Microsoft is now hosting many AI models beyond those from OpenAI
https://ai.azure.com/nextgen/
Sunday, November 30, 2025
top 10 prog. languages on GitHub
Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1 - The GitHub Blog
| Rank 2025 | Language | YoY contributor gain | YoY % growth (Aug 2024 vs. Aug 2025) | Big takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TypeScript | ~1,054,015 | 66.63% | TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript for #1 growth, showing its dominance in new green-field development. |
| 2 | Python | ~850,579 | 48.78% | Considered the lingua franca of AI and ML, Python’s usage has increased significantly amidst generative AI work. |
| 3 | JavaScript | ~427,148 | 24.79% | Still massive in scale, but more incremental growth as usage shifts toward TypeScript. |
| 4 | Java | ~174,705 | 20.73% | Java continues its steady enterprise-driven growth. |
| 5 | C# | ~136,735 | 22.22% | Cloud, desktop, and game dev keep momentum for C#. |
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Dangerous Robots!
Figure Robotics FIRED Their Head of Safety (Lawsuit) - YouTube
Figure AI whistleblower fired says robot can 'fracture a human skull'Figure AI, an Nvidia-backed developer of humanoid robots, was sued by the startup's former head of product safety who alleged that he was wrongfully terminated after warning top executives that the company's robots "were powerful enough to fracture a human skull."
Harmony OS vs Windows, Android, iOS
looks like AI generated video?
while that is a real achievement, this also sounds like "propaganda",
quite common behavior, but should not be ignored...
Huawei’s HarmonyOS Just Declared War on Windows — Microsoft Didn’t Expect This - YouTube
Google's AI explanation
HarmonyOS differs from Windows, Android, and iOS with its distributed architecture, aiming for a unified "Super Device" experience across various devices, while Windows is primarily for PCs, and Android/iOS are mobile-first systems. HarmonyOS Next, Huawei's new version, runs on its own non-Android application ecosystem, unlike Android, which supports a massive library of apps from multiple stores, and iOS, which is exclusive to Apple's App Store. HarmonyOS is also built on a microkernel, and Windows is a traditional monolithic OS, while iOS is a custom-built systemMicrosoft Reacts to Huawei’s Harmony OS - YouTube
Huawei’s license to use Microsoft Windows expired last March, and it’s unable to renew its contract with the software giant due to U.S. sanctions against the company. Instead, the Chinese tech giant launched HarmonyOS, its replacement for the desktop operating system from Redmond.HarmonyOS-Next @GitHub: nothing much...
There is even Chinese alternative for GitHub...
The official source code for Huawei's open-source operating system is hosted on Gitee, while various HarmonyOS-related resources, samples, and community projects can be found on GitHub.
OpenHarmony: The open-source base for the OS, OpenHarmony, reflects this multi-kernel approach, with its different kernel variations (Linux kernel 5.10, LiteOS-M, LiteOS-A) also primarily consisting of C and C++ code
already in some car models, including Nissan?!
China's EV Takeover: Guangzhou Show Reveals JV Brands' Desperate Fight - YouTube
already in some car models, including Nissan?!
China's EV Takeover: Guangzhou Show Reveals JV Brands' Desperate Fight - YouTube
Bio-Architecture: Cork Passive Solar House
This is a worthy FLW successor...
There is hope for the future of architecture!
built from natural materials (air-concrete), with cork facade!
using a thermal (convection/radiation) wall behind windows (on picture) for passive heating/cooling.
natural shelter, quiet house!
with a natural swimming pool, with rubber lining, cleaned by plants!
wow!
Cork-clad home uses Trombe Wall & circular vents as free A/C - YouTube
Turns drafty townhome into tranquil Cork Passive House - YouTube
whole house covered by Cork and tree bark
natural passive solar: summer: shade from tree leaves; winter: no share, heated by the sun
Inicio - El Fil Verd
Turns drafty townhome into tranquil Cork Passive House – *faircompanies
Friday, November 28, 2025
100 mpg: not EV, hybrid from 1999
extremely efficient, light, aerodynamic.. just not popular: 2 seats only, high price for size
Would Tesla Robotaxy, that even looks similar, have more success (total 16K produced is small...)
