Welcome to Bytes to Insight for the week of November 9th, 2025, where we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence landscape witnessed several significant shifts in infrastructure, personnel, and regulatory focus. One of the most eye-catching announcements came from Microsoft, which revealed a so-called
At a remote U.S. military testing range near the Mexican border, defense contractor Anduril recently unveiled a chillingly sophisticated demonstration of autonomous drones guided not by pre-coded routines, but by a large language model (LLM), a cousin to systems like ChatGPT. In under a minute, the swarm coordinated a
The rise of artificial intelligence companions represents one of the most intimate intersections between humans and machines. Unlike chatbots that perform tasks or answer questions, AI companions are designed to simulate friendship, empathy, and emotional understanding with a high degree of emotional realism. This means they can understand and respond
For over two decades, Google Chrome has dominated how we experience the internet. It became the window through which billions accessed the digital world, a tool so embedded in daily life that few questioned its supremacy. But technology moves in cycles, and each era of dominance eventually meets disruption. That