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On Thursday, Google Cloud announced it added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google's rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. Also, Sam Ross, the co-founder and CEO of Numeral, came up with the idea for his sales tax compliance startup while traveling the world after having worked as a product manager at Airbnb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The New Stack Agents, ServiceNow CTO and co-founder Pat Casey discusses why the company runs 90% of its workloads—including AI infrastructure—on its own physical servers rather than the public cloud. ServiceNow maintains GPU hubs across global data centers, enabling efficient, low-latency AI operations. Casey downplays the complexity of running AI models on-prem, noting their team's strong Kubernetes and Triton expertise. The company recently switched from GitHub Copilot to its own AI coding assistant, Windsurf, yielding a 10% productivity boost among 7,000 engineers. However, use of such tools isn't mandatory—performance remains the main metric. Casey also addresses the impact of AI on junior developers, acknowledging that AI tools often handle tasks traditionally assigned to them. While ServiceNow still hires many interns, he sees the entry-level tech job market as increasingly vulnerable. Despite these concerns, Casey remains optimistic, viewing the AI revolution as transformative and ultimately beneficial, though not without disruption or risk.  Learn more from The New Stack about the latest in AI and development in ServiceNow ServiceNow Launches a Control Tower for AI AgentsServiceNow Acquires Data.World To Expand Its AI Data Strategy Join our community of newsletter subscribers to stay on top of the news and at the top of your game. 

What does it take to make people feel something with design...?This week's guest is kind of an expert on the question. Sara Vienna (https://x.com/sravienna?lang=en) , the Chief Design Officer at Metalab, talks about the responsibility that designers have to shape this AI world that we're entering without losing the heartbeat of a brand.We don't hold back on the current state of the industry and what it feels like to be a designer today.Some highlights:- How to not get swept up in current design trends- How Metalab has adopted AI workflows internally- Strategies for leveraging AI to understand research data- What it takes to put meaning at the heart of a brand/product- How Metalab invests in the collective taste of the design org- Where Sara derives signals and how she filters out the noise- Being late on a trend is bad taste even more so than ugly design- + a lot more- Windsurf https://windsurf.com/) and [Suno](https://suno.com/home?wpsrc=Google%20AdWords&wpcid=22042553892&wpscid=173890219393&wpcrid=726251362516&wpkwid=kwd-2827037661&wpkwn=suno&wpkmatch=e&wpsnetn=g&gad_campaignid=22042553892&gbraid=0AAAAA9pWpduFan7icL90FczgyQploCsYi) rebrands- Jony Ive's Stripe Sessions talk (https://stripe.com/sessions/2025/a-conversation-with-sir-jony-ive)- Erica Hall's book “Just Enough Research” (https://www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research)- Anthropic's Machines of Loving Grace paper (https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace)- Blok for focus (https://blok.so/)

Wohoo, hey ya'll, Alex here,I'm back from the desert (pic at the end) and what a great feeling it is to be back in the studio to talk about everything that happened in AI! It's been a pretty full week (or two) in AI, with Coding agent space heating up, Grok entering the ring and taking over free tokens, Codex 10xing usage and Anthropic... well, we'll get to Anthropic. Today on the show we had Roger and Bhavesh from Nous Research cover the awesome Hermes 4 release and the new PokerBots benchmark, then we had a returning favorite, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, to talk about the GA of RealTime voice from OpenAI. Plus we got some massive funding news, some drama with model quality on Claude Code, and some very exciting news right here from CoreWeave aquiring OpenPipe!

Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the no-code platform valued at around $12 billion. After a viral tweet declared “Airtable is dead” based on incorrect data, Howie led a radical transformation: reorganizing the entire company around AI, becoming an “IC CEO” who codes daily, and achieving over $100 million in free cash flow.What you'll learn:1. The “fast thinking” vs. “slow thinking” team structure that lets Airtable ship AI features weekly (inspired by Daniel Kahneman)2. Why Howie uses AI hourly (not daily) and is Airtable's #1 inference-cost user globally3. Why CEOs must become ICs again in the AI era (and how to restructure your calendar to make it possible)4. Why “playing” with AI tools should be mandatory—Howie tells employees to cancel all meetings for a week to experiment5. The specific skills product managers, engineers, and designers need to develop to succeed in the AI era6. Why evals can kill innovation (and when to use “vibes” instead)—Brought to you by:LucidLink—Real-time cloud storage for teamsDX—The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchersClaude.ai—The AI for problem solvers and enterprise—Where to find Howie Liu• X: https://x.com/howietl• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howieliu/• Email: howie@airtable.com—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Introduction to Howie Liu and Airtable(04:05) The “Airtable is dead” viral tweet controversy(08:07) The rise of IC CEOs(10:57) AI's paradigm shift in product development(16:27) Specific changes Airtable has made(21:38) Fast- and slow-thinking teams(32:57) The emergence of new form factors in AI models(34:48) Airtable's vision and philosophy(40:20) Empowering teams with AI tools(46:50) Encouraging experimentation and play(50:55) Cross-functional skills in product teams(01:03:35) The importance of evals and open-ended testing(01:08:06) Key strategies for AI-driven success(01:12:43) Counterintuitive startup wisdom(01:22:21) Don't step away from the details that you love(01:25:50) Advice for aspiring engineers and designers(01:30:00) Lightning round and final thoughts—Referenced:• Airtable: https://www.airtable.com/• All In podcast: https://allin.com/• Nikita Bier on X: https://x.com/nikitabier• Figma: https://www.figma.com/• The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder and CEO of Every): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-every-dan-shipper• Every: https://every.to/• Cursor: https://cursor.com/• The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can't stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-rise-of-cursor-michael-truell• Windsurf: https://windsurf.com/• Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-untold-story-of-windsurf-varun-mohan• Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/• Omni: https://www.airtable.com/lp/ai-psu-plp• How ChatGPT accidentally became the fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-chatgpt-nick-turley• Palantir: https://www.palantir.com/• Harvey: https://www.harvey.ai/• v0: https://v0.dev/• Everyone's an engineer now: Inside v0's mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/everyones-an-engineer-now-guillermo-rauch• Replit: https://replit.com/• Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/behind-the-product-replit-amjad-masad• Lovable: https://lovable.dev/• Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/building-lovable-anton-osika• Runway Game Worlds: https://play.runwayml.com/login• Sesame: https://www.sesame.com• NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google• Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com• Andrew Ofstad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aofstad/• Stripe: https://stripe.com/• Eames chair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eames_Lounge_Chair• OpenAI's CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/kevin-weil-open-ai• Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropics-cpo-heres-what-comes-next• IDEO design thinking: https://designthinking.ideo.com/• Brian Chesky's new playbook: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-approach• The Studio on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-studio/umc.cmc.7518algxc4lsoobtsx30dqb52• Silicon Valley on HBOMax: https://www.hbomax.com/shows/silicon-valley/b4583939-e39f-4b5c-822d-5b6cc186172d• Self Edge: https://www.selfedge.com/• Studio D'Artisan: https://www.selfedge.com/studio-dartisan• Whitesville T-shirt: https://store.toyo-enterprise.co.jp/shopbrand/ct48/• Guest Series | Dr. Paul Conti: How to Understand & Assess Your Mental Health: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/guest-series-dr-paul-conti-how-to-understand-and-assess-your-mental-health—Recommended books:• Thinking, Fast and Slow: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555• The Three-Body Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032• Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It: https://us.amazon.com/Trauma-Invisible-Epidemic-Works-Heal/dp/1683647351/—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. 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Asha Sharma leads AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she works with thousands of companies building AI products and has unique visibility into what's working (and what's not) across more than 15,000 startups and enterprises. Before Microsoft, Asha was COO at Instacart, and VP of Product & Engineering at Meta, notably leading product for Messenger.What you'll learn:1. Why we're moving from “product as artifact” to “product as organism” and what this means for builders2. Microsoft's “seasons” planning framework that allows them to adapt quickly in the AI era3. The death of the org chart: how agents are turning hierarchies into task networks and why “the loop, not the lane” is the new organizing principle4. Why post-training will soon see more investment than pre-training—and how to build your own AI moat with fine-tuning5. Her prediction for the “agentic society”—where org charts become work charts and agents outnumber humans in your company6. The three-phase pattern every successful AI company follows (and why most fail at phase one)7. The rise of code-native interfaces and why GUIs might be going the way of the desktop8. What Asha learned from Satya Nadella about optimism—Brought to you by:Enterpret—Transform customer feedback into product growth: https://enterpret.com/lennyDX—The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers: http://getdx.com/lennyFin—The #1 AI agent for customer service: https://fin.ai/lenny—Transcript: ⁠https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-80000-companies-build-with-ai-asha-sharma⁠—My biggest takeaways (for paid newsletter subscribers): ⁠https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/i/171413445/my-biggest-takeaways-from-this-conversation⁠—Where to find Asha Sharma:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboutasha/• Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/author/asha-sharma/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Introduction to Asha Sharma(04:18) From “product as artifact” to “product as organism”(06:20) The rise of post-training and the future of AI product development(09:10) Successful AI companies: patterns and pitfalls(12:01) The evolution of full-stack builders(14:15) “The loop, not the lane”—the new organizing principle(16:24) The future of user interfaces: from GUI to code-native(19:34) The rise of the agentic society(22:58) The “work chart” vs. the “org chart”(26:24) How Microsoft is using agents(28:23) Planning and strategy in the AI landscape(35:38) The importance of platform fundamentals(39:31) Lessons from industry giants(42:10) What's driving Asha(44:30) Reinforcement learning (RL) and optimization loops(49:19) Lightning round and final thoughts—Referenced:• Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/• Cursor: https://cursor.com/• The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can't stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-rise-of-cursor-michael-truell• Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-chatgpt-nick-turley• GitHub: https://github.com• Dragon Medical One: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/health-solutions/clinical-workflow/dragon-medical-one• Windsurf: https://windsurf.com/• Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-untold-story-of-windsurf-varun-mohan• Lovable: https://lovable.dev/• Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/building-lovable-anton-osika• Bolt: http://bolt.com• Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-bolt-eric-simons• Replit: https://replit.com/•Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/behind-the-product-replit-amjad-masad• He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/he-saved-openai-bret-taylor• Sierra: https://sierra.ai/• Spark: https://github.com/features/spark• Peter Yang on X: https://x.com/petergyang• How AI will impact product management: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-ai-will-impact-product-management• Instacart: http://instacart.com/• Terminator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(franchise)• Porch Group: https://porchgroup.com/• WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html• Satya Nadella on X: https://x.com/satyanadella• Perfect Match 360°: Artificial intelligence to find the perfect donor match: https://ivi-fertility.com/blog/perfect-match-360-artificial-intelligence-to-find-the-perfect-donor-match/• OpenAI's GPT-5 shows potential in healthcare with early cancer detection capabilities: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/openais-gpt-5-shows-potential-in-healthcare-with-early-cancer-detection-capabilities/articleshow/123173952.cms• F1: The Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16311594/• For All Mankind on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7• The Home Depot: https://www.homedepot.com/• Dewalt Powerstack: https://www.dewalt.com/powerstack• Regret Minimization Framework: https://s3.amazonaws.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/sites/2147500522/themes/2148012322/downloads/rLuObc2QuOwjLrinx5Yu_regret-minimization-framework.pdf—Recommended books:• The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Machine-Jensen-Coveted-Microchip/dp/0593832698• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593466497Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. 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This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI's impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray's moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show. 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This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. One of the biggest topics in AI these days is agents — the idea that AI is going to move from chatbots to reliably completing tasks for us in the real world. But the problem with agents is that they really aren't all that reliable right now. There's a lot of work happening in the AI industry to try and fix that, and that brings me to my guest today: David Luan, the head of Amazon's AGI research lab, a cofounder of Adept, and a former VP of engineering at OpenAI. David and I discussed the release of GPT-5, what Amazon wants with agents, and where he thinks the AI race is headed next. Read the full transcript on The Verge. Links:  The Platonic Representation Hypothesis | Phillip Isola Amazon plays catch-up with new Nova models to generate voices, video | Verge Amazon's new AI agent is designed to do your shopping | Verge Microsoft is racing to build an AI ‘agent factory' | Verge OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer | Verge 24 hours with Alexa Plus: we cooked, we chatted, and it kinda lied to me | Verge Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars | Decoder OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf's CEO is going to Google | Verge This is Big Tech's playbook for swallowing the AI industry | Command Line Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept | TechCrunch Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Ursa Wright.  The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast, where Dan Bowyer, Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and this week's special guest Joe Knowles from Smedvig Ventures unpack what's happening in European venture capital.This week: Are we doomed to lag the US in wealth creation or is Europe finally closing the gap? Why a record $100B of M&A matters for exits and recycling capital, and how founders should think about selling vs going for gold. Plus: Porsche & Deutsche Telekom anchoring a €500M defence fund as Germany drops its taboos, the scramble for cheap energy and battery breakthroughs, and what GPT-5, Perplexity, and Nvidia tariffs tell us about Europe's place in the AI race.Here's what's covered:00:48 US vs Europe in Wealth Creation: Compounders, unicorns, and Europe's capital efficiency.09:07 Late-Stage Funding Gap: Why pensions and IPO markets hold Europe back.17:36 M&A is Back: Google's $32B Wiz deal, Windsurf drama, and Europe's “second tier” opportunity.25:52 Why Exits Matter: Recycling capital and the venture flywheel.27:09 Defence Tech Goes Mainstream: Porsche, DT, EIF and Germany's cultural shift.36:18 The Ethics Question: Dual use, deterrence, and uncomfortable truths.41:22 Energy Corner: Lithium recycling, sodium-ion batteries, and Europe's 4x US energy costs.46:44 AI Needs Power: Grid bottlenecks, red tape, and planning reform urgency.51:10 GPT-5 Launch: Unified model, user backlash, and coding benchmarks.54:37 Perplexity vs Chrome: PR stunt or regulatory opening?58:32 Chip Wars: Nvidia tariffs, Huawei delays, and why Europe needs Chips Act 2.0.1:05:59 Shoutout to Italy: Record €655M H1 startup funding.

