Honestly plain RAG with good chunking still wins most builds, graph and agentic RAG only earn their keep once retrieval is genuinely your bottleneck.
GENERATIVE AI
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Per-task routing becomes default, single model apps feel dated
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Per-task routing is becoming the default, locking your whole app to one model already feels dated.
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Self-Prompting Systems: Beyond the Prompt Itself
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"Build a system that prompts itself" really lands, writing the prompt was never the hard part, it's everything you wrap around it.
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Multi-trillion-parameter open-source models coming soon to lower token pricing via Jevons paradox
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Also, other multi-trillion-parameter open-source models are landing soon, from what I hear. It's going to be awesome for token pricing and riding the Jevons paradox.
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Meta AI leads in female users; ChatGPT dominates AI market
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Meta AI is the only AI chatbot with a higher percent of women who use AI than men (15% vs 13%). Gemini and Copilot have the largest differential in market usage (9). ChatGPT just still so far ahead of any other player.
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18% of US Adults Very Confident in AI Tools, Gap Found
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18% of US adults overall are "extremely/very confident" in their ability to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude. That is 37% of all AI users. There is a massive gap between superusers and standard users – I suspect at least 50% of that 'very confident' group are nowhere
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AI boosts creativity and productivity but not happiness
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Does AI increase happiness? Not really. I appreciate how high reported creativity boosts are (21%), compared to productivity (30%) and information (28%). But I see those happiness scores (a very large portion said they are neutral, 36%) and I echo the sentiment. Creativity and
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ChatGPT dominates chatbot market at 44%, Gemini and Meta AI trail
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ChatGPT is the most popular chatbot, by a high margin (44% versus Gemini at 24%). I remain surprised at the high use of Meta AI (14%), but not surprised at the ratio of ChatGPT to Claude (7.33:1). A good reminder at how few people must be using Codex or Claude Code or
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24% of AI users daily, author suspects overreporting
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Daily use is actually a pretty high percent of total AI users! 24% are using ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Copilot daily. (I suspect people are overreporting their daily usage. 24% just sounds very high considering vacation, weekends, etc. I would have thought max 20% – the number will
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Half of US adults use AI; still using term ‘chatbot’?
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First up, half of US adults ever use AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. And I guess we're still using the word chatbot?