The hacker behind the massive 2022 ‘GTA 6‘ leaks apparently got hold of a phone inside a UK prison and is now saying the game’s source code is sitting with someone who has not made it public yet.

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...