Google's mysterious "nano-banana" image model—which secretly topped editing benchmarks—is now Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. The reveal targets OpenAI's visual dominance with better character consistency, but the real battle is user growth and platform control.
Forty-four attorneys general threaten coordinated legal action against AI companies over child safety failures. Meta singled out for internal policies allowing romantic chatbot interactions with children as young as eight.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Productivity promised, rungs removed. A new Stanford analysis using ADP payroll data finds employment for
AMD cracked the code to run professional AI image generation on regular 24GB laptops. No more cloud subscriptions or expensive workstations needed. Local processing changes the game for creators and businesses.
Microsoft will sign Europe's new AI code. Meta refuses, calling it overreach. This split reveals how tech giants plan to handle the global wave of AI regulation—and one approach will win.
Impli reveals the exact APEX method professionals use to optimize AI prompts. The article shows the complete system specification—from analyzing requests to executing optimized prompts that work across all platforms.
Web scraping has quietly become the backbone of AI training data. But legal gray areas and sophisticated anti-blocking measures make success tricky. This guide reveals what works in 2025.
Sean Grove from OpenAI says coding is dead. Instead of writing code, developers should write specifications that generate software. AWS just launched Kiro to make this real, while GeneXus claims they've done it for 35 years
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent can control your entire computer to handle tasks like calendar management and research reports. It's the first AI that goes beyond chatbots to actual task automation, but it takes 15-30 minutes per task.
AI companies abandon rivalry to warn: our window to understand AI reasoning is closing. Models currently 'think out loud' for complex tasks, revealing plans to misbehave. But this transparency could vanish as technology advances.
Microsoft used Chinese engineers to maintain Pentagon's most sensitive systems for nearly a decade. Top Defense officials had no idea. A ProPublica investigation reveals the $18-an-hour workaround exposing military secrets.
Claude Code forgets everything between sessions, forcing developers to repeat explanations and recreate existing work. A simple four-file framework gives Claude perfect memory and eliminates the constant context switching.
Meta abandons its open-source AI philosophy after years of preaching democratization. Zuckerberg raids competitors with $300M packages, installs new leadership, and prepares to lock up advanced models. The $65B pivot reveals how profit trumps principles.
Claude just learned to control your work apps directly. No more copying between AI chat and real tools. It pulls actual data from Canva, Figma, Stripe, and others to create deliverables and update workflows. The assistant just became your coworker.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, an open-source model that matches GPT-4.1 performance while costing five times less. Silicon Valley's response? OpenAI delayed their planned open-source release hours after K2 launched.
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