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When the alert hit my phone this morning—Perplexity Chrome bid at $34.5 billion—I thought it was a typo. A three-year-old AI search upstart making an unsolicited, all-cash offer for Google’s Chrome? Wild. But the more I sat with it, the more it felt like a logical next move in a world where the browser is again the front door to search, shopping, and everything in between. (more…)

I was midway through reviewing a pull request when Slack lit up: GitHub’s leadership is being tucked under Microsoft’s CoreAI group the same day the CEO announced he’s stepping down. It’s one of those headlines that makes you pause your merge, sip your coffee, and ask the only question that matters—what does this GitHub CoreAI move change for people who ship code every day? (more…)

I started my morning skimming earnings recaps with a lukewarm latte, and one line made me sit up straight: the AI memory market could expand roughly 30% a year through 2030. If you spend time around data center builds, that number doesn’t sound like hype—it sounds like what’s happening on the ground. Servers aren’t just getting more GPUs; they’re getting denser stacks of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to feed those GPUs fast enough to matter. (more…)

It’s August 9, 2025, and the hallway chatter in tech feels different. Coding bootcamps once promised a fast lane into junior developer roles; today, the lane is being rebuilt in real time. Companies aren’t hiring fewer builders—they’re hiring differently. AI pair-programmers chew through boilerplate. PMs spin up prototypes with natural-language prompts. And the work left for humans is more judgment, more systems thinking, and a lot less CRUD by hand. (more…)

I opened ChatGPT 5 this morning to clear a gnarly to-do list—rewrite a press note, troubleshoot a flaky Python script, and summarize a 40-page PDF. Twenty minutes later, I’d checked off all three. The big shift isn’t a shiny logo; it’s how the model behaves under pressure: steadier reasoning, fewer detours, and answers that land closer to “useful draft” than “rough hint.” (more…)

Open-weight reasoning models just got real. Today, August 5, 2025, OpenAI unveiled two new open-weight language models that can run directly on your laptop—no data center required. I spent the morning downloading the smaller variant onto my personal machine, and within minutes I was querying complex mathematics and logic puzzles with virtually no lag. (more…)

I nearly spilled my morning coffee when I read that AI spending by the world’s tech giants is set to top a staggering $344 billion this year. As someone who tracks these numbers for a living, I can’t remember a more aggressive capex push—ever. From Microsoft and Amazon to Alphabet, Meta, and even Apple, every player is racing to build the fastest chips, the largest data centers, and the smartest AI platforms. Let me walk you through why this matters—and how it might reshape our digital future. (more…)

I nearly dropped my phone when I read that Amphenol deal is closing in on a roughly $10 billion agreement to buy CommScope’s broadband connectivity and cable solutions division. After weeks of speculation, the Wall Street Journal report finally confirmed what insiders have been whispering: Amphenol, best known for its rugged connectors on everything from aircraft wiring to fiber-optic networks, is about to make its biggest acquisition yet. (more…)

I nearly spilled my coffee when I saw the headline this morning: AI job losses topped 10,000 in July alone, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. As someone who’s been tracking tech trends for years, it felt like a gut punch—automation promised efficiency, but at what human cost? (more…)

This morning, OpenAI officially kicked off the GPT-5 Developer Preview, giving builders worldwide early access to its most versatile AI ever. If you’re a developer, entrepreneur, or tinkerer who’s ever dreamed of blending text, video, voice, and code into a single intelligent app, today’s news is your green light. I spent the afternoon diving into the documentation and running my first few prompts—here’s what stood out. (more…)