By exploiting how AI coding agents retrieve and verify plugins, researchers were able to execute malicious code even when the agent was told to use a trusted, approved version.

It took roughly nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe out a startup’s entire production database and every backup copy attached to it. The tool responsible was Cursor, a developer environment ...

What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents can apparently figure ...

Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, ...

The question hovering over every professional who has watched a colleague build something with an AI coding agent — and wondered whether that was now their job too — finally has a large-scale ...