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The year closes not with a bang but with a collective exhale — builders shipping recaps, researchers publishing timelines, and one viral tweet reminding everyone that AI coding has quietly become unreasonably good.

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Claude Code with Opus 4.5 Is Rewriting What One Developer Can Build in a Weekend

A viral post detailing how Claude Code paired with Opus 4.5 enabled a complex webapp build in days has reignited debate about AI-assisted coding — and this time, the skeptics are converting.

The Information's 2026 Predictions: Google Acquires Thinking Machines, an AI 'Research Intern' at OpenAI, and a $1K/Month Agent

The Information's annual prediction list — including Google buying a lab, a continual learning breakthrough that crashes Nvidia stock, and a $1,000/month AI agent — sparked heated debate and virality heading into the new year.

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Claude Code with Opus 4.5 Is Rewriting What One Developer Can Build in a Weekend

The Information's 2026 Predictions: Google Acquires Thinking Machines, an AI 'Research Intern' at OpenAI, and a $1K/Month Agent

Qwen Drops State-of-the-Art Open Image Model on New Year's Eve

Korea's Sovereign AI Push Yields Five Major Open Model Releases

MIT Finds Scientific AIs Converging on a Universal Representation of Matter

The Year-End Agent Shipping Frenzy, in Numbers

LLMs as Implicit World Models: New Paper Reframes Agent Simulation

Animator Catches AI-Generated Ad in the Wild, Identifies It by Artifacts

AI Models Are Getting Worse at Humor, Critic Argues

GLM-4.7 Quietly Tops Open Model Leaderboard

Nvidia Reportedly in Advanced Talks to Acquire AI21 Labs for $3 Billion

From DeepMind to AI Studio: One Engineer's 2025 in Google AI