Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ...
Engadget

Code compiler pioneer Frances Allen dies at 88

It’s a sad week for the computing industry. IBM reports (via the New York Times) that computing pioneer and company fellow Frances Allen died of Alzheimer’s on her birthday, August 4th, at the age of ...
GIGAZINE

Meta releases Meta Large Language Model Compiler, a commercially available large-scale language model that can compile and optimize code

Today we're announcing Meta LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Meta Code Llama with additional code optimization and compiler capabilities. These models can emulate the compiler, predict ...
Electronics Weekly

Compiler uses C code to write once and accelerate CPUs

Support for multi-threading acceleration for CPUs with multiple physical cores is provided by the CacheQ Compiler which takes a single-threaded C code and generates executable that can run on CPUs, ...
Computerworld

How your compiler may be compromising application security

Compilers: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em – at least not if you write code for a living. Compilers are great at taking your hand crafted human-readable program, translating it into ...
Krebs on Security

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted ...
Electronic Design

Compiler Qualification is Critical for Smart-Device Code

Why is compiler qualification so important? How use cases impact compiler development. An example of improved development efficiency. Due to the explosion in intelligent and connected devices, demand ...