A COBOL developer won a .NET hackathon with assistance from AI tools. The article appears in a tech news roundup covering AI infrastructure, security threats, and open-source software developments.
Researchers tasked AI coding agents with building chess engines from scratch across 12 programming languages, from mainstream (Rust, C++) to esoteric (LaTeX, Brainfuck). The agents produced functional, UCI-compliant engines reaching over 2000 Elo, with some languages like Brainfuck and LaTeX seeing their first playable chess engines ever created by AI.