Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
I’ve been watching Google roll out AI products for a while now. Every few weeks, there’s a new announcement. Usually, it’s something technically impressive but feels a bit distant. Like, cool, but am I actually going to use it? Then I tried NotebookLM. And honestly? It’s different. Here’s the thing. Most AI chatbots — ChatGPT, … Read more
DeepSeek dropped a new model yesterday. No warning. No teaser campaign. Just a quiet API update and a bunch of benchmark numbers that made me do a double take. Here’s the thing about DeepSeek: they always do this. You’re sitting there, minding your own business, and suddenly they launch something that makes everyone else look … Read more
I’ll be honest—I didn’t expect much when I saw the announcement. Another vision model. Another API endpoint. Another “exp” tag that usually means “try it if you’re bored.” But then I actually read what this thing does. And I spent a couple hours poking at it. Now I’m sitting here writing this, which means it … Read more
I’ve been quietly watching Tencent’s WorkBuddy for a few months. It’s not the flashiest AI tool out there, but the numbers are hard to ignore. Over 20 million desktop visits in June alone. That’s not nothing. Now they’re about to drop Hy4 into it. Here’s the short version: Tencent’s new flagship model, Hy4, was spotted … Read more
I’ll be honest — when I first saw DeepSeek Harness (DSH) trending on GitHub, I figured it was just another AI repo with a lot of hype. Star counts on GitHub can mean a few different things. Sometimes it’s respect for the founder. Sometimes people just bookmark a repo for later and forget about it. … Read more
I’ve been watching Google’s AI rollout for a while now. Every few weeks, there’s a new announcement. Usually, it’s about some feature that’s technically impressive but feels a bit… distant. Like, cool, but am I actually going to use it? Then I saw the news about Chrome’s Gemini integration expanding, and specifically, the new Auto … Read more
Google just quietly changed how watermarks work in Gemini. And honestly? It’s a smarter move than it sounds. The headline is simple: you can now turn off the visible “sparkle” watermark on images, videos, and music that Gemini makes. Go to Settings → Media Watermark, flip it off, and your files come out clean. No … Read more
So Anthropic started watermarking every Claude output. And honestly? I had the same thought everyone else did. When I first heard about it, I assumed they were doing the usual trick—zero-width characters, invisible Unicode, weird spaces that look normal but aren’t. That’s what every other “watermark” has been. That’s what I would have done if … Read more
I’ve been watching the reactions to Anthropic’s watermark announcement for the past few days, and honestly? Most of the hot takes are missing the point. The short version is this: Starting August 2, 2026, all new Claude models will embed machine-detectable watermarks in generated text. Images and SVGs get C2PA metadata signatures too. It applies … Read more
The short version: DeepSeek open-sourced their Agent harness — the scaffolding that turns a raw model into something that actually works in the real world. And they did it in a way that openly admits what everyone in the industry has been quietly realizing: the model itself isn’t the whole story anymore. Honestly? I spent … Read more