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Philadelphia's court system will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week, prohibiting any eyewear with video and audio recording capabilities. This measure aims to prevent witness and juror intimidation by making it harder to secretly record proceedings. While other recording devices like cell phones are allowed if powered off, smart glasses will be completely forbidden from court buildings, with violations potentially leading to arrest. AI

Anthropic's Claude Code is reportedly responsible for 4% of public GitHub commits, with projections suggesting it could reach over 20% by the end of 2026. This rapid adoption indicates a significant shift in software development, potentially automating a substantial portion of coding tasks. The author also touches on unrelated political commentary regarding the Department of War and Anthropic, but pivots back to the impact of AI on software engineering. AI

Google DeepMind has introduced the FACTS Benchmark Suite, a new set of evaluations designed to systematically assess the factuality of large language models across various use cases. This suite includes benchmarks for parametric knowledge, search-based information retrieval, and multimodal understanding, alongside an updated grounding benchmark. The initiative aims to provide a more comprehensive measure of LLM accuracy and is being launched with a public leaderboard on Kaggle to track progress across leading models. AI