XDA Developers on MSN

Local LLMs finally beat cloud AI for coding, automation, and brainstorming — here's which ones I use

There's always a local model that can replace your AI subscription ...
VentureBeat

Self-invoking code benchmarks help you decide which LLMs to use for your programming tasks

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at coding, the benchmarks used to evaluate their performance are steadily becoming less useful. That's because though many LLMs have similar high ...

This Vibe-Coding Startup Just Completed the ‘Missing Piece’ in Its Battle Against the Competition

Base44 is working to reduce its reliance on frontier LLMs and get ahead of its competitors.
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
How-To Geek on MSN

GPT-5.6 is here with better security and coding—so why can't you use it yet?

The White House reportedly asked OpenAI to limit early access.
InfoWorld

Here’s how Google is using LLMs for complex internal code migrations

The tech giant has developed a step-by-step AI toolkit that it says has improved end-to-end code migrations by 50%. Code migration is a critical process in maintaining software applications. It helps ...
Ars Technica

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

A Practitioner's Guide to Using Large Language Models and Generative AI in Economic History

Large language models (LLMs) are lowering the entry barriers to working with exciting data sources that used to require strong data science skills, such as handwritten ledgers, text, images, or sound ...