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Thoughtworks’ 2025 Technology Radar reports a decisive shift from the loosely‑defined "vibe coding" approach to a disciplined practice called "context engineering," where AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Augment Code are supplied with curated, high‑quality context to improve reliability and reduce rewrites. New tooling—including agents.md, Context7, Mem0—and emerging standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent‑to‑agent (A2A) protocol are being adopted to anchor AI agents to reference applications and enable teams of agents to share dense contextual knowledge. The report stresses that human developers remain essential, tasked with managing context, curating shared instructions, and driving spec‑driven development to harness AI effectively. This evolution marks a move away from AI’s focus on scale and speed toward nuanced, context‑aware software engineering.
OpenAI has launched its Sora AI video generation app on Android, expanding from an iOS debut that amassed over a million downloads in five days. The app offers a TikTok‑style feed of AI‑generated clips, a Cameo tool for personal videos,...
In this episode of the AI in Business Podcast, Jim Johnson, President of AnswerRocket, explains how consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms can tackle data complexity and speed up decision‑making using emerging agentic AI. He highlights that AI agents can shorten...
DoubleVerify announced DV AI Verification™, a new suite of products that lets advertisers detect and manage interactions with both declared and undeclared AI agents and steer clear of low‑quality AI‑generated content. The platform already processes roughly 2 billion AI‑related interactions each...
Snowflake announced that its Snowflake Intelligence platform is now generally available to its 12,000‑plus customers, offering an enterprise‑wide AI agent that answers natural‑language queries across structured, unstructured and third‑party data. In the first three months, more than 1,000 customers deployed...
Advertising in Southeast Asia is booming as OTT and CTV adoption rises, with Singapore projected to have 4.5 million OTT users by 2029 and penetration climbing to 72.8%. Viewers increasingly consume ad‑supported content across multiple screens—77% on mobile and 64% on...
In this episode of the AI in Business podcast, Matt Berseth and Russell Dixon of NLP Logix explain how enterprise leaders can successfully adopt AI collaboration tools such as Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise. They outline the essential foundations for rollout, how to...
Rimini Street released results of its 2025 Database Strategies and Support Survey of over 200 Oracle Database managers, finding that 63% of Oracle customers consider support costs too high and 87% are dissatisfied with response speed and expertise. As a...
New Xero research shows UK accountancy firms have lifted profits by £338 million and added £10 billion to GDP after adopting AI, with 98% of firms now using the technology. Finance workers spend an average of three hours per day on AI,...
Elastic unveiled Streams, an AI‑driven observability feature that automatically partitions, parses and structures raw log data, surfacing critical errors, anomalies and suggested remediation steps. The tool aims to make logs the primary signal for incident investigations, cutting the manual effort...
The Verge’s 2025 robot‑vacuum roundup identifies the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra as the top‑tier, hands‑free model, boasting 10,000 Pa suction, lidar mapping, AI obstacle detection and a self‑emptying dock at a premium price of $1,799.99. For budget‑conscious shoppers, the Tapo RV30...
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot effort to create space‑based AI data centers by mounting its Tensor Processing Units on solar‑powered satellites. The initiative promises near‑continuous clean energy, with satellite panels projected to be up to eight times more productive...
Amazon has issued a cease‑and‑desist letter to AI search startup Perplexity, demanding that its agentic browsing tool, Comet, stop facilitating purchases on Amazon without clearly identifying itself as a bot. Amazon argues that third‑party agents must disclose their status and...
Google DeepMind’s Weather Lab AI model, released in June, outperformed the US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System (GFS) and even the official National Hurricane Center forecasts in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Across 13 named storms, the DeepMind model’s...
People Inc., a leading U.S. media publisher owned by IAC, signed an AI licensing deal with Microsoft, becoming a launch partner in Microsoft’s new publisher content marketplace where AI services pay per use for content. The agreement follows a prior...
The post outlines seven leading healthcare analytics firms—Kodjin, Health Catalyst, Innovaccer, CitiusTech, Merative, Datavant, and Sophia Genetics—highlighting each company’s unique data integration, analytics, and AI capabilities for providers, payers, and life‑sciences. It emphasizes how these platforms transform fragmented clinical, operational,...
