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Oracle has quietly drawn a firm line in open source development, banning AI-generated code from the OpenJDK project. The move is striking given that Larry Ellison recently claimed Oracle no longer writes its own code. It raises a real question about intellectual property, accountability, and who owns what when a machine writes the logic.
Shifting from policy to practice, Databricks has published a candid look at what it actually costs to run AI coding tools at scale across an engineering organization. The piece is less a celebration than a reckoning — the expenses add up fast, and the discipline required to manage them turns out to be a real engineering challenge in itself.
And in a story that sits somewhere between biology and science fiction, Stanford researchers are running thirty-seven thousand AI agents as a kind of virtual biotech company. One of their drug designs was independently confirmed by Merck, which is the kind of third-party validation that moves this from an interesting experiment into something the pharmaceutical industry will have to take seriously.
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