Stealing the spotlight in the AI world, a US-based applied AI lab focussed on reasoning, Cognition, has developed the world’s first fully ‘autonomous’ AI software engineer, Devin. Devin, the state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has cleared practical engineering interviews from the leading AI companies and has also completed real jobs. Devin, the state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has …
There was a certain synchronicity in Vodafone announcing plans to axe 11,000 jobs from the group’s workforce on the day the Office for National Statistics unveiled its latest look at Britain’s noticeably tightening jobs market. Labour shortages are still a bigger problem than unemployment – but the jobs market is getting tougher for those trying to navigate it as vacancies …