Acer announced the Chromebook Plus Enterprise 714 and 514, two 14‑inch ChromeOS laptops aimed at cloud‑first enterprises. The 714 is powered by Intel Core Ultra 5, the 514 can be configured up to an Intel Core 7, both with up to 16 GB LPDDR5X, PCIe Gen4 SSDs,...
Kim Kardashian revealed she relied on ChatGPT for law‑school study and exams, only to fail several tests after the AI gave inaccurate answers. Her admission coincided with circulating rumors that OpenAI had restricted ChatGPT from providing legal and medical advice,...
Microsoft has launched its first in‑house text‑to‑image model, MAI‑Image‑1, now integrated into Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The model, praised by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman for its photorealistic rendering of food, nature and nuanced lighting, promises faster generation...
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services have sealed a multi‑year partnership valued at $38 billion, granting OpenAI direct access to AWS’s high‑performance compute, including Nvidia‑based GPUs and EC2 UltraServers, with full deployment targeted by the end of 2026. The deal expands the...
Google introduced Gemini for Home, an AI layer in the Google Home app that analyzes video from Nest cameras and delivers detailed, written descriptions of activities, plus daily "Home Brief" summaries. In a 72‑hour test, the system generated mostly accurate...
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot to launch solar‑powered satellites equipped with Cloud TPUs that form a distributed AI compute network in low‑Earth, sun‑synchronous orbit. The design relies on free‑space optical links that have demonstrated 1.6 Tbps bidirectional speeds on the...
The post recaps a SaaS CEO mastermind call that focused on three challenges—sales positioning against better‑funded competitors, paid‑advertising strategy amid partner resistance, and how to budget revenue across departments—offering concrete tactics such as requesting competitor decks, rapid product parity, low‑budget...
Google announced new agentic capabilities in its AI Mode, allowing users to book event tickets and beauty or wellness appointments directly through Search. The feature searches multiple sites in real time, curates options, and links to booking pages, building on...
Samsung announced an "AI Megafactory" that will deploy more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and the Omniverse platform to embed artificial‑intelligence across its semiconductor, mobile and robotics operations. By leveraging Nvidia's cuLitho, CUDA‑X and GPU‑accelerated EDA tools, Samsung says it can...
Forrester’s 2025 Developer Survey shows AI and generative AI have become top priorities in the software development lifecycle, with 48% of respondents using AI for coding and 47% for testing. By 2026, AI‑enhanced development is expected to become the leading...
Govee’s Christmas Lights 2, a Matter‑compatible smart string‑light system, are on sale ahead of the holidays, with the 66‑foot kit now $69.99 (down from $99.99) and the 99‑foot version $89.99 (down from $129.99). The lights offer over 130 preset effects,...
Databricks unveiled its Judge Builder framework, a workshop‑driven system for creating AI judges that evaluate other AI models by aligning stakeholder quality criteria and capturing domain‑expert insight. The tool tackles the "Ouroboros problem" of AI‑evaluating‑AI by measuring distance to human...
Several high‑profile YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers were abruptly terminated after the platform linked them to a single Japanese channel that had previously been banned for copyright strikes. Creators such as Enderman, Scratchit Gaming and 4096 say...
Manifest AI unveiled Brumby-14B-Base, a 14‑billion‑parameter model derived from Qwen3-14B-Base that replaces all attention layers with a novel Power Retention mechanism. The model was retrained in 60 hours on 32 H100 GPUs for roughly $4,000 and achieves accuracy on par...
Microsoft is rolling out its Scareware blocker across Edge on Windows and macOS, enabled by default on devices with at least 2 GB RAM and four CPU cores. The AI‑driven, on‑device computer‑vision model detects deceptive full‑screen scam pages that mimic virus...
Google announced that new Fitbit devices will launch next year, coinciding with a refreshed Fitbit app that now includes an AI‑driven personal health coach for Premium users. While past years saw feature cuts, discontinued third‑party apps, and a shift toward...
OpenAI has launched its AI video app Sora on Android, making it available in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam via the Google Play Store. The app, which debuted on iOS in September, amassed more than...
