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Nvidia has designed new chips in partnership with Microsoft to power Windows on Arm-based PCs. PC makers will soon release new Nvidia-powered PCs that will be able to run AI agents locally. The N1 chip will have up to 16 GB of RAM and run at 18 to 45 watts, and the N1x whip will have up to 128 GB of RAM and consume 45 to 80 watts. A recent cryptic tweet from Nvidia indicates that an announcement is imminent.
Apple upended the mid-tier traditional wristwatch market after it showed customers the appeal of buying a device that paired with their iPhones, tracked health metrics, and still told the time. The company now sees a similar opportunity with glasses. It plans to target the broader glasses category with products sold between roughly $200 and $500. The eyewear market is valued at roughly $200 billion annually and hundreds of millions of pairs are sold each year. Apple believes that its strong brand, industrial design, and iPhone integration will lead people seeking new glasses to buy from Apple instead.
Blue Origin's recent failed test will be devastating to NASA and broad segments of the US space industry. There is significant damage to Blue Origin's launch site, and the company doesn't have another launch site for New Glenn. Preliminary work has started on a nearby pad, but it is still in very early stages. Rebuilding the pad, or finishing a new one, will likely take at least a year. This will result in significant delays in the Moon Base program and may require restructuring the plan.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued an environmental assessment on May 15 for test flights of Starfall, SpaceX's uncrewed reentry vehicle. It has approved the test flights, concluding that they would not have any significant environmental impacts. The published documents show that Starfall can perform both in-space manufacturing and point-to-point cargo delivery. SpaceX plans to build these vehicles in large volumes.
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Interviewing has always been costly for both the company and the candidate. A new type of interviewing is starting to emerge in Silicon Valley. Companies are hiring potential candidates to work with them for a few days with real pay, on real codebases, with the real team. This type of interview provides a strong signal to the company, and it also provides real value to the candidates.
Backpressure is the mechanism by which a downstream component signals upstream that it can't accept more work. Producers generate work when there's no backpressure and slow down, buffer, or shed load when backpressure increases. This post discusses how this concept can be used to build more ways for agents to validate more of their own work before a human has to step in. This results in longer unattended sessions that are safe enough to be useful without fully removing the human from the loop, as well as a reduced number of low-quality PRs.
MicroAGI, a German startup, is offering residents in New York City free home cleaning as long as they consent to the cleaners wearing cameras to record everything they do. The data that the cleaners collect will be used to train AI-driven robots. It has released an app called Shift that connects New Yorkers with trusted, professional house cleaners. The company says it will anonymize and blur all personally identifiable information and any other sensitive data.
Open positions for tech internships have dropped 30% since 2023. Companies are now using AI to handle the tasks previously entrusted to interns. The entry-level pipeline is breaking. However, at the same time, the AI job market is booming at the senior level.
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Claude Opus 4.8's most prominent improvement is its ability to be honest. It is more likely than previous models to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims. The model has a new feature that allows mid-conversation system messages. This means users can append updated instructions later in long-running conversations without restating the full system prompt.
Apple plans to announce a revamped Siri interface, a new chatbot-style app, and other major iOS 27 changes at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. The launch will be a pivotal moment for the company's AI strategy. Apple previewed some of the features in 2024, but it suffered a series of delays that put it further behind competitors and hurt its reputation. The Siri revamp will likely be CEO Tim Cook's final major product launch before handing leadership over to John Ternus.
A spectacular explosion occurred during a static fire test of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket last night. The super heavy lift rocket exploded shortly after engine ignition. No one was injured during the failure, and the cause is still being investigated. A video of the explosion is available in the article.
Waymo's new Ojai robotaxis are designed to work better in snowier conditions. They are cheaper to manufacture and feature the sixth-generation Waymo Driver, which can better detect critical details in low-light situations. The vehicles will be available to some public passengers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with service expanding to San Diego, Las Vegas, and Denver in the summer. Waymo plans to have thousands of Ojai cars on the road by the end of the year.
