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Alex Mercer

Alex Mercer writes about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the tools reshaping how software gets built. Articles under this byline are produced by Newzlet's AI-assisted editorial process and checked against our published editorial standards; see our AI Disclosure for how the newsroom works.

Areas of focus: AI & machine learning, developer tools, emerging tech

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Gadgets & Reviews

Flipper One’s Placeholder Specs Reveal the Pre-Order Trap
Flipper One’s Placeholder Specs Reveal the Pre-Order Trap

What the specs page actually tells us — and what it deliberately doesn’t The Flipper One specs page…

May 23, 2026  ·  8 min read

AI & Machine Learning

DeepSeek’s Open-Source Strategy Is a Geopolitical Gambit
DeepSeek’s Open-Source Strategy Is a Geopolitical Gambit

The V4 Release: More Than a Code-Writing Breakthrough DeepSeek V4 tops the open-source leaderboard in code generation, outperforming…

May 23, 2026  ·  9 min read

Startups & Business

Climate Tech’s Bet on Critical Minerals Is Pure Survival
Climate Tech’s Bet on Critical Minerals Is Pure Survival

The New Political Reality: Decarbonization Is a Dirty Word More than a year into the second Trump administration,…

May 23, 2026  ·  8 min read

AI & Machine Learning

AI Scrapers Are Costing Wiki Operators Real Money
AI Scrapers Are Costing Wiki Operators Real Money

The scraping surge nobody warned wiki operators about AI bots are scraping the web for LLM training data…

May 23, 2026  ·  8 min read

Startups & Business

Boston Metal Drops Green Steel for Critical Minerals
Boston Metal Drops Green Steel for Critical Minerals

The Headline Move: $75M and a New Direction Boston Metal has raised $75 million in new funding, and…

May 22, 2026  ·  8 min read

Consumer Tech

Surface Pro 5G reframes always-connected PCs for enterprise
Surface Pro 5G reframes always-connected PCs for enterprise

The 5G gamble: Why connectivity is now the headline feature, not the processor For most of Surface’s history,…

May 22, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

How Rohit Ghumare Uses Open Source Work as a Career Signal
How Rohit Ghumare Uses Open Source Work as a Career Signal

The ‘Building in Public’ Shift: From Side Project to Professional Strategy Rohit Ghumare doesn’t hide the scaffolding. As…

May 22, 2026  ·  9 min read

Cybersecurity

How to Choose a VPN in 2026 Without Being Misled
How to Choose a VPN in 2026 Without Being Misled

The VPN Market Is More Crowded and More Confusing Than Ever The VPN industry has exploded into a…

May 22, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

Colossal’s Artificial Eggs Could Revive Extinct Species
Colossal’s Artificial Eggs Could Revive Extinct Species

What actually happened in the Dallas lab Inside Colossal Biosciences’ Dallas headquarters, chicken embryos recently reached the pipping…

May 22, 2026  ·  8 min read

Cybersecurity

CISA Leaked Its Own Credentials on a Public GitHub Repo
CISA Leaked Its Own Credentials on a Public GitHub Repo

What Actually Happened: The Basics of a Baffling Own-Goal Sometime in November 2025, a public GitHub repository named…

May 22, 2026  ·  9 min read

Consumer Tech

Two Computers, One Desk: Software Fixes a Hardware Gap
Two Computers, One Desk: Software Fixes a Hardware Gap

The Problem Nobody Talks About: The Two-Computer Desk Trap Millions of remote workers sit down every morning to…

May 21, 2026  ·  10 min read

AI & Machine Learning

Anthropic Buys Stainless to Own AI’s API Plumbing Layer
Anthropic Buys Stainless to Own AI’s API Plumbing Layer

The acquisition in plain English: what Stainless actually does Stainless is a three-year-old company with one very specific,…

May 21, 2026  ·  8 min read