Proton, the Swiss firm behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, has introduced Lumo for Business, a gener‑ative AI assistant built on zero‑access encryption that ensures only users can decrypt their conversations. The service integrates with Proton Drive, is hosted in...
Shopify reported that AI‑driven traffic to its merchants’ stores has surged seven‑fold since January and AI‑generated orders have risen eleven‑fold, underscoring the company’s push into "agentic commerce" after partnering with OpenAI, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. The e‑commerce platform highlighted its...
The post argues that predictable SaaS growth comes from a systematic engine built on precise ABM, demand generation, and demand capture, all grounded in solid economics like CAC, LTV and churn. It walks readers through steps—from defining economics and ICP,...
Check Point Research used generative AI, specifically ChatGPT, to semi‑automate the reverse‑engineering of the evasive XLoader infostealer, a malware family active since 2021 and derived from Formbook. By coupling cloud‑based static analysis of IDA Pro outputs with AI‑assisted runtime debugging, the...
Samsung’s new Galaxy XR mixed‑reality headset retails for $1,799 – roughly half the price of Apple’s Vision Pro – and offers a lighter, more comfortable form factor built around a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset, 16 GB RAM and a 3552 × 3840 dual...
The post explains that SaaS growth requires two complementary motions: demand generation, which builds long‑term awareness and trust among ideal customers before they search for solutions, and demand capture, which quickly converts high‑intent prospects when they are ready to buy....
The post explains how building a high‑quality ABM lead list—starting with solid unit‑economics, defining TAM and ICP, and using tools like Apollo, Instantly, ListKit, and AI enrichment (Clay, LinkedIn) — can turn data into a growth engine that powered SaasRise...
OpenAI has launched a 12‑month free promotion for ChatGPT Go, its lower‑priced, lightweight alternative to ChatGPT Plus, exclusively for users in India. The service bundles extended GPT‑5 access, image generation, file uploads, advanced data analysis and longer memory, though it offers fewer...
Apple is set to overhaul Siri by integrating Google’s Gemini large‑language model, hosted on Apple’s private‑cloud infrastructure. The revamped assistant will use Gemini for query planning and summarization, complementing Apple‑built knowledge‑search components to deliver more personalized, context‑aware responses. Apple aims...
Google Maps is introducing live lane guidance for Polestar 4 electric vehicles, using the car’s front‑facing camera to detect lane markings and road signs and feed that data to Google’s AI. The system delivers real‑time audio and visual cues on...
Anthropic forecasts up to $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow by 2028, driven by rapid uptake of its AI models through API sales and a growing roster of enterprise partners such as Microsoft, Salesforce, Deloitte and Cognizant. The...
Microsoft’s incident‑response team has identified a new malware family, SesameOp, that abuses OpenAI’s Assistants API as a covert command‑and‑control channel. The backdoor stores and retrieves encrypted commands and exfiltrated data via the API, enabling long‑term persistence for espionage‑type operations. Microsoft...
Snowflake unveiled Snowflake Intelligence at its BUILD 2025 conference, featuring Agentic Document Analytics that lets users run SQL‑like queries across thousands of unstructured documents. The new capability treats documents as queryable data sources, extracting and indexing content via Cortex AISQL...
Phishing attacks have evolved in 2025, leveraging AI to produce flawless personalized emails, deep‑fake voice and video calls, SIM‑swap fraud, and Phishing‑as‑a‑Service kits that can bypass traditional defenses. While 91% of attacks still originate via email, criminals are expanding to...
Microsoft announced a $15.2 billion investment in the United Arab Emirates through 2029, adding $7.9 billion to the $7.3 billion already spent on equity, capex and operating costs. About $5.5 billion will fund AI and cloud infrastructure, including the deployment of roughly 81,900 Nvidia...
Google is adding tighter integration between Meet and Chat for Workspace business and enterprise customers, automatically capturing messages, links, emoji reactions and shared files from a Meet call into the associated Chat thread. The feature, which also brings Chat’s emoji...
Caira, the new Nano Banana camera from Camera Intelligence, is a Micro Four Thirds mirrorless body that magnetically attaches to an iPhone via MagSafe and streams photos directly to the iPhone’s Photos app. It features a 4/3" Sony dual‑native ISO sensor,...
