5 October 2026

Stack Overflow: six in ten developers try to avoid AI, even though 65 percent use coding assistants

That is the finding of a Stack Overflow survey of 30,000 developers from 169 countries, whose results CNN saw ahead of publication scheduled for Tuesday, October 6. 74 percent of respondents find AI useful for writing code and 72 percent for finding bugs, but only 34.4 percent for other tasks, and 6.6 percent would trust it with important decisions. Nearly a third are unhappy at work (28.4 percent a year earlier), while 22.3 percent are "happy." Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar points to burnout and uncertainty about how much of the work will be automated.

CNN ↗

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A third of the brands at the Paris Motor Show come from China - twice as many as two years ago

At the Paris Motor Show, which opens October 12, 20 of the roughly 60 exhibiting brands come from China, compared with 10 at the previous edition in 2024, Carscoops reports, citing Reuters. Alongside BYD, Geely, Chery, Jaecoo and Leapmotor, already known in Europe, Li Auto, Aito and Aion will also be there, among others; Chinese cars already account for more than 10 percent of new cars sold in Europe. Some of them are hybrids, which are not covered by the EU's anti-subsidy tariffs of up to 35 percent on Chinese EVs. European brands will bring the Audi A2 e-tron, Skoda Peaq, Dacia Striker and Fiat Grizzly, among others, while BMW is skipping the show.

Carscoops ↗

Audi RS 5: all 2026 production sold out, European orders nearly double expectations - now sales start outside Europe

Audi said on Wednesday, October 7, that this year's entire production of the new RS 5 is sold out and that it has nearly twice as many orders in Europe as it expected. The 470 kW (639 hp) plug-in hybrid, built in Neckarsulm, is now going on sale in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, followed by Korea, Taiwan and other overseas markets. Audi is tying the market launch to the Singapore Grand Prix (October 9-11), the brand's first F1 night race; Nico Hülkenberg's and Gabriel Bortoleto's R26 cars and the RS 5 on display in Singapore received a special Titanium Silver Gray paint for the occasion, which cannot be ordered.

Audi MediaCenter ↗

Sony brings AI upscaling to the standard PS5 - until now only the PS5 Pro had it

On October 1, Sony announced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), an AI upscaling technology for the base PS5 developed together with AMD. It improves image detail and stability in games; until now only the PS5 Pro had a similar technology, PSSR. The first games with QSSR are Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, which received patches on the day of the announcement, and the technology will be available to all PlayStation game developers.

PlayStation Blog ↗ The Verge ↗

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