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The Morning Download: Enterprise 'Vibe Coding' Is Here
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What's up: OpenAI tightens corporate security; our exclusive on "Earth" data and intelligence; Apple's COO to depart.
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Vibe coding, at least in a professional setting, doesn't rely on vibes, or intuitive feeling, alone. Illustration: Thomas R. Lechleiter/WSJ
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Good morning. Have you "vibe coded" yet?
The term, coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy on X, is generally understood as the ability to use AI to create functioning apps and websites without strictly editing code.
While vibe coding has been going viral among code hobbyists, it hadn't caught on among enterprises until now.
In the next three years, Gartner predicts that 40% of new software for businesses will be created with vibe coding techniques.
Combined with the growing popularity of AI-powered assistants and editors like Microsoft's Github Copilot and Cursor, vibe coding’s rise reflects a significant shift in how quickly apps are being conceived and delivered—with many implications for professional devs.
At financial services giant Vanguard, vibe coding is acting as a "creative partner" to generate new ideas engineers might not have considered, said Lauren Wilkinson, its divisional CIO for financial adviser services.
“It’s not just transforming the engineering piece, it’s really transforming the whole process,” Wilkinson said.
But, there are also plenty of reasons for CIOs to be cautious about the new trend, including the risks of creating messy, unusable code with cybersecurity gaps.
Read the story.
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OpenAI has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data. Photo: Michael Dwyer/Associated Press
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OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats. OpenAI has overhauled its security operations to protect its intellectual property from corporate espionage, following claims of having been targeted by Chinese rivals, FT reports.
OpenAI and Microsoft bankroll new AI training for teachers. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest U.S. teachers’ union, said on Tuesday that it would start an AI training hub for educators with $23 million in funding from three leading chatbot makers: Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, NYT reports.
Mistral in talks with MGX and others to raise up to $1 billion. The French AI startup is in talks to raise as much as $1 billion in equity from several investors including the Abu Dhabi fund, Bloomberg reports.
IBM rolls out new chips and servers, aims for simplified AI. The company on Tuesday announced a new line of data-center chips and servers that it says will be more power-efficient than rivals and will simplify the process of rolling out AI in business operations, Reuters reports.
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Enterprises Set to Overtake Government as Biggest Purchasers of 'Earth' Data and Intelligence
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Gathering and analyzing data about the earth used to be mostly for governments and militaries. That’s now about to change, according to a new report from Gartner. The research firm estimates that by 2030, enterprises will be spending more on “earth intelligence,” than governments and militaries combined.
Causing the shift are the reduced cost of satellites and the better tech attached to them. Using the same types of tiny batteries and cameras developed for mobile phones, a growing number of vendors are able to gather increasingly granular data about the world beneath, from photos to heat maps. And thanks to advances in AI, they’re able to deliver it as meaningful intelligence directly to big corporations, which are interested in everything from what kind of trees are growing near a railroad to the amount of potholes on an airport runway.
“If a satellite can see a country, then your customer is a government…. But at 10 centimeters, you can see a mouse. So then your customer is anybody,” said Bill Ray, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.
Farms, utility companies, railroads, financial services firms and even theme parks could be some major purchases of this intelligence. Investors in the oil-and-gas sector could look at how much oil is being pumped by tracking the movement of big oil pumps. And theme park competitors may want to know how busy a competitor’s park is on a certain day.
Gartner estimates that the revenue opportunity for earth intelligence will approach $23 billion between now and 2030.
“The satellites are being built. They're going up. And every time one goes up, we find new capabilities: things we can do which we didn't know were possible. So we're still working out what that toolkit's going to give us.”
Do you see opportunities for earth intelligence in your industry? Write to isabelle.bousquette@wsj.com to let me know your thoughts!
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By Isabelle Bousquette
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The company said that Jeff Williams will transition out of the C-suite later this month and be succeeded by Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of operations. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News
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Apple’s operations chief Jeff Williams to exit this month. The company's COO plans to hand the role off this month and retire later this year after roughly a decade as the tech giant’s No. 2 under Chief Executive Tim Cook, WSJ reports.
Once popular pre-IPO investing platform Linqto files for bankruptcy. Linqto, the once-highflying private stock investment platform, filed for bankruptcy protection, citing investigations into its business and questions about what its customers even own, WSJ reports.
Meta takes around 3% stake in Ray-Ban-parent EssilorLuxottica. The social-media giant has acquired a nearly 3% stake in eyewear maker EssilorLuxottica, a source told Reuters on Tuesday, amid growing consumer interest in AI-powered wearable devices.
A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials. An impostor pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress by sending them voice and text messages that mimic Rubio’s voice and writing style using AI-powered software, according to a senior U.S. official and a State Department cable obtained by The Washington Post.
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Everything Else You Need to Know
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U.S. copper prices soared to a new all-time high after President Trump said Washington will slap imports of the metal with a 50% tariff. Futures contracts for copper—key for electrical wiring, motors and more—jumped 13% in the largest single-day price surge in records going back to 1968, according to Dow Jones Market Data. (WSJ)
Japan, South Korea and a clutch of other countries were told via letters from the White House that they have until Aug. 1 to agree on new trade terms. Otherwise, steep new levies will be imposed on their imports into the U.S. (WSJ)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a halt on President Trump’s plan to shrink the federal workforce, clearing the way for potential mass layoffs. (WSJ)
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday the Trump administration will work with state lawmakers to ban sales of U.S. farmland to buyers from China and other countries of concern, citing national-security interests. (WSJ)
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