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When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In the same way that the Romans gradually amassed an empire of land spanning three continents and one-ninth of the Earth’s circumference, the CEO and his cohort are now dotting the planet with their own latifundia—not…

On a drizzly and windswept afternoon this summer, I visited the headquarters of Rokid, a startup developing smart glasses in Hangzhou, China. As I chatted with engineers, their words were swiftly translated from Mandarin to English, and then transcribed onto a tiny translucent screen just above my right eye using one of the company’s new…

The key to R1’s success was distillation, a technique that makes AI models more efficient. It works by getting a bigger model to tutor a smaller model: You run the teacher model on a lot of examples and record the answers, and reward the student model as it copies those responses as closely as possible,…

The rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) that can be consumed via API calls has made it remarkably straightforward to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into applications. Yet despite this convenience, a significant number of enterprises are choosing to self-host their own models—accepting the complexity of infrastructure management, the cost of GPUs in the…

Quality assurance (QA) testing has long been the backbone of software development, but traditional QA approaches haven’t kept pace with modern development cycles and complex UIs. Most organizations still rely on a hybrid approach combining manual testing with script-based automation frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright—yet teams spend significant amount of their time maintaining existing…