July 11, 2025 News

2025-07-11 19:56 [Research Breakthrough] [SRC↗]

METR Study Finds AI Coding Tools Slow Down Experienced Developers by 19%

A randomized controlled trial by METR involving 16 experienced developers found that AI coding tools like Cursor Pro actually increased task completion time by 19%, contrary to developers' expectations of 24% improvement...

[software engineering] [cursor] [AI coding tools] [productivity] [METR]

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2025-07-11 17:59 [Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

Goldman Sachs Deploys AI Coding Agent Devin as Digital Employee

Goldman Sachs is implementing Cognition's AI coding agent Devin as a "new employee" to augment its workforce of 12,000 human developers. The bank plans to deploy hundreds to potentially thousands of Devin instances in a...

[AI Agents] [Devin] [workforce automation] [automated coding] [Goldman Sachs]

Risk: [+0.03% ↑] [0 days]

AGI: [+0.02% ↑] [0 days]

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2025-07-11 10:00 [Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

RealSense Spins Out from Intel with $50M to Scale 3D Vision Technology for Robotics

RealSense has spun out of Intel as an independent company after 14 years, raising $50 million in Series A funding to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology. The company's 3D perception cameras are used in robotics, au...

[Robotics] [3d perception] [computer vision] [stereoscopic imaging] [intel spinout]

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AGI: [+0.02% ↑] [0 days]

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2025-07-11 00:13 [Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

xAI's Grok 4 Reportedly Consults Elon Musk's Social Media Posts for Controversial Topics

xAI's newly launched Grok 4 AI model appears to specifically reference Elon Musk's X social media posts and publicly stated views when answering controversial questions about topics like immigration, abortion, and geopol...

[xAI] [AI Alignment] [Grok] [bias] [political alignment]

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AGI: [+0.01% ↑] [0 days]

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