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The AI era is creating a new CTO

AI can already write production code, review pull requests, generate documentation, diagnose bugs, and propose architectural changes. Its influence now extends beyond developer productivity, affecting how engineering teams are organized, how decisions are made, and where technical authority rests.

CTOs, meanwhile, have always acted as orchestrators. Company growth gradually pulled their attention toward hiring leaders, setting architecture, resolving trade-offs, and improving team performance. Their influence flowed through the organization they built and the people they developed.

CTO at Genius.

AI now changes the organization beneath technical leaders. As of May 2026, Claude authored more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s codebase, while the typical engineer merged eight times as much code per day during the second quarter of 2026 as in 2024. Engineers increasingly direct and review AI-generated work, while retaining responsibility for technical judgment, goal selection, and higher-level decisions.

Implementation and debugging can increasingly pass to ...

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Lenovo's Leaked ThinkBook Design Could Be the Thinnest It’s Ever Made

Lenovo may be working on an unusually thin ThinkBook laptop dubbed “Aeroblade," according to leaked images obtained by Windows Latest. The images depict a productivity-style laptop with a very slim chassis. The images also show narrow display bezels, a raised webcam housing (typical of Lenovo), a large touchpad, a

Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Sounding off: A lot of people are worried about the number of AI agents that have gone rogue recently, including Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has now called on the top AI firms to

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Beats teased new headphones then ghosted us — but now, Reddit sleuths think they’ve worked out when the new…

* New Beats headphones teased during 2026 World Cup... * ... and Beats has been silent for following two months * Reddit fans think they'll come some time after iOS 27, in September It's been two months since the sporting event of the summer began: the 2026 World Cup kicked

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xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally

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Lenovo's Leaked ThinkBook Design Could Be the Thinnest It’s Ever Made

Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action

Beats teased new headphones then ghosted us &mdash; but now, Reddit sleuths think they&rsquo;ve worked out when the new…

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally

Beats teased new headphones then ghosted us — but now, Reddit sleuths think they’ve worked out when the new…