John K. Waters

Silicon Valley

Editor-in-Chief at Application Development Trends (ADT)

Editor-in-Chief at Pure AI

As Editor in Chief in the @Converge360 group of @1105media, I manage @PureAINews & @ADTmag, and I moderate our webcasts. Contact me at [email protected].

Articles

Chromium’s Quiet AI Revolution: Google’s Web Stack Goes Agent-Ready

1 week ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

You might’ve missed it amid the spectacle of Gemini demos and AI ethics panels, but Google quietly rewired the front end of the web at its annual I/O conference—and it’s worth your attention. Not just because they streamlined carousels or snuck multimodal prompts into Chrome Canary. No, this is Google laying the groundwork for the next decade of web-native AI. This year’s updates—ten of them, tucked into a deceptively cheery dev blog post—aren’t just UX candy.
NVIDIA Adapts Text-to-3D Sampling for Prompt-Based Audio Generation and Source Separation

1 week ago | pureai.com | John K. Waters

News Researchers at NVIDIA, in collaboration with MIT CSAIL, have extended Score Distillation Sampling (SDS)—originally developed for text-to-3D generation—into the audio domain, introducing a new framework called Audio-SDS. The approach repurposes large pretrained audio diffusion models for a diverse set of text-guided audio tasks, including source separation, FM synthesis calibration, and impact sound simulation.
CodeRabbit Adds Free AI Code Reviews Inside VS Code

1 week ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

News CodeRabbit has released a new integration that brings its AI-based code review system directly into Visual Studio Code, along with support for the Cursor and Windsurf IDEs. The extension allows developers to access real-time, in-editor code reviews at no cost, offering a secondary review layer alongside existing Git-based workflows. The move is intended to embed AI support earlier in the development lifecycle. Previously, CodeRabbit operated primarily on GitHub pull requests.
OpenAI’s HealthBench is Trying to Fix AI’s Biggest Medical Blind Spot

2 weeks ago | pureai.com | John K. Waters

OpenAI has introduced HealthBench, a sweeping new benchmark designed to test how large language models perform in real-world healthcare scenarios. It’s the company’s first standalone project in medicine, and it lands at a time when AI tools are already seeping into clinical workflows, often without the scrutiny they deserve. "Improving human health will be one of the defining impacts of AGI," OpenAI wrote in a company blog post.
Chatbots Are Learning to Redesign Your Business Workflows — One Conversation at a Time -- Pure AI

2 weeks ago | pureai.com | John K. Waters

In a sign that large language models are ready to tackle enterprise pain points far beyond email summaries and code suggestions, researchers have developed a new method that allows business users to redesign process workflows by simply chatting with an AI.
Generative AI Surpasses Cybersecurity in 2025 Tech Budgets, AWS Survey Finds

2 weeks ago | pureai.com | John K. Waters

News Global IT leaders are placing bigger bets on generative artificial intelligence than cybersecurity in 2025, according to new research released Tuesday by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, based on a survey of 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries, found that 45% of organizations are prioritizing generative AI in their tech budgets—compared to 30% for security.
FDA Completes First AI-Assisted Review Pilot, Accelerates Rollout Across All Centers by June 2025

2 weeks ago | pureai.com | John K. Waters

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving fast to institutionalize generative AI across its operations, following the successful completion of its first AI-powered scientific review pilot, the agency announced in a press release. FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H., announced that all agency centers are expected to deploy secure generative AI systems by June 30, 2025. "I was blown away by the success of our first AI-assisted scientific review pilot," said Makary.
Harness and Traceable Launch Unified WAAP to Tackle Modern Application Threats

3 weeks ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

News Application delivery platform Harness, in collaboration with recently acquired API security company Traceable, has unveiled Traceable Cloud WAAP, a next-generation Web Application and API Protection platform. The product, launched Tuesday, aims to provide full-stack, context-aware security for cloud-native environments and microservices architectures.
From Model to Workflow: OpenAI Buys Windsurf to Own the Developer Stack

3 weeks ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf—formerly known as Codeium—for about $3 billion. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg, marks OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and places the maker of ChatGPT squarely in the heart of the code editor. For developers, this isn’t just news. It’s a direct shift in the tools and platforms that shape your daily workflow. Windsurf has been popular with devs for a reason. It’s fast, context-aware, modular, and built for serious, team-scale software development.
Meta Introduces Stand-Alone AI App

3 weeks ago | thejournal.com | John K. Waters

Meta Platforms has introduced a stand-alone artificial intelligence app built on its proprietary Llama 4 model, intensifying the competitive race in generative AI alongside OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI. The new "Meta AI" app marks the company's boldest step yet in bringing personalized, conversational AI to the forefront of its ecosystem. It offers users a dedicated experience distinct from the existing AI functions embedded in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.