The Chinese startup that rattled Big Tech is back with an AI coding tool that undercuts US pricing

Z.ai, the buzzy Chinese startup behind GLM 5.2, debuted a new AI coding tool. ZCode offers pricing tiers below those of its ...

Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

Z.ai has launched ZCode, a free AI coding tool powered by GLM-5.2 that challenges Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot ...
The Next Web

OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders

OpenAI is teasing Codex Micro, a Work Louder macro pad for its AI coding tool, landing July 15, not the mysterious device it's building with Jony Ive.
winbuzzer.com

Meituan Opens LongCat-2.0 Coding Model With 1M Context

Chinese tech company Meituan has released LongCat-2.0 as a public coding model, putting the project in developer channels while the full model-file release remains pending. For developers, the move ...
Scientific American

How CRISPR could target the body’s epigenome—the software that controls our genes

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...