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Apple has accused OpenAI of stealing secrets about products still in development. OpenAI's new hardware business allegedly asked job candidates from Apple to share details about secret projects and to bring device components and prototypes to their interviews. It used the information to approach at least one of Apple's manufacturing partners, asking them to demonstrate Apple's technique for finishing metal on its devices. Apple is seeking an injunction that would prevent OpenAI from possessing, using, or sharing its trade secrets, as well as an order requiring OpenAI to return Apple's intellectual property.

AI is no longer just another feature that Apple's chips need to support. It is now shaping how Apple's products are designed and when they are shipped. The Apple car project was not a futile exercise. The AI hardware effort developed for the vehicle now powers Macs and AI servers. What was seen as one of Apple's costliest failures may actually have been one of its most consequential technology investments.

1X's new robotic hands have 25 backdrivable joints that give way when pushed rather than staying rigid. The skin's sensors read both pressure and sideways movement across the fingers, allowing it to notice a glass starting to slip. Factory robots use grippers because they work with parts placed exactly at the same spot every time, but homes have a much larger variation in object type and placement. 1X's robotic hands can bend past a human range and wrap around awkward shapes and are ready for chores.

China has demonstrated its first-ever controlled rocket recovery. The Long March 10B successfully completed its maiden flight, and its first stage was recovered via a sea-based net. There are several other rockets in development in China that could soon achieve reusability. The country has four land-based spaceports and multiple ocean-going launch platforms and is ready to quickly ramp up its launch cadence.

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Our thoughts about the smartest way to accomplish a task will become increasingly stupid compared to AI's way of doing it as time goes on. This necessitates a switch from prompt engineering to intent engineering, where you describe the outcome you want rather than how a thing should be done. People should review older prompts and switch their 'how' prompts into 'what' prompts.

People who work on small codebases with low-turnover teams use different methods, practices, and cultures than people who work on large codebases with high-turnover teams. The first group, which says you need to understand the codebase completely, otherwise you can't do good work, is over-represented in online discussions about software engineering. There's nothing wrong with being in a state of partial understanding in many software engineering environments. In large systems, a partial understanding is the best you can do.

Zhipu's co-founder, Tang Jie, has published a full-staff letter announcing a full return to foundation-model research and a two-year plan. The letter covers Tang's views on AGI, AI safety, open source, and more. It also presents a road map to AGI that includes strategic investments in long-horizon tasks, autonomous agent systems, full self-training, and extreme safety governance.

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AI creates a problem where buyers risk giving away knowledge just to use what they bought. They essentially pay for intelligence twice: once with money, and again with the proprietary knowledge they must reveal to make that intelligence useful. Over time, the seller learns more and more about their customers while buyers learn very little about what the seller is learning in return. This reverse information paradox needs to be confronted, as companies should be able to use models without giving up knowledge that makes them unique.

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Current predictions about AI are not grounded in reality.

The rounding of a cosine can betray the OS that a browser is running on.

A meme is anything that is able to capture cultural transport.

The White House made fixing chip maker Intel its pet project.

LLMs are now good enough that we need new benchmarks to explain their differences.

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OpenAI has upgraded the voice model used by ChatGPT. The model is reportedly impressive. It has the ability to spin off harder tasks to GPT-5.5 and continue conversations for at least a full hour. The model can continue talking with users and maintain the flow of conversation while it works on background tasks.

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, a workhorse that can tackle all of the typical tasks that the AI industry has sought to automate. The model reportedly has twice the token efficiency of other leading models, which could be a big advantage for SpaceXAI as the cost of tokens has become a growing concern for AI consumers. The new model costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. Benchmark results from SpaceXAI are available in the article.

Blue Origin is raising its first outside funding round. Jeff Bezos is set to contribute $2 billion to the round. The company suffered a setback in late May when one of its New Glenn rockets exploded on a launch pad. It has set an aggressive goal to return New Glenn to flight by the end of the year.

City Labs' BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) satellite launched on a SpaceX ride-share mission on Tuesday alongside 80 other payloads. It was released into an orbit at an altitude between 350 and 400 miles. The world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, BOHR, is powered by electricity generated from the decay of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The company's betavoltaic power systems are far too small to power a smartphone, much less a large spacecraft or a moon base, but it is a step in the right direction for proponents of nuclear power in space.

Agents can write code, but someone must be able to explain exactly what changed, why it was safe, and what will happen if they're wrong, otherwise, their actions can't be justified. Engineers need to own the outer loop and be accountable for systems. Humans are still required in the constraints loop, the sampling loop, the audit loop, and the ownership loop. The scarce resource is human judgment informed by quality signals like logs or tests.

