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Whether it is a 0.8B model running on a smartphone or a 9B model powering a coding terminal, the Qwen3.5 series is effectively democratizing the "agentic era." ...

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier but maintaining them is just as hard.

A practical self-hosted AI coding assistants benchmark for 2026 comparing Cline, Aider, Continue, and OpenHands across security, speed, cost, and governance.

Alibaba Group Holding has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that rivals leading ones from US peers such as OpenAI and Anthropic in terms of coding capabilities, in a sign that Chinese ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Alibaba Group announced on Wednesday the launch of Qwen3-Coder, an open-source artificial intelligence model for software development that the Chinese e-commerce giant described as ...

With new funding led by Madrona, OpenHands introduces a secure, scalable cloud agent platform for modern software teams and announces a strategic collaboration with AMD BOSTON, November 18, ...

Open source doesn’t guarantee responsible AI. But it increasingly makes responsible evaluation possible for smaller organizations.

OpenAI wants to retire the leading AI coding benchmark—and the reasons reveal a deeper problem with how the whole industry measures itself.

I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. Code running as written is not the same as ...