Welcome back! The verdict on 2025 is in, and it is a paradox. Depending on who you ask, we just lived through the year of the "Architect" or the year of "Slop." While the culture war heats up, the platform wars are getting strange. A sci-fi dream of universal translation is finally hitting consumer hardware, and the world’s most dominant chipmaker is suddenly giving away open software to protect its moat. The industry is moving from "move fast" to "lock them in."
In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:
Merriam-Webster and Time split on whether AI is genius or junk.
Google brings real-time translation to Android headphones.
NVIDIA fights cheap Chinese AI with new open models.
Chunks finds the viral moments hidden in your long videos.
