IBM’s Bob wants to move in: Agent available for on-prem deployment
Bob, IBM’s agentic software development platform is now available to run on premises and in private clouds, sovereign clouds, and air-gapped environments to give users more control over their data. IBM is hoping to lure compan...
AI is less dangerous than humans
Over the past few weeks, people have been pushing a stack of reports at me as evidence that AI is dangerous to humanity. The OpenAI incident disclosures, the METR and Redwood Research joint investigation, the Nightingale Collecti...
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators…
AI could boost software engineer productivity by 32.6%
Tools such as Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex have changed the face of software development, and all the signs are that this investment is set to increase further. But is paying a monthly subscription (and perhaps additiona...
Microsoft, Google back Apache Ossie to make enterprise data and AI platforms more interoperable
Microsoft and Google are joining a project to create an open specification for exchanging semantic models across data, analytics, and AI platforms. The project already has the backing of over 60 companies including Databricks, In...