2025: The Year Context Became King (And How Developers Are Wielding It)

Let’s be honest: in 2025, the breathless pace of AI model updates has started to feel… well, a bit incremental. We’re still getting improvements, but the massive, paradigm-shifting leaps of the last few years seem to be incremental for code generation… on the model side at least. But AI-driven innovation in the SDLC hasn’t disappeared […]

AMD Financial Analyst Day Charts A Confident Roadmap For The AI Era

The AI era is accelerating, and AMD appears increasingly well-positioned to play a larger role in shaping it with bold targets set at its Financial Analyst Day 2025.

Cadence Debuts Its First System Chiplet Silicon To Accelerate Physical AI Development

Chiplet-based design has triggered a shift in the semiconductor industry and Cadence’s system chiplet silicon can act as the backbone for assembling heterogeneous SoCs.

If User-Generated AI Content Comes to Disney+, the Possibilities Are Exciting and Terrifying

Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed plans to allow for user-generated AI content on Disney+, which has exciting but also terrifying possibilities.

The New Essential Leadership Trait

AI rewards range, not specialization. The future belongs to leaders with Renaissance minds.

AI Gains Ground in Special Ed, Raises Legal and Ethical Concerns

A new report by the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology urges schools to balance efficiency gains with privacy, legal requirements and ethical considerations when utilizing AI in the IEP development process.

Measuring political even-handedness in Claude

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

A third of daily music uploads are AI-generated and 97% of people can’t tell the difference, says report

Hackers use Anthropic’s AI model Claude once again

The company says the hackers were backed by the Chinese state.

Spotify tests AI audiobook recaps, expands playlist Shuffle controls

Spotify announced a feature that summarizes audiobooks up to the point where the user left off, and new Shuffle controls for Premium users.

Anthropic details how it measures Claude’s wokeness

Claude is told to avoid providing “unsolicited” political opinions.

Part II: Competing in the age of embodied AI (Analyst Angle)

The global economy is shifting from software intelligence to embodied AI — where algorithms meet physical production.

Robotic kitchen in a box cooks, cleans and serves 120 meals an hour

Meet the AI kitchen that never tires, Circus’ CA-1 robot cooks, serves, and cleans at REWE’s new ‘Fresh & Smart’ outlet.

Private 5G and generative AI – a dream match at the industrial edge?

Private 5G and generative AI are redefining Industry 4.0 – but do they truly depend on one another? This (long) discussion explores how they overlap and diverge.

Deutsche Telekom Q3: Focus remains on AI, fiber

Deutsche Telekom’s Q3 blends steady growth with record fiber momentum and an aggressive push into industrial AI, including a new Nvidia-backed data center.

Chinese state-sponsored group used Anthropic’s Claude model for AI-orchestrated cyberattack

CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos reports on news regarding AI.

Harvard/MIT AI Unicorns Reveal Key Trends In This New Paradigm

Harvard/MIT’s startup supercluster is rapidly producing AI-era unicorns—often led by under-25 founders—with record growth rates, capital efficiency, and blue-chip backers

Artificial Intelligence Successfully Adjudicates Clinical Events in CV Trials

The hope is using AI to judge outcomes will ease the high cost and complexity of running big clinical trials, say researchers.

Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

------------------------------------------------------------------- Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms ------------------------------------------------------------------- We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space.

Four Cofounders Of Popular AI Coding Tool Cursor Are Now Billionaires

The startup nabbed a $29.3 billion valuation in a $2.3 billion funding round Thursday, minting its four 20-something founders as billionaires.

We’ve developed a new way to train small AI models with internal mechanisms that are easier for humans to examine and understand….

We’ve developed a new way to train small AI models with internal mechanisms that are easier for humans to examine and understand. Language models like the ones behind ChatGPT have complex, sometimes surprising internal structures, and we don’t yet fully understand how they work. This approach is an early step toward closing that gap, and a part of a broader set of efforts across OpenAI to make our systems more interpretable—developing methods that help us understand why a model produced a given output. In some cases that means looking at the model’s step-by-step reasoning, and in others it means trying...

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition

Google adds agentic AI checkout to shopping

Google has announced a trio of new AI-powered shopping features.

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation

Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.