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Claude vs ChatGPT
Claude vs ChatGPT
After the Donald Trump administration labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk in March 2026, following the company’s refusal to allow Claude to be used in autonomous weapons systems, the backlash against OpenAI’s competing Pentagon agreement drove an estimated 700,000 ChatGPT cancellations. Claude’s paid subscriptions more than doubled, and its iOS application reached number one on the App Store.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 2 min read
Microsoft Copilot Tasks
Microsoft Copilot Tasks
On February 26, Microsoft announced Copilot Tasks. They call Copilot Tasks the "second chapter" of their AI products. It is no longer just an AI chatbot that holds conversations, but an AI agent tool that can perform complex tasks to support your business.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 2 min read
AWS Outage Prevention: Single Сloud with multi-Region or Multi Сloud?
AWS Outage Prevention: Single Сloud with multi-Region or Multi Сloud?
AWS had a major outage (October, 2025). One month after the incident (November, 2025), Amazon introduced a new Route 53 feature that was reported to help prevent similar disruption. However, if your servers are in one AWS region and it goes down, switching DNS records alone is not enough.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read
Catastrophic Outage of Online Security Company Cloudflare
Catastrophic Outage of Online Security Company Cloudflare
On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a massive worldwide outage that began around 06:20 a.m. ET / 11:30 GMT. Cloudflare said it began with a "spike in unusual traffic" to one of its services. As a result, "Network" and "multi-region fabric" went offline, and 20–25% of the internet saw HTTP 500, 521, 522, and "Connection Timed Out" errors.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read
Composer LLM from Vibe Coding Platform Cursor 2.0: Cool or Overhyped?
Composer LLM from Vibe Coding Platform Cursor 2.0
Cursor 2.0 from Anysphere now supports not only external models like GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Gemini, but also its own Composer large language model. Composer is the first coding model built specifically for production-level agent programming, offering an early look at the future of everyday programming. Composer is fully integrated into Cursor 2.0, which is available to everyone.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read
Microsoft Reports Strong Earnings Amid Major Azure Outage
Microsoft Reports Strong Earnings Amid Major Azure Outage
On October 29, 2025, Azure Portal and Microsoft 365 went down worldwide. Applications that depend on Microsoft servers slowed down or stopped working. Users could not access websites, apps, or cloud-connected services. This was one of the most severe outages in Microsoft's recent history. It began between 11:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. ET (16:00 UTC), according to Downdetector, just hours before the company announced its quarterly earnings. The investor relations and status pages were also down. Microsoft confirmed the outage on its status page and classified the incident as Critical across all Azure regions worldwide (North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa).
Dmitry Baraishuk • 2 min read
Amazon Cut Tens of Thousands corporate Jobs to Invest more in AI Automation
Amazon Cut Tens of Thousands Jobs to Invest in AI Automation
Amazon is planning to cut 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on October 28, 2025, according to Reuters (Amazon itself says it will be only 14,000). This will impact employees in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It is a corporate reduction, representing 10 percent of Amazon’s corporate employees. Amazon doubled its workforce to 1.6 million from 2019 to 2021, but that number dipped to 1.55 million last year.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 2 min read
ChatGPT Agent Builder: Main Module of the AgentKit Platform
ChatGPT Agent Builder: Main Module of the AgentKit Platform
During OpenAI’s DevDay in San Francisco (october 2025), the AgentKit platform was announced to help developers build custom agents. Google already offers a similar platform, Vertex AI Agent Builder, and Microsoft has its own Copilot Studio. Agent Builder is the main module of the AgentKit platform. It is designed to control the behavior of ChatGPT models much more precisely than is possible with standard prompts or custom GPTs. Agents have existed for a long time, including those using ChatGPT models, but most often they were created through third-party intermediary platforms. Now, OpenAI allows you to build custom agents on its models without intermediaries.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read
H-1B Visas Rule Changes Under Trump in 2025
H-1B Visas Rule Changes Under Trump in 2025
Trump signed an order (Sep. 19, 2025) that makes companies pay $100,000 for each H-1B visa they use to hire foreign workers. If your employer doesn't pay the $100,000, you can't come in. The State Department and Homeland Security will turn you away. Indians get more than 70% of H-1B visas, Chinese citizens get 10%, and the rest go to experts from Mexico, Canada, Philippines, Taiwan, and Korea. Trump's decisions create uncertainty in business. This supply shock isn't good for the US. However, tech companies agree that America's loss could be Canada's and Europe's gain.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 9 min read
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Outperforms the o3 Model Alone: What This Means for Developers
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Outperforms the o3 Model Alone
A new ChatGPT agent was introduced in OpenAI’s July 17, 2025 announcement as a new agentic model in the same family as OpenAI o3, but with better benchmarks. Do the new features only affect ChatGPT product users, or do they also impact OpenAI platform customers and third-party developers? ! Do not confuse the Agent mode in ChatGPT introduced in July 2025 with the completely different agent-building platform (Agent Builder/AgentKit) launched in October 2025.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 18 min read
Legal AI: Judge Fines Attorneys for AI-Generated Motion
Legal AI: Judge Fines Attorneys for AI-Generated Motion
Why do AI-generated "hallucination" briefs keep showing up — even though the legal-tech market is crowded with AI startups? Lawyers often rely on free, general-purpose chatbots instead of paid legal tools. Cost is a barrier.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 7 min read
AI in Fintech and Banking
AI in Fintech and Banking
AI in banking is moving from widgets to a workforce. The winners industrialize data, build agent governance, redirect talent to judgment tasks, and align regulatory strategy with technical architecture. These steps bring the 25-30% productivity gains demonstrated by today’s pilots without triggering the reputational risks.
