AI Reading List

Daily curated list of news, articles, and other interesting posts related to AI.

2025-11-13

• Cursor: Past, Present, and Future (cursor.com)

  Major funding milestone for Cursor as it raises $2.3 billion and surpasses $1 billion in annual revenue, reflecting rapid growth and strong adoption among developers and enterprise customers. The team emphasizes ambitious plans to advance AI-powered coding tools and expand their global impact.

• Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation (minimaxir.com)

  Overview of Google's Nano Banana model, now known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, which excels at following complex and nuanced prompts for AI image generation thanks to its robust text encoding. Interesting take on how its autoregressive design enables more precise image edits and strong prompt adherence compared to other popular models.

• GPT-5.1 for Developers (openai.com)

  Overview of GPT-5.1's improvements for developers, including faster adaptive reasoning that scales with task complexity and a new "no reasoning" mode for rapid, low-latency responses. Notable advances in coding abilities, prompt caching for smoother interactions, and new tools suggest a focus on greater reliability and efficiency for agentic workflows.

• SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search (blog.kagi.com)

  Interesting initiative from Kagi Search focused on community-driven detection and downranking of low-value or deceptive AI-generated content in search results. Combines user reporting with automated tools to promote authentic human creativity and combat misinformation, aiming to build a comprehensive dataset for improved AI content filtering.