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Diella, the first Albanian AI minister. What is the best case scenario and What can go wrong?

Diella, the first Albanian AI minister. What is the best case scenario and What can go wrong?

Albania just made headlines. The government has appointed an AI avatar, Diella, as a virtual cabinet minister in charge of public procurement. The goal is ambitious: eliminate corruption, speed up tenders, increase transparency. What is Diella and the promise Introduced in January 2025 as a virtual assistant on Albania’s

How much server power does an AI model Query really need

How much server power does an AI model Query really need

Every time you type a prompt into an AI model for example: “Write me a marketing summary” or “Help me debug this code”, somewhere, powerful computers burn energy, draw electricity, work hard. AI models, especially large language models (LLMs) are built on math operations that must run very quickly in

RAG System Simplified - AI On Your Data

RAG System Simplified - AI On Your Data

If you’ve been hearing “RAG” tossed around in tech meetings, investor decks, or even client conversations I’ll break down what Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is, why it matters, and how you can apply it without getting lost in tech jargon. What is RAG in plain terms RAG, is like

Two Months Across U.S. Startup Hubs - Boston, Austin, San Francisco

Two Months Across U.S. Startup Hubs - Boston, Austin, San Francisco

This summer, I decided I needed more than meetings and remote calls. I wanted to connect with the raw energy of founders pushing things forward. So, packed my bags and spent two months driving through three U.S. startup hubs: Boston, Austin, and San Francisco. I wanted to emerge with

What AI promises to our future

What AI promises to our future

AI is having its steam-engine moment. The buildout is visible in cranes over new data centers, invisible in the tools creeping into every spreadsheet, inbox, and factory line. The promise is enormous, but so is the bill. The Generative AI productivity upside is real, but it’s uneven Let’s

The new Apple AirPods will translate conversations in real time

The new Apple AirPods will translate conversations in real time

Apple has just revealed the AirPods Pro 3, and among its headline features is Live Translation - a real‐time translator built into the AirPods + iPhone combination. Live Translation lets users wear the AirPods and speak naturally, while the other party’s speech is translated into your preferred language through

Apple and Anthropic integrate Claude Sonnet 4 in Xcode 26 on macOS

Apple and Anthropic integrate Claude Sonnet 4 in Xcode 26 on macOS

Apple’s latest Xcode 26 quietly gained a powerful co-pilot the "Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4" and that matters for anyone building software on the Apple stack. Developers can now sign into a Claude account inside Xcode and tap coding intelligence for writing, explaining, refactoring and even making

Let's talk about OpenAi and Oracle Deal

Let's talk about OpenAi and Oracle Deal

What just happened between OpenAi and Oracle and why it matters? OpenAI has reportedly signed one of the largest cloud contracts in history - a roughly $300 billion agreement to purchase compute from Oracle over about five years, beginning in 2027. If you’re keeping score, that’s around $60