Bun was facing a large number of bugs that were use-after-free, double-free, or 'forgot to free' in an error path. In safe Rust, these are compiler errors and RAII-like automatic cleanup with Drop, so it made sense to rewrite Bun in Rust. However, such a task would take a small team of engineers a full year to complete. As an experiment, one of Bun's developers tried using Anthropic's new models to rewrite Bun in Rust. This resulted in a runtime that was faster, smaller, and used less memory. This article discusses the lessons and tricks learned during the agentic development process.

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Meta is testing out a smart glasses prototype with always-on recording to help users remember things about their day. The prototype will not have a light-up LED indicator for when the glasses are recording. There are divergent views within the company about whether the data collected by the glasses should be stored on Meta's servers and used to train AI. Creating the technology will be challenging due to the battery and other issues.

AI companies are distorting San Francisco's housing market. Some homeowners are accepting offers for shares of OpenAI or Anthropic as payments for their homes. Property prices are surging as buyers bet that whoever they overpay today will look cheap tomorrow. Landlords are putting out tenants to sell into the hotter market. Many properties are closing at prices at least $1 million more than their asking price last month.

Entire is a new Git hosting network that meets the needs of AI agents and those minding them.

TypeScript 7 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a number of new optimizations that typically yield speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds.

John Deere will be required to provide farmers and independent repair providers with the same equipment repair resources that it currently provides to authorized Deere dealers for the next 10 years.

Ownership means owning the solution of a problem from end to end, from 'we have a problem' to 'we don't have to think about it again'.

DuckDuckGo's ad detection and blocking are based on the open-source community filter lists from uBlockOrigin.

Meerkat is an experimental consensus service at Cloudflare designed to manage small pieces of control plane state.

Understanding your customers has never been more valuable. AI can ship 10x faster, but how can you accelerate the customer feedback loop? That's what this conversation between two AI product leaders will answer.

With AI, the real alpha isn't speed-to-build - it's knowing what to build. The ability to listen and learn from your customers, at speed and at scale, is the real tiebreaker.

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Meta has released a new AI model for creating images, Muse Image. The model will be available for consumers to access for free via the Meta AI app and site, WhatsApp direct messages, and Instagram Stories. Users who hit their free limit can purchase a subscription or wait until the limit resets. Muse Image will be used to power advertiser-specific image-generation tools as part of Meta's AI-powered Advantage Plus service.

Xbox announced on Monday that it would lay off 3,200 employees and let go of five game studios. The company is aiming to reset itself after overspending on studios, staff, and games that people didn't want to play. Xbox plans to take a more streamlined approach to games and studios going forward. It will focus more on franchises like Minecraft, which is considered one of the most successful video games in the world.

The BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) satellite is a commercially built nuclear-powered cubesat created by Florida-based company City Labs. It was designed to test the company's proprietary NanoTritium betavoltaic micropower source in space for the first time. The NanoTritium device harnesses beta particles emitted from the radioactive decay of tritium and converts them directly into electricity using a semiconductor. It is meant to provide continuous power to spacecraft without a reliance on solar energy.

Production units of the upcoming Cybercab are running a more powerful version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving computer compared to the Model 3 or Model Y. The biggest change is the increased onboard memory, which will allow the computer to run much larger self-driving models. The extra computing muscle enables the Cybercab to be equipped with an SAE Level 4 Autonomous Mode - the Cybercab is designed to operate entirely without human intervention. Tesla started testing Cybercabs without steering wheels or pedals on public roads in Austin last week.

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Tech workers are either amplified by AI or shaken by it. The divide is shaping their feeling about work more than any title, tenure, or company. Burnout is surging, and optimism is fading. While productivity is up, the quality is questionable. Many tech workers believe the tech industry is in a state of chaos.

herdr is an agent multiplexer that lives in the terminal. It gives users a view of every agent at a glance. Agents keep running even when users are detached, and sessions survive restarts. herdr can be used by agents through a pure socket API. Plugins are available.

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AI doesn't seem to be taking away jobs and leaving humans with nothing to do. Studies have found that AI adoption has resulted in work becoming more intense, not less. People are using the time they save by using AI to take on new tasks. The people who are going to make a difference are the ones who will seek improvement and actively wrestle with AI to develop their own mental capabilities to accomplish more.

