WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site
Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with
Research finds AI summaries are better for learning, even if they can change your opinions
A Yale study found that people learned history better from AI-written summaries than human-written ones. The catch? AI-written content also quietly shifted their political opinions.
Teens are turning to AI for nearly everything. But diet information may be a big risk | CNN
Many teens report wanting to lose weight, and many say they use AI daily. Chatbots for getting meal plans could have huge health consequences, a new study says.
Google is bringing Gemini to the Mac with a new native macOS app that's available starting today. Gemini for Mac can be activated with a keyboard shortcut, and it has built-in tools for generating images, analyzing what's on your screen, reviewing files, and more. Gemini is the last of the three major AI services to have a dedicated Mac app, because OpenAI and Anthropic have had Mac apps for quite some time.
Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its entire platform into infrastructure for AI agents
Salesforce launched Headless 360 at TDX, opening its CRM platform to AI agents through APIs, MCP tools and CLI commands in a major push to make enterprise software work without the browser.
Snap is cutting 1,000 jobs, 16% of its workforce | TechCrunch
The company cites advancements in AI for the cuts. CEO Evan Spiegel also wrote that the company is closing more than 300 open roles. Snap had about 5,261 full-time employees as of December 2025.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM
Anthropic is publicly releasing its most powerful large language model yet, Claude Opus 4.7, today — as it continues to keep an even more powerful successor, Mythos, restricted to a small number of external enterprise partners for cybersecurity testing and patching vulnerabilities in the software sai
AI Chatbots vs AI Agents vs Agentic AI: What's the Real Difference and Which One Do You Actually Need?
Every company today claims to have an "AI agent." In every product demo, you'll be shown an AI chatbot or agent doing something impressive, and somewhere between the two, a new term has also become a …
Industries most exposed to AI are not only seeing productivity gains but jobs and wage growth too
Forecasts of the impact of artificial intelligence range from the apocalyptic to the utopian. An October 2025 report from Senate Democrats, for example, predicted AI will destroy millions of U.S. …
These fifth graders vibe coded a real-world Braille tool — and wowed their Microsoft teacher
As the head of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, Juan Lavista Ferres and his researchers can spend months building real-world AI solutions. Fifth graders that he teaches built an accessibility tool in …
The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends
Recently, we ran a survey asking readers of The Pragmatic Engineer how you use AI tools, which tools you use, what does and doesn’t work, and what it’s like working with AI, in general.For today’s issue, we’ve dug into your 900+ responses to look for trends in AI tool usage among software engineers a