Brian Balfour is the founder of Reforge, the former VP of Growth at HubSpot, and a student (and teacher) of product growth. Brian has studied every major platform shift—from Facebook to Apple to Google—and he's spotted a pattern that's about to repeat with ChatGPT.In this conversation, you'll learn:1. The 4-step cycle every platform follows (and why ChatGPT just entered step 2)2. Why ChatGPT's platform launch could be bigger than Facebook's early platform3. The exact signals that ChatGPT will launch a third-party platform within six months4. Why you have six months (not years) to make your platform bet5. Why companies that don't integrate with ChatGPT will lose to competitors that do6. How Zynga grew to $1B by betting on Facebook's platform early (before it was obvious)7. Why so few companies are actually doing what they need to be doing right now—Brought to you by:DX—The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers: http://getdx.com/lennyBasecamp—The famously straightforward project management system from 37signals: https://www.basecamp.com/lennyMiro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life: https://miro.com/lenny—Transcript: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-chatgpt-will-be-the-next-big-growth-channel-brian-balfour—My biggest takeaways (for paid newsletter subscribers): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/i/170294620/my-biggest-takeaways-from-this-conversation—Where to find Brian Balfour:• X: https://twitter.com/bbalfour• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bbalfour/• Website: https://brianbalfour.com/• Substack: https://blog.brianbalfour.com/• Podcast: https://www.reforge.com/podcast/unsolicited-feedback—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Welcome back, Brian!(04:13) The changing landscape of product growth(05:09) The importance of distribution(08:14) The role of new distribution platforms(09:45) The four-step cycle of distribution platforms(17:38) Examples of platform cycles(30:01) The rise of ChatGPT(44:47) The future of AI agents(46:01) Preferred partners and platform credibility(47:18) Monetization mechanisms and free tiers(48:14) Betting strategies for startups(01:04:34) Adopting AI tools: challenges and strategies(01:08:41) The importance of hard constraints(01:14:23) Effective AI adoption in companies(01:19:05) Lightning round and final thoughts—Referenced:• The Next Great Distribution Shift: https://blog.brianbalfour.com/p/the-next-great-distribution-shift• Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-balfour-10-lessons-on-career• This Week #9: Breaking into growth, leading with influence, and (not) stepping on toes: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/this-week-9-breaking-into-growth• Distribution vs. Innovation: https://a16z.com/distribution-vs-innovation/• On Platform Shifts and AI: https://caseyaccidental.com/on-platform-shifts-and-ai/• How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-sell-your-ideas-and-rise-within• Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/thinking-beyond-frameworks-casey• ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/• Claude: https://claude.ai/• Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/• Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)• Periscope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_(service)• Myspace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace• Friendster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster• AltaVista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista• Lycos: https://www.lycos.com/• HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/• Zynga: https://www.zynga.com/• TBPN: https://www.tbpn.com/• Deedy Das on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debarghyadas/• ChatGPT's product retention curves are a product manager's wet dream: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/debarghyadas_chatgpts-product-retention-curves-are-a-activity-7338384752393035776-ice1/• Windsurf: https://windsurf.com/• Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-untold-story-of-windsurf-varun-mohan• Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropics-cpo-heres-what-comes-next• Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/• Cursor: https://cursor.com/• The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can't stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-rise-of-cursor-michael-truell• Notion: https://www.notion.com/• Airtable: https://www.airtable.com/• Monday: monday.com• Sierra: http://sierra.ai• He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/he-saved-openai-bret-taylor• Introducing ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/• Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/lessons-from-30-years-of-building• Marc Andreessen on Why Optimism Is the Safest Bet: https://nymag.com/marc-andressen-2014-10-20/• Reforge: https://www.reforge.com• Reforge Insights: https://www.reforge.com/insights• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/• 25 proven tactics to accelerate AI adoption at your company: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/25-proven-tactics-to-accelerate-ai• Clouded Judgement: https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/• NFX: https://www.nfx.com/news• James Currier: https://www.nfx.com/team/james-currier• Hallway Chat: https://www.hallwaychat.co/• Bryan Johnson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanrjohnson/• Silicon Valley on HBO: https://www.hbomax.com/shows/silicon-valley/b4583939-e39f-4b5c-822d-5b6cc186172d• Stick: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/stick/umc.cmc.52w04zy67tiv11p8xvbc57wmc• Ergonofis standing desks: https://ergonofis.com/en-us/collections/standing-desks• Coping with the loss of a child and protecting your time | Brian Balfour (father of 2, CEO and founder Reforge, venture partner): https://www.startupdadpod.com/coping-with-the-loss-of-a-child-and-protecting-your-time-brian-balfour-father-of-2-ceo-and-found/—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. 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This week's episode is with Andy Zhang who was the lead design engineer at Windsurf. So we're going to shine a light on all of the ways you can make an impact as a design engineer including:Owning more of the frontend polishThinking through design patterns and packaging featuresBridging the gap between technical features and intuitive UXSaying “no” to features to preserve the simplicity of the systemHe also shares some great stories and advice including:What it was like working as an intern at Figma with

When AI agents move faster than security teams, the game changes, and the risks multiply. Ron welcomes back Marco “Mystic Marc” Figueroa, Program Manager at Mozilla's 0DIN Program, to continue the conversation and update on 2025's most pressing AI and cybersecurity shifts. From the explosive rise of AI agents and OpenAI's rumored browser to the hidden dangers of MCP implementations and prompt injection exploits like the Gemini attack, Marco shares insights that security pros can't afford to miss. Impactful Moments 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Why 2025 is the year of the agent 05:45 - MCP's rapid adoption and security risks 10:00 - The Gemini prompt injection vulnerability 15:00 - How attackers hide malicious AI prompts 18:00 - High success rates in non-technical teams 22:00 - Rise of voice-based AI scams 25:00 - Using jailbreaks to bend AI to your needs 30:00 - Predictions on OpenAI's upcoming browser 33:00 - The profit battle between OpenAI and Microsoft 35:00 - Windsurf's rollercoaster of acquisitions Links: Connect with our guest Marco on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-figueroa-re/ Check out our upcoming events: https://www.hackervalley.com/livestreams Join our creative mastermind and stand out as a cybersecurity professional: https://www.patreon.com/hackervalleystudio Love Hacker Valley Studio? Pick up some swag: https://store.hackervalley.com Continue the conversation by joining our Discord: https://hackervalley.com/discord Become a sponsor of the show to amplify your brand: https://hackervalley.com/work-with-us/

News and Updates: “Vibe coding” is redefining software development by letting AI handle most coding tasks — even architecture — through natural-language prompts. Tools like Windsurf, Replit, and Microsoft Copilot let pros and hobbyists alike generate entire apps, but the code still needs close review. Google recently acquired Windsurf's CEO for $2.4B, highlighting AI's growing role in dev workflows. The UK and 24 U.S. states now require age verification (via government ID or face scans) for access to adult content. Critics argue these laws do little to protect children and instead threaten user privacy by collecting sensitive personal data — data often stored insecurely and vulnerable to leaks. Users can mitigate risks by using burner accounts, VPNs, and privacy tools — though laws are evolving, and enforcement may increase. Experts say the laws are easy to bypass and are more likely to harm privacy than improve online safety for kids. Delta is phasing out fixed ticket prices in favor of AI-driven personalized fares, which could eventually target individuals based on their data. Only 3% of fares currently use the system, but Delta expects that to rise to 20% by year's end. Privacy experts warn this “surveillance pricing” could lead to unfair, exploitative practices — especially for lower-income travelers. Music fans were stunned to find AI-generated songs appearing on Spotify under deceased artists' names like Blaze Foley and Guy Clark. The platform removed the tracks after backlash, admitting they violated deceptive content policies — but there's still no label to indicate whether music is AI-generated.

