<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Arun Bhardwaj</title><description>Software Engineer. I write about Tech, AI, and the journey of building products and content with AI.</description><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/</link><item><title>Amazon Ditches Rufus AI, Launches Alexa for Shopping Agent</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/amazon-ditched-rufus-for-alexaai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/amazon-ditched-rufus-for-alexaai/</guid><description>Amazon retires its two-year-old Rufus chatbot and consolidates its AI shopping strategy under a new agentic Alexa for Shopping assistant embedded directly in search results.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Android Is Becoming an AI Operating System</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/android-to-operating-system/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/android-to-operating-system/</guid><description>How Google is transforming Android from a mobile OS into an AI-first ecosystem powered by Gemini.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>136,000 Jobs Gone — Big Tech Layoffs Continue Despite the AI Boom</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/big-tech-layoffs-ai-growth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/big-tech-layoffs-ai-growth/</guid><description>LinkedIn, Snap, Meta, Amazon, Cisco, Disney — the layoff list keeps growing even as Big Tech pours $725B into AI. Here&apos;s the full picture, company by company.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google AI Mode Is Changing Search — And Your Website Traffic With It</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/google-ai-mode-seo-impact/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/google-ai-mode-seo-impact/</guid><description>Google AI Mode gives users instant AI-powered answers. Here&apos;s what that means for SEO, website traffic, and how content creators can stay visible in 2026.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Just Bet $40 Billion on Anthropic — Here&apos;s What It Means</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/google-anthropic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/google-anthropic/</guid><description>Google&apos;s parent company Alphabet has committed up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. Here&apos;s a breakdown of the deal, what it means for the AI race, and why an $800B+ IPO could be coming by October 2026.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How I Make AI Videos Using Veo3 (My Full Workflow)</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/how-i-make-my-ai-videos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/how-i-make-my-ai-videos/</guid><description>My exact workflow for making cinematic AI videos with Veo3 inside Google Flow — from building prompts in Claude or ChatGPT to animating images into stunning 8-second clips.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OpenAI vs Anthropic: The AI Coding War Just Got Free — Who Wins?</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/openai-codex-vs-anthropic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/openai-codex-vs-anthropic/</guid><description>Sam Altman offers 2 months of free Codex access to enterprises switching from Claude. Anthropic fires back with 50% more limits. Here&apos;s everything you need to know about the biggest AI coding war of 2026.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Trillion-Dollar Pitfalls: Security Overreach, Infrastructure Missteps, and Tech’s Rushed Deployments</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/trillion-dollar-pitfalls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/trillion-dollar-pitfalls/</guid><description>An engaging analysis of how six tech titans took massive swings—and ended up caught in their own structural traps.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vector Databases vs Going Vectorless — Do You Still Need to Chunk Your PDFs?</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/vector-vs-vectorless/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/vector-vs-vectorless/</guid><description>With 1 million token context windows now standard, do you still need to chunk your PDFs and build a RAG pipeline? Here&apos;s an honest breakdown of when vector databases still win — and when you can skip them entirely.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vercel Security Breach — What Happened and What You Should Do</title><link>https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/vercel-security-breach/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://bhardwajarun.com/blog/vercel-security-breach/</guid><description>Vercel confirmed a breach involving customer data through a third-party AI tool. Here is the breakdown and recovery steps.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>