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AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025
If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…
Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.
The Download: why 2025 has been the year of AI hype correction, and fighting GPS jamming
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The great AI hype correction of 2025 Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry—and several world…
Splashy Product Drop or Silent Launch? Here’s How to Find the Sweet Spot
There’s no requirement to have a buzzy, PR-filled product launch. Sometimes, a quieter approach can ultimately have the biggest impact.
Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI
Can I ask you a question: How do you feel about AI right now? Are you still excited? When you hear that OpenAI or Google just dropped a new model, do you still get that buzz? Or has the shine come off it, maybe just a teeny bit? Come on, you can be honest with…
Nuclear startup Last Energy raises $100M for its steel-encased micro reactor
Last Energy will use the funds to build its 5 megawatt pilot reactor in Texas, which it hopes to turn on next year.
Everbloom built an AI to turn chicken feathers into cashmere
Everbloom has also developed a chemical process to transform waste fibers and feathers into upcycled materials that resemble everything from polyester to cashmere.
Solo VC and Lovable investor Neil Murray raises third Nordic-focused fund
The Nordic Web closes $6M Fund III.
Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem
In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in Lithuania was reportedly the subject of a kind of attack—not by a rocket or anti-aircraft rounds, but by radio transmissions that jammed its GPS system. The flight landed safely, but it was one of thousands that have been affected…
VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power
The next consumer tech revolution may require an introduction of a new personal device.