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# Topics We Cover

TechPulse maintains sustained coverage across seven core areas of technology. We don't chase every story — we focus on the beats where we have the expertise and the source networks to report with genuine depth. Here is what you can expect from each area.

## Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

AI is the defining technology story of the 2020s, and it is also the most heavily hyped. Our AI coverage, led primarily by Raj Patel, tries to separate what is real from what is marketing. We cover capability advances and their genuine significance, but we focus more heavily on deployment realities: what actually works when organisations ship AI into production, what fails, what the failure modes look like, and what the business models look like for companies building in this space.

We cover large language models, inference infrastructure, AI coding tools, AI agents and automation, and the policy and regulatory environment around AI development. We are particularly interested in the gap between benchmark performance and real-world performance — a gap that turns out to be large and underreported.

**Recent coverage:** Chain-of-thought models and their enterprise adoption patterns, open source LLM benchmarks, AI agents in production.

## Open Source

Open source software is the infrastructure of the modern internet, and yet the economics of how it gets maintained remain deeply broken. Clara Winthorpe leads our open source coverage with a depth of community knowledge that comes from years of genuine participation — she is not an observer, she is a contributor.

We cover major open source projects, governance fights, sustainability funding, the business models of open-source companies, and the security landscape. The xz backdoor incident crystallised questions about supply chain security that we had been covering for years. We will keep covering them.

**Recent coverage:** The 2025 Kubernetes fatigue survey, Deno v3 Node.js compatibility, software supply chain security progress report.

## Developer Tools

Languages, runtimes, frameworks, editors, databases, CI/CD pipelines, build systems. The developer tooling landscape moves fast and has enormous amounts of money flowing through it, which produces a lot of noise. We try to cut through that noise by running our own tests, talking to engineers at companies shipping real software, and applying a scepticism that is hard-earned.

We are particularly interested in the gap between what gets VC attention and what developers actually use. The tools that win in the long run are not always the ones with the best marketing, and we try to track both the hype cycle and the actual adoption curve.

**Recent coverage:** SQLite's rise in edge computing, WebAssembly components and the component model, Deno v3 benchmarks.

## Startups and Funding

The business of technology shapes which ideas get built. We cover venture capital funding, startup formation, acquisitions, and the IPO market with a critical eye — we are interested in what the numbers actually say, not what founders and investors want them to say.

Maya Osei leads this coverage, bringing an economics background that shapes how we think about unit economics, runway, revenue quality, and the incentive structures that drive decisions at funded companies. We are deeply sceptical of the framing that surrounds most funding announcements and try to give readers what they need to assess the claims.

**Recent coverage:** AI startup funding vs. revenue in H1 2024, tech funding in 2025, developer platform consolidation.

## Cloud and Infrastructure

The cloud computing landscape has matured into something complex and expensive. AWS, GCP, and Azure dominate, but a growing ecosystem of platform alternatives is competing for developer mindshare. We cover this landscape from a practitioner perspective — what does it actually cost to run things, what are the operational tradeoffs, and which platforms are delivering genuine value versus vendor lock-in dressed up as convenience.

We also cover the emerging edge computing infrastructure, serverless architectures, and the ongoing tension between managed services and self-hosted alternatives.

**Recent coverage:** Platform engineering vs. DevOps, Kubernetes fatigue and what teams are doing instead.

## Security

Software security is a beat that rewards sustained attention. We cover vulnerability disclosures, supply chain security, security tooling, enterprise security posture, and the policy environment. We try to report on security in a way that is useful to practitioners — explaining the technical details accurately, giving appropriate severity context, and avoiding both panic and dismissiveness.

We have a particular focus on software supply chain security, which has moved from a niche concern to a central issue in the wake of incidents like SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and xz.

**Recent coverage:** Software supply chain security progress report, SBOM adoption, sigstore and related tooling.

## Hardware

We maintain a modest but sustained hardware coverage programme, focused on the chips and systems that matter to software developers: server processors, AI accelerators, and the evolving relationship between hardware capabilities and the software written to exploit them. We do not cover consumer electronics.

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