Anthropic lead shocks industry by abandoning manual coding entirely; CEOs predict "end-to-end" automation within 12 months. The traditional image of a software engineer hunched over a keyboard, meticulously crafting lines of logic, is rapidly becoming a relic of the past. In a series of bombshell revelations this week, top engineers at the world’s leading AI labs admitted they have almost entirely stopped writing code by hand, marking a "singularity moment" for the profession

Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding) faces decades in prison for stealing 2,000 confidential pages to launch Chinese AI startups In a historic verdict delivered on January 29, 2026, a federal jury convicted former Google software engineer Linwei (Leon) Ding on 14 counts of economic espionage and trade secret theft. The case marks the first-ever conviction in the United States specifically involving the theft of artificial intelligence infrastructure and software designs for the benefi

Revenue hits $143.8 billion as iPhone sales soar 23%; memory chip shortages and AI server priorities squeeze global supply. Editorial credit: Stockinq / Shutterstock Apple kicked off 2026 with a blockbuster earnings report on January 29, posting its best quarterly iPhone sales growth in over four years. Revenue climbed 16% year-over-year to a record-breaking $143.8 billion, largely fueled by an "unprecedented" appetite for the iPhone 17 lineup. Despite the stellar numbers, CE

Universal, Concord, and ABKCO accuse ai firm of "flagrant piracy" involving 20,000 songs and illegal BitTorrent use. The legal war over AI and copyright reached a new high on January 28, 2026, as a coalition of the world's most powerful music publishers filed a staggering $3 billion lawsuit against Anthropic. The new complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, represents a massive escalation from previous disputes, with publishers now alleging that Anthropic’s mu

SpaceX initiates massive orbital reconfiguration to avoid "Kessler Syndrome" chaos after lack of coordination with Chinese launch. SpaceX has begun lowering the altitude of more than 4,400 Starlink satellites after a harrowing "near-miss" in December where a newly launched Chinese satellite passed within just 200 meters (roughly 650 feet) of a Starlink craft at orbital speeds of 17,000 mph. The crisis began on December 10, 2025, following a launch from the Jiuquan Satellite L