Dzmitry Garbar • 8 min read
Lovable grows to $1.8 B valuation despite security issues
Lovable grows to $1.8 B valuation despite security issues
Lovable is a Stockholm-based artificial intelligence startup established in 2023. Although only two years old, the company has moved quickly from formation to product launch and now to a significant growth stage fundraising.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read
Cloudflare Will Charge OpenAI Bots for Scraping Websites
Cloudflare Will Charge OpenAI Bots for Scraping Websites
Cloudflare has launched a private beta feature called Pay per Crawl, whose sole purpose is to let a website owner charge an AI crawler a fixed fee each time the crawler requests a page. The feature addresses a common operational gap: currently, a publisher can either leave all content open to automated collection or block crawlers entirely, and any paid arrangement must be negotiated manually. Pay per Crawl replaces that binary choice with an automated, per-request billing step handled entirely at Cloudflare’s edge.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read
Microsoft AI for Health: MAI-DxO Is 4 Times Better at Diagnosis Than Doctors
Microsoft AI for Health: MAI-DxO Is 4 Times Better at Diagnosis Than Doctors
Microsoft has released research that demonstrates a practical way for large language model software to help doctors make difficult diagnoses while spending less money on tests. 
Dzmitry Garbar • 6 min read
Senior Software Developer in the UK is a Top 5 In-Demand Role
Senior Software Developer in the UK is a Top 5 In-Demand Role
Software developers re-entered the UK’s top five most in-demand jobs. Pay has outpaced inflation for twelve months. However, entry-level roles are vanishing as generative AI reshapes workloads.
Alexander Kom • 3 min read
Gemini CLI Free Open-Source AI Agent
Gemini CLI Free Open-Source AI Agent
Gemini CLI is introduced as an open-source AI agent that brings Google’s Gemini models straight into the command line. Google says it’s a "fundamental upgrade" to the terminal, transforming the CLI into an AI-assisted workspace. The company stresses that Gemini CLI is "built to do so much more" - content creation, problem solving, deep research, and task management. This tight terminal integration promises "the most direct path from your prompt to our model". While the agent itself runs locally in your shell, the Gemini models execute in the cloud.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read
Microsoft Copilot AI vs ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot AI vs ChatGPT
Generative AI assistants have left the pilot phase and are becoming routine companions in day-to-day work. Two products dominate: Microsoft Copilot, embedded throughout the Microsoft 365, Windows, and GitHub, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, delivered primarily through a browser interface. Because both assistants draw on the same GPT-4-class model family from OpenAI, executives often struggle to see where the real differences are — in cost, risk, and tangible value. 
Dmitry Baraishuk • 5 min read
Goldman Sachs AI Assistant
Goldman Sachs AI Assistant
Goldman Sachs on June 23, 2025, switched on its generative AI assistant, GS AI Assistant, across every major division: Investment Banking, Global Markets, Wealth & Asset Management, Research, Engineering, and others. The tool had operated in pilot mode through early 2025 with about 10,000 employees. A memo this week formalized the firm-wide launch and invited roughly 46,500 “knowledge workers” to use it.  
Dmitry Baraishuk • 4 min read
What Microsoft’s Copilot Vision Launch Means for Software Development
What Microsoft’s Copilot Vision Launch Means for Software Development
Microsoft’s June 12, 2025 launch of Copilot Vision expands the company’s AI assistant from a chat box into an on-screen companion. The feature is available as a free update in the Copilot app for Windows 11 version 23H2 on PCs that support Copilot and for Windows 10. A similar free camera mode is available for iOS and Android. At launch, distribution is limited to the United States, with Microsoft promising to expand to other non-European countries soon. The company has also removed the Copilot Pro subscription requirement.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 2 min read
Outage Affected Multiple Google Cloud Platform Products
Outage Affected Multiple Google Cloud Platform Products
On June 12, 2025, Google Cloud’s central sign-in service — Identity and Access Management (IAM) — stopped issuing the tokens that every Google Cloud product needs to operate. This single failure immediately disabled a long list of Google services worldwide.
Dmitry Baraishuk • 1 min read

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