame compared to what you can do on, say, Google's Pixel phones. But for the iPhone, they represent a tipping point in what the native photos app allows you to do to your photos. I mean memories. I mean, I don't know anymore. These new features are part of the iOS 27 developer beta right now, so bear in mind that Apple may continue making tweaks to them before they're released to the general public. There are three, or maybe two and a … Read the full story at The Verge.
Software development has changed. Engineers no longer type most code by hand. They describe intent, and AI agents do the work. Modern tools plan tasks, edit across files, run tests, and open pull requests. Many now ship to production with limited supervision. No single tool fits every need. This guide covers the AI coding agents […] The post Top AI Coding Agents and Development Platforms in 2026: Atoms, Devin, Windsurf, Cursor, Warp, and More Compared appeared first on MarkTechPost.