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Lead Laravel Developer & Tech Lead Oleksiy Babintsev decided to remedy the situation with the weak representation of the most popular PHP framework in Ukraine and launched a project — Laravel Ukraine. What started as a small group on LinkedIn, in less than a year turned into a full-fledged portal for developers, which in the first weeks of operation gathered hundreds of users and attracted active attention from the community.

Over the past year, marketers have become accustomed to AI Overview, AI Mode, and discussions around how large language models are changing search. It's no longer surprising that Google isn't just showing links, but generating its own answers. But I was interested in another question. We talk a lot about how AI finds information. Much less about how it forms ideas about objects. That's why I started observing one of my own experiments, involving a regular wrought iron grill. At some point, Google AI began to describe it not only through its characteristics or purpose. The responses included references to the music project Elite Kovka Music, the product's artistic legend, video content, and other related elements. In fact, the model began to see a whole context around the product. And this may be a much more important change for marketing than it seems at first glance.

While the leadership of the Ministry of Defense in Ukraine has just changed, and the industry is still discussing whether it will be possible to maintain the pace of reforms without Mykhailo Fedorov, another discussion is taking place in Europe in parallel: whether the Western defense industry is ready to even come close to the speed at which Ukrainian deftech works. The topic of integrating Ukrainian defense experience into European defense policy has been heard more and more often in recent months — from Eurosatory to the Ukraine Recovery Conference. dev.ua talked to representatives of Ukrainian deftech companies — DevDroid, SKIFTECH, BlueBird Tech, Frontline Robotics, Himera, and Dwarf Engineering — about why European manufacturers are not keeping up with the Ukrainian pace of innovation, what they have already learned and what they still do not understand, and what partnerships between Ukrainian and European companies really look like.

A new format of private education is gaining popularity in the US: instead of traditional lessons, homework, and teachers, artificial intelligence, personalized learning programs, and the development of practical skills.

Russian FPV drones, in particular on fiber optics, pose an increasing threat to residents of frontline regions. Thanks to new batteries, they can cover up to 30–40 km, and models on fiber optics are practically invulnerable to electronic warfare. Commander of the 429th separate brigade of unmanned systems «Achilles» Yuriy Fedorenko explained how civilians should act to increase their chances of survival.