Virginia Backaitis

2 days ago | digitizingpolaris.com | Virginia Backaitis

This isn’t just another developer tool launch. Google’s recent announcement of Gemini CLI represents a fundamental shift in how developers will interact with artificial intelligence at the most granular level of their workflow — the command line terminal itself. On June 25, 2025, Google unveiled Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings the full power of their flagship Gemini model directly into developers’ terminals. But this isn’t merely about convenience or incremental productivity gains.

3 days ago | digitizingpolaris.com | Virginia Backaitis

Forget the breathless headlines about AI replacing entire workforces overnight. While tech pundits debate whether chatbots will make humans obsolete, a startup called Context Inc. is tackling something more immediate: the mountain of information work that’s piling up in offices everywhere. The reality is messier than the headlines suggest. Companies are cutting staff while workloads stay the same. Experienced employees are retiring faster than they’re being replaced.

1 week ago | digitizingpolaris.com | Virginia Backaitis

The most successful partnership in tech history is preparing for mutually assured destruction. OpenAI executives are now discussing what they call a “nuclear option,” accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior and seeking federal regulatory review of their contract for potential antitrust violations. This isn’t corporate theater.

2 weeks ago | digitizingpolaris.com | Virginia Backaitis

At this week’s Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, Databricks unveiled several game-changing features that promise to make working with data faster, easier, and more reliable. These announcements focus on two main themes: getting data into systems quicker and making that data ready for artificial intelligence applications. What Changed: Databricks partnered with Qlik to enable real-time data streaming directly into their data storage systems using something called “Change Data Capture” (CDC).

2 weeks ago | reworked.co | Virginia Backaitis

Sam Altman's essay, "The Gentle Singularity" is articulate. Polished. Reassuring. And wildly dangerous. (Co-author’s note: This post was written together with ChatGPT because I wanted OpenAI’s tool to help me question the conclusions Altman makes. Does ChatGPT have a conscience?)Sam Altman isn’t a dangerous man because he speaks of superintelligence or embraces technological progress. He’s dangerous because of what he leaves out, what he assumes and what he accelerates without sufficient scrutiny.