With ChatGPT’s latest model taking the world by storm, you might be wondering about the old guard: Nano Banana Pro. Giving the taste of professional grade image generation and editing to all users, Nano Banana is THE tool people reach out to, for AI-image generation.  But does this still hold true? ...

Year in Review

In August 2025, Wang Lei decided it was finally time to say goodbye to his electric vehicle. Wang, who is 39, had bought the car in 2016, when EVs still felt experimental in Beijing. It was a compact Chinese brand. The subsidies were good, and the salesman talked about “supporting domestic ...

In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be bidding farewell to 2025. And what a year it has been! Artificial intelligence is being incorporated into more aspects of our lives, weight-loss drugs have expanded in scope, and there have been some real “omg” biotech stories from the fields of gene therapy, ...

Building an enterprise AI company on a "foundation of shifting sand" is the central challenge for founders today, according to the leadership at Palona AI. Today, the Palo Alto-based startup—led by former Google and Meta engineering veterans—is making a decisive vertical push into the restaurant ...

Anthropic said on Wednesday it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing its approach to making AI assistants more capable will cement the company's position in the fast-evolving enterprise software market.The San Francisco-based artificial ...

Judging from headlines and social media posts in recent years, one might reasonably assume that AI is going to fix the power grid, cure the world’s diseases, and finish my holiday shopping for me. But maybe there’s just a whole lot of hype floating around out there. This week, we published a new ...

With all the breakthroughs happening in image processing by releases such as Nano Banana, Qwen image and SAM3, OpenAI which was at the frontier of the domain a few years back, has been relatively quiet—especially in terms of its releases. With pedestrian releases and lackluster offerings, most ...

If you have ever trained a model, fine-tuned an LLM, or even experimented with AI on a weekend, chances are you have landed on Hugging Face. It has quietly become the GitHub of datasets – a place where developers, researchers, and data professionals go to build models and accelerate ideas. From ...

Meta has released SAM Audio, a prompt driven audio separation model that targets a common editing bottleneck, isolating one sound from a real world mix without building a custom model per sound class. Meta released 3 main sizes, sam-audio-small, sam-audio-base, and sam-audio-large. The model is ...

In this tutorial, we implement how we build a small but powerful two-agent CrewAI system that collaborates using the Gemini Flash model. We set up our environment, authenticate securely, define specialized agents, and orchestrate tasks that flow from research to structured writing. As we run the ...

This Black Friday and Cyber Monday, answer engines accelerated consumers’ discovery and evaluation of various products, yielding higher-quality traffic. According to Adobe, Black Friday traffic from answer engines to US retailers’ sites was 38% more likely to purchase than non-answer-engine-sourced ...