Chinese authorities have held talks with major Chinese AI companies about whether to restrict foreign access to their most advanced models. No decisions have been made yet, but officials are considering options like a bar on public release or a limit to domestic use only. China's AI companies have become popular partly because they are free and open source. Closing access would mean surrendering the lever that drove China's rise.

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Recent model releases from Chinese companies are seen by many as highly competitive compared to leading frontier systems from companies in the US.

The camera can never be truly switched off and keeps monitoring the driver at all times to make sure they're paying attention to the road.

Apps like Excel and Outlook are now using Microsoft's MAI models rather than models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Big tech renting out excess compute is an indicator that the industry has overbuilt.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is expected to feature a shorter and wider design that resembles Apple's planned folding iPhone.

Agents need a memory system built for how they actually read, write, and coordinate.

Nvidia's Kyber rack-scale architecture has been delayed by more than 12 months to 2028. The server cabinet is designed to house 144 of the company's 2027 Rubin Ultra chips so they can work together as one giant computer. The delay is due to difficulties in manufacturing a key circuit board at the heart of the system. It is a sign that Nvidia's breakneck annual release cadence is colliding with manufacturing limits.

The iPhone Ultra will be announced in September together with the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. It will start shipping about a month later. The foldable phone is estimated to be priced at around $2,400. It is likely that the phone will sell out immediately after pre-orders open, and then there will be delays running through December.

Robots decouple capital from human labor. This means production capacity becomes tied to how many robots one can make or afford. Robust robot capacity enables things that were previously impossible. This post features an interview with robotics experts about why robots are the real general-purpose technology, how everyone keeps underestimating Unitree, China's edge, why you can't AI your way out of a hardware or supply chain problem, and what the US should do next.

Egypt is attempting to create a new agricultural landscape to relieve mounting pressure on the Nile Delta. The New Delta product is a plan that involves recycling water, moving it across the desert, and bringing it to new land for cultivation. Early satellite images show rapid progress, but questions remain about how sustainable the transformation will be. Much of the water currently used to irrigate the new fields is coming from underground aquifers, which are not easily replenished.

The 100x software engineer is at least an order of magnitude more productive than normal software engineers due to a combination of tacit knowledge, experience, and technical prowess. Agentic coding doesn't normalize productivity - not everyone is equally productive with agents. Agentic engineering is a skill with a high ceiling. This article looks at the shift in the bottleneck in agentic engineering and how to become a 100x agentic engineer.

env.style is a tool that styles environments with colors or custom tabs. Users can preview updates live as they edit. The tool allows developers to set a custom icon for any environment.

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Alibaba's open-source models can be modified and used freely by anyone. Its technology is much cheaper to use than proprietary systems from US competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI. The company's AI models are popular, but it has become a challenge to turn that global popularity into a profitable business.

Tech CEOs have started to change their stance on AI wiping out jobs over the past year. The industry appears to have underestimated the value of keeping people at the center of everything. Comments by tech leaders now point to a future where workers keep their jobs, but gain a productivity boost from AI. It is unclear whether these statements are a move to win back customers and the public or whether the role of AI in the workplace is just now better understood.

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You need to consider the actual cost per task, otherwise you will be left with inferior performance at a higher price.

The Forward Deployed Engineering role is growing as the role is trying to answer a current market need.

The process involves collecting DNA from a swab, prepping it for sequencing, running it through a sequencer, and then performing analysis on it.

Clinicians can develop personalized medical treatments by examining the relationship between physical traits and the genome.

Netflix's inability to retain audiences is fueling growing investor concern about engagement.

The cuts represent about a fifth of the division's total head count.

Amazon Leo now has enough satellites in orbit to begin serving customers. The constellation now has more than 390 satellites. Amazon began offering an enterprise preview for select businesses last year. Its commercial service will likely initially be limited to users in certain geographic regions.

Nvidia has started a partnership program that offers firms access to critical computing infrastructure through the company's network of AI cloud service providers. Members of the program will share both product and cloud revenue with Nvidia. AI firms are increasingly entering into revenue and equity-sharing agreements with chip makers to circumvent liquidity issues. Nvidia plans to raise at least $20 billion in debt for general corporate purposes.

One of the biggest challenges for robot makers is ensuring that they don't hurt humans. The machines are getting bigger and heavier, which increases their potential for damage. The International Organization for Standardization is expected to publish a standard for humanoid robot safety by mid-2028, but robot makers are already coming up with their own solutions. This article looks at some of those solutions.

