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The AI coding assistant is no longer just a neat add-on—it’s a daily driver for many of us who ship code under tight deadlines. Today’s roundup breaks down what actually changed this week, why it matters, and how to adapt fast without breaking your team’s flow. (more…)

The biggest change you’ll notice this week isn’t a new app; it’s how your laptop behaves. With AI PC adoption finally hitting critical mass, everyday chores—meeting notes, quick video fixes, audio cleanup, document search—snap into place with a speed and quiet confidence that used to require a fat cloud connection and a noisy fan ramp. It’s the sort of upgrade you feel on a random Tuesday when a task that used to take eight minutes takes two. (more…)

I walked into the show floor with a healthy dose of skepticism and walked out thinking about power supplies. The RTX 5090 isn’t just another speed bump; the early hands-on stations made it feel like a generational shove. Demos that used to wobble at cinematic settings were suddenly glued to high refresh rates, even with heavy ray tracing and path-traced effects enabled. It’s the kind of smoothness you notice in your gut before you see it on a graph. (more…)

I started my day intending to clean up a flaky import, and I ended up road-testing GitHub Copilot Workspace for three hours straight. The headline is simple: it’s live, it’s fast, and—most importantly—it understands your repository well enough to propose changes that survive CI without a ritual of retries. Instead of tossing out snippets, it behaves like a junior engineer who reads context, writes tests, and opens a tidy pull request with a human-sounding summary. (more…)

I’ve been skeptical of buzzwords, but this morning’s rollout pushed me over the line: AI PC adoption finally feels real, not theoretical. You can see it on store shelves—more laptops and minis shipping with dedicated NPUs—and you can feel it in everyday chores that used to chew time: trimming a video, cleaning up audio, searching your own notes without cloud lag. It’s the kind of shift you notice on a Tuesday afternoon when a task that took eight minutes now takes two.

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I spent this morning replaying a familiar scenario: an internal AI agent with too much access, a vague prompt from a teammate, and a “how did that get into the context window?” moment. By lunch, it was clear today’s Google Cloud AI security update targets exactly this mess. Instead of one shiny feature, Google shipped a bundle that closes gaps across discovery, runtime protection, and incident response—right where most teams struggle. (more…)

I spent this morning bouncing between a combat prototype and a bug tracker, and it hit me how different the job feels now. The phrase AI agents in game development used to be slideware. Today it’s muscle memory. Most studios I talk to keep an agent running in the background—writing first-pass scripts, chewing through localization strings, or hammering on collision volumes while the team grabs lunch. The novelty has worn off; the productivity hasn’t. (more…)

I spent this morning stress-testing a new Claude safety update in a team workspace, tossing it edge cases we’ve seen in production. Within minutes, the takeaway was clear: when a chat turns harmful or abusive, Claude can now end the exchange on its own—politely, firmly, and with a short rationale. No drama, no back-and-forth. Just a clean stop and a path forward. (more…)

I was halfway through my second coffee when the alert hit: the TeraWulf Google deal is real, it’s massive, and it rewrites a chunk of the AI infrastructure map in a single morning. A company best known for wringing hashes out of cheap power is now locking in decade-long revenue to host high-performance compute for AI customers—backstopped by Google. That’s not a side hustle; that’s a hard pivot into the big leagues of data-center capacity. (more…)

I started the day skimming supply-chain dashboards over a lukewarm latte and did a double take: AI chip trackers are now being embedded in select U.S. semiconductor shipments to catch diversions. On paper it sounds like a niche compliance tweak. In practice, it feels like a line-in-the-sand moment—policy moving from paperwork to hardware. (more…)