Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
MIT Technology Review

The Download: spying on the spies, and promising climate tech

The Science Based Targets initiative, or SBTi, helps businesses develop a timetable for action to shrink their climate ...
24/7 Wall St.

Is Microsoft’s $500 Million AI Pivot to Anthropic an Admission of Failure?

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is on pace to spend around $500 million annually on artificial intelligence (AI) models from ...
InfoWorld

Output from vibe coding tools prone to critical security flaws, study finds

The assessment, which it conducted in December 2025, compared five of the best-known vibe coding tools — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Replit, and Devin — by using pre-defined prompts to build ...

Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

Data Update 1 For 2026: The Push And Pull Of Data

Anyone who has to price/value a stock or assess a project at a firm has to make estimates in the face of contradictions, both ...
The Washington Post

Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...
Harvard Business Review

Why Your Company Needs a Chief Data, Analytics, and AI Officer

How is AI and data leadership at large organizations being transformed by the accelerating pace of AI adoption? Do these leaders’ mandates need to change? And should overseeing AI and data be viewed ...
Reuters

US Bureau of Economic Analysis working on new economic data calendar post-shutdown

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Friday it was working to update its schedule of economic data releases affected by the recently ended ...
Wired

The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy

The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, ...
Business Insider

See where data centers are across the US on our interactive map

In June, Business Insider published an investigation into the data center industry. We wanted to dig into the pace of growth in light of the artificial intelligence boom, as well as the resources the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...