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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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