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How spec-driven development keeps you in control of AI code

How spec-driven development keeps you in control of AI codeBy Ewan Mc Phail, Lead AI Engineer at DVTIssued by Communikay for DVTJohannesburg, 07 Jul 2026 Ewan Mc Phail, Lead AI Engineer at DVT. Back ...
Maclean'sOpinion

Can AI Make Us Smarter?

As director of the Media Ethics Lab at the University of Toronto and a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, I have ...
HRD America

Skill decay: Is AI eroding your workforce's ability to think?

Workers are outsourcing their thinking to AI. Researchers warn the cognitive atrophy is real and most employers aren't ...
techtimes

Microsoft Build 2026: MAI-Thinking-1 Is First In-House Reasoning Model, Trained Without OpenAI Data

shows the logo of Microsoft displayed on the facade of the company France headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, on the outskirts of Paris, on April 24, 2026. Martin LELIEVRE/Getty Images Microsoft ...
SiliconANGLE

Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI ...
The Stanford Daily

Three Schools, Three Lenses: What Stanford taught me about ‘the user’ through design thinking

As an MCiM (Master of Clinical Informatics and Management) student with a strong interest in entrepreneurship, I’ve been drawn to courses that explore how to build products through design thinking.
WBUR

How the Model T’s design made it an American sensation

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. When the Ford Model T first hit the road in the early 1900s, it didn’t just change ...
Microsoft

Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model

In this post, we share the motivations, design choices, experiments, and learnings that informed its development, as well as an evaluation of the model’s performance and guidance on how to use it. Our ...
InfoWorld

Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Thinking expands enterprise AI model choices

The company claims the model demonstrates performance comparable to GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro. Alibaba Cloud’s latest AI model, Qwen3-Max-Thinking, is staking a claim as one ...
NPR

How to build a happier, more fulfilling life using "design thinking"

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode What can you control in this chaotic world? What do you want out of life? Instead of ignoring daunting questions like this, designer Bill Burnett says we should ...
IEEE

Integrating Design Thinking into Software Process Improvement

Abstract: The need for software improvement is growing widely due to the demand for technology development. The issues that arise by expanding the software processes in the workplace are expense, lack ...
Frontiers

Optimizing the conceptual design process of animation scenes using generative AI

Generative AI, with its rapidly developing technologies, has changed how designers look to solve problems relating to the scene’s animation: eliminating inefficiencies, reducing high production costs, ...