The week that Google ate Adobe

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A woman poses for a photo next to a banana attached with duct-tape that replaces the artwork 'Comedian' by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, which was eaten by David Datuna, in Miami Beach, Florida, December 7, 2019.
A banana duct-taped to a wall that replaced the artwork 'Comedian,' which was eaten by David Datuna in Miami Beach, Florida.

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Winners and losers in the AI software shakeout

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking at a conference in San Francisco.

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As AI coding services face a reckoning, Bolt tries to go beyond building

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StackBlitz cofounders Albert Pai (left) and Eric Simons (right)
StackBlitz cofounders Albert Pai (left) and Eric Simons (right)

Eric Simons

Even CEOs get a do-over now and then. Just ask OpenAI's Sam Altman.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the Federal Reserve, July 2025
Sam Altman put together a big launch for the newest version of his ChatGPT engine — and backtracked a day later.

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'Inference whales' are eating into AI coding startups' business model

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Humpback Whale Breaching. This massive animal shows surprising speed and grace as it breaches near the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
A Humpback whale breaching

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Microsoft is trying to poach Meta AI talent and offering multimillion-dollar pay packages, internal documents show

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shake hands at LlamaCon.
Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella are all in on AI.

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Replit's CEO says anyone can build an app in an afternoon with AI — and it's powering a new wave of solo startups

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Eric Newcomer (left), with Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit (center), and Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face (right)
Eric Newcomer (left), with Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit (center), and Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face (right)

Eric Newcomer

An Accel-backed startup CEO says your next user isn't human — and it's changing how software gets built

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Guillermo Rauch
Vercel's CEO says AI agents are becoming software's next users — and it's reshaping how APIs and developer tools are built.

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AI coding agents are infiltrating the corporate world. Here are the top tools.

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott talks about the growth of AI agent use at the Build 2025 developer conference.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott talks about the growth of AI agent use at the Build 2025 developer conference.

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Meta's Llama AI team has been bleeding talent. Many top researchers have joined French AI startup Mistral.

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Timothee Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample Mistral AI.
Timothée Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, and Guillaume Lample are the co-founders of Mistral AI. Lacroix and Lample were two of the authors of Meta's original Llama paper.

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