An AI superforecaster is an AI modified to be good at forecasting. This usually involves a scaffold that handholds the agent through a long research process. There are now several companies that claim to have AI superforecasters with incredible performance and results. They appear to be making crazy profits on prediction markets and beating the stock market by some comfortable amount.

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Users need to spend more time defining unknowns to prevent long-horizon tasks from coming back wrong. Claude can be used to help define these unknowns through explainers, brainstorms, interviews, prototypes, and references. Doing this is a cheap way to fix problems before they get expensive. This post shows readers how to use Claude to help find their unknowns.

Low autonomy limits risk and increases reversibility. Higher autonomy is better for explicit activities, as well as for fleets of parallel agents refactoring massive codebases. The edge of the frontier is the manager agent that delegates to helpers while continuously verifying their output, and only returning with the decisions that must be made by a human. This setup can be used to run hundreds or thousands of agents.

The job market for computer programmers is quickly falling. However, the market for jobs where the work product is judgment about what code should exist is growing. AI is only eating a very specific kind of programming job. The jobs disappearing are the ones where the work product is code written to spec.

Threads now has 500 million monthly users. The app has become especially popular in Asia. Threads is now targeting one billion users. The app started showing ads in January - reaching its user goal could lead to revenue of at least $30 billion a year.

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If the newest models get better at solving the task while getting worse at faithfully emitting an alternative tool schema, then the harness needs stronger guarantees somewhere.

WordPress now powers 41.5% of the web, down from a peak of 43.6% in early 2025.

A look at various strategies to run agentic loops.

When a URL and its content make it into the training data, the bare URL works as a key into the weights

Apple has instructed suppliers to prepare to produce about 10 million foldable iPhones this year.

A look at how Prime Radiant uses agents.

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The Model Y Long Wheelbase is now available in the US and Puerto Rico. The 3-row, 6-seat configuration has ample headroom and legroom for all passengers. The trunk fits a 28" and a 20" suitcase each, and the frunk can hold an additional 20" suitcase. More details about the wheelbase, along with pictures and videos of the vehicle, are available in the post.

Mark Zuckerberg told staff during an internal town hall on Thursday that the pace of AI agent development was not accelerating in the way executives had previously expected it to. He has apparently commented that the job cuts earlier this year were not as clean as they should have been. The perceived upside of the company's new AI-focused structure has not come to fruition yet. Zuckerberg says that the company will begin to see improvements from its AI investments in the next three to six months.

Quants' assets under management in China have more than doubled in less than a year to over 2.6 trillion yuan. The trend is being fueled by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. Quants' breadth in covering thousands of stocks has made it mainstream. Funds are responding to the frenzy by creating new investment products.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a new rule that would allow commercial supersonic airliners as long as they can reduce the ground-level impacts of their sonic booms. The new rule would require any sonic boom overpressure at the surface to be kept below 0.11 pounds per square foot. Critics of the new rule say it doesn't actually consider loudness or annoyance. Legalization of quieter supersonic flights doesn't guarantee a successful comeback for commercial supersonic airliners - Concorde's massive fuel consumption made it difficult to sustain profitable operations.

'Junior' is an AI intern in Slack. Users can give it information to work with, review the work, and steer the agent in the right direction. This article discusses the process of developing Junior, which took over four months. The full source for the project is available.

It's still important to understand the code that agents write. Agent work needs to be understood to verify that it is correct. This understanding is required for humans to participate in the creative process. This presentation discusses techniques for building human understanding when working with AI and moving fast.

The valuable work of the next decade is everything that can't be graded within the span of model training. Focus on resources that are truly limited and learn to find problems in addition to solving them. Work on the most ambitious form of a problem and learn to execute well in the last mile. Put yourself in the right position to see opportunities. The key to unlocking opportunity is to focus on finding interesting problems and delivering extraordinary results.

After years of trying to diversify, Meta is still almost entirely an ad business. The company's latest solution to that problem is AI. AI will be used to supercharge its ads business, but it will also ideally unlock other businesses. One of these businesses is Meta's newly announced cloud service.

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The Microsoft Frontier Company will embed engineers inside customers to build and run AI systems.

Intelligent routing is becoming table stakes.

The cap is a sign that even companies betting their future on AI are struggling to control their costs.

AI crawlers have until September to separate bots that gather content for search from those that harvest it for training or be blocked on pages that carry ads.

Agents need domain knowledge, context, and carefully defined ways for humans to steer the result.

Anthropic has yet to decide what the chip will be used for, how it will fit into the server, or how powerful it will be.