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Gizmo: TikTok for mini-apps or how AI learned to sell vibes
Let's be honest: we're all a bit tired of empty chatbot windows. The idea that each of us would become a "prompt engineer" and virtuously juggle complex text queries shattered against the harsh…
Google Gemini and 750 Million Users: When Quantity Becomes Quality?
Remember that famous red code alert in Google's offices when ChatGPT first appeared? It seemed like the search giant, which had spent years feeding us promises about a bright future for artificial…
Google and Apple: why Sundar Pichai fears speaking about iPhone
Imagine a situation: you're on a date, and your partner ignores for the tenth time your question about when you'll meet their parents.
Roblox 4D: When Games Start Building Themselves
Imagine you no longer need to spend hours aligning polygons or configuring collisions for every tree in a virtual forest.
Tinder and AI: Neural networks will swipe through your gallery for you
Let's admit it: swiping on Tinder has become boring. What once seemed like an endless dopamine game has turned into a second job.
ElevenLabs: voice is worth 11 billion dollars (and that's not the limit)
While the world debates when GPT-5 will replace programmers, ElevenLabs quietly and very skillfully captures everything that sounds.
Fibr AI: Accel bets on the end of the boring websites era
Fibr AI: Accel Bets on the End of Boring Websites Remember that strange feeling when you visit a major corporation's website and it looks like it was designed in 2012 and they've been too afraid to…
Alexa+: Amazon finally turns the 'dumb' speaker into real AI
Remember that nagging feeling when you asked Alexa a question slightly more complex than "what's the weather today" and heard the perfunctory "I'm sorry, I don't know that" in response?
Google Maps and Gemini: When Navigation Knows More About the Neighborhood Than Locals
Remember when finding a decent coffee in an unfamiliar neighborhood required you to stop, close the navigator, and frantically type queries into the search bar?
Flapping Airplanes: Why Sequoia Bets on Science, Not Wrappers
Let me start by saying that the name Flapping Airplanes is a subtle trolling of the entire modern artificial intelligence industry.
Anthropic and 20,000 stolen songs: music publishers want $3 billion
Imagine walking into a store for bread and being handed a bill for the entire supermarket's inventory, including warehouse stock.
Sora crashes: OpenAI faces reality after the hype
Remember that collective shock when OpenAI first showed Sora's capabilities? It seemed like camera operators and video editors could bulk-update their resumes, and Hollywood should switch to chip…
Satya Nadella Defends Copilot: Billions Aren't Being Wasted (Or So He Says)
Imagine you're spending tens of billions of dollars building giant digital temples, but passersby on the street whisper that nobody prays inside.
Amazon and OpenAI: $50 billion not to lose the AI race
A fifty billion dollar sum sounds like the budget of a small country or the cost of a Mars colonization program.
Claude steps into the field: Anthropic plugins turn chatbot into an executor
Just yesterday we were amazed at neural networks' ability to retell long documents, and today it seems like a child's game.
Positron challenges Nvidia: $230 million to dethrone the king
Watching Nvidia conquer the world has become even a bit tedious. Jensen Huang has turned his company into a synonym for artificial intelligence, and his chips into the hardest currency of our time.
Physical Intelligence: why a Stripe veteran believes robots are finally getting smarter
Have you ever wondered why neural networks can already write code and compose sonnets, but still can't properly fold a shirt or neatly unload a dishwasher?
Xcode surrenders: Apple hands control to OpenAI and Anthropic agents
It seemed like Apple would sooner make us write code on an iPad screen keyboard than let foreign neural networks deep into its holy of holies — the Xcode development environment.
Intel vs Nvidia: Intel finally decided to reclaim its market share
For long time Intel has been watching how Nvidia transforms from a gaming GPU maker into the most expensive chipmaker in the world.
Lotus Health: your new therapist is an algorithm, and it won't ask for money
Imagine waking up with an unexplained rash or a persistent cough. Instead of frantically searching for an available appointment slot or spending three hours in a queue alongside other coughing…
Peak XV: why venture giants are fighting over AI
When Sequoia Capital decided to divorce itself from its regional subsidiaries last year, many thought it was merely a legal formality for management convenience.
Snowflake and OpenAI: Why Cloud Giants No Longer Believe in One Partner
Imagine you're building a huge warehouse, but suddenly you realize that customers need not just shelves, but smart loaders who speak twenty languages and can predict the future.
SpaceX Absorbs xAI: Why Does Elon Musk Need Server Racks in Orbit
Elon Musk has finally erased the boundaries between his empires, merging SpaceX and xAI into a single structure.
OpenAI Moves Codex to Mac: Now Code Writes Itself (Almost)
While the industry was frozen waiting for the next big model, OpenAI decided to come at it from the flank and released a native Codex application for macOS.
Firefox 148: Browser Without AI—Now That's a Killer Feature
It seems we've reached the point in technological development where the main feature of a product has become the ability to turn off that very progress.
Linq: your AI-assistants move into iMessage for 20 million dollars
Linq: Your AI Assistants Are Moving to iMessage for $20 Million Why do we need another icon on the desktop when we already have iMessage?
Grok under fire: why Elon Musk's AI is being kicked out of the White House
Elon Musk has always loved playing with fire, but this time the flames may scorch his most ambitious plans to capture the government AI market.
Carbon Robotics and Large Plant Model: robots now recognize weeds by their face
While the whole world is enthusiastically chatting with neural networks and generating pictures of questionable quality, a real quiet revolution is happening in the fields.
Dictaphone with Brains: How AI Gadgets Turn Meetings into Text (And Why It's Not Just Hype)
Remember those days when some poor employee would frantically scribble everything down in a notebook during meetings, only to circulate minutes that nobody would read?
Elon's Empire: Why Personal Conglomerates Are Taking Us Back to the Era of Robber Barons
Forget the boring board advice and transparent corporate structures that have been drilled into us for decades.