A Perfect Example of Where Modern Cars Went WRONG - Honda Insight (Mk1) - YouTube
Driving the classics: Honda Insight (1999) review
Google AI Studio Apps
Google experiments with AI generating whole apps, for free.
Competing with Replit, v0 and similar tools.
Competing with Replit, v0 and similar tools.
"Build your ideas with Gemini"
this was before Google AI Studio Apps:
Thursday, November 27, 2025
AI @ Azure: Anthropic, xAI, OpenAI...
Microsoft is "diversifying" beyond OpenAI models for LLM AI...
Another of those "circular investments", useful one...
Just didn't expect deployment on Azure so soon... good!
- Anthropic already had investments from both Amazon and Alphabet (Google)
- Financial investment: Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion.
- Cloud services commitment: Anthropic has committed to spending $30 billion on Microsoft Azure over the next four years.
- Strategic collaboration: Anthropic will use Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure, powered by Nvidia's technology, to scale its Claude AI models.
- Technology development: Anthropic will also collaborate with Nvidia to optimize its models for Nvidia's hardware.
- Valuation: The investment from Microsoft and Nvidia, combined with Anthropic's commitments, pushes the company's valuation to around $350 billion.
- Diversification: This deal allows Microsoft to deepen its AI partnerships beyond its long-standing relationship with OpenAI, while also gaining a significant customer for its Azure cloud services.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Web + AI: CascadiaJS
CascadiaJS is a community-driven Web + AI conference for developers in the Pacific Northwest of the US and beyond.
MCP is the New User Interaction Model - YouTube: Kent C Dodds
Use Web APIs to Build Browser AI Apps - YouTube
GPT in Vanilla JavaScript - YouTube
older, potentially interesting
SVG, Canvas, and WebGL: The Power, the Beauty, and the Cost | Amber Hoak | CascadiaJS 2020 - YouTube
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
AI guardrails: HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"...
Monday, November 24, 2025
AI Master's Degree, $2.5K @Udacity, accredited!?
Education is/will be changing, fast, with help of AI
Masters Artificial Intelligence @Udacity
During Black Friday sale, you can earn a fully accredited
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence for $2,500.
Visit the Master's page to view which Nanodegree programs you could be earning credit for.
55% off, ends 11/28
Woolf is named after Virginia Woolf, the visionary 20th-century writer
who championed education as a pathway to freedom and empowerment.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | Udacity (free course by Peter Norvig & Sebasian Thrun)
after that it switched to monthly charges of $112 USD each, total comes to $2887
"Estimated cost for full program when working 27 hrs/week"
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed the acquisition of Udacity, a digital education pioneer with deep expertise in the development and delivery of proprietary technology courses that blend the flexibility of online learning with the benefits of human instruction. The acquisition underscores Accenture’s ongoing commitment to meeting the needs of its clients amid a changing workforce, in particular by helping their people gain essential industry-specific training and technology skills and achieve greater business value in the AI economy.
Udacity started as MOOC provider, and now matured and acquired by Accenture.
Masters Artificial Intelligence @Udacity
During Black Friday sale, you can earn a fully accredited
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence for $2,500.
Visit the Master's page to view which Nanodegree programs you could be earning credit for.
55% off, ends 11/28
who championed education as a pathway to freedom and empowerment.
example
Learn the Latest Tech Skills; Advance Your Career | Udacity (free courses)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | Udacity (free course by Peter Norvig & Sebasian Thrun)
How does this work (my understanding):
- Udacity subscription provides access to any of available courses and "nano-degree" (groups of courses).
- Those courses have evaluations and projects, required for competition, on your pace.
- The estimate on duration is based on estimated time spent per class, that may vary
- The estimate on duration is based on estimated time spent per class, that may vary
- projected $2500 cost for 2 years is based in "bundle 4-month subscription" $96/month * 24 + $199 one-time enrollment fee = $2503
But that math is not correct, since only first 4 months get %15 discount, after that it switched to monthly charges of $112 USD each, total comes to $2887
"Estimated cost for full program when working 27 hrs/week"
27 = 3*5 + 6*2 (i.e. 3 evening hours on work days, 6 hours on weekend days, significant time commitment)
Accenture Completes Acquisition of Udacity (May 2024)
go-sqlite3: SQLite.c => WASM => Go
SQLite is the most widely deployed and used DB, by far.
