Claude Opus 4.8: I Spent a Week With It So You Don’t Have To
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28. I spent six days running it on a real Rust project. Here's what broke, what didn't, and the Qwen distillation question nobody's answering.
GPT-5.6 Is Here — Same Price as GPT-5.5, Twice the Brain
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is here — same price as GPT-5.5, smarter on coding and biology tasks, with a staged rollout due to cybersecurity concerns.
Microsoft’s New Coding AI Is Fast — But There’s a Catch
I demo’d a new AI coding tool at work last week. The dev team was impressed for about twenty minutes. Then we hit the wall. Microsoft dropped MAI-Code-1-Flash into GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise last week. General availability, wide…
Your AI Can Now Control Your Desktop. That’s Either Exciting or Terrifying.
I watched an AI use Chrome on a real computer last Tuesday. Open a tab, scroll, click the right button, and close it. Took about eight seconds. I don’t know why I found it unsettling — I’ve been using AI assistants for two years now — but…
This Open-Source Coding AI Writes Its Own Training — And Almost Matches Claude Opus
I spent an embarrassing amount of last weekend trying to get aLlama 3 fine-tuned to stop outputting Python comments in Mandarin. Not a great use of a Saturday. But it reminded me why the news from DeepReinforce caught my eye: they released a coding model…
The Voice AI That’s Finally Getting Language Right — Not Just Transcription
Most voice AI systems work in two stages: first, they transcribe what you said, then they process the text and generate a response, and then they synthesise speech. It works well enough for simple commands, but it creates a peculiar experience: the AI…
Turn Any Photo Into a 3D Model: The Tech That’s About to Change E-Commerce
3D product visualisation has always been expensive. You needed a studio, specialised equipment, and skilled artists who understood both the geometry and the rendering pipeline. A single high-quality product render could cost hundreds of dollars and take…
AI Video Is Getting Seriously Fast — And This New Model Is Why It Matters
I spent $40 on AI video generation last month and got about 90 seconds of usable footage. Most of it was glitchy garbage — faces that melted halfway through, hands with seven fingers, backgrounds that rearranged themselves between frames. The 10 seconds…
4 Steps to 4K: This AI Image Model Makes Super-Resolution Actually Usable
Image upscaling used to be a chore. You fed a blurry photo into a tool, waited for it to hallucinate some details, and hoped the result didn’t look like a painting. If you wanted to edit the upscaled image — change a color, fix a detail — you…
Your AI Assistant Forgets You After Every Session. This New Framework Changes That
Ask your AI assistant what you worked on three weeks ago. Watch it stare at you. There’s a specific kind of frustration in that moment — you know you’ve had this conversation, you know you’ve built something together, and the AI is…
AI’s Dirty Secret: Power Semiconductors Are the Bottleneck Nobody Is Talking About
Ask anyone following the AI boom where the real bottleneck is, and they’ll say GPUs or data centers. But underneath all that computing power, another shortage is starting to bite — and it might be harder to solve. Power semiconductors regulate and…
Google Gemini Desktop Is Getting Voice Control That Actually Listens
The first time I used Gemini on my Mac, I closed it after ten minutes and went back to Chrome. It felt like a slightly smarter search bar. That’s changed. Google’s been quietly building something that might actually make Gemini useful as a…