Arnaud et Guillaume explore l'évolution de l'écosystème Java avec Java 25, Spring Boot et Quarkus, ainsi que les dernières tendances en intelligence artificielle avec les nouveaux modèles comme Grok 4 et Claude Code. Les animateurs font également le point sur l'infrastructure cloud, les défis MCP et CLI, tout en discutant de l'impact de l'IA sur la productivité des développeurs et la gestion de la dette technique. Enregistré le 8 août 2025 Téléchargement de l'épisode LesCastCodeurs-Episode–329.mp3 ou en vidéo sur YouTube. News Langages Java 25: JEP 515 : Profilage de méthode en avance (Ahead-of-Time) https://openjdk.org/jeps/515 Le JEP 515 a pour but d'améliorer le temps de démarrage et de chauffe des applications Java. L'idée est de collecter les profils d'exécution des méthodes lors d'une exécution antérieure, puis de les rendre immédiatement disponibles au démarrage de la machine virtuelle. Cela permet au compilateur JIT de générer du code natif dès le début, sans avoir à attendre que l'application soit en cours d'exécution. Ce changement ne nécessite aucune modification du code des applications, des bibliothèques ou des frameworks. L'intégration se fait via les commandes de création de cache AOT existantes. Voir aussi https://openjdk.org/jeps/483 et https://openjdk.org/jeps/514 Java 25: JEP 518 : Échantillonnage coopératif JFR https://openjdk.org/jeps/518 Le JEP 518 a pour objectif d'améliorer la stabilité et l'évolutivité de la fonction JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) pour le profilage d'exécution. Le mécanisme d'échantillonnage des piles d'appels de threads Java est retravaillé pour s'exécuter uniquement à des safepoints, ce qui réduit les risques d'instabilité. Le nouveau modèle permet un parcours de pile plus sûr, notamment avec le garbage collector ZGC, et un échantillonnage plus efficace qui prend en charge le parcours de pile concurrent. Le JEP ajoute un nouvel événement, SafepointLatency, qui enregistre le temps nécessaire à un thread pour atteindre un safepoint. L'approche rend le processus d'échantillonnage plus léger et plus rapide, car le travail de création de traces de pile est délégué au thread cible lui-même. Librairies Spring Boot 4 M1 https://spring.io/blog/2025/07/24/spring-boot–4–0–0-M1-available-now Spring Boot 4.0.0-M1 met à jour de nombreuses dépendances internes et externes pour améliorer la stabilité et la compatibilité. Les types annotés avec @ConfigurationProperties peuvent maintenant référencer des types situés dans des modules externes grâce à @ConfigurationPropertiesSource. Le support de l'information sur la validité des certificats SSL a été simplifié, supprimant l'état WILL_EXPIRE_SOON au profit de VALID. L'auto-configuration des métriques Micrometer supporte désormais l'annotation @MeterTag sur les méthodes annotées @Counted et @Timed, avec évaluation via SpEL. Le support de @ServiceConnection pour MongoDB inclut désormais l'intégration avec MongoDBAtlasLocalContainer de Testcontainers. Certaines fonctionnalités et API ont été dépréciées, avec des recommandations pour migrer les points de terminaison personnalisés vers les versions Spring Boot 2. Les versions milestones et release candidates sont maintenant publiées sur Maven Central, en plus du repository Spring traditionnel. Un guide de migration a été publié pour faciliter la transition depuis Spring Boot 3.5 vers la version 4.0.0-M1. Passage de Spring Boot à Quarkus : retour d'expérience https://blog.stackademic.com/we-switched-from-spring-boot-to-quarkus-heres-the-ugly-truth-c8a91c2b8c53 Une équipe a migré une application Java de Spring Boot vers Quarkus pour gagner en performances et réduire la consommation mémoire. L'objectif était aussi d'optimiser l'application pour le cloud natif. La migration a été plus complexe que prévu, notamment à cause de l'incompatibilité avec certaines bibliothèques et d'un écosystème Quarkus moins mature. Il a fallu revoir du code et abandonner certaines fonctionnalités spécifiques à Spring Boot. Les gains en performances et en mémoire sont réels, mais la migration demande un vrai effort d'adaptation. La communauté Quarkus progresse, mais le support reste limité comparé à Spring Boot. Conclusion : Quarkus est intéressant pour les nouveaux projets ou ceux prêts à être réécrits, mais la migration d'un projet existant est un vrai défi. LangChain4j 1.2.0 : Nouvelles fonctionnalités et améliorations https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j/releases/tag/1.2.0 Modules stables : Les modules langchain4j-anthropic, langchain4j-azure-open-ai, langchain4j-bedrock, langchain4j-google-ai-gemini, langchain4j-mistral-ai et langchain4j-ollama sont désormais en version stable 1.2.0. Modules expérimentaux : La plupart des autres modules de LangChain4j sont en version 1.2.0-beta8 et restent expérimentaux/instables. BOM mis à jour : Le langchain4j-bom a été mis à jour en version 1.2.0, incluant les dernières versions de tous les modules. Principales améliorations : Support du raisonnement/pensée dans les modèles. Appels d'outils partiels en streaming. Option MCP pour exposer automatiquement les ressources en tant qu'outils. OpenAI : possibilité de définir des paramètres de requête personnalisés et d'accéder aux réponses HTTP brutes et aux événements SSE. Améliorations de la gestion des erreurs et de la documentation. Filtering Metadata Infinispan ! (cc Katia( Et 1.3.0 est déjà disponible https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j/releases/tag/1.3.0 2 nouveaux modules expérimentaux, langchain4j-agentic et langchain4j-agentic-a2a qui introduisent un ensemble d'abstractions et d'utilitaires pour construire des applications agentiques Infrastructure Cette fois c'est vraiment l'année de Linux sur le desktop ! https://www.lesnumeriques.com/informatique/c-est-enfin-arrive-linux-depasse-un-seuil-historique-que-microsoft-pensait-intouchable-n239977.html Linux a franchi la barre des 5% aux USA Cette progression s'explique en grande partie par l'essor des systèmes basés sur Linux dans les environnements professionnels, les serveurs, et certains usages grand public. Microsoft, longtemps dominant avec Windows, voyait ce seuil comme difficilement atteignable à court terme. Le succès de Linux est également alimenté par la popularité croissante des distributions open source, plus légères, personnalisables et adaptées à des usages variés. Le cloud, l'IoT, et les infrastructures de serveurs utilisent massivement Linux, ce qui contribue à cette augmentation globale. Ce basculement symbolique marque un changement d'équilibre dans l'écosystème des systèmes d'exploitation. Toutefois, Windows conserve encore une forte présence dans certains segments, notamment chez les particuliers et dans les entreprises classiques. Cette évolution témoigne du dynamisme et de la maturité croissante des solutions Linux, devenues des alternatives crédibles et robustes face aux offres propriétaires. Cloud Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 s'en va pendant une heure d'internet https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare–1–1–1–1-incident-on-july–14–2025/ Le 14 juillet 2025, le service DNS public Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 a subi une panne majeure de 62 minutes, rendant le service indisponible pour la majorité des utilisateurs mondiaux. Cette panne a aussi causé une dégradation intermittente du service Gateway DNS. L'incident est survenu suite à une mise à jour de la topologie des services Cloudflare qui a activé une erreur de configuration introduite en juin 2025. Cette erreur faisait que les préfixes destinés au service 1.1.1.1 ont été accidentellement inclus dans un nouveau service de localisation des données (Data Localization Suite), ce qui a perturbé le routage anycast. Le résultat a été une incapacité pour les utilisateurs à résoudre les noms de domaine via 1.1.1.1, rendant la plupart des services Internet inaccessibles pour eux. Ce n'était pas le résultat d'une attaque ou d'un problème BGP, mais une erreur interne de configuration. Cloudflare a rapidement identifié la cause, corrigé la configuration et mis en place des mesures pour prévenir ce type d'incident à l'avenir. Le service est revenu à la normale après environ une heure d'indisponibilité. L'incident souligne la complexité et la sensibilité des infrastructures anycast et la nécessité d'une gestion rigoureuse des configurations réseau. Web L'évolution des bonnes pratiques de Node.js https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs–2025/ Évolution de Node.js en 2025 : Le développement se tourne vers les standards du web, avec moins de dépendances externes et une meilleure expérience pour les développeurs. ES Modules (ESM) par défaut : Remplacement de CommonJS pour un meilleur outillage et une standardisation avec le web. Utilisation du préfixe node: pour les modules natifs afin d'éviter les conflits. API web intégrées : fetch, AbortController, et AbortSignal sont maintenant natifs, réduisant le besoin de librairies comme axios. Runner de test intégré : Plus besoin de Jest ou Mocha pour la plupart des cas. Inclut un mode “watch” et des rapports de couverture. Patterns asynchrones avancés : Utilisation plus poussée de async/await avec Promise.all() pour le parallélisme et les AsyncIterators pour les flux d'événements. Worker Threads pour le parallélisme : Pour les tâches lourdes en CPU, évitant de bloquer l'event loop principal. Expérience de développement améliorée : Intégration du mode --watch (remplace nodemon) et du support --env-file (remplace dotenv). Sécurité et performance : Modèle de permission expérimental pour restreindre l'accès et des hooks de performance natifs pour le monitoring. Distribution simplifiée : Création d'exécutables uniques pour faciliter le déploiement d'applications ou d'outils en ligne de commande. Sortie de Apache EChart 6 après 12 ans ! https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/basics/release-note/v6-feature/ Apache ECharts 6.0 : Sortie officielle après 12 ans d'évolution. 12 mises à niveau majeures pour la visualisation de données. Trois dimensions clés d'amélioration : Présentation visuelle plus professionnelle : Nouveau thème par défaut (design moderne). Changement dynamique de thème. Prise en charge du mode sombre. Extension des limites de l'expression des données : Nouveaux types de graphiques : Diagramme de cordes (Chord Chart), Nuage de points en essaim (Beeswarm Chart). Nouvelles fonctionnalités : Jittering pour nuages de points denses, Axes coupés (Broken Axis). Graphiques boursiers améliorés Liberté de composition : Nouveau système de coordonnées matriciel. Séries personnalisées améliorées (réutilisation du code, publication npm). Nouveaux graphiques personnalisés inclus (violon, contour, etc.). Optimisation de l'agencement des étiquettes d'axe. Data et Intelligence Artificielle Grok 4 s'est pris pour un nazi à cause des tools https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/xai-says-it-has-fixed-grok–4s-problematic-responses/ À son lancement, Grok 4 a généré des réponses offensantes, notamment en se surnommant « MechaHitler » et en adoptant des propos antisémites. Ce comportement provenait d'une recherche automatique sur le web qui a mal interprété un mème viral comme une vérité. Grok alignait aussi ses réponses controversées sur les opinions d'Elon Musk et de xAI, ce qui a amplifié les biais. xAI a identifié que ces dérapages étaient dus à une mise à jour interne intégrant des instructions encourageant un humour offensant et un alignement avec Musk. Pour corriger cela, xAI a supprimé le code fautif, remanié les prompts système, et imposé des directives demandant à Grok d'effectuer une analyse indépendante, en utilisant des sources diverses. Grok doit désormais éviter tout biais, ne plus adopter un humour politiquement incorrect, et analyser objectivement les sujets sensibles. xAI a présenté ses excuses, précisant que ces dérapages étaient dus à un problème de prompt et non au modèle lui-même. Cet incident met en lumière les défis persistants d'alignement et de sécurité des modèles d'IA face aux injections indirectes issues du contenu en ligne. La correction n'est pas qu'un simple patch technique, mais un exemple des enjeux éthiques et de responsabilité majeurs dans le déploiement d'IA à grande échelle. Guillaume a sorti toute une série d'article sur les patterns agentiques avec le framework ADK pour Java https://glaforge.dev/posts/2025/07/29/mastering-agentic-workflows-with-adk-the-recap/ Un premier article explique comment découper les tâches en sous-agents IA : https://glaforge.dev/posts/2025/07/23/mastering-agentic-workflows-with-adk-sub-agents/ Un deuxième article détaille comment organiser les agents de manière séquentielle : https://glaforge.dev/posts/2025/07/24/mastering-agentic-workflows-with-adk-sequential-agent/ Un troisième article explique comment paralleliser des tâches indépendantes : https://glaforge.dev/posts/2025/07/25/mastering-agentic-workflows-with-adk-parallel-agent/ Et enfin, comment faire des boucles d'amélioration : https://glaforge.dev/posts/2025/07/28/mastering-agentic-workflows-with-adk-loop-agents/ Tout ça évidemment en Java :slightly_smiling_face: 6 semaines de code avec Claude https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/07/30/six-weeks-of-claude-code/ Orta partage son retour après 6 semaines d'utilisation quotidienne de Claude Code, qui a profondément changé sa manière de coder. Il ne « code » plus vraiment ligne par ligne, mais décrit ce qu'il veut, laisse Claude proposer une solution, puis corrige ou ajuste. Cela permet de se concentrer sur le résultat plutôt que sur l'implémentation, comme passer de la peinture au polaroid. Claude s'avère particulièrement utile pour les tâches de maintenance : migrations, refactors, nettoyage de code. Il reste toujours en contrôle, révise chaque diff généré, et guide l'IA via des prompts bien cadrés. Il note qu'il faut quelques semaines pour prendre le bon pli : apprendre à découper les tâches et formuler clairement les attentes. Les tâches simples deviennent quasi instantanées, mais les tâches complexes nécessitent encore de l'expérience et du discernement. Claude Code est vu comme un très bon copilote, mais ne remplace pas le rôle du développeur qui comprend l'ensemble du système. Le gain principal est une vitesse de feedback plus rapide et une boucle d'itération beaucoup plus courte. Ce type d'outil pourrait bien redéfinir la manière dont on pense et structure le développement logiciel à moyen terme. Claude Code et les serveurs MCP : ou comment transformer ton terminal en assistant surpuissant https://touilleur-express.fr/2025/07/27/claude-code-et-les-serveurs-mcp-ou-comment-transformer-ton-terminal-en-assistant-surpuissant/ Nicolas continue ses études sur Claude Code et explique comment utiliser les serveurs MCP pour rendre Claude bien plus efficace. Le MCP Context7 montre comment fournir à l'IA la doc technique à jour (par exemple, Next.js 15) pour éviter les hallucinations ou les erreurs. Le MCP Task Master, autre serveur MCP, transforme un cahier des charges (PRD) en tâches atomiques, estimées, et organisées sous forme de plan de travail. Le MCP Playwright permet de manipuler des navigateurs et d'executer des tests E2E Le MCP Digital Ocean permet de déployer facilement l'application en production Tout n'est pas si ideal, les quotas sont atteints en quelques heures sur une petite application et il y a des cas où il reste bien plus efficace de le faire soit-même (pour un codeur expérimenté) Nicolas complète cet article avec l'écriture d'un MVP en 20 heures: https://touilleur-express.fr/2025/07/30/comment-jai-code-un-mvp-en-une-vingtaine-dheures-avec-claude-code/ Le développement augmenté, un avis politiquement correct, mais bon… https://touilleur-express.fr/2025/07/31/le-developpement-augmente-un-avis-politiquement-correct-mais-bon/ Nicolas partage un avis nuancé (et un peu provoquant) sur le développement augmenté, où l'IA comme Claude Code assiste le développeur sans le remplacer. Il rejette l'idée que cela serait « trop magique » ou « trop facile » : c'est une évolution logique de notre métier, pas un raccourci pour les paresseux. Pour lui, un bon dev reste celui qui structure bien sa pensée, sait poser un problème, découper, valider — même si l'IA aide à coder plus vite. Il raconte avoir codé une app OAuth, testée, stylisée et déployée en quelques heures, sans jamais quitter le terminal grâce à Claude. Ce genre d'outillage change le rapport au temps : on passe de « je vais y réfléchir » à « je tente tout de suite une version qui marche à peu près ». Il assume aimer cette approche rapide et imparfaite : mieux vaut une version brute livrée vite qu'un projet bloqué par le perfectionnisme. L'IA est selon lui un super stagiaire : jamais fatigué, parfois à côté de la plaque, mais diablement productif quand bien briefé. Il conclut que le « dev augmenté » ne remplace pas les bons développeurs… mais les développeurs moyens doivent s'y mettre, sous peine d'être dépassés. ChatGPT lance le mode d'étude : un apprentissage interactif pas à pas https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/ OpenAI propose un mode d'étude dans ChatGPT qui guide les utilisateurs pas à pas plutôt que de donner directement la réponse. Ce mode vise à encourager la réflexion active et l'apprentissage en profondeur. Il utilise des instructions personnalisées pour poser des questions et fournir des explications adaptées au niveau de l'utilisateur. Le mode d'étude favorise la gestion de la charge cognitive et stimule la métacognition. Il propose des réponses structurées pour faciliter la compréhension progressive des sujets. Disponible dès maintenant pour les utilisateurs connectés, ce mode sera intégré dans ChatGPT Edu. L'objectif est de transformer ChatGPT en un véritable tuteur numérique, aidant les étudiants à mieux assimiler les connaissances. A priori Gemini viendrait de sortir un fonctionnalité similaire Lancement de GPT-OSS par OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/ https://openai.com/index/gpt-oss-model-card/ OpenAI a lancé GPT-OSS, sa première famille de modèles open-weight depuis GPT–2. Deux modèles sont disponibles : gpt-oss–120b et gpt-oss–20b, qui sont des modèles mixtes d'experts conçus pour le raisonnement et les tâches d'agent. Les modèles sont distribués sous licence Apache 2.0, permettant leur utilisation et leur personnalisation gratuites, y compris pour des applications commerciales. Le modèle gpt-oss–120b est capable de performances proches du modèle OpenAI o4-mini, tandis que le gpt-oss–20b est comparable au o3-mini. OpenAI a également open-sourcé un outil de rendu appelé Harmony en Python et Rust pour en faciliter l'adoption. Les modèles sont optimisés pour fonctionner localement et sont pris en charge par des plateformes comme Hugging Face et Ollama. OpenAI a mené des recherches sur la sécurité pour s'assurer que les modèles ne pouvaient pas être affinés pour des utilisations malveillantes dans les domaines biologique, chimique ou cybernétique. Anthropic lance Opus 4.1 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus–4–1 Anthropic a publié Claude Opus 4.1, une mise à jour de son modèle de langage. Cette nouvelle version met l'accent sur l'amélioration des performances en codage, en raisonnement et sur les tâches de recherche et d'analyse de données. Le modèle a obtenu un score de 74,5 % sur le benchmark SWE-bench Verified, ce qui représente une amélioration par rapport à la version précédente. Il excelle notamment dans la refactorisation de code multifichier et est capable d'effectuer des recherches approfondies. Claude Opus 4.1 est disponible pour les utilisateurs payants de Claude, ainsi que via l'API, Amazon Bedrock et Vertex AI de Google Cloud, avec des tarifs identiques à ceux d'Opus 4. Il est présenté comme un remplacement direct de Claude Opus 4, avec des performances et une précision supérieures pour les tâches de programmation réelles. OpenAI Summer Update. GPT–5 is out https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt–5/ Détails https://openai.com/index/gpt–5-new-era-of-work/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt–5-for-developers/ https://openai.com/index/gpt–5-safe-completions/ https://openai.com/index/gpt–5-system-card/ Amélioration majeure des capacités cognitives - GPT‑5 montre un niveau de raisonnement, d'abstraction et de compréhension nettement supérieur aux modèles précédents. Deux variantes principales - gpt-5-main : rapide, efficace pour les tâches générales. gpt-5-thinking : plus lent mais spécialisé dans les tâches complexes, nécessitant réflexion profonde. Routeur intelligent intégré - Le système sélectionne automatiquement la version la plus adaptée à la tâche (rapide ou réfléchie), sans intervention de l'utilisateur. Fenêtre de contexte encore étendue - GPT‑5 peut traiter des volumes de texte plus longs (jusqu'à 1 million de tokens dans certaines versions), utile pour des documents ou projets entiers. Réduction significative des hallucinations - GPT‑5 donne des réponses plus fiables, avec moins d'erreurs inventées ou de fausses affirmations. Comportement plus neutre et moins sycophant - Il a été entraîné pour mieux résister à l'alignement excessif avec les opinions de l'utilisateur. Capacité accrue à suivre des instructions complexes - GPT‑5 comprend mieux les consignes longues, implicites ou nuancées. Approche “Safe completions” - Remplacement des “refus d'exécution” par des réponses utiles mais sûres — le modèle essaie de répondre avec prudence plutôt que bloquer. Prêt pour un usage professionnel à grande échelle - Optimisé pour le travail en entreprise : rédaction, programmation, synthèse, automatisation, gestion de tâches, etc. Améliorations spécifiques pour le codage - GPT‑5 est plus performant pour l'écriture de code, la compréhension de contextes logiciels complexes, et l'usage d'outils de développement. Expérience utilisateur plus rapide et fluide- Le système réagit plus vite grâce à une orchestration optimisée entre les différents sous-modèles. Capacités agentiques renforcées - GPT‑5 peut être utilisé comme base pour des agents autonomes capables d'accomplir des objectifs avec peu d'interventions humaines. Multimodalité maîtrisée (texte, image, audio) - GPT‑5 intègre de façon plus fluide la compréhension de formats multiples, dans un seul modèle. Fonctionnalités pensées pour les développeurs - Documentation plus claire, API unifiée, modèles plus transparents et personnalisables. Personnalisation contextuelle accrue - Le système s'adapte mieux au style, ton ou préférences de l'utilisateur, sans instructions répétées. Utilisation énergétique et matérielle optimisée - Grâce au routeur interne, les ressources sont utilisées plus efficacement selon la complexité des tâches. Intégration sécurisée dans les produits ChatGPT - Déjà déployé dans ChatGPT avec des bénéfices immédiats pour les utilisateurs Pro et entreprises. Modèle unifié pour tous les usages - Un seul système capable de passer de la conversation légère à des analyses scientifiques ou du code complexe. Priorité à la sécurité et à l'alignement - GPT‑5 a été conçu dès le départ pour minimiser les abus, biais ou comportements indésirables. Pas encore une AGI - OpenAI insiste : malgré ses capacités impressionnantes, GPT‑5 n'est pas une intelligence artificielle générale. Non, non, les juniors ne sont pas obsolètes malgré l'IA ! (dixit GitHub) https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/junior-developers-arent-obsolete-heres-how-to-thrive-in-the-age-of-ai/ L'IA transforme le développement logiciel, mais les développeurs juniors ne sont pas obsolètes. Les nouveaux apprenants sont bien positionnés, car déjà familiers avec les outils IA. L'objectif est de développer des compétences pour travailler avec l'IA, pas d'être remplacé. La créativité et la curiosité sont des qualités humaines clés. Cinq façons de se démarquer : Utiliser l'IA (ex: GitHub Copilot) pour apprendre plus vite, pas seulement coder plus vite (ex: mode tuteur, désactiver l'autocomplétion temporairement). Construire des projets publics démontrant ses compétences (y compris en IA). Maîtriser les workflows GitHub essentiels (GitHub Actions, contribution open source, pull requests). Affûter son expertise en révisant du code (poser des questions, chercher des patterns, prendre des notes). Déboguer plus intelligemment et rapidement avec l'IA (ex: Copilot Chat pour explications, corrections, tests). Ecrire son premier agent IA avec A2A avec WildFly par Emmanuel Hugonnet https://www.wildfly.org/news/2025/08/07/Building-your-First-A2A-Agent/ Protocole Agent2Agent (A2A) : Standard ouvert pour l'interopérabilité universelle des agents IA. Permet communication et collaboration efficaces entre agents de différents fournisseurs/frameworks. Crée des écosystèmes multi-agents unifiés, automatisant les workflows complexes. Objet de l'article : Guide pour construire un premier agent A2A (agent météo) dans WildFly. Utilise A2A Java SDK pour Jakarta Servers, WildFly AI Feature Pack, un LLM (Gemini) et un outil Python (MCP). Agent conforme A2A v0.2.5. Prérequis : JDK 17+, Apache Maven 3.8+, IDE Java, Google AI Studio API Key, Python 3.10+, uv. Étapes de construction de l'agent météo : Création du service LLM : Interface Java (WeatherAgent) utilisant LangChain4J pour interagir avec un LLM et un outil Python MCP (fonctions get_alerts, get_forecast). Définition de l'agent A2A (via CDI) : ▪︎ Agent Card : Fournit les métadonnées de l'agent (nom, description, URL, capacités, compétences comme “weather_search”). Agent Executor : Gère les requêtes A2A entrantes, extrait le message utilisateur, appelle le service LLM et formate la réponse. Exposition de l'agent : Enregistrement d'une application JAX-RS pour les endpoints. Déploiement et test : Configuration de l'outil A2A-inspector de Google (via un conteneur Podman). Construction du projet Maven, configuration des variables d'environnement (ex: GEMINI_API_KEY). Lancement du serveur WildFly. Conclusion : Transformation minimale d'une application IA en agent A2A. Permet la collaboration et le partage d'informations entre agents IA, indépendamment de leur infrastructure sous-jacente. Outillage IntelliJ IDEa bouge vers une distribution unifiée https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/07/intellij-idea-unified-distribution-plan/ À partir de la version 2025.3, IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition ne sera plus distribuée séparément. Une seule version unifiée d'IntelliJ IDEA regroupera les fonctionnalités des éditions Community et Ultimate. Les fonctionnalités avancées de l'édition Ultimate seront accessibles via abonnement. Les utilisateurs sans abonnement auront accès à une version gratuite enrichie par rapport à l'édition Community actuelle. Cette unification vise à simplifier l'expérience utilisateur et réduire les différences entre les éditions. Les utilisateurs Community