Included in every mobile devices/OSs, most of desktop devices,
even in web browsers and many apps.
SQLite written in C (only 60K lines!)
and can be used directly from Python and JavaScript,
since those languages are built with C/C++.
But Go language compiler is written in Go,
and to "link" modules written in C would need to use "cgo" (C version of Go complier).
To avoid this complication when building Go apps using SQLite
can use SQLite complied to WASM (WebAssembly), that is directly supported by Go.
Would be interesting to compare performance...
ncruces/go-sqlite3: Go bindings to SQLite using wazero @GitHub
Go module github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 is a cgo-free SQLite wrapper.
It provides a database/sql compatible driver, as well as direct access to most of the C SQLite API.
It wraps a Wasm build of SQLite, and uses wazero as the runtime.
Go, wazero and x/sys are the only direct dependencies.
Included in every mobile devices/OSs, most of desktop devices,
even in web browsers and many apps.
SQLite written in C (only 60K lines!)
and can be used directly from Python and JavaScript,
since those languages are built with C/C++.
But Go language compiler is written in Go,
and to "link" modules written in C would need to use "cgo" (C version of Go complier).
To avoid this complication when building Go apps using SQLite
can use SQLite complied to WASM (WebAssembly), that is directly supported by Go.
Would be interesting to compare performance...
ncruces/go-sqlite3: Go bindings to SQLite using wazero @GitHub
Go module github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 is a cgo-free SQLite wrapper.
It provides a database/sql compatible driver, as well as direct access to most of the C SQLite API.
It wraps a Wasm build of SQLite, and uses wazero as the runtime.
Go, wazero and x/sys are the only direct dependencies.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Autonomous Robots: Chemical-Free Farming
Greenfield Robotics (Reg CF) | StartEngine
Greenfield Robotics is revolutionizing weed control with autonomous farming robots designed to reduce operational and maintenance costs while removing herbicides from the process. Demand has been exceptional: entire fleet is sold out this year and with reservations already filled for 2026, BOTONY™ fleet of robots is helping drive our mission to eliminate all chemicals from farming and food.
Greenfield Robotics is revolutionizing weed control with autonomous farming robots designed to reduce operational and maintenance costs while removing herbicides from the process. Demand has been exceptional: entire fleet is sold out this year and with reservations already filled for 2026, BOTONY™ fleet of robots is helping drive our mission to eliminate all chemicals from farming and food.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Happiness architecture: Bhutan
Why Bhutan is Building the Anti-Dubai - YouTube
The B1M
Bhutan building Mindfulness City to create jobs, lure young Bhutanese home from abroad - YouTube
60 minutes
Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City: Here's what it may look like
The Sankosh Temple-Dam will have staircases that lead to an elevated temple
Gross National Happiness - Wikipedia
is a philosophy that guides the government of Bhutan. It includes an index used to measure a population's collective happiness and well-being. The Gross National Happiness Index was instituted as the goal of the government of Bhutan in the Constitution of Bhutan
BIG designs Mindfulness City in Bhutan connected by "inhabitable bridges"
Friday, November 21, 2025
AI Music: Suno += $250M => $2.5B
what can go wrong :)
AI trained on all human music, now able to compete/compose.And for "pop-music" that seem to me good enough.
Will keep lawyers busy for years :)
In the meantime, NVIDIA keep "spreading the wealth" by re-investing to its own customers.
As long as nothing stops this circular funding, it will keep accelerating itself...
But physics does not allow for "perpetuum mobile",
at some point friction will have its effect...
It is also another example of "alchemy", converting $250M to $2500M, 10x
So defying not only lows of physics, but also of chemistry!
And every generation of investors has the same moto: "this time is different"
But is it?
