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There’s a lot of noise right now making it seem like you have to pick a side between MCP and Agent Skills. It’s being framed like a high-stakes rivalry, but that’s a total misunderstanding of the tech. Skills and MCP is fundamentally different things. Skills are just a prompt loaded on demand, while...

April has been a busy month in the world of AI. Two major AI models, hailing from the biggest AI companies of today, saw their debuts simultaneously. Anthropic was the first to drop Opus 4.7, and close to follow on its heels was OpenAI, which came out with its GPT-5.5. Though the leading models from...

Agentic AI refers to autonomous AI systems that can accomplish complex tasks with minimal human supervision. Unlike traditional AI, which reacts to prompts, agentic AI can plan, adapt, and execute actions toward a goal, making decisions throughout the process. These systems are made up of AI agents,...

Coding assistants have moved beyond autocomplete into full agents that can read projects, run commands, edit files, and iterate toward outcomes. Tools like Claude Code and Codex both operate in this space, but take different approaches. Claude Code centers on a unified agent loop across environments...

Meta’s big moment is here. The Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark, its first AI model aiming at “personal superintelligence.” The journey to this point has been eventful, from building the widely adopted Llama family of open-source models to aggressive talent acquisitions that sent ...

Google’s Nano Banana Pro finally has a worthy competitor, and if the results are anything to go by, it looks like this one may give it a run for its money. Putting its hat in the ring is none other than OpenAI, with its all-new ChatGPT Images 2.0. Now we all know the kind of […] The post ChatGPT Ima...

The AI image generation space has been highly competitive over the past 18 months. Models keep improving and replacing each other at the top. Google’s Nano Banana went viral in mid-2025. It topped the benchmarks and set a new standard for image quality. Now OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.0, po...

A year or two ago, using advanced AI models felt expensive enough that you had to think twice before asking anything. Today, using those same models feels cheap enough that you don’t even notice the cost. This isn’t just because “technology improved” in a vague sense. There are specific reasons behi...

Turmoil has followed the launch of Claude’s new model. Opus 4.7, the younger sibling of Anthropic’s revolutionary Mythos, is the recent attempt by the company to go public with some of the capabilities of Mythos. Better agentic workflows, better memory, and better real-world tasks than the outgoing ...

Developers use Claude Code as an enhanced autocomplete system. They open a file, type a prompt, and hope for the best. The system produces decent output which sometimes reaches great quality. The output exhibits inconsistent results. The system loses track of context and repeats its initial errors. ...

Imagine asking your AI model, “What’s the weather in Tokyo right now?” and instead of hallucinating an answer, it calls your actual Python function, fetches live data, and responds correctly. That’s how empowering the tool call functions in the Gemma 4 from Google are. A truly exciting addition to o...

Even though we know prompting matters, most people are still using Claude like a glorified Google search. Let me lead by example – “Summarise this into 3 sentences max.” Sounds familiar? Well, there may be nothing wrong in typing such a prompt, but truth be told, all these letters are good for an ar...

If you’re still using a standard chatbot for your AI work, you’re missing a lot of features. And I mean a lot! AI Studio is the workshop offered by Google, designed for those who want to prototype, build, and deploy without needing a PhD in computer science. Whether you’re writing for an email, crea...

Computer Vision remains one of the most commercially valuable areas in AI. Powering applications from autonomous driving to medical imaging and generative systems. But breaking into the field requires more than just theory! A strong portfolio of practical projects is what sets you apart. This guide ...

Google, my favourite tech firm for reasons exactly as this one, has done it once again. It has got the worldwide community of developers supercharged with one new product. This one is called Gemma 4. What’s the hype? Well, a completely open-source model that competes with AI models 20 times its size...

Z.ai is out with its next-generation flagship AI model and has named it GLM-5.1. With its combination of extensive model size, operational efficiency, and superior reasoning functions, the model represents a major step forward in large language models. The system improves upon previous GLM models by...

Most AI tools rely on the internet, sending your prompts to remote servers for processing before returning results. This process has always been invisible to users. Google changes that with Gemma 4! Which if configured properly, runs directly on your phone, eliminating the need for constant connecti...

The latest set of open-source models from Google are here, the Gemma 4 family has arrived. Open-source models are getting very popular recently due to privacy concerns and their flexibility to be easily fine-tuned, and now we have 4 versatile open-source models in the Gemma 4 family and they seem ve...

‘Skill’ is the latest buzzword in agentic AI workflows, and you will know this for sure if you use any of the AI coding platforms today. We explored Skills in Claude Code in detail in a previous article. Though not all developers prefer the same AI tool for coding help. Another major player in this ...

A few days ago, a group of researchers at Google dropped a PDF that didn’t just change AI: it wiped billions of dollars off the stock market. If you looked at the charts for Micron (MU) or Western Digital last week, you saw a sea of Red. Why? Because a new technology called TurboQuant just […] The p...

AI demos often look impressive, delivering fast responses, polished communication, and strong performance in controlled environments. But once real users interact with the system, issues surface like hallucinations, inconsistent tone, and answers that should never be given. What seemed ready for pro...

Pandas DataFrames provide powerful tools for selecting and indexing data efficiently. The two most commonly used indexers are .loc and .iloc. The .loc method selects data using labels such as row and column names, while .iloc works with integer positions based on a 0-based index. Although they may s...

If you have ever looked at a professional spreadsheet, you must have noticed titles spanning across multiple columns. That is the most essential and widely used example of a popular Excel function called Merge. Continuing our Excel 101 series, we shall explore the Cell Merge function today. We shall...

Transformers power modern NLP systems, replacing earlier RNN and LSTM approaches. Their ability to process all words in parallel enables efficient and scalable language modeling, forming the backbone of models like GPT and Gemini. In this article, we break down how Transformers work, starting from t...