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…
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…
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…
The Open Source AI Singularity Was Supposed to Be Here by Christmas. It’s Not.
I almost retweeted a chart at 2am last week. Open-source LLMs closing the gap with closed models — benchmarked on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trend line pointing straight at December 2026. Six months to parity. Open-source AI utopia by…
The New Benchmark That Separates Real AI Coding Agents From Demos
TL;DR There’s a new leaderboard for AI coding agents — and it measures something different than most benchmarks. Human Bench tests agents on realistic professional tasks, not curated puzzles. The current leader: Righthand (American Productivity…
OpenAI’s Paid Users Are Seeing Ads. They’re Not Happy About It
OpenAI has started showing ads to users on its lower-priced paid plans. One user on the £6.99/month tier posted screenshots of ads for Financial Times, Shein, and Amazon Prime Day — in a conversation about mobile game tips. They cancelled immediately.…
6,000 Attacks, Zero Leaks: What a Real-World Prompt Injection Test Taught One Developer
A developer ran a public prompt injection bounty program on his AI assistant (Fiu, built on OpenClaw + Claude Opus 4.6) — offering $1,000 to anyone who could make it leak a secrets.env file. Over 2,000 hackers submitted 6,000+ attempts using social…
OpenKnowledge Review: A Local-First, AI-Native Open Source Alternative to Notion and Obsidian
TL;DR OpenKnowledge is a local-first, WYSIWYG markdown editor with built-in AI integrations for Claude, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible harness. It syncs via git/GitHub, runs on macOS/Windows/Linux, and has no cloud lock-in. If you’ve been…
Claude Tag vs. AI Chatbot: Why ‘Persistent AI Teammate’ Is a Completely Different Category
“AI Assistant” Was Always the Wrong Frame We’ve been calling these things AI assistants for two years. Chatbots. Productivity tools. Copilots. All of those frames share one assumption: AI exists to serve a single user who asks it…
Krea 2 Turbo: The Fastest Open-Weights AI Image Generator at 2 Seconds Per Image
The Speed Problem With AI Image Generators If you’ve ever waited 30 seconds for an AI image to generate while your workflow sits idle, you know the problem: speed matters as much as quality when AI is part of a real production pipeline. The…