Suno Raises $250M to Expand AI Music
Suno closed a $250M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at $2.45B. The funding will advance tools for music pros and casual creators. Suno plans to boost social features that let people connect through music. The company says it’s building a community where creators and listeners participate together.
Menlo Ventures led the round, with heavy-hitting investors joining the party. Suno’s series C funding round also saw participation from Nvidia’s venture capital arm NVentures, Hallwood Media, Lightspeed, and Matrix. When NVIDIA’s venture arm backs your startup, you know something revolutionary is brewing.
But here’s where things get really interesting. The Wall Street Journal reports that Suno has reached $200 million in annual revenue, mainly derived from subscriptions. Meanwhile, Suno disclosed today that nearly 100 million users have signed up for its platform to date. These aren’t just vanity metrics—they’re proof that AI-generated music has found its market.
at some point friction will have its effect...
It is also another example of "alchemy", converting $250M to $2500M, 10x
So defying not only lows of physics, but also of chemistry!
And every generation of investors has the same moto: "this time is different"
But is it?
Suno Raises $250M to Expand AI MusicSuno closed a $250M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at $2.45B. The funding will advance tools for music pros and casual creators. Suno plans to boost social features that let people connect through music. The company says it’s building a community where creators and listeners participate together.
Menlo Ventures led the round, with heavy-hitting investors joining the party. Suno’s series C funding round also saw participation from Nvidia’s venture capital arm NVentures, Hallwood Media, Lightspeed, and Matrix. When NVIDIA’s venture arm backs your startup, you know something revolutionary is brewing.
But here’s where things get really interesting. The Wall Street Journal reports that Suno has reached $200 million in annual revenue, mainly derived from subscriptions. Meanwhile, Suno disclosed today that nearly 100 million users have signed up for its platform to date. These aren’t just vanity metrics—they’re proof that AI-generated music has found its market.
Google Antigravity: AI Agent => Code
An alternative for VS Code + GitHub Copilot & Cursor, or something more?
Build with Google Antigravity, our new agentic development platform - Google Developers Blog
Google Antigravity, new agentic development platform. An evolution of the IDE, it's built to help you: - Orchestrate agents operating at a higher, task-oriented level - Run parallel tasks with agents across workspaces - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro.
However, Antigravity will most likely have to compete more with coding agent platforms like Codex from OpenAI, Claude Code from Anthropic, and Cursor.
Some people on X commented that Antigravity looks similar to Windsurf, which would make sense: Google hired the Windsurf team — including CEO Varun Mohan — in July and licensed the tech for $2.4 billion.
Based in Windsurf?
Thursday, November 20, 2025
AI: Generative UI, Real purpose of Google Gemini
interesting observation... makes sense...
We're safe - Google has a different mission - YouTube
by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
And it's not really related to your job as a frontend developer.
As you may guess, this is to support main engine of Google: Search & Add.
So AI augmented search it is for!
So AI augmented search it is for!
The key feature: "generative UI"
Meaning, you get animated search results, like "mini apps".
Not vibe-coded apps, but "free side effect of search apps"!
Meaning, you get animated search results, like "mini apps".
Not vibe-coded apps, but "free side effect of search apps"!
Brightline high-speed rail
a proposed privately run high-speed rail route, under early construction, to link the Las Vegas Valley and Rancho Cucamonga in Greater Los Angeles (2024-2028)
max speed: 180 or 200 mph (290 or 320 km/h)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
$AI: Anthropic <=$15B= Nvidia, Microsoft
more circular money deals... what can go wrong?
Nvidia, Microsoft invest $15 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Nvidia committed up to $10 billionMicrosoft, which owns 27 percent of Anthropic rival OpenAI,
pledged up to $5 billion to the maker of Claude AI models.
pledged up to $5 billion to the maker of Claude AI models.
more headlines:
OpenAI API Agents SDK
OpenAI: a-practical-guide-to-building-agents.pdf
openai/openai-agents-python: A lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows @GitHub
openai/agents.md: AGENTS.md — a simple, open format for guiding coding agents
The OpenAI Agents SDK enables you to build agentic AI apps in a lightweight, easy-to-use package with very few abstractions. It's a production-ready upgrade of our previous experimentation for agents, Swarm. The Agents SDK has a very small set of primitives:
- Agents, which are LLMs equipped with instructions and tools
- Handoffs, which allow agents to delegate to other agents for specific tasks
- Guardrails, which enable validation of agent inputs and outputs
- Sessions, which automatically maintains conversation history across agent runs
Examples - OpenAI Agents SDK python
openai-agents-js/examples at main · openai/openai-agents-js JavaScript
- Multi-Agent Workflows: Compose and orchestrate multiple agents in a single workflow.