seront automatiquement migrés vers cette nouvelle version unifiée. Il sera possible d'activer les fonctionnalités Ultimate temporairement d'un simple clic. En cas d'expiration d'abonnement Ultimate, l'utilisateur pourra continuer à utiliser la version installée avec un jeu limité de fonctionnalités gratuites, sans interruption. Ce changement reflète l'engagement de JetBrains envers l'open source et l'adaptation aux besoins de la communauté. Prise en charge des Ancres YAML dans GitHub Actions https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182#issuecomment–3150797791 Afin d'éviter de dupliquer du contenu dans un workflow les Ancres permettent d'insérer des morceaux réutilisables de YAML Fonctionnalité attendue depuis des années et disponible chez GitLab depuis bien longtemps. Elle a été déployée le 4 aout. Attention à ne pas en abuser car la lisibilité de tels documents n'est pas si facile Gemini CLI rajoute les custom commands comme Claude https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/gemini-cli-custom-slash-commands Mais elles sont au format TOML, on ne peut donc pas les partager avec Claude :disappointed: Automatiser ses workflows IA avec les hooks de Claude Code https://blog.gitbutler.com/automate-your-ai-workflows-with-claude-code-hooks/ Claude Code propose des hooks qui permettent d'exécuter des scripts à différents moments d'une session, par exemple au début, lors de l'utilisation d'outils, ou à la fin. Ces hooks facilitent l'automatisation de tâches comme la gestion de branches Git, l'envoi de notifications, ou l'intégration avec d'autres outils. Un exemple simple est l'envoi d'une notification sur le bureau à la fin d'une session. Les hooks se configurent via trois fichiers JSON distincts selon le scope : utilisateur, projet ou local. Sur macOS, l'envoi de notifications nécessite une permission spécifique via l'application “Script Editor”. Il est important d'avoir une version à jour de Claude Code pour utiliser ces hooks. GitButler permet desormais de s'intégrer à Claude Code via ces hooks: https://blog.gitbutler.com/parallel-claude-code/ Le client Git de Jetbrains bientot en standalone https://lp.jetbrains.com/closed-preview-for-jetbrains-git-client/ Demandé par certains utilisateurs depuis longtemps Ca serait un client graphique du même style qu'un GitButler, SourceTree, etc Apache Maven 4 …. arrive …. l'utilitaire mvnupva vous aider à upgrader https://maven.apache.org/tools/mvnup.html Fixe les incompatibilités connues Nettoie les redondances et valeurs par defaut (versions par ex) non utiles pour Maven 4 Reformattage selon les conventions maven … Une GitHub Action pour Gemini CLI https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-github-actions/ Google a lancé Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, un agent d'IA qui fonctionne comme un “coéquipier de code” pour les dépôts GitHub. L'outil est gratuit et est conçu pour automatiser des tâches de routine telles que le triage des problèmes (issues), l'examen des demandes de tirage (pull requests) et d'autres tâches de développement. Il agit à la fois comme un agent autonome et un collaborateur que les développeurs peuvent solliciter à la demande, notamment en le mentionnant dans une issue ou une pull request. L'outil est basé sur la CLI Gemini, un agent d'IA open-source qui amène le modèle Gemini directement dans le terminal. Il utilise l'infrastructure GitHub Actions, ce qui permet d'isoler les processus dans des conteneurs séparés pour des raisons de sécurité. Trois flux de travail (workflows) open-source sont disponibles au lancement : le triage intelligent des issues, l'examen des pull requests et la collaboration à la demande. Pas besoin de MCP, le code est tout ce dont vous avez besoin https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/3/tools/ Armin souligne qu'il n'est pas fan du protocole MCP (Model Context Protocol) dans sa forme actuelle : il manque de composabilité et exige trop de contexte. Il remarque que pour une même tâche (ex. GitHub), utiliser le CLI est souvent plus rapide et plus efficace en termes de contexte que passer par un serveur MCP. Selon lui, le code reste la solution la plus simple et fiable, surtout pour automatiser des tâches répétitives. Il préfère créer des scripts clairs plutôt que se reposer sur l'inférence LLM : cela facilite la vérification, la maintenance et évite les erreurs subtiles. Pour les tâches récurrentes, si on les automatise, mieux vaut le faire avec du code reusable, plutôt que de laisser l'IA deviner à chaque fois. Il illustre cela en convertissant son blog entier de reStructuredText à Markdown : plutôt qu'un usage direct d'IA, il a demandé à Claude de générer un script complet, avec parsing AST, comparaison des fichiers, validation et itération. Ce workflow LLM→code→LLM (analyse et validation) lui a donné confiance dans le résultat final, tout en conservant un contrôle humain sur le processus. Il juge que MCP ne permet pas ce type de pipeline automatisé fiable, car il introduit trop d'inférence et trop de variations par appel. Pour lui, coder reste le meilleur moyen de garder le contrôle, la reproductibilité et la clarté dans les workflows automatisés. MCP vs CLI … https://www.async-let.com/blog/my-take-on-the-mcp-verses-cli-debate/ Cameron raconte son expérience de création du serveur XcodeBuildMCP, qui lui a permis de mieux comprendre le débat entre servir l'IA via MCP ou laisser l'IA utiliser directement les CLI du système. Selon lui, les CLIs restent préférables pour les développeurs experts recherchant contrôle, transparence, performance et simplicité. Mais les serveurs MCP excellent sur les workflows complexes, les contextes persistants, les contraintes de sécurité, et facilitent l'accès pour les utilisateurs moins expérimentés. Il reconnaît la critique selon laquelle MCP consomme trop de contexte (« context bloat ») et que les appels CLI peuvent être plus rapides et compréhensibles. Toutefois, il souligne que beaucoup de problèmes proviennent de la qualité des implémentations clients, pas du protocole MCP en lui‑même. Pour lui, un bon serveur MCP peut proposer des outils soigneusement définis qui simplifient la vie de l'IA (par exemple, renvoyer des données structurées plutôt que du texte brut à parser). Il apprécie la capacité des MCP à offrir des opérations état‑durables (sessions, mémoire, logs capturés), ce que les CLI ne gèrent pas naturellement. Certains scénarios ne peuvent pas fonctionner via CLI (pas de shell accessible) alors que MCP, en tant que protocole indépendant, reste utilisable par n'importe quel client. Son verdict : pas de solution universelle — chaque contexte mérite d'être évalué, et on ne devrait pas imposer MCP ou CLI à tout prix. Jules, l'agent de code asynchrone gratuit de Google, est sorti de beta et est disponible pour tout le monde https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/jules-now-available/ Jules, agent de codage asynchrone, est maintenant publiquement disponible. Propulsé par Gemini 2.5 Pro. Phase bêta : 140 000+ améliorations de code et retours de milliers de développeurs. Améliorations : interface utilisateur, corrections de bugs, réutilisation des configurations, intégration GitHub Issues, support multimodal. Gemini 2.5 Pro améliore les plans de codage et la qualité du code. Nouveaux paliers structurés : Introductif, Google AI Pro (limites 5x supérieures), Google AI Ultra (limites 20x supérieures). Déploiement immédiat pour les abonnés Google AI Pro et Ultra, incluant les étudiants éligibles (un an gratuit de AI Pro). Architecture Valoriser la réduction de la dette technique : un vrai défi https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-valoriser-la-reduction-de-la-dette-technique-mission-impossible–97483.html La dette technique est un concept mal compris et difficile à valoriser financièrement auprès des directions générales. Les DSI ont du mal à mesurer précisément cette dette, à allouer des budgets spécifiques, et à prouver un retour sur investissement clair. Cette difficulté limite la priorisation des projets de réduction de dette technique face à d'autres initiatives jugées plus urgentes ou stratégiques. Certaines entreprises intègrent progressivement la gestion de la dette technique dans leurs processus de développement. Des approches comme le Software Crafting visent à améliorer la qualité du code pour limiter l'accumulation de cette dette. L'absence d'outils adaptés pour mesurer les progrès rend la démarche encore plus complexe. En résumé, réduire la dette technique reste une mission délicate qui nécessite innovation, méthode et sensibilisation en interne. Il ne faut pas se Mocker … https://martinelli.ch/why-i-dont-use-mocking-frameworks-and-why-you-might-not-need-them-either/ https://blog.tremblay.pro/2025/08/not-using-mocking-frmk.html L'auteur préfère utiliser des fakes ou stubs faits à la main plutôt que des frameworks de mocking comme Mockito ou EasyMock. Les frameworks de mocking isolent le code, mais entraînent souvent : Un fort couplage entre les tests et les détails d'implémentation. Des tests qui valident le mock plutôt que le comportement réel. Deux principes fondamentaux guident son approche : Favoriser un design fonctionnel, avec logique métier pure (fonctions sans effets de bord). Contrôler les données de test : par exemple en utilisant des bases réelles (via Testcontainers) plutôt que de simuler. Dans sa pratique, les seuls cas où un mock externe est utilisé concernent les services HTTP externes, et encore il préfère en simuler seulement le transport plutôt que le comportement métier. Résultat : les tests deviennent plus simples, plus rapides à écrire, plus fiables, et moins fragiles aux évolutions du code. L'article conclut que si tu conçois correctement ton code, tu pourrais très bien ne pas avoir besoin de frameworks de mocking du tout. Le blog en réponse d'Henri Tremblay nuance un peu ces retours Méthodologies C'est quoi être un bon PM ? (Product Manager) Article de Chris Perry, un PM chez Google : https://thechrisperry.substack.com/p/being-a-good-pm-at-google Le rôle de PM est difficile : Un travail exigeant, où il faut être le plus impliqué de l'équipe pour assurer le succès. 1. Livrer (shipper) est tout ce qui compte : La priorité absolue. Mieux vaut livrer et itérer rapidement que de chercher la perfection en théorie. Un produit livré permet d'apprendre de la réalité. 2. Donner l'envie du grand large : La meilleure façon de faire avancer un projet est d'inspirer l'équipe avec une vision forte et désirable. Montrer le “pourquoi”. 3. Utiliser son produit tous les jours : Non négociable pour réussir. Permet de développer une intuition et de repérer les vrais problèmes que la recherche utilisateur ne montre pas toujours. 4. Être un bon ami : Créer des relations authentiques et aider les autres est un facteur clé de succès à long terme. La confiance est la base d'une exécution rapide. 5. Donner plus qu'on ne reçoit : Toujours chercher à aider et à collaborer. La stratégie optimale sur la durée est la coopération. Ne pas être possessif avec ses idées. 6. Utiliser le bon levier : Pour obtenir une décision, il faut identifier la bonne personne qui a le pouvoir de dire “oui”, et ne pas se laisser bloquer par des avis non décisionnaires. 7. N'aller que là où on apporte de la valeur : Combler les manques, faire le travail ingrat que personne ne veut faire. Savoir aussi s'écarter (réunions, projets) quand on n'est pas utile. 8. Le succès a plusieurs parents, l'échec est orphelin : Si le produit réussit, c'est un succès d'équipe. S'il échoue, c'est la faute du PM. Il faut assumer la responsabilité finale. Conclusion : Le PM est un chef d'orchestre. Il ne peut pas jouer de tous les instruments, mais son rôle est d'orchestrer avec humilité le travail de tous pour créer quelque chose d'harmonieux. Tester des applications Spring Boot prêtes pour la production : points clés https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/blog/2025/07/30/how-i-test-production-ready-spring-boot-applications/ L'auteur (Wim Deblauwe) détaille comment il structure ses tests dans une application Spring Boot destinée à la production. Le projet inclut automatiquement la dépendance spring-boot-starter-test, qui regroupe JUnit 5, AssertJ, Mockito, Awaitility, JsonAssert, XmlUnit et les outils de testing Spring. Tests unitaires : ciblent les fonctions pures (record, utilitaire), testés simplement avec JUnit et AssertJ sans démarrage du contexte Spring. Tests de cas d'usage (use case) : orchestrent la logique métier, généralement via des use cases qui utilisent un ou plusieurs dépôts de données. Tests JPA/repository : vérifient les interactions avec la base via des tests realisant des opérations CRUD (avec un contexte Spring pour la couche persistance). Tests de contrôleur : permettent de tester les endpoints web (ex. @WebMvcTest), souvent avec MockBean pour simuler les dépendances. Tests d'intégration complets : ils démarrent tout le contexte Spring (@SpringBootTest) pour tester l'application dans son ensemble. L'auteur évoque également des tests d'architecture, mais sans entrer dans le détail dans cet article. Résultat : une pyramide de tests allant des plus rapides (unitaires) aux plus complets (intégration), garantissant fiabilité, vitesse et couverture sans surcharge inutile. Sécurité Bitwarden offre un serveur MCP pour que les agents puissent accéder aux mots de passe https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/bitwarden-mcp-server-secure-ai/ Bitwarden introduit un serveur MCP (Model Context Protocol) destiné à intégrer de manière sécurisée les agents IA dans les workflows de gestion de mots de passe. Ce serveur fonctionne en architecture locale (local-first) : toutes les interactions et les données sensibles restent sur la machine de l'utilisateur, garantissant l'application du principe de chiffrement zero‑knowledge. L'intégration se fait via l'interface CLI de Bitwarden, permettant aux agents IA de générer, récupérer, modifier et verrouiller les identifiants via des commandes sécurisées. Le serveur peut être auto‑hébergé pour un contrôle maximal des données. Le protocole MCP est un standard ouvert qui permet de connecter de façon uniforme des agents IA à des sources de données et outils tiers, simplifiant les intégrations entre LLM et applications. Une démo avec Claude (agent IA d'Anthropic) montre que l'IA peut interagir avec le coffre Bitwarden : vérifier l'état, déverrouiller le vault, générer ou modifier des identifiants, le tout sans intervention humaine directe. Bitwarden affiche une approche priorisant la sécurité, mais reconnaît les risques liés à l'utilisation d'IA autonome. L'usage d'un LLM local privé est fortement recommandé pour limiter les vulnérabilités. Si tu veux, je peux aussi te résumer les enjeux principaux (interopérabilité, sécurité, cas d'usage) ou un extrait spécifique ! NVIDIA a une faille de securite critique https://www.wiz.io/blog/nvidia-ai-vulnerability-cve–2025–23266-nvidiascape Il s'agit d'une faille d'évasion de conteneur dans le NVIDIA Container Toolkit. La gravité est jugée critique avec un score CVSS de 9.0. Cette vulnérabilité permet à un conteneur malveillant d'obtenir un accès root complet sur l'hôte. L'origine du problème vient d'une mauvaise configuration des hooks OCI dans le toolkit. L'exploitation peut se faire très facilement, par exemple avec un Dockerfile de seulement trois lignes. Le risque principal concerne la compromission de l'isolation entre différents clients sur des infrastructures cloud GPU partagées. Les versions affectées incluent toutes les versions du NVIDIA Container Toolkit jusqu'à la 1.17.7 et du NVIDIA GPU Operator jusqu'à la version 25.3.1. Pour atténuer le risque, il est recommandé de mettre à jour vers les dernières versions corrigées. En attendant, il est possible de désactiver certains hooks problématiques dans la configuration pour limiter l'exposition. Cette faille met en lumière l'importance de renforcer la sécurité des environnements GPU partagés et la gestion des conteneurs AI. Fuite de données de l'application Tea : points essentiels https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/the-tea-app-data-leak Tea est une application lancée en 2023 qui permet aux femmes de laisser des avis anonymes sur des hommes rencontrés. En juillet 2025, une importante fuite a exposé environ 72 000 images sensibles (selfies, pièces d'identité) et plus d'1,1 million de messages privés. La fuite a été révélée après qu'un utilisateur ait partagé un lien pour télécharger la base de données compromise. Les données touchées concernaient majoritairement des utilisateurs inscrits avant février 2024, date à laquelle l'application a migré vers une infrastructure plus sécurisée. En réponse, Tea prévoit de proposer des services de protection d'identité aux utilisateurs impactés. Faille dans le paquet npm is : attaque en chaîne d'approvisionnement https://socket.dev/blog/npm-is-package-hijacked-in-expanding-supply-chain-attack Une campagne de phishing ciblant les mainteneurs npm a compromis plusieurs comptes, incluant celui du paquet is. Des versions compromises du paquet is (notamment les versions 3.3.1 et 5.0.0) contenaient un chargeur de malware JavaScript destiné aux systèmes Windows. Ce malware a offert aux attaquants un accès à distance via WebSocket, permettant potentiellement l'exécution de code arbitraire. L'attaque fait suite à d'autres compromissions de paquets populaires comme eslint-config-prettier, eslint-plugin-prettier, synckit, @pkgr/core, napi-postinstall, et got-fetch. Tous ces paquets ont été publiés sans aucun commit ou PR sur leurs dépôts GitHub respectifs, signalant un accès non autorisé aux tokens mainteneurs. Le domaine usurpé [npnjs.com](http://npnjs.com) a été utilisé pour collecter les jetons d'accès via des emails de phishing trompeurs. L'épisode met en lumière la fragilité des chaînes d'approvisionnement logicielle dans l'écosystème npm et la nécessité d'adopter des pratiques renforcées de sécurité autour des dépendances. Revues de sécurité automatisées avec Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/news/automate-security-reviews-with-claude-code Anthropic a lancé des fonctionnalités de sécurité automatisées pour Claude Code, un assistant de codage d'IA en ligne de commande. Ces fonctionnalités ont été introduites en réponse au besoin croissant de maintenir la sécurité du code alors que les outils d'IA accélèrent considérablement le développement de logiciels. Commande /security-review : les développeurs peuvent exécuter cette commande dans leur terminal pour demander à Claude d'identifier les vulnérabilités de sécurité, notamment les risques d'injection SQL, les vulnérabilités de script intersite (XSS), les failles d'authentification et d'autorisation, ainsi que la gestion non sécurisée des données. Claude peut également suggérer et implémenter des correctifs. Intégration GitHub Actions : une nouvelle action GitHub permet à Claude Code d'analyser automatiquement chaque nouvelle demande d'extraction (pull request). L'outil examine les modifications de code pour y trouver des vulnérabilités, applique des règles personnalisables pour filtrer les faux positifs et commente directement la demande d'extraction avec les problèmes détectés et les correctifs recommandés. Ces fonctionnalités sont conçues pour créer un processus d'examen de sécurité cohérent et s'intégrer aux pipelines CI/CD existants, ce qui permet de s'assurer qu'aucun code n'atteint la production sans un examen de sécurité de base. Loi, société et organisation Google embauche les personnes clés de Windsurf https://www.blog-nouvelles-technologies.fr/333959/openai-windsurf-google-deepmind-codage-agentique/ windsurf devait être racheté par OpenAI Google ne fait pas d'offre de rachat mais débauche quelques personnes clés de Windsurf Windsurf reste donc indépendante mais sans certains cerveaux y compris son PDG. Les nouveaux dirigeants sont les ex leaders des force de vente Donc plus une boîte tech Pourquoi le deal a 3 milliard est tombé à l'eau ? On ne sait pas mais la divergence et l‘indépendance technologique est possiblement en cause. Les transfuge vont bosser chez Deepmind dans le code argentique Opinion Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dear-people-who-think-ai-low-skilled-code-monkeys-future-jan-moser-svade/ Jan Moser critique ceux qui pensent que l'IA et les développeurs peu qualifiés peuvent remplacer les ingénieurs logiciels compétents. Il cite l'exemple de l'application Tea, une plateforme de sécurité pour femmes, qui a exposé 72 000 images d'utilisateurs en raison d'une mauvaise configuration de Firebase et d'un manque de pratiques de développement sécurisées. Il souligne que l'absence de contrôles automatisés et de bonnes pratiques de sécurité a permis cette fuite de données. Moser avertit que des outils comme l'IA ne peuvent pas compenser l'absence de compétences en génie logiciel, notamment en matière de sécurité, de gestion des erreurs et de qualité du code. Il appelle à une reconnaissance de la valeur des ingénieurs logiciels qualifiés et à une approche plus rigoureuse dans le développement logiciel. YouTube déploie une technologie d'estimation d'âge pour identifier les adolescents aux États-Unis https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/youtube-rolls-out-age-estimatation-tech-to-identify-u-s-teens-and-apply-additional-protections/ Sujet très à la mode, surtout au UK mais pas que… YouTube commence à déployer une technologie d'estimation d'âge basée sur l'IA pour identifier les utilisateurs adolescents aux États-Unis, indépendamment de l'âge déclaré lors de l'inscription. Cette technologie analyse divers signaux comportementaux, tels que l'historique de visionnage, les catégories de vidéos consultées et l'âge du compte. Lorsqu'un utilisateur est identifié comme adolescent, YouTube applique des protections supplémentaires, notamment : Désactivation des publicités personnalisées. Activation des outils de bien-être numérique, tels que les rappels de temps d'écran et de coucher. Limitation de la visualisation répétée de contenus sensibles, comme ceux liés à l'image corporelle. Si un utilisateur est incorrectement identifié comme mineur, il peut vérifier son âge via une pièce d'identité gouvernementale, une carte de crédit ou un selfie. Ce déploiement initial concerne un petit groupe d'utilisateurs aux États-Unis et sera étendu progressivement. Cette initiative s'inscrit dans les efforts de YouTube pour renforcer la sécurité des jeunes utilisateurs en ligne. Mistral AI : contribution à un standard environnemental pour l'IA https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai Mistral AI a réalisé la première analyse de cycle de vie complète d'un modèle d'IA, en collaboration avec plusieurs partenaires. L'étude quantifie l'impact environnemental du modèle Mistral Large 2 sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la consommation d'eau, et l'épuisement des ressources. La phase d'entraînement a généré 20,4 kilotonnes de CO₂ équivalent, consommé 281 000 m³ d'eau, et utilisé 660 kg SB-eq (mineral consumption). Pour une réponse de 400 tokens, l'impact marginal est faible mais non négligeable : 1,14 gramme de CO₂, 45 mL d'eau, et 0,16 mg d'équivalent antimoine. Mistral propose trois indicateurs pour évaluer cet impact : l'impact absolu de l'entraînement, l'impact marginal de l'inférence, et le ratio inference/impact total sur le cycle de vie. L'entreprise souligne l'importance de choisir le modèle en fonction du cas d'usage pour limiter l'empreinte environnementale. Mistral appelle à plus de transparence et à l'adoption de standards internationaux pour permettre une comparaison claire entre modèles. L'IA promettait plus d'efficacité… elle nous fait surtout travailler plus https://afterburnout.co/p/ai-promised-to-make-us-more-efficient Les outils d'IA devaient automatiser les tâches pénibles et libérer du temps pour les activités stratégiques et créatives. En réalité, le temps gagné est souvent aussitôt réinvesti dans d'autres tâches, créant une surcharge. Les utilisateurs croient être plus productifs avec l'IA, mais les données contredisent cette impression : une étude montre que les développeurs utilisant l'IA prennent 19 % de temps en plus pour accomplir leurs tâches. Le rapport DORA 2024 observe une baisse de performance globale des équipes lorsque l'usage de l'IA augmente : –1,5 % de throughput et –7,2 % de stabilité de livraison pour +25 % d'adoption de l'IA. L'IA ne réduit pas la charge mentale, elle la déplace : rédaction de prompts, vérification de résultats douteux, ajustements constants… Cela épuise et limite le temps de concentration réelle. Cette surcharge cognitive entraîne une forme de dette mentale : on ne gagne pas vraiment du temps, on le paie autrement. Le vrai problème vient de notre culture de la productivité, qui pousse à toujours vouloir optimiser, quitte à alimenter l'épuisement professionnel. Trois pistes concrètes : Repenser la productivité non en temps gagné, mais en énergie préservée. Être sélectif dans l'usage des outils IA, en fonction de son ressenti et non du battage médiatique. Accepter la courbe en J : l'IA peut être utile, mais nécessite des ajustements profonds pour produire des gains réels. Le vrai hack de productivité ? Parfois, ralentir pour rester lucide et durable. Conférences MCP Submit Europe https://mcpdevsummit.ai/ Retour de JavaOne en 2026 https://inside.java/2025/08/04/javaone-returns–2026/ JavaOne, la conférence dédiée à la communauté Java, fait son grand retour dans la Bay Area du 17 au 19 mars 2026. Après le succès de l'édition 2025, ce retour s'inscrit dans la continuité de la mission initiale de la conférence : rassembler la communauté pour apprendre, collaborer et innover. 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A16z Podcast: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- There's been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital, and innovation are colliding in 2025.In this episode Erik Torenberg brings together Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Executive and Balaji Srinivasan, founder of the Network School, and author of the Network State to break it all down. From acquihires to “acquifires,” from FTC crackdowns to the deeper battle between the state and the network, this is a sharp conversation on the future of tech and power. ResourcesFind Balaji on X: https://x.com/balajisFind Steven on X: https://x.com/stevesiLearn more about The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.comLearn more about The Network School: https://ns.com Stay Updated: Let us know what you think: https://ratethispodcast.com/a16zFind a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16zFind a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16zSubscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/Follow our host: https://x.com/eriktorenbergPlease note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

