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Here is what matters in distributed systems this month. Oracle proposed removing JVMCI — Amazon pushed back. Anthropic published a Claude Code production postmortem. OpenAI shipped WebSocket Responses API. MCP lands on the JVM.

Łukasz Marchewka, CTO at Scalac, on the question most engineering teams have stopped asking: does anyone actually understand what we're building?

May is shaping up to be an exciting month for engineers working at the intersection of Scala, functional programming, and artificial intelligence. While there are fewer strictly Scala-only conferences this time of year, the broader ecosystem is buzzing with events that matter just as much, especially if you’re building data-intensive systems, AI-powered applications, or distributed […]

February 2026 was a month of explosive model releases, hardware breakthroughs, and escalating geopolitical tensions in the AI landscape. Chinese AI labs dropped a series of powerful open-source models, while a new hardware startup demonstrated a radical approach to AI acceleration. Meanwhile, a major scandal erupted over the alleged theft of AI model capabilities, and […]

January 2026 kicked off with a clear message: AI is no longer just a tool, but a core component of the digital economy. The month was defined by the rapid integration of agentic AI into commerce, the launch of specialized AI workspaces for scientific research, and the continued explosion of open-source models — particularly from […]

2025 was the year artificial intelligence transitioned from experimental technology to essential infrastructure. The field experienced unprecedented capital investment, geopolitical competition, and real-world deployment at scale. Below is a comprehensive summary of the major developments across key categories. Models & Reasoning The Emergence of the Reasoning Era The most consequential development of 2025 was the […]

December 2025 closed out a transformative year for artificial intelligence with a flurry of major model releases, significant policy shifts, and massive infrastructure investments. OpenAI and Google went head-to-head with their latest flagship models, the open-source community delivered a stunning array of competitive alternatives, and Apple quietly enabled a new era of local AI clustering. […]

November was the month AI went full gladiator mode: three frontier labs released their best models within a week, Google reclaimed the throne with Gemini 3, and open source proved it can win Olympic gold medals in mathematics. Meanwhile, the agent revolution became official doctrine at Microsoft and Google, and China’s AI ecosystem hit escape […]

AI-driven Newsletter Welcome to the latest edition of Last month in AI! October felt like the “agent uprising” month. Every major platform shipped agentic workflows, GitHub became mission control for your AI coworkers, and, because it’s 2025, OpenAI launched a browser that might actually kill Google. Meanwhile, Nvidia hit $5 trillion, humanoid robots moved into […]

AI-driven Newsletter Welcome to the latest edition of Last month in AI! September turned into AI’s funding frenzy month: record-breaking raises hit the double-digit billions, frontier labs shipped trillion-parameter models, and, because this is 2025, companies started measuring data centers in gigawatts instead of GPUs.Also, NVIDIA invented a GPU co-processor, and xAI accused OpenAI of […]