- Tool Integration: Seamlessly call tools/functions from within agent responses.
- Handoffs: Transfer control between agents dynamically during a run.
- Structured Outputs: Support for both plain text and schema-validated structured outputs.
- Streaming Responses: Stream agent outputs and events in real time.
- Tracing & Debugging: Built-in tracing for visualizing and debugging agent runs.
- Guardrails: Input and output validation for safety and reliability.
- Parallelization: Run agents or tool calls in parallel and aggregate results.
- Human-in-the-Loop: Integrate human approval or intervention into workflows.
- Realtime Voice Agents: Build realtime voice agents using WebRTC or WebSockets
- Local MCP Server Support: Give an Agent access to a locally running MCP server to provide tools
- Separate optimized browser package: Dedicated package meant to run in the browser for Realtime agents.
- Broader model support: Use non-OpenAI models through the Vercel AI SDK adapter
- Long running functions: Suspend an agent loop to execute a long-running function and revive it later
- Voice pipeline: Chain text-based agents using speech-to-text and text-to-speech into a voice agent
OpenAI @GitHub search "Agents"
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
AI: Google Gemini 3
Gemini 3 is actually insane... - YouTube Matthew Berman
May it dethrone ChatGPT? - YouTube Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google
A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 - YouTube
Gemini 3 doesn't just beat the competition, it EMBARASSES them - The numbers are absolutely absurd:
📊 1501 Elo on LMArena—taking first place once again
🧠 45.8% on HLE, beating 13.7% and 26.5% from Claude and GPT.
💎 93.8% on GPQA Diamond—genuine PhD-level reasoning
🎯 31.1% on ARC-AGI-2—solving novel problems compared to 13.6% and 17.6% from Claude and GPT
Google Antigravity https://antigravity.google/
I just tested Gemini 3 vs ChatGPT-5.1 — and one AI crushed the competition | Tom's Guide
In this head-to-head showdown, Gemini 3 emerged as the clear winner, taking six out of nine rounds with consistently superior performance in creative constraint-following, UX design thinking, critical analysis, strategic reasoning and cross-domain integration.
Monday, November 17, 2025
AI: Anthropic, security
a good interview
Anthropic CEO warns that without guardrails, AI could be on dangerous path - YouTube
despite Anthropic significant efforts, guarding AI models and agents is hard...
Chinese hackers used Anthropic's Claude AI agent to automate spying
Suspected Chinese operators used Anthropic’s Claude Code to automate cyberattacks on roughly 30 organizations. Anthropic says the agent handled up to 90% of the intrusion steps autonomously. The company blocked the offending accounts and notified affected targets. Four breaches reportedly succeeded.material: Superwood: better than steel?
Superwood is an engineered wood material that is significantly stronger, denser, and more durable than natural wood, making it a potential alternative to steel and other traditional materials. It is created through a process of partially removing lignin and then compressing the wood under heat to create a super-dense, reinforced structure. The result is a material that is stronger than steel, resistant to fire, pests, and rot, and lighter than steel.
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InventWood — Technology
Superwood is Here! This Amazing New Material Could Change The World! - YouTube
@ DIY with Dave - YouTube
InventWood has been set up and has over $50 million dollars in funding to turn their research into practical products. Superwood is Densified wood that is created through a couple of simple processes that increase it's strength while keeping the natural warmth of real wood.
In this video, we’ll break down how Superwood is made and how it can be stronger than steel. We'll also discuss the game changing impact that it could have on the world, as well as some potential problems.
Could Superwood really replace steel and other traditional building materials? Leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts."
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