The Download: AI and coding, and Waymo's aggressive driverless cars

Plus: the FDA's newly-appointed head drug regulator is out AI has already transformed how code is written, but a new wave of autonomous systems promise to make the process even smoother and less prone to making mistakes. Amazon Web Services has just revealed three new "frontier" AI agents, its term for a more sophisticated class of autonomous agents capable of working for days at a time without human intervention. One of them, called Kiro, is designed to work independently without the need for a human to constantly point it in the right direction. Another, AWS Security Agent, scans a project for common vulnerabilities: an interesting development given that many AI-enabled coding assistants can end up introducing errors. To learn more about the exciting direction AI-enhanced coding is heading in, check out our team's reporting: Are we ready for what could happen next? They remember previous sessions and continuously learn from a company's codebase.