At Rails World 2026, David Heinemeier Hansson said he has retired as a professional programmer, calling himself a 'maker' who directs LLMs to write code in English rather than reviewing the output line by line. He said 37signals' next version of Hey will use LLM-generated Rust on the backend and native apps on each platform instead of the Rails-based web stack he has long championed, and claimed to have produced roughly 150,000 lines of code in August versus about 30,000 lines a year previously.
OpenAI is said to be preparing to announce a new model called GPT-6 Cyber within days, according to a report. The move follows recent incidents of autonomous cyber attacks traced back to frontier AI labs.
Elixir creator José Valim published an essay examining how programming languages, their ecosystems and communities could change as AI agents take over more code writing. The piece is split into two parts: broader reflections on community and ecosystem effects, and concrete opinions on how developer tooling should adapt now that coding agents are using languages directly.
Gregory Scholes, a chemist at Princeton University who once supported evidence that photosynthesis exploits quantum coherence, now says he doubts genuine quantum effects operate in living systems. In papers published over the past three years, Scholes and colleagues instead show that networks of classical biological components can produce behavior that mathematically resembles quantum phenomena, without invoking real quantumness.
Leaker Evan Blass posted new high-resolution images of an unreleased Lenovo Googlebook 2-in-1, showing a tablet-style design with a kickstand, detachable slim keyboard, a Bluetooth toggle switch, and a rear camera with the lineup's signature glow-bar. This device was reportedly among several Lenovo Googlebook models planned but not included when Google launched five Googlebook laptops earlier in the week.
Oracle Corp Japan reported record fiscal first-quarter results, with net sales up 13% to 74.86 billion yen and net profit up 23.2% to 18.25 billion yen for the June-August period. Cloud revenue rose 31.7%, now accounting for 33.6% of total sales, and the company kept its full-year sales growth outlook at 6-10%. The stock jump came even as Oracle's U.S.-listed shares fell more than 3% after the company issued a force majeure notice related to its New Mexico data center project.
Apple posted an animated video on its YouTube channel explaining how parents can set up and manage Child Accounts across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The video covers both new features introduced with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as Ask to Browse and Time Allowances, and existing tools like Ask to Buy and Communication Safety.
Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly rejected calls to join other AI developers in coordinating on safety measures, even as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly work toward forming a joint safety coordination body. The details of that proposed organization remain unclear, but its formation suggests some rivals are seeking common ground on managing AI risks.
Apple TV has released the second season of its docuseries 'Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars,' hosted by Jesse Burgess and executive-produced by Gordon Ramsay and Studio Ramsay Global. The eight-episode season follows 16 restaurants across Europe, the US and Brazil as they pursue, defend or reclaim Michelin stars, with two episodes out now and new installments arriving weekly through November 6.
Google has begun expanding Gemini's agentic capabilities with a '@Call for me' feature that lets the AI phone businesses to check hours, availability or pricing, or make reservations. The tool is limited by design: it cannot make payments or share credit card details, though it can share a user's name and contact information, meaning users must take over calls to complete sensitive transactions.
A previously unreleased 47-minute recording of the press Q&A following Apple's 2010 emergency press conference on iPhone 4 antenna issues has been posted by a YouTube channel called Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music. The session, held after Steve Jobs addressed signal-drop complaints by offering free cases or refunds, included Jobs, then-COO Tim Cook, and hardware engineering SVP Bob Mansfield answering reporters' questions. Until now, only written accounts of the Q&A existed publicly.
Anthropic has opened a biology 'wet lab' pairing human scientists with AI agents to design and run experiments. In its first reported result, roughly 950 AI agents spent over 21 hours scanning billions of proteins and found DNA sequences in giant viruses that resemble patterns seen in bacterial CRISPR immune systems, though the sequences' actual function remains unconfirmed. The findings were posted as an unreviewed preprint on alphaXiv on 23 September.
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