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Spawning agents is easy. The real skill is in designing the system around human attention. Agents can make you feel productive while barely producing anything. This failure mode will be invisible until the system breaks and the developer realizes they have no idea how it works anymore.
Dynamic workflows in Claude Code enable Claude to take on challenging tasks end-to-end. Claude dynamically writes orchestration scripts that run hundreds of parallel subagents, checking the work before returning it to users. The feature is available now in research preview in the Claude Code CLI, Desktop, and the VS Code extension for Max, team, and Enterprise plans. It can consume substantially more tokens than a typical Claude Code session, so it is recommended that users start with a scoped task to get a feel for usage.
Polymarket doesn't require users to submit proof of identity, making it mostly anonymous. However, it uses blockchain-based technology, which makes it possible for anyone to monitor the bets, profits, and losses of individual accounts. This allows sleuths to spot suspicious activity and call it out, even if they can't identify the actual traders. Online sleuths have become an unexpected ally of law enforcement in tackling the emerging challenge of insider trading on prediction markets. Blockchain trading is transparent and traceable - even sophisticated actors have trouble staying hidden.
Meta's capital expenditures are forcing it to explore new revenue sources. The company has announced a series of subscription tiers and it is monetizing its AI chatbot. It is also launching a new Enterprise Solutions unit, which will mimic the forward-deployed engineer models used by Google and OpenAI to open up B2B revenue streams. The company is considering opening its own cloud computing business once it has excess compute.
Microsoft Azure's Copilot Migration Agent turns complex migration data into clear answers. Through natural language prompts you can evaluate readiness, risk, and ROI to make confident decisions. Read the playbook.
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Tesla's new Optimus factory is officially under construction at Gigafactory Texas. The project will add more than 5.2 million square feet of new industrial space. Tesla plans to build about 27,000 Optimus robots a day at the new factory. Production will start either in July or August of this year, with high-volume output starting in Summer 2027.
Apple is working on a feature that will lock users' phones if the system detects that the device has been snatched from their hands. The feature will use the gyroscope, accelerometer, and other sensors to determine when a device has been grabbed. It is unknown when the feature may be added to iOS. Android already has a similar feature.
SpaceX's arguments for its $2 trillion valuation make sense assuming a huge number of engineering challenges are solved. Starship will need to work, SpaceX will need to be able to get a sufficient supply of the right kinds of chips, compute demand needs to grow massively larger, and agentic inference needs to unbundle current architectures. The risk attached to any of these assumptions should be discounted from any valuation put on the business. Elon Musk has already pushed humanity forward on multiple vectors and SpaceX has already invented a lot, so it's not totally implausible that the company may reach its goals, but there's still real risk.
SpaceX has won a contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data. The $2.29 billion firm-fixed-price agreement will result in the creation of a network based on technology originally developed for SpaceX's Starlink global Internet constellation. It will act as the core communications layer for US Space Force war-fighting systems, ensuring sensors and shooters are connected continuously, globally, and securely. SpaceX is required to deliver a full operational prototype by the end of 2027.
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Many people treat Claude Code as a chatbot or fancier autocomplete. It should be treated instead as an autonomous agent that needs guardrails. Claude Code needs to be trained, configured, and operated properly. Tuning the directory structure, skills, agents, plugins, and MCPs turns Claude Code into a teammate rather than just a tool.
Coding is expensive and time-consuming. Every feature carries ongoing costs, so it's a good skill to know what not to build. Code needs to solve the right problem, otherwise it becomes a liability. Great engineers are measured by how much value they create relative to the complexity they leave behind, not by how much code they produce.
It is possible that the big AI labs will eventually automate software away in every industry. However, the reality is that the world is full of complex, often vertical problems that can't simply be solved with a horizontal tool with access to standard tools and computer use. The value will come from the scaffolding around models that makes their output trustworthy, compliant, and operational inside a specific industry. There are plenty of opportunities in AI outside of the core research lab niche.
Google and Apple have started parsing, ranking, