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Elastic is acquiring DeductiveAI, a three-year-old startup that uses artificial intelligence to automatically catch and fix software bugs, for up to eighty-five million dollars. It's a sign that the market for AI-assisted developer tools is maturing fast, with established players now buying their way into capabilities rather than building them.
Shifting to something that might surprise the streaming faithful — a Blu-ray and vinyl manufacturer is reporting a ten-thousand percent increase in Blu-ray orders. That's not a typo. Consumers appear to be pushing back against the fragmentation and disappearing content that comes with streaming subscriptions, rediscovering the appeal of owning something physical and permanent.
And for those of you using ChatGPT on iOS, there's a setting quietly tucked away that lets you control how much computational effort the model applies to your question. Essentially, you can dial up the depth of reasoning on demand. It's a small feature, but it surfaces a real tension — how much intelligence do you actually need, and at what cost to speed and battery life.
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