Category: Dev
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Two Protocols, Two Futures: OpenAI’s ACP vs. Anthropic’s MCP
Imagine this: It’s a Tuesday evening, and you’re buried in work. Your AI assistant notices your flight to New York got canceled due to a storm. Without missing a beat, it scans alternatives, books a new one on your credit card, coordinates a rideshare to the airport, and even reschedules your hotel— all while you…
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Agentic Commerce, Explained: What OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol Means for Retail and SaaS
OpenAI has begun rolling out Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT for U.S. users, letting people buy products from participating merchants—starting with Etsy sellers, and with Shopify merchants “coming soon.” The system is powered by a new open standard called the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), co-developed with Stripe and now open-sourced. It’s designed so an AI agent…
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An LLM Made of Redstone Bricks: What CraftGPT Really Teaches Us
A few times a decade, someone takes an idea that sounds like a joke and executes it with surgical patience. CraftGPT is one of those moments: a small language model that runs inside Minecraft, wired up from Redstone like a cathedral of logic gates. The project comes from sammyuri, who released the world and code…
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When AI Becomes the Journalist: Why the Real Threat Isn’t Google, It’s Evolution
The recent outcry over Google’s AI Overviews and their alleged “appropriation” of journalistic content has produced a storm of headlines, policy discussions, and even legal threats. The Guardian reports that AI summaries cause a “devastating” drop in traffic to news sites. Studies from Pew Research Center and SEO firm Authoritas bolster the case: when Google…
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Neural Texture Compression: Revolutionizing Game Graphics for Gamers and Developers
In the of video games and simulation, the quest for photorealistic visuals has pushed the boundaries of hardware and software alike. Textures—those intricate surfaces that give objects their visual richness—are at the heart of this pursuit, but they come at a cost: massive storage and memory demands. Enter Neural Texture Compression (NTC), a groundbreaking technology…