OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf isn’t just a bet on better code. It’s a shot across the bow in the race to own the entire AI developer stack.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/06/2025
Duolingo, the Pittsburgh-based company behind the chirpy green owl and more than 500 million users, has officially declared itself "AI-first." But beneath that buzzy label lies a seismic restructuring— one that shifts roles, reshapes how hiring and performance are evaluated, and redefines the relationship between people and technology at Duolingo.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/29/2025
Meta Platforms unveils a stand-alone artificial intelligence app built on its proprietary Llama 4 model, intensifying the competitive race in generative AI alongside OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/29/2025
The physics of AI are relentless. Unlike traditional software that responds with minimal processing, generative AI models spin up massive computations every time they're prompted, even for a simple "thank you." Adding a few extra words to a prompt may seem trivial, but in practice, it means more data is processed, more servers are engaged, and more electricity is burned. And yet users who adopt polite language tend to get better, more cooperative responses from AI tools like Copilot.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/28/2025
A growing number of managers say they no longer want to replace workers with generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, according to a new survey, even as concerns about AI’s broader impact on jobs remain high.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/27/2025
OpenAI has made its latest image generation model, gpt-image-1, available through its API, enabling developers and businesses to integrate image generation into their applications and platforms.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/23/2025
OpenAI’s latest AI model family, GPT-4.1, is bringing significant advancements to the generative AI space with stronger performance across software development, instruction following, and long-context comprehension, which caters directly to the needs of developers, enterprises, and agentic systems.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/22/2025
AI and quantum computing firm SandboxAQ announced a collaboration with NVIDIA on Monday aimed at accelerating breakthroughs in scientific discovery and industry innovation through the deployment of a new Large Quantitative Model (LQM) platform powered by NVIDIA DGX Cloud on Google Cloud.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2025
Anthropic unveils new research tools designed to provide a rare glimpse into the hidden reasoning processes of advanced language models.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2025
Artificial intelligence research startup Radical AI has launched TorchSim, a next-generation PyTorch-native engine designed to dramatically accelerate atomistic simulations.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2025
Artificial intelligence saw explosive growth in adoption, investment, and societal integration in 2024, but the path forward remains complex as public trust, regulation, and equitable access struggle to keep pace, according to the newly released "AI Index Report 2025."
- By John K. Waters
- 04/08/2025
IBM has acquired Hakkoda Inc., a global consultancy specializing in data modernization and artificial intelligence, the company announced this week. The acquisition is part of its push to bolster IBM Consulting’s capabilities in preparing enterprise data estates for AI-powered business operations.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/08/2025
Meta launches a new suite of AI models under its Llama 4 banner, expanding its capabilities in generative artificial intelligence and taking a direct swing at competitors such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/07/2025