Author: Urvi Teresa Gomes

AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They’re opening apps, comparing prices, and completing purchases – without you lifting a finger. According to Visa’s own research, 47% of U.S. shoppers now use AI tools for at least one shopping task, from price comparisons to product recommendations. That number’s about to get a lot bigger. The payment rails to support fully autonomous AI agent payments are being built right now, and Visa’s Agentic Ready program is sitting at the center of it. Here’s everything you need to know about the Visa Agentic Ready program, what agentic commerce actually means, and…

On April 7, 2026, Google began rolling out native vertical tabs in Chrome 146 – a feature Edge users have had since 2021 and one of Chrome’s most requested UI changes. The chrome vertical tab feature moves your tab strip from a horizontal bar to a collapsible left sidebar, displaying full page titles instead of compressed icons. In this guide, I’ll cover how it works, how to enable it, and where Chrome’s implementation still falls short compared to competitors. Also read: How to Install and Use Chrome Extensions Key Takeaways How Chrome Vertical Tabs Work The chrome vertical tab feature…

AI-powered digital immortality tools can now simulate a deceased person’s voice, personality, and memories. Some parents are beginning to ask whether these systems could become a form of legacy for their children. A few years ago, this question would have sounded like a Netflix pitch. Today, it’s a real decision parents are quietly starting to make. Digital immortality – the idea of preserving your personality, voice, and memories in a form that others can still interact with after you die – is now a growing industry. The global digital immortality market was valued at about $31 billion in 2025 and…

For decades, robots were built around rigid rules. Change the lighting, shift an object two inches, or introduce something new, and they would fail. They had no understanding – just pattern matching. Vision language models changed how AI perceives and reasons about the world. But they still could not act on it. Vision language action models close that gap. They take a camera feed, process a natural language instruction, and output physical actions – all inside one unified system. That architectural shift makes them one of the most consequential AI developments in robotics right now. In this post, I’ll break…

Three years ago, nobody was paid to manage fleets of autonomous AI agents, audit AI-generated content for authenticity, or govern the frameworks that keep those agents from making expensive unsupervised mistakes. Then the agent boom happened. Companies found themselves holding enormous AI budgets, half-deployed systems, and no clear idea who was supposed to own any of it. This is exactly why a new category of high-paying AI jobs emerged. According to Veritone’s Q1 2025 Labor Market Analysis, “AI-related job openings hit 35,445 in Q1 2025 – up 25.2% year-over-year. The roles growing fastest are brand new, born directly from the…

The best AI coding assistants in 2026 include Cursor IDE, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Gemini Code Assist. These tools go beyond autocomplete, offering agentic reasoning, multi-file editing, and autonomous debugging to help developers build faster and smarter. In 2026, the ‘AI completion’ race is over. The new frontier is Agentic Reasoning. While Cursor remains the dominant IDE for multi-file architecture, Claude Code has disrupted the market by turning the terminal into a self-healing engine. AI has become a core component of modern software engineering. According to JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025, a staggering 85% of developers now use AI…

Imagine waking up to find that your software already sourced three vendor quotes, rejected two, negotiated a 14% discount on the third, and completed the purchase – all before your alarm went off. That’s not a fantasy anymore. An AI buying agent is a software system that automatically searches for products, compares vendors, negotiates prices, and completes purchases on your behalf based on predefined rules. According to Gartner, 90% of all B2B purchases will be handled by AI agents by 2028, channeling over $15 trillion in spending through automated exchanges. The shift toward autonomous shopping is accelerating faster than most…

I used to sleep with my phone charging under my pillow. I thought as long as it wasn’t getting visibly hot, I was fine. Turns out, I was playing with fire. Literally. Most of us have been plugging in our devices the wrong way for years, guided by battery charging myths passed around like tech gospel. “Charge it to 100% every time,” “let it die completely before charging,” “any charger will do.” Sound familiar? But these common charging habits, many of which feel totally harmless, are quietly draining your battery’s lifespan and, in some cases, creating a genuine safety hazard…

Large Language Models revolutionized AI when ChatGPT launched in late 2022, but they had a critical blind spot: they couldn’t see. These LLMs could write essays and answer questions, yet they couldn’t describe a photograph. Vision Language Models changed that by integrating visual perception. Today, GPT-5 helps a blind user by reading labels, or Google’s Gemini 3 Flash analyzes medical scans while generating diagnostic reports. The implications extend across industries. VLMs are used in the healthcare industry to detect anomalies in patients’ test results. Production factories deploy them for predictive analysis and running simulations. In this post, I’ll comprehensively explain…

In recent years, we’ve watched AI progressing from a niche technology into something that touches nearly every industry. The way I see it, we’re currently at an inflection point. The gap between proprietary and open source LLMs has narrowed dramatically, and 2026 is shaping up to be the year when open models truly come into their own. In this post, I’ll walk you through the top open source LLMs you should be watching this year, benefits of LLMs, and why they matter for your projects. Key Takeaways What are Open Source LLMs? Before we get into the specific models, let’s clarify…

We’ve stepped into an AI era where single models can’t keep up with the scale of tasks we expect them to handle. That’s why multi-agent system is getting so much attention today.  You’ve probably seen this shift yourself – companies talking about AI “teams,” large language models (LLMs) coordinating with each other, and startups building tools where multiple agents plan, debate, and execute tasks without constant supervision. It’s a big change from the single-model setups most of us got used to. According to market reports, the global multi-agents market will cross $375 billion by 2034, driven by manufacturing, BFSI, healthcare,…

Imagine having a mirror that doesn’t just reflect how things look but also reveals how they feel, behave, and change over time. Now picture that this mirror exists in a digital world. Perfectly synced with the physical one, showing you every change in machines, buildings, or entire cities – all in real time. This is what digital twin technology promises to offer – a living, breathing virtual replica that lets us explore, experiment, and foresee the future of physical things without ever touching them. What I find remarkable about this tech is how it breaks the boundaries between the tangible and intangible,…