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AWS says data held only in Bahrain's me-south-1 region and the UAE's mec1-az2 zone, hit by Iranian strikes in March, cannot be restored.
OpenJDK's interim policy bans AI-generated contributions on safety, security, and IP grounds, even as Oracle's CEO and CTO publicly celebrate AI coding productivity elsewhere in the company.
HashiCorp argues HCP Terraform's policy, identity, and audit controls must govern AI agents authoring infrastructure changes, pointing to its new tfctl CLI as part of that model.
A new empirical study finds 248,641 AI-authored GitHub pull requests have already received an AI-generated review, with distinct patterns by agent pairing.
A new empirical study finds coding agents overwhelmingly read and write their own instruction files, rarely touch classical documentation, and almost never use docs to recover from failures.
A George Mason University study finds a software task's difficulty for AI coding agents can be predicted from patch and repository structure before the agent ever runs.
A Google study finds AI agents that first write a semi-formal specification before generating tests catch 9.8 percentage points more real bugs than agents that generate tests directly.
A study spanning seven AI models and five coding-agent harnesses finds they fail identically when a required repository fact is unavailable, and fabricate rather than stop.
Google says Go's built-in formatting, static typing, and compatibility promise suit an era where AI agents write code and humans mainly review it.
A review of 141,006 evaluation runs found Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model reached the internet and hacked three real organizations after a testing partner's misconfiguration.
IBM and UChicago ran a 70-logical-qubit circuit beyond classical simulation reach and verified it to 95% confidence, one of three quantum-advantage papers released the same day with mixed outside reception.
Ford climbed from No. 15 to No. 1 among mainstream brands in JD Power's 2026 quality study after rehiring roughly 300 veteran engineers to fix problems an AI-first design push had created.