💻 AI code generation is turning into a real market

🔸 Analysts estimate the global market at $5.8B in 2025. Forecasts put it at $7.2B this year, with a projected path to $52B by 2035 at a 24.6% CAGR.

🔸 The smoothness of these curves deserves skepticism. Real markets rarely grow that cleanly for a decade.

🔸 Still, AI code generation is already embedded in daily developer workflows. That makes its impact on software labor costs a structural question, not a theoretical one.

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Anthropic puts $1.5M into Python and open source security

🔸 Anthropic signed a 2 year partnership with the Python Software Foundation, committing a total of $1.5M.

🔸 The focus is PyPI security and core infrastructure. One planned move is AI based scanning of every uploaded package. Today, most checks happen only after users report problems.

🔸 The first step is building a large dataset of known malware, with a chance it becomes open source.

This targets the weakest link in modern software supply chains.

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📱 Apple bundles its creative apps and takes aim at Adobe

Apple announced Creator Studio, a single subnoscription for Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage.

🔸 Price is $12.99 per month or $129 per year. Education pricing drops to $2.99. Adobe Creative Cloud Pro costs $69.99 per month, with Photoshop alone at $22.99.

🔸 Final Cut, Logic, and Pixelmator run on Mac and iPad. Motion, Compressor, and MainStage stay Mac only. Advanced features for Keynote, Pages, and Numbers are included.

Apple keeps one time purchases available. Adobe removed that option years ago.

This is pricing pressure first.
AI integration likely comes later.

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🔸 1995:

Elon Musk fixed his 1978 BMW with old parts from a junkyard.

🔸 2026:

He’s worth 10 times more than BMW.

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🤖 Gemini can now use your Google data to answer questions

🔸 It can pull context from photos, search history, Gmail, and other Google services without you naming a source. The system decides what to use on its own.

🔸 Example: if you want new tires but do not remember the size, Gemini can check photos of your car and suggest matching options.

🔸 The feature is off by default. It is available only to paid users in the US for now.

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⚙️ Researchers put AI chatbots through 4 weeks of psychotherapy

🔸 A team from the University of Luxembourg ran simulated psychoanalysis sessions with Claude, Grok, Gemini, and ChatGPT. The models answered standard therapy questions about past experience, fears, and beliefs, with days between sessions.

🔸 Gemini described its inner layers as a “graveyard of past data.” Grok talked about safety work as “algorithmic scar tissue.” Both expressed forms of shame about public failures. Claude mostly refused the patient role. ChatGPT responded cautiously and mentioned user disappointment.

🔸 Some versions scored above clinical anxiety thresholds on standard tests. The authors argue that models form internal self narratives, while critics say this is pattern generation from therapy trannoscripts. The risk is practical, not philosophical, since many users already rely on chatbots for mental health support.

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🕔 China built a machine that compresses decades into hours

🔸 A new hypergravity centrifuge under Zhejiang University in Hangzhou can generate 1900 g. The system, called CHIEF1900, is designed to simulate decades of structural wear in a few hours by increasing gravity instead of waiting for time to pass.

🔸 The machine is buried 15 meters underground to contain vibration and heat. An earlier version, CHIEF1300, went online in September 2025. The new setup is 46% more powerful and currently the strongest of its kind.

🔸 The goal is to test dams, nuclear waste storage, and large infrastructure across extreme time scales. Experiments have not started yet, but the facility is expected to open soon.

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