The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
Major tech companies are forcing AI integration into essential software and services without user consent, despite only 8% of people willing to pay for AI voluntarily. Companies like Microsoft and Google bundle AI into existing products to hide losses and create artificial adoption metrics. This forced implementation affects email, search, office software, and customer service, making it nearly impossible for users to avoid AI. The author argues this represents a form of technological tyranny that requires legal intervention through transparency, opt-in requirements, and liability laws.
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Next.js 15.4
Next.js 15.4 brings Turbopack builds to 100% integration test compatibility, making it ready for production use and powering vercel.com. The release includes stability and performance improvements while previewing Next.js 16 features like unified cache components, optimized client-side routing, enhanced DevTools, stable Node.js middleware, and deployment adapters. Developers can experiment with upcoming features using the canary channel and experimental flags.
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CSS has become too POWERFUL
Modern CSS has evolved beyond simple text-based workflows, with advanced features like OKLCH color spaces, complex gradients, timing functions, and path animations becoming difficult to write manually. Visual editors are emerging as essential tools for working with these powerful capabilities, making features more discoverable and encouraging experimentation. The shift toward visual tooling represents a natural evolution as CSS specifications expand faster than developers can keep up with traditional text-based approaches.
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#promo
Sometimes reality outpaces expectations in the most unexpected ways.
While global AI development seems increasingly fragmented, Sber just released Europe's largest open-source AI collection—full weights, code, and commercial rights included.
✅ No API paywalls.
✅ No usage restrictions.
✅ Just four complete model families ready to run in your private infrastructure, fine-tuned on your data, serving your specific needs.
What makes this release remarkable isn't merely the technical prowess, but the quiet confidence behind sharing it openly when others are building walls. Find out more in the article from the developers.
GigaChat Ultra Preview: 702B-parameter MoE model (36B active per token) with 128K context window. Trained from scratch, it outperforms DeepSeek V3.1 on specialized benchmarks while maintaining faster inference than previous flagships. Enterprise-ready with offline fine-tuning for secure environments.
GitHub | HuggingFace | GitVerse
GigaChat Lightning offers the opposite balance: compact yet powerful MoE architecture running on your laptop. It competes with Qwen3-4B in quality, matches the speed of Qwen3-1.7B, yet is significantly smarter and larger in parameter count.
Lightning holds its own against the best open-source models in its class, outperforms comparable models on different tasks, and delivers ultra-fast inference—making it ideal for scenarios where Ultra would be overkill and speed is critical. Plus, it features stable expert routing and a welcome bonus: 256K context support.
GitHub | Hugging Face | GitVerse
Kandinsky 5.0 brings a significant step forward in open generative models. The flagship Video Pro matches Veo 3 in visual quality and outperforms Wan 2.2-A14B, while Video Lite and Image Lite offer fast, lightweight alternatives for real-time use cases. The suite is powered by K-VAE 1.0, a high-efficiency open-source visual encoder that enables strong compression and serves as a solid base for training generative models. This stack balances performance, scalability, and practicality—whether you're building video pipelines or experimenting with multimodal generation.
GitHub | GitVerse | Hugging Face | Technical report
Audio gets its upgrade too: GigaAM-v3 delivers speech recognition model with 50% lower WER than Whisper-large-v3, trained on 700k hours of audio with punctuation/normalization for spontaneous speech.
GitHub | HuggingFace | GitVerse
Every model can be deployed on-premises, fine-tuned on your data, and used commercially. It's not just about catching up – it's about building sovereign AI infrastructure that belongs to everyone who needs it.
Sometimes reality outpaces expectations in the most unexpected ways.
While global AI development seems increasingly fragmented, Sber just released Europe's largest open-source AI collection—full weights, code, and commercial rights included.
✅ No API paywalls.
✅ No usage restrictions.
✅ Just four complete model families ready to run in your private infrastructure, fine-tuned on your data, serving your specific needs.
What makes this release remarkable isn't merely the technical prowess, but the quiet confidence behind sharing it openly when others are building walls. Find out more in the article from the developers.
GigaChat Ultra Preview: 702B-parameter MoE model (36B active per token) with 128K context window. Trained from scratch, it outperforms DeepSeek V3.1 on specialized benchmarks while maintaining faster inference than previous flagships. Enterprise-ready with offline fine-tuning for secure environments.
GitHub | HuggingFace | GitVerse
GigaChat Lightning offers the opposite balance: compact yet powerful MoE architecture running on your laptop. It competes with Qwen3-4B in quality, matches the speed of Qwen3-1.7B, yet is significantly smarter and larger in parameter count.
Lightning holds its own against the best open-source models in its class, outperforms comparable models on different tasks, and delivers ultra-fast inference—making it ideal for scenarios where Ultra would be overkill and speed is critical. Plus, it features stable expert routing and a welcome bonus: 256K context support.
GitHub | Hugging Face | GitVerse
Kandinsky 5.0 brings a significant step forward in open generative models. The flagship Video Pro matches Veo 3 in visual quality and outperforms Wan 2.2-A14B, while Video Lite and Image Lite offer fast, lightweight alternatives for real-time use cases. The suite is powered by K-VAE 1.0, a high-efficiency open-source visual encoder that enables strong compression and serves as a solid base for training generative models. This stack balances performance, scalability, and practicality—whether you're building video pipelines or experimenting with multimodal generation.
GitHub | GitVerse | Hugging Face | Technical report
Audio gets its upgrade too: GigaAM-v3 delivers speech recognition model with 50% lower WER than Whisper-large-v3, trained on 700k hours of audio with punctuation/normalization for spontaneous speech.
GitHub | HuggingFace | GitVerse
Every model can be deployed on-premises, fine-tuned on your data, and used commercially. It's not just about catching up – it's about building sovereign AI infrastructure that belongs to everyone who needs it.
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This is Kiroween
Kiro announces Kiroween, a Halloween-themed hackathon with $100,000 in prizes across 12 categories. Participants build applications using Kiro's agentic IDE features including specs, agent hooks, steering, and MCP. The competition runs from October 31 to December 5, 2025, with categories like Resurrection, Frankenstein, Skeleton Crew, and Costume Contest, plus a special $10,000 startup prize. All participants receive Kiro Pro+ tier access during the submission period.
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