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iPhone DuoApple's first foldable iPhone. Why now: Samsung faces backlash after some of Apple's iPhone Duo tricks get ported over to the Galaxy Z Fold
AnthropicThe AI lab behind the Claude models and Claude Code. Why now: Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow downSam AltmanThe chief executive of OpenAI. Why now: OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026Dario AmodeiThe chief executive and a co-founder of Anthropic. Why now: Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow downAndroidGoogle's mobile operating system. Why now: Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
NvidiaThe chipmaker whose GPUs train and run most AI models. Why now: Nvidia is the central bank of AI
AppleThe maker of the iPhone, the Mac and Apple Intelligence. Why now: Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
OpenAIThe AI lab behind ChatGPT, the GPT models and Codex. Why now: OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026
GoogleThe search, cloud, Android and Gemini company, part of Alphabet. Why now: google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping updateGPT-6 AstraA version of OpenAI's GPT language models. Why now: OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra with Expanded Capabilities and Limited AccessElon MuskThe head of Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. Why now: Anthropic boss calls for AI slowdown, Altman and Musk agree
VS CodeMicrosoft's open-source code editor. Why now: agentverse-os/AgentVerse-OS: Personal cloud OS for a developer and their AI agents on a single server.
IntelThe chipmaker behind Core and Xeon processors and its own foundry. Why now: Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
SvelteA web framework that compiles components to plain JavaScript. Why now: agentverse-os/AgentVerse-OS: Personal cloud OS for a developer and their AI agents on a single server.
RustA fast, memory-safe systems programming language. Why now: TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio
OracleThe database and cloud company, now a large AI data center operator. Why now: Oracle's AI Chips Ran 97.9% Utilized Last Quarter. For Nvidia, That Is What a Shortage Looks Like.macOSApple's Mac operating system. Why now: macOS defaults list: Incomplete list of macOS defaults commands with demos
ChatGPTOpenAI's AI assistant. Why now: OpenAI: "We use ... de-identified data to improve ChatGPT"
pandasPython's DataFrame library for data analysis. Why now: Pandas Should Go ExtinctCodexOpenAI's coding agent. Why now: AI Deep Research: Codex vs Claude vs Grok vs Exa
| # | Term | Score | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iPhone DuoApple's first foldable iPhone. Why now: Samsung faces backlash after some of Apple's iPhone Duo tricks get ported over to the Galaxy Z FoldHardware5.8x usual | Hardware | 45 | 5.8x usual | |
| 2 | Company | 34 | 2.9x usual | ||
| 3 | Sam AltmanThe chief executive of OpenAI. Why now: OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026Person5.5x usual | Person | 27 | 5.5x usual | |
| 4 | Dario AmodeiThe chief executive and a co-founder of Anthropic. Why now: Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow downPersonNew | Person | 24 | New | |
| 5 | AndroidGoogle's mobile operating system. Why now: Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?Developer tool4.0x usual | Developer tool | 23 | 4.0x usual | |
| 6 | Company | 20 | 2.2x usual | ||
| 7 | Company | 19 | 2.1x usual | ||
| 8 | Company | 19 | 1.1x usual | ||
| 9 | Company | 16 | 1.1x usual | ||
| 10 | Model | 15 | 1.5x usual | ||
| 11 | Elon MuskThe head of Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. Why now: Anthropic boss calls for AI slowdown, Altman and Musk agreePerson3.1x usual | Person | 15 | 3.1x usual | |
| 12 | Developer tool | 13 | New | ||
| 13 | Company | 12 | 2.7x usual | ||
| 14 | Developer tool | 12 | 2.5x usual | ||
| 15 | Developer tool | 11 | 0.9x usual | ||
| 16 | Company | 11 | 2.5x usual | ||
| 17 | Developer tool | 10 | 1.0x usual | ||
| 18 | AI product | 9.7 | 0.9x usual | ||
| 19 | Data | 9.3 | New | ||
| 20 | AI product | 9.1 | 0.6x usual |
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