Hacker

5 Hackathons You Can Enter Right Now

The Green Standard Editing Protocol for Internet Publishing. It's June 2026, and the hackathon landscape has quietly become one of the most interesting places to be if you're building at the ...
Government Technology

AI Helped Write Code for This Bridge Traffic-Dodging App

(TNS) — We’ve all been there. Stuck on the Woods Memorial Bridge as it opens to allow boats on the Intracoastal Waterway to pass through. Well, a Lady’s Island man has come up with an app he says is ...
phillyvoice.com

IBX team wins first place at Google Code for the Cure Hackathon with AI prototype to make prior authorization clearer and fairer

A team of associates from Independence Blue Cross’s (IBX) Advanced Analytics and Data Science department won first place at a recent Google Code for the Cure Hackathon in New York City. The event, run ...
TechCrunch

The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs

Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after ...
techtimes

MiniMax M3 Open-Weight Coding Model: Frontier Claims, Unverified Benchmarks

a mobile phone's screen showing the logo of Chinese AI MiniMax in Beijing on January 21, 2026. WANG Zhao/Getty Images Shanghai-based MiniMax launched its M3 foundation model on Monday, June 1, 2026, ...
CNBC

Microsoft and Google are late to AI coding, but 'absolutely critical' they compete for growth

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...
usace.army.mil

Army advances historic, first 'Right to Integrate' hackathon, accelerating data sharing on the battlefield

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Soldiers, engineers and defense industry partners recently came together for the Army’s truly historic, first “Right to Integrate” sprint at Fort Carson. This intensive, ongoing ...
techtimes

Chinese AI Models Lead OpenRouter Traffic: Coding Gains Come With China Data Risk

Three days after OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B and disclosed that weekly traffic on its platform had reached 25 trillion tokens — five times higher than six months earlier — the most ...
Seeking Alpha

Microsoft plans to showcase new coding model at next week's Build conference: report

Microsoft (MSFT) plans to reveal several new artificial intelligence models next week during its Build conference, including an in-house coding model, according to The Information. Microsoft AI CEO ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Adds AI Hackathon to VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ

The VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026 will run alongside VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Wash. The in-person event is scheduled for July 28-30, with evening build sessions and awards before the ...