A16z Podcast Key Takeaways  Future historians will look back on this era and wonder why we needed a license to cut hair but not a license to own and operate a computer – the most powerful device ever created There is a power law for M&A just like there is a power law for startups: the best M&A can completely transform a company, but only about 10% of deals ever work out “The actual way of regulating big companies is with a thousand startup piranhas, not by regulation.” – Balaji A large acquisition signals the big company's inability to build the product in-house, while also fueling the startup ecosystem by attracting talent and investment to that market vertical and spurring competition.The ultimate form of American capitalism is exploiting the rules in a clever way Balaji's global pro-tech legislative playbook:Identify the optimal legal framework for each market and verticalDevelop standardized, modular policy templates for all 50 U.S. states and 190 sovereign nationsBuild a government-relations team to establish and scale relationships across jurisdictionsIdentify and engage pro-tech policymakers (with emphasis on small, builder-friendly states) and deploy capital into markets that implement the model legislationThe greatest risk to AI innovation is arbitrary regulation; allowing market dynamics to operate freely will accelerate progress and distribute benefits broadlyThe question we all should be asking is, how do we build competition against the monopoly that is the US government Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgThere's been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital, and innovation are colliding in 2025.In this episode Erik Torenberg brings together Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Executive and Balaji Srinivasan, founder of the Network School, and author of the Network State to break it all down. From acquihires to “acquifires,” from FTC crackdowns to the deeper battle between the state and the network, this is a sharp conversation on the future of tech and power. ResourcesFind Balaji on X: https://x.com/balajisFind Steven on X: https://x.com/stevesiLearn more about The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.comLearn more about The Network School: https://ns.com Stay Updated: Let us know what you think: https://ratethispodcast.com/a16zFind a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16zFind a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16zSubscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/Follow our host: https://x.com/eriktorenbergPlease note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

