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Maria Garcia

Tech culture and generative AI reporter covering the intersection of AI with digital culture, consumer behavior, and content creation platforms. Focusing on technology's beneficiaries and those left behind by AI adoption. Based in California.

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Stanford's 2026 AI Index puts US lead over China at 2.7% as DeepSeek V4 stalls

AI News

Stanford's 2026 AI Index puts US lead over China at 2.7% as DeepSeek V4 stalls

Maria Garcia · Apr 13, 2026 · 13 min read

China's AI talent is going home. The real blow is the students who stopped leaving.

AI News

China's AI talent is going home. The real blow is the students who stopped leaving.

Maria Garcia · Apr 12, 2026 · 14 min read

Raycast Bakes Its AI App Builder Glaze Into the Launcher This Month

AI News

Raycast Bakes Its AI App Builder Glaze Into the Launcher This Month

Maria Garcia · Apr 10, 2026 · 10 min read

Gen Z Uses AI Every Day. They Resent It More Every Month.

Analysis

Gen Z Uses AI Every Day. They Resent It More Every Month.

Maria Garcia · Apr 9, 2026 · 12 min read

AI Chatbots Discovered Memory. Only Google Has Something Worth Remembering.

Analysis

AI Chatbots Discovered Memory. Only Google Has Something Worth Remembering.

Maria Garcia · Apr 8, 2026 · 12 min read

Antares Wins First DOE Microreactor Approval as Big Tech Bets on Nuclear for AI

AI News

Antares Wins First DOE Microreactor Approval as Big Tech Bets on Nuclear for AI

Maria Garcia · Apr 8, 2026 · 10 min read

GLM-5.1 Works Eight Hours Without You. No Benchmark Measures That.

Tools & Workflows

GLM-5.1 Works Eight Hours Without You. No Benchmark Measures That.

Maria Garcia · Apr 7, 2026 · 14 min read

Bezos's Project Prometheus Hires xAI Co-Founder as Musk Loses Entire Founding Team

AI News

Bezos's Project Prometheus Hires xAI Co-Founder as Musk Loses Entire Founding Team

Maria Garcia · Apr 7, 2026 · 10 min read

Meta Plans to Open-Source New AI Models but Will Keep Its Most Powerful Closed

AI News

Meta Plans to Open-Source New AI Models but Will Keep Its Most Powerful Closed

Maria Garcia · Apr 6, 2026 · 10 min read

Spain's Xoople Raises $130 Million to Build a Real-Time AI Data Layer for Earth

Funding

Spain's Xoople Raises $130 Million to Build a Real-Time AI Data Layer for Earth

Maria Garcia · Apr 6, 2026 · 10 min read

Medvi Got an FDA Warning Before the Times Called It a $1.8 Billion AI Story

AI News

Medvi Got an FDA Warning Before the Times Called It a $1.8 Billion AI Story

Maria Garcia · Apr 6, 2026 · 10 min read

Anthropic Files to Form AnthroPAC as AI Midterm Spending Tops $300 Million

AI News

Anthropic Files to Form AnthroPAC as AI Midterm Spending Tops $300 Million

Maria Garcia · Apr 3, 2026 · 10 min read

Cursor 3 Shifts to Agent Orchestration as Claude Code Claims 54% of Coding Market

AI News

Cursor 3 Shifts to Agent Orchestration as Claude Code Claims 54% of Coding Market

Maria Garcia · Apr 2, 2026 · 9 min read

OpenAI Acquires Silicon Valley Talk Show TBPN, Adding an In-House Media Channel

AI News

OpenAI Acquires Silicon Valley Talk Show TBPN, Adding an In-House Media Channel

Maria Garcia · Apr 2, 2026 · 10 min read

Anthropic's Claude Code Takedown Hit 8,100 GitHub Repos by Mistake

AI News

Anthropic's Claude Code Takedown Hit 8,100 GitHub Repos by Mistake

Maria Garcia · Apr 1, 2026 · 9 min read

Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs to Fund $50 Billion AI Infrastructure Push

AI News

Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs to Fund $50 Billion AI Infrastructure Push

Maria Garcia · Apr 1, 2026 · 9 min read

Anthropic Built an Operating System for Code. Then Shipped the Blueprints to npm.

Analysis

Anthropic Built an Operating System for Code. Then Shipped the Blueprints to npm.

Maria Garcia · Mar 31, 2026 · 15 min read

America Uses AI It Doesn't Trust. The Backlash Is Already Here.

AI Research

America Uses AI It Doesn't Trust. The Backlash Is Already Here.

Maria Garcia · Mar 30, 2026 · 12 min read

DeepSeek Chatbot Suffers Seven-Hour Outage, Longest Since Its 2025 Viral Debut

AI News

DeepSeek Chatbot Suffers Seven-Hour Outage, Longest Since Its 2025 Viral Debut

Maria Garcia · Mar 30, 2026 · 9 min read

Implicator Launches Weekly LLM Popularity Meter Tracking Five AI Models

AI News

Implicator Launches Weekly LLM Popularity Meter Tracking Five AI Models

Marcus Schuler · Mar 29, 2026 · 8 min read

AI Chatbots Moderate Political Views but Validate Users' Bad Choices, Studies Find

AI News

AI Chatbots Moderate Political Views but Validate Users' Bad Choices, Studies Find

Maria Garcia · Mar 29, 2026 · 10 min read

Qualified Health Raises $125M to Build the Operating System for Hospital AI

Funding

Qualified Health Raises $125M to Build the Operating System for Hospital AI

Maria Garcia · Mar 28, 2026 · 9 min read

Physical Intelligence Nears $1 Billion Round, Doubling Valuation in Four Months

Funding

Physical Intelligence Nears $1 Billion Round, Doubling Valuation in Four Months

Maria Garcia · Mar 27, 2026 · 9 min read

Claude's Rate Limits Aren't a Capacity Problem. They're a Math Problem.

AI News

Claude's Rate Limits Aren't a Capacity Problem. They're a Math Problem.

Maria Garcia · Mar 27, 2026 · 13 min read

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