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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2025

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Published: December 2, 2025 12:15

November ended. Thanksgiving (in the US), turkey, and a train of model announcements. The announcements were exciting: Google’s Gemini 3 puts it in the lead among large language models, at least for the time being. Nano Banana Pro is a spectacularly good…

Radar Trends to Watch: November 2025

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Published: November 4, 2025 12:02

AI has so thoroughly colonized every technical discipline that it’s becoming hard to organize items of interest in Radar Trends. Should a story go under AI or programming (or operations or biology or whatever the case may be)? Maybe it’s time to go back to…

Radar Trends to Watch: October 2025

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Published: October 7, 2025 11:17

This month we have two more protocols to learn. Google has announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), which is intended to help agents to engage in ecommerce—it’s largely concerned with authenticating and authorizing parties making a transaction. And the…

Radar Trends to Watch: September 2025

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Published: September 2, 2025 10:10

For better or for worse, AI has colonized this list so thoroughly that AI itself is little more than a list of announcements about new or upgraded models. But there are other points of interest. Is it just a coincidence (possibly to do with BlackHat) that…

Radar Trends to Watch: August 2025

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Published: August 5, 2025 15:47

Yes, we’ll say it. Context management is the new buzzword. But it’s not just a buzzword; it’s the next piece in the puzzle of finding out how to use AI effectively. We’re learning that using AI effectively isn’t about making up clever prompts. Nor is it…

Radar Trends to Watch: July 2025

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Published: July 1, 2025 10:22

While there are many copyright cases working their way through the court system, we now have an important decision from one of them. Judge William Alsup ruled that the use of copyrighted material for training is “transformative” and, hence, fair use; that…

Radar Trends to Watch: June 2025

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Published: June 3, 2025 10:10

AI vendors spent most of May making announcements—and pushing their way into almost every category here. But it’s not the only story worth watching. Doctors have used CRISPR to correct the DNA of a baby with a rare and previously untreatable condition. We…

Radar Trends to Watch: May 2025

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Published: May 6, 2025 20:26

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has received a lot of attention for standardizing the way models communicate with tools, making it much easier to build intelligent agents. Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) now adds features that were left out of the…

Radar Trends to Watch: May 2025

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Published: May 6, 2025 09:58

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has received a lot of attention for standardizing the way models communicate with tools, making it much easier to build intelligent agents. Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) now adds features that were left out of the…

Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025

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Published: April 1, 2025 10:30

March has been the biggest month that Trends has ever had. In addition to almost daily announcements about AI, a lot has been going on in programming, in security, in operations (which usually doesn’t merit its own topic), and even in quantum computing.…