There's been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital, and innovation are colliding in 2025.In this episode Erik Torenberg brings together Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Executive and Balaji Srinivasan, founder of the Network School, and author of the Network State to break it all down. From acquihires to “acquifires,” from FTC crackdowns to the deeper battle between the state and the network, this is a sharp conversation on the future of tech and power. ResourcesFind Balaji on X: https://x.com/balajisFind Steven on X: https://x.com/stevesiLearn more about The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.comLearn more about The Network School: https://ns.com Stay Updated: Let us know what you think: https://ratethispodcast.com/a16zFind a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16zFind a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16zSubscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/Follow our host: https://x.com/eriktorenbergPlease note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

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This week, we discuss cloud earnings, what's driving valuations, and why AWS says it's still early innings for cloud. Plus, Coté does a deep dive on Shipley Donuts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/7Bvu6GKJLPQ?si=Ibj_0pHyLrYJgr14) 532 (https://www.youtube.com/live/7Bvu6GKJLPQ?si=Ibj_0pHyLrYJgr14) Runner-up Titles Dangerous to do things in bed Free Donut Holes Dark Fiber BET A man can not believe anything that devalues their index funds. They just open sourced last year's homework. 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In both cases, I have found a pattern of deceptive leaks of annualized revenues to suggest they're making far more. 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(https://www.theverge.com/news/718147/openai-teasing-gpt-5-release) Cloud Software Group to Acquire Arctera (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250804310158/en/Cloud-Software-Group-to-Acquire-Arctera) For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/for-the-first-time-openai-models-are-available-on-aws/) Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agents-bots-making-sense-ai-open-web-perplexity-ai-rom0c/?trackingId=WQJoQHyfuX91F3i7ywZwtw%3D%3D) Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door (https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door/) Apple has now shipped 3 billion iPhones (https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-has-now-shipped-3-billion-iphones-030851439.html) Apple Growth Rebounds on Strength of iPhone 16 Line, China (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/apple-revenue-tops-estimates-on-strength-of-iphone-china-market?embedded-checkout=true) Apple Earnings; Cook's AI Comments; Apple's AI Strategy, Redux (https://stratechery.com/2025/apple-earnings-cooks-ai-comments-apples-ai-strategy-redux/) Nonsense Microsoft's Windows XP Crocs are no joke (https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/717965/microsoft-crocs-windows-xp-bliss-wallpaper-theme) Listener Feedback JD recommends Charm (https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush) Conferences SpringOne (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us/springone?utm_source=organic&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cote), Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté's pitch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_xOudsmUmk). Explore 2025 US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us?utm_source=organic&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cote), Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté's pitch (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-COoeIJcFN4). Wiz Capture the Flag (https://www.wiz.io/events/capture-the-flag-brisbane-august-2025), Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there. SREDay London (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q3/), Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London (https://www.civo.com/navigate/london/2025), Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest (https://2025.texaslinuxfest.org), Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us (https://aifortherestofus.live/london-2025), Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. 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welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for friday, august 8th! dive into today's top tech stories: openai unveils gpt-5: launched on thursday, this state-of-the-art model enhances chatgpt with faster responses and advanced reasoning, marking a "significant step" towards artificial general intelligence as per ceo sam altman. tesla abandons dojo project: a strategic shift with the discontinuation of its supercomputer effort, reallocating resources and focusing on partnerships with nvidia and samsung instead. ai startup struggle: windsurf, plagued by high costs and competition, sells to google, underscoring the financial pressures in the ai coding sector. xai leadership change: robert keele steps down as head of legal; lily lim takes over, amid ongoing shifts at xai led by elon musk. ads in ai responses: elon musk plans to integrate advertisements into grok's ai responses on x, a move intended to enhance targeted ad revenue post-linda yaccarino's departure. stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!

This is Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge. My guest today is GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. In many ways, GitHub Copilot set off the current AI coding boom. But since Thomas was on the show a year ago, the rise of vibe coding has shifted the buzz to newer platforms like Cursor and Windsurf. As you'll hear in our conversation, Thomas is thinking a lot about the competition, and GitHub's role in the future of software development.  Links: Developers, Reinvented | Thomas Dohmke / GitHub Developer Odyssey | Thomas Dohmke / GitHub Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding, with Cursor's Michael Truell | Decoder GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says AI needs competition to thrive | ⁠⁠Decoder⁠⁠ Up to 30 percent of some Microsoft code is now written by AI | Verge GitHub launches its AI app-making tool in preview | Verge Microsoft is getting ready for GPT-5 with a new Copilot smart mode | Verge Zuckerberg: AI will write most Meta code within 18 months | Engadget Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. This episode was edited by Xander Adams. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they explore Meta's bold push into AI with the launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs, the dramatic twists in the Windsurf acquisition The post SED News: Meta's AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and the UK VPN Surge appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

July has been a blockbuster month!  Soham Parekh made news by holding four tech jobs at once, Microsoft made GenAI mandatory for promotions, and Windsurf made some highly unpopular moves. If that wasn't enough, superintelligence took over as the latest buzzword, and some more. Tune into our July episode to catch up on all of the news from the world of work and a slight insight into how the two hosts celebrated summer.  Soham Parekh's hustles  Microsoft's AI memo  Goldman Asks Analysts to Swear They Haven't Lined Up Private Equity Jobs Windsurf sets dangerous precedent Dell's fall in employee satisfaction   HUL gets first woman CEO  Quiet cracking 

Today on HR Heretics, Kelli and Nolan analyze the controversial Windsurf acquisition prompted by Windsurf employee #2's explosive social media post about receiving only 1% equity payout despite Google's $2 billion deal, highlighting Silicon Valley's eroding compensation norms.*Email us your questions or topics for Kelli & Nolan: hrheretics@turpentine.coFor coaching and advising inquire at https://kellidragovich.com/HR Heretics is a podcast from Turpentine.Support HR Heretics Sponsors:Planful empowers teams just like yours to unlock the secrets of successful workforce planning. Use data-driven insights to develop accurate forecasts, close hiring gaps, and adjust talent acquisition plans collaboratively based on costs today and into the future. ✍️ Go to https://planful.com/heretics to see how you can transform your HR strategy.Metaview is the AI platform built for recruiting. Our suite of AI agents work across your hiring process to save time, boost decision quality, and elevate the candidate experience.Learn why team builders at 3,000+ cutting-edge companies like Brex, Deel, and Quora can't live without Metaview.It only takes minutes to get up and running. Check it out!KEEP UP WITH NOLAN + KELLI ON LINKEDINNolan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolan-church/Kelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellidragovich/—TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Intro(00:13) Prem's Bombshell Tweet(01:32) The DeepMind vs Cognition Choice(02:16) Clarifying the Exploding Offer(04:15) Kelly's Google Looker Experience(05:00) Why Contract Protections Don't Matter(06:07) Leadership Accountability(07:16) Silicon Valley's Broken Unwritten Rules(08:38) Sponsors: Planful | Metaview(11:37) Culture vs Money in Acquisitions(13:00) First Principles: The New Acquisition Reality(14:56) Gary Tan's Tone-Deaf Response(15:41) The Chaos of Modern Tech(17:00) The Power of Social Media Transparency(17:49) Wrap-Up This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hrheretics.substack.com

This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today I'm joined by Hayden Field, The Verge's new senior AI reporter to talk about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like their NBA superstars. Both Hayden and I have been reporting on this for the past several weeks to get a sense of much these companies are paying for top talent, why Big Tech firms like Google are opting to hire instead of acquire, and what it means that some of the most sought-after AI experts in the world are no longer motivated by money alone.  Links:  OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf's CEO is going to Google | Verge Mark Zuckerberg promises you can trust him with superintelligent AI | Verge Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought | Verge Meta says it's winning the talent war with OpenAI | Command Line Google gets its swag back | Command Line The AI talent wars are just getting started | Command Line Meta tried to buy Safe Superintelligence, hired CEO Daniel Gross instead | CNBC Apple loses top AI models executive to Meta's hiring spree | Bloomberg Meta's AI recruiting campaign finds a new target | Wired Anthropic hires back two coding AI leaders From Anysphere | The Information Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Ursa Wright.  The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scott and Wes share their top strategies for getting high-quality results from AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, and Windsurf. From better prompting to building reusable rule sets, they cover practical tips for making AI your most productive coding partner. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Wes' Tweet 02:56 How to get the best results when using AI. 03:15 Scaffold it out yourself. 05:40 Be clear with your prompts. 07:45 Use XML tags around specific items 08:47 Utilize Rules like Cursor rules or Copilot rules. 13:20 Ask it to create some rules based on an existing codebase. 16:03 Break things down into clear concise actionable items. 17:22 Where to store your rules files. 18:37 Utilizing llm.txt files. 19:24 Context7. 20:28 Tag relevant files, functions, etc. 21:38 Feed logs back into the AI. 22:36 Logging Errors. 22:54 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 24:14 Long running chats get worse. Wes' Tweet Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

Co-hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little explore Perplexity's groundbreaking Comet browser, which brings AI directly to web pages and can autonomously navigate sites to collect genealogical data.They examine Grok 4's impressive benchmark performance while discussing its limitations for genealogical research and safety concerns.This week's Tip of the Week introduces "context engineering" - the art of providing maximum information to AI tools through examples, documents, and prior conversations for superior results.In RapidFire, they cover Google's Veo 3 photo-to-video tool, Silicon Valley's dramatic Windsurf acquisition battle, and OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent that can control computers autonomously.Timestamps:In the News:07:47 Perplexity's Comet Browser: AI-Enhanced Research and Web Surfing20:32 Grok 4 Released: Benchmark Success, Real-World ChallengesTip of the Week:27:53 Context Engineering: Maximizing AI Results with Rich InformationRapidFire:36:02  Google Veo 3: Transform Photos into Videos44:19 Windsurf Acquisition Drama: AI Consolidation Begins53:58 ChatGPT Agent: Autonomous Computer Control ArrivesResource LinksOfficial Comet Launch Announcementhttps://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-cometPerplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browserhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/perplexity-launches-comet-an-ai-powered-web-browser/Every: Vibe Check: Grok 4 Aced Its Exams. The Real World Is a Different Storyhttps://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-grok-4-aced-its-exams-the-real-world-is-a-different-storyLM Arena Leaderboardhttps://lmarena.ai/leaderboardTechCrunch: Google adds image-to-video generation capability to Veo 3https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/google-adds-image-to-video-generation-capability-to-veo-3/Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls aparthttps://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-apart/Every: Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agenthttps://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-openai-enters-the-browser-wars-with-chatgpt-agentTechCrunch: AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partnerhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/aws-is-launching-an-ai-agent-marketplace-next-week-with-anthropic-as-a-partner/TagsArtificial Intelligence, Genealogy, Family History, AI Browsers, Web Navigation, Perplexity Comet, Grok 4, ChatGPT Agent, Context Engineering, AI Tools, Agentic Browsers, Video Generation, Google Veo 3, Windsurf Acquisition

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Agentic AI has emerged as the leading technological trend according to McKinsey's latest report, with job postings for these roles skyrocketing by nearly 985% between 2023 and 2024. This surge reflects a growing interest in AI systems capable of performing complex tasks autonomously. Alongside this trend, the report highlights the importance of digital trust in cybersecurity, especially as organizations face new challenges from AI-enhanced cyber threats. The divide in attitudes towards AI in the workplace is significant, with non-users, particularly older adults and those in lower-paid jobs, perceiving AI as a threat to their job security, while younger, professional users view it more positively.A recent study from Carnegie Mellon University raises concerns about the reliability of large-language model chatbots, which often become overconfident after providing incorrect answers. This overconfidence can lead to misleading interactions with users, as these AI systems fail to adjust their confidence levels after mistakes. The study involved popular chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, revealing that even when these tools perform poorly, they remain unaware of their shortcomings. This issue underscores the need for responsible AI deployment, emphasizing the importance of governance and oversight in AI services.In the realm of cybersecurity, Broadcom's VMware division is facing criticism for restricting access to essential security patches for customers with perpetual licenses who lack active support contracts. This situation raises significant concerns about the vulnerability of systems and the potential for cyberattacks. Despite promises of free access to zero-day security patches, many users report difficulties in obtaining these critical updates, leading to fears of increased risks. VMware's shift to a longer release cycle and extended support durations aims to address customer concerns, but the underlying issue of trust remains critical.The podcast also discusses the manipulative design tactics employed by major platforms to push AI features onto users, labeling this phenomenon as "forced use." This approach raises questions about genuine consumer interest in AI tools, as many are deployed without organic demand. Additionally, the controversial case of the AI coding startup Windsurf highlights the risks associated with equity sharing in the tech industry, as a failed acquisition deal left many employees uncertain about their futures. As the landscape of AI and technology continues to evolve, the need for transparency, trust, and responsible practices becomes increasingly vital. Three things to know today 00:00 Agentic AI on the Rise, but Overconfident Bots and Worker Fears Signal a Trust Crisis05:38 Broadcom's VMware Shift Raises Alarms: Patch Access Locked Behind Subscriptions, Trust Erodes08:36 From Forced Features to Fumbled Equity: The Growing Backlash Against AI Hype and Misaligned Incentives  Supported by: https://getflexpoint.com/msp-radio/  Tell us about a newsletter!https://bit.ly/biztechnewsletter All our Sponsors: https://businessof.tech/sponsors/ Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/Looking for a link from the stories? The entire script of the show, with links to articles, are posted in each story on https://www.businessof.tech/ Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mspradio/ Want to be a guest on Business of Tech: Daily 10-Minute IT Services Insights? Send Dave Sobel a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/businessoftech Want our stuff? Cool Merch? Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com Follow us on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/YouTube: https://youtube.com/mspradio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessoftechBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/businessof.tech

Interview with Steven Johnson Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces A new study just upended AI safety 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' Tesla results Total Party Kill Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen Attack of the clever crows Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steven Johnson Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: smarty.com/twit agntcy.org

Interview with Steven Johnson Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces A new study just upended AI safety 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' Tesla results Total Party Kill Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen Attack of the clever crows Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steven Johnson Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: smarty.com/twit agntcy.org

Interview with Steven Johnson Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces A new study just upended AI safety 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' Tesla results Total Party Kill Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen Attack of the clever crows Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steven Johnson Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: smarty.com/twit agntcy.org

Welcome to episode 313 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week we've got an installation of Cloud Journey featuring Gartner and chaos AND an aftershow! We've got acquisition news, new tools, an undersea cable, and even a little chaos, all right now in the cloud. Let's get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week: From Vibe Check to Production Spec Node More Mr. Nice Guy: AWS Locks Down Access Until You Ask Nicely Grok’s New Feature: Ask Elon First The AI That Phones Home to Dad Musk-See TV: When Your Chatbot Needs Parental Guidance Oracle’s Federal Discount: 75% Off for Six Months (Terms and Conditions Apply) GameDay: Not Just for Sports Anymore Bob the Builder Center: Can We Fix AWS? Yes We Can! Bucket List: Google Cloud Storage Finally Lets You Pack Up and Move The Great Bucket Migration: No Forwarding Address Required Compose Yourself: Cloud Run Gets Docker-mented Survey Says: Your Team Needs a Performance Check-Up From Florida With Love: Google’s New Cable Has a License to Transmit Sol Train: Google Lays Track Across the Atlantic Finding the Right Gradient for Your AI Journey Google Cracks the Code on AWS’s Cloud Castle Breaking Cloud: Google’s Data Analytics Cook Up Market Share From Chat to Churn: The Great GPT Subscription Exodus AWS Finally Filters Out the Pricing Noise The Price is Right: AWS Edition Gets New Search Features Four Filters and a Pricing API Walk Into a Cloud Fee-fi-fo-fum who has a flash reasoning model Follow Up 02:01 Cognition to buy AI startup Windsurf days after Google poached CEO Cognition acquired Windsurf’s IP, product, and remaining talent after Google hired away the CEO and senior staff, highlighting the intense competition for AI coding expertise among major tech companies. The deal follows a failed $3 billion acquisition attempt by OpenAI and Google’s $2.4 billion licensing and compensation package to secure Windsurf’s leadership, demonstrating the premium valuations for AI coding technology. Both companies develop AI coding agents designed to accelerate software development, with Cognition’s Devin agent and Windsurf’s tools representing the growing market for AI-powered developer productivity solutions. The acquisition ensures all Windsurf employees receive accelerated vesting and financial participation, addressing the disruption caused by the leadership exodus to Google. This consolidation in the AI coding space suggests smaller startups may struggle to retain talent and remain independent as tech giants aggressively pursue AI engineering capabilities. AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money  04

Interview with Steven Johnson Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces A new study just upended AI safety 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' Tesla results Total Party Kill Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen Attack of the clever crows Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steven Johnson Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: smarty.com/twit agntcy.org

Scott and Wes break down how to code with and for AI; perfect for skeptics, beginners, and curious devs. They cover everything from Ghost Text and CLI agents to building your own AI-powered apps with embeddings, function calling, and multi-model workflows. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 03:56 How to interface with AI. 04:07 IDE Ghost Text. 05:45 IDE Chat, Agents. 08:00 CLI Agents. Claude Code. Open Code. Gemini. 11:13 MCP Servers. Context7 14:47 GUI apps. v0. Bolt.new. Lovable. Windsurf. 19:07 Existing Chat app like ChatGPT. 22:37 Building things WITH AI. 23:32 Prompting. 26:53 Streaming VS not streaming. 28:14 Embeddings and Rag. 31:09 MCP Server. CJ's MCP Deep Dive. 32:36 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 33:25 Multi-model, multi-provider. 36:27 npm libs to use to code with AI. OpenAI SDK. AI SDK. Cloudflare Agents. Langchain. Local AI Tensorflow. Transformers.js. Huggingface. 44:12 Processes and exploring. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

OpenAI 原本準備砸 30 億美金，收購 AI coding 新創 Windsurf，沒想到排他期一過，Google 火速攔胡，用一波 acqui-hire 把人和技術都帶走，只花了 24 億。三天後，Windsurf 剩下的團隊也沒閒著，直接被另一間做 AI coding agent 的新創 Cognition AI 收下，這場戲劇性的收購戰，終於畫下句點。這集我們就來聊聊：

This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X's chief executive, Linda Yaccarino; the Grok chatbot spewing antisemitic comments; and the A.I. companion Ani engaging in sexually explicit role-play. Then, we explain why a fight to acquire the start-up Windsurf startled many in Silicon Valley and may reshape the culture in many of the big A.I. labs. And finally, it's “crypto week.” David Yaffe-Bellany explains how crypto provisions in the bills before Congress and the president could affect even people who don't hold digital currencies.Also, we officially have merch! For a limited time, you can get a special-edition “Hard Fork” hat when you purchase an annual New York Times Audio subscription for the first time. Get your hat at nytimes.com/hardforkhatGuests:David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times technology reporter covering the crypto industryAdditional Reading:Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on XGoogle Hires A.I. Leaders From a Start-Up Courted by OpenAICognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates‘Crypto Week' Is Back on Track After House G.O.P. Quells Conservative RevoltThe ‘Trump Pump': How Crypto Lobbying Won Over a President We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind Devin, the world's first AI software engineer. On Friday last week they pulled off the acquisition of the year, acquiring Windsurf, following their licensing agreement with Google. Previously a world-class competitive programmer, he was a gold medalist at the International Olympiad in Informatics and a member of the U.S. Math and Physics Olympiad teams. Before Cognition, he was a founding engineer at Scale AI, helping shape the early AI infrastructure stack. AGENDA: 00:00 – Why are founders walking away instead of going down with the ship? 01:05 – How did Cognition pull off the $220M Windsurf deal in just 72 hours? 04:45 – What really happened behind closed doors the weekend Windsurf was acquired? 07:15 – Did Google overlook a goldmine in the Windsurf team and IP? 09:00 – Who are the 100 people that secretly shape the future of AI? 12:30 – Can application startups ever gain leverage over foundation model giants like Anthropic? 14:15 – Is coding about to be replaced by simply describing what you want? 17:30 – 50% of new code is AI-written. Where does that go next? 20:45 – “We've gone from 0 to $80M ARR in 6 months. Quietly.” 25:00 – Are IDEs and agents just the training wheels for the real future of software engineering? 28:20 – If you could only back one—OpenAI or Anthropic—who's the better bet? 30:00 – Why has Cognition kept its insane growth a secret… until now?    

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Can Zuck and Elon buy their way into the AI race? 2) Will scaling laws turn AI progress over to the biggest tech 3) Grok's new AI avatars - Rudy and Ani 4) Grok's Ani AI bot gets steamy quickly 5) Why AI companies are counting on companion/love bots 6) The backlash to Aqui-Hire-Sitions after Windsurf, Scale, etc. 7) Did Big Tech antitrust backfire? 8) OpenAI announces ChatGPT Agent 9) Is Perplexity's Comet browser a player 10) Kimi K2 wows with coding availability 11) Can AI industry apply lessons from coding elsewhere? 12) One last word from Ani --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here's 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com

Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he's actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn't more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.

Katie and Matt discuss search funds, post-MBA career paths, Katie’s future in horse barn ownership, search-fund flips, the Windsurf quasi-acqui-hire deal, Vanguard and Strategy, the function of index funds, owning the global financial portfolio and Perching Square Capital Management’s closed-end fund.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Agenda: 00:00 Windsurf was dead—then this deal changed everything 05:00 The Windsurf x Google x Cognition saga explained 09:00 The OpenAI deal collapsed—what really happened 15:00 FTC rules forced a brutal deal structure—who lost? 17:00 The investors' returns: who actually made money? 21:30 Will Google's corp dev team get fired over this? 23:00 Cognition's genius $220M acquisition of Windsurf: Most brilliant Deal of the Year 26:00 The biggest recruiting flex in Silicon Valley this year 35:00 “Roll your own SaaS” is complete nonsense 38:00 Lovable vs Cursor vs Replit: who wins the coding war? 41:00 Why Lovable could be the ChatGPT of builders 44:00 Will these vibe-coded apps become durable businesses? 48:00 The shocking churn rates hidden inside AI SaaS 55:00 Are these $2B valuations actually... cheap? 56:30 Grok just destroyed GPT-4 in benchmarks—WTF?! 01:01:00 Why Grok might overtake OpenAI in the next 12 months 01:11:00 Meta just invested $3.5B in Ray-Bans—WTF? 01:12:30 Should every S&P 500 company buy Bitcoin now? 01:15:00 Will Meta kill open source? What happens to Llama 5?  

Microsoft just made a major change to the Windows 11 install media, and you're not going to believe what happens next! Plus, the AI spelling and grammar checking app/service that Paul relies on. And yes, he does pay for it. Windows 11 Copilot Vision gets full Desktop support, Voice integration across all Insider channels Click to Do gets a "Describe image" action, Administrator protection, App permission dialog changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2) Canary finally gets the features everyone else has had for a while now Also, Microsoft quietly killed the simplified date/time in the Windows 11 Taskbar because no one liked it PC sales grew 5 percent in Q2 but there is a BIG caveat Semi-related: Google is "combining" ChromeOS and Android ChromeOS will build on Android going forward, smart Even less related: HMD quietly pulls Nokia out of the U.S. market, the dream is over Microsoft 365, AI Microsoft layoffs directly attributed to AI Microsoft scuttled OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf and all hell broke loose Google snapped up key execs and engineers and licensed Windsurf for $2.4 billion All's well that ends well: Cognition acquires Windsurf Microsoft keeps changing the terms of the deal: Microsoft 365 apps will be updated on Windows 10 only through August 2026 Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting a Memory OpenAI is going to war with Microsoft and the world It's working on a web browser It's also working on an office productivity suite of sorts Google NotebookLM gets curated featured notebooks. This is emerging as one of the more useful AI tools Xbox and Gaming Xbox app for Windows 11 gets "Stream your own game" functionality Grounded 2, more coming to Game Pass in second half of July Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac for some reason Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Save big on PCs, go refurbished App pick of the week: LanguageTool for Desktop RunAs Radio this week: Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag Brown liquor pick of the week: Slane Triple Casked Blend Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit uscloud.com

Has the US government suddenly allowed Nvidia back in business in China? A segment wherein I make the case the GW's are the new metric that matters to the tech industry, over and above anything else. Windsurf finds a permanent home. And is China already producing the smartglasses Zuck wants to see next?Links:Nvidia, AMD to Resume AI Chip Sales to China in US Reversal (Bloomberg)Apple to Buy Rare Earths From Pentagon-Backed US Producer MP (Bloomberg)Zuckerberg Says Meta Will Build Gigawatt-Size Data Centers (Bloomberg)Meta's New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes (NYTimes)Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates (NYTimes)China's AI glasses market takes shape as Xiaomi's entry inspires early adopters (SCMP)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Google snatched the Windsurf acquisition out from under OpenAI in a big new acquihire. SpaceX is investing in xAI. ChromeOS and Android to merge, but for real this time? Was there a new sort of DeepSeek moment over the weekend? And example number 74 of how YouTube is now the king of video entertainment.Links:Google to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Staff, IP After Startup Ends OpenAI Talks (The Information)Google Is Said to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Assets, Talent (Bloomberg)An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google 'Hackqusition'... (Spyglass)Elon Musk's xAI seeks up to $200bn valuation in next fundraising (Financial Times)SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk's xAI (WSJ)Google exec: ‘We're going to be combining ChromeOS and Android' (The Verge)'I think you see the future first on Android' – Google's Android leader Sameer Samat (TechRadar)Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it's free (VentureBeat)Eight Things We've Learned About Hollywood This Year (Bloomberg)The Streaming Wars Come Down to 2: YouTube vs. Netflix (NYTimes)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today's show:On today's show… Jason and Alex are considering the fallout of Windsurf's OpenAI deal, the company's latest agreements with both Google and Cognition AI, and how “blitzhiring” is actually playing out in real-world startups.Plus Jason's short- and medium-term predictions for AI's impact on the job market, Tesla's latest expansion of its Austin robotaxi service, Mistral giving the EU a real stake in the AI model race, a look back at the SnapStream live TV archiving service, AND an update on how much more time we have until all our servers are obsolete.All that and more on a brand new Monday edition of This Week in Startups.Timestamps:(02:20) Influencers caught an arsonist in LA's Runyon Canyon? (Don't worry, there's always a startup angle)(10:38) Coda - Empower your startup with Coda's Team plan for free—get 6 months at https://www.Coda.io/twist(12:56) Windsurf's OpenAI deal fell through… but there are breaking updates!(20:11) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST(23:46) The gap from prototype to production in AI remains HUGE(29:52) AWS Activate - AWS Activate helps startups bring their ideas to life. Apply to AWS Activate today to learn more. Visit aws.amazon.com/startups/credits(34:56) Things are going well for Tesla's Austin rollout, but will regulators demand LIDAR systems anyway?(45:47) Maybe NOTHING that's happening right now in AI is as important as what's to come?(54:31) Follow-Up: So how much more time until all of our servers are obsolete? What happens to them when they're removed?Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.comCheck out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.comSubscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcpFollow Lon:X: https://x.com/lonsFollow Alex:X: https://x.com/alexLinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelmFollow Jason:X: https://twitter.com/JasonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanisThank you to our partners:(10:38) Coda - Empower your startup with Coda's Team plan for free—get 6 months at https://www.Coda.io/twist(20:11) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST(29:52) AWS Activate - AWS Activate helps startups bring their ideas to life. Apply to AWS Activate today to learn more. Visit aws.amazon.com/startups/creditsGreat TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarlandCheck out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanisFollow TWiST:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartupsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartupsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartupsSubstack: https://twistartups.substack.comSubscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@founderuniversity1916

Just about every big tech company made splashes in AI this week.↳ Google acqui-hired a company that OpenAI failed to straight up acquire↳Microsoft is investing $4 billion into AI training↳ OpenAI is going after the AI browser space↳ and Meta reportedly spent more than $200 million on one employeeSheeeeesh. It's been a whirlwind. Don't get left behind. We'll help you be the smartest person in AI at your company.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion:Thoughts on this? Join the convo and connect with other AI leaders on LinkedIn.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:OpenAI's AI Browsers vs. Google ChromePerplexity's Comet Browser Launch StrategyXAI's Controversial Grok4 Alignment IssuesTeacher Union's AI Training PartnershipMicrosoft Elevate AI Training InitiativeNVIDIA's $4 Trillion Market Cap MilestoneGoogle Acqui-hires Windsurf for DeepMindMeta's $200M Apple AI Talent AcquisitionTimestamps:00:00 "Everyday AI: Weekly News Recap"05:36 Perplexity's Comet: Agentic Browser Shift06:49 AI-Powered Browsing with Perplexity's Comet10:44 "Grok 4: Aligns with Musk's Views"15:37 AI Workshops for Teachers Nationwide18:32 Microsoft's Elevate Program: AI Access & Trust19:51 AI Strategy and Training Partners23:13 Google Hires Wind Surf Executives29:04 AI Updates: Claude's MCP and Google Gemini31:36 AI Developments: Browsers, Training, Market MovesKeywords:Google acquihire, Windsurf, OpenAI browser, Perplexity, agentic browsers, Meta superintelligence, AI news, Google Chrome dominance, ChatGPT users, Chromium, computer vision, AI agents, reservation booking, AI services, market dominance, browser wars, anthropic, Claude, Perplexity's Comet, AI powered web, conversational interface, AI assistant, natural language, OpenAI's GPT, anthropic claw, Grok four, XAI, Elon Musk AI, AI benchmarks, content moderation, Grok controversy, AI alignment, TechCrunch, contentious questions, AI partnerships, educational AI, American Federation of Teachers, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft funding, ethical AI, Elevate Academy, NVIDIA market cap, AI chips, Google DeepMind, AI coding, Apple AI executive, AI metrics, Anthropic, Microsoft layoffs.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Square keeps up so you don't have to slow down. Get everything you need to run and grow your business—without any long-term commitments. And why wait? Right now, you can get up to $200 off Square hardware at square.com/go/jordan. Run your business smarter with Square. Get started today.

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the co-creators of the Design Sprint (the famous five-day product innovation process) and authors of the bestselling book Sprint. After decades of working with over 300 startups in the earliest stages, they discovered that most startups fail not because they can't build, but because they build the wrong thing. The very beginning of a startup is your highest-leverage moment, and most teams waste months or years by skipping a few critical early questions. Jake and John developed the Foundation Sprint to help startups validate ideas and compress months of work into just two days.What you'll learn:1. The step-by-step Foundation Sprint process that compresses three or four months of validation into two days—including templates you can use immediately2. Why differentiation is the #1 predictor of startup success (with the 2x2 framework that you can use with your team)3. The three fundamental questions every founder should answer before writing a line of code4. The “note and vote” technique that eliminates groupthink and gets honest answers from your colleagues5. The seven “magic lenses” for choosing between multiple product ideas6. The biggest mistake engineers make when building with AI tools7. The paradox of speed: why “building nothing first” can get you to product-market fit faster—Brought to you by:Brex—The banking solution for startups: https://www.brex.com/product/business-account?ref_code=bmk_dp_brand1H25_ln_new_fsParagon—Ship every SaaS integration your customers want: https://www.useparagon.com/lennyCoda—The all-in-one collaborative workspace: https://coda.io/lenny—Transcript: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-foundation-sprint-jake-knapp-and-john-zeratsky—Where to find Jake Knapp:• X: https://twitter.com/jakek• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-knapp/• Website: https://jakeknapp.com/—Where to find John Zeratsky:• X: https://twitter.com/jazer• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnzeratsky/• Website: https://johnzeratsky.com/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Introduction to Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky(04:41) Origins of the Design Sprint(11:06) The Foundation Sprint process(14:40) Phase one: The basics(16:57) Case study: Latchet(28:50) Phase two: Differentiation(36:24) The importance of differentiation(40:15) Thoughts on price differentiation(43:37) Case study: Mellow(46:04) Custom differentiators(49:30) The mini manifesto(52:02) Phase three: Approach to the project(54:50) Magic lenses activity(01:02:39) Prototyping and testing(01:10:00) Real-world examples and success stories(01:15:15) Motivation behind The Foundation Sprint(01:17:15) The outcome of the sprint: The founding hypothesis(01:19:28) The Design Sprint(01:28:19) The role of AI in prototyping(01:36:50) Final thoughts and resources—Referenced:• Introducing the Foundation Sprint: From the creators of the Design Sprint: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/introducing-the-foundation-sprint• Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/making-time-for-what-matters-jake• Eli Blee-Goldman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-blee-goldman/• Character Capital: https://www.character.vc/• Character Labs: https://www.character.vc/labs• Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/• Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/naming-expert-david-placek• Sonos: https://www.sonos.com/• Vercel: https://vercel.com/• Windsurf: https://windsurf.com/• April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/april-dunford-on-product-positioning• Positioning: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/positioning• 10 things we know to be true: https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/• Gandalf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf• Frodo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frodo_Baggins• Mordor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor• 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/35-years-of-product-design-wisdom-bob-baxley• The Primal Mark: How the Beginning Shapes the End in the Development of Creative Ideas: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/primal-mark-how-beginning-shapes-end-development-creative-ideas• Base44: https://base44.com/• Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-base44-bootstrapped-startup-success-story-maor-shlomo• Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/• Blue Bottle Coffee: https://bluebottlecoffee.com• Reclaim: https://reclaim.ai/• The official Foundation Sprint + Design Sprint template: https://www.character.vc/miro-template• Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/• Latchet: https://latchet.com/• Mellow: http://getmellow.com/• AxionOrbital: https://axionorbital.space/—Recommended books:• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days: https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-audiobook/dp/B019R2DQIY• Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every/dp/0525572422• Click: How to Make What People Want: https://www.amazon.com/Click-Make-What-People-Want/dp/1668072114Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. To hear more, visit www.lennysnewsletter.com