AI Coding & Development AI News & Updates Productivity with AI9 Min Read Artur MarkusonJuly 2, 2026 GitLab Survey: 78% of Developers Code Faster with AI—But Software Delivery Hasn’t Accelerated 78% of developers write code faster with AI tools. Yet 79% say their organization’s software delivery speed hasn’t improved. The…
AI Model Comparisons AI News & Updates Machine Learning10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJuly 1, 2026 Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Hits 82.4% on GPQA Diamond—Beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 by 6.1 Points on Graduate-Level Science Reasoning Google just seized the reasoning crown from OpenAI with a 6.1-point margin on graduate-level science problems. The company that spent 18…
AI Model Comparisons AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 26, 2026 Inception Labs Launches Mercury AI at 700+ Tokens/Second—Matches GPT-4.1 Nano Performance While Outpacing Commercial LLMs A diffusion-based language model just hit 700+ tokens per second while matching GPT-4.1 Nano on benchmarks. The speed gap between diffusion…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Machine Learning10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 25, 2026 Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire Tenstorrent for $8-10 Billion—Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI Chip Startup Valuation Triples in One Year Qualcomm just offered 3x last year’s valuation for a RISC-V chip startup. The bid tells you more about NVIDIA’s moat than…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies AI Use Cases10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 22, 2026 Visa Embeds Payment Network Into ChatGPT on June 10—AI Agents Can Now Shop Across 175 Million Merchant Locations ChatGPT can now spend your money. Visa just wired 175 million stores into OpenAI’s agent layer—with spending limits and fraud checks,…
AI Ethics & Society AI News & Updates AI Security & Privacy9 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 19, 2026 China’s AI Companion Rules Take Effect July 15, 2026—Five Agencies Ban Virtual Partners for Minors, Mandate Addiction Detection Five Chinese government agencies just created the world’s first dedicated regulation for emotionally interactive AI, banning virtual…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 11, 2026 Apollo and Blackstone Close $35 Billion Chip Financing for Anthropic—Largest Private Credit Deal Ever Funds 1+ GW Compute Expansion Off Balance Sheet Anthropic just secured $35 billion in compute capacity without adding a dollar of debt to its balance sheet. Wall Street has arrived in AI…
AI Danger Zone AI News & Updates AI Security & Privacy10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 10, 2026 Microsoft Patches CVE-2025-32711 ‘EchoLeak’—Zero-Click Copilot Flaw Allowed Silent Data Exfiltration via Malicious Email Your AI assistant just became a potential data exfiltration channel, and the attack vector is an unopened email sitting in your inbox.…
AI Coding & Development AI News & Updates AI Tools & Platforms8 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 8, 2026 Microsoft Shifts GitHub Copilot to Token-Based Billing—Forrester Calls It ‘The New Gateway Drug’ as Azure Foundry Adds 11,000+ Models Microsoft just turned AI coding assistance into a metered utility—and the enterprises that budgeted for unlimited copilots are about to…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Generative AI11 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 5, 2026 AMC Networks Partners with Runway on June 4 to Generate Marketing Assets with Gen-4 AI—Deploys Across The Walking Dead and Interview with the Vampire A major cable network just eliminated traditional marketing shoots for its biggest franchises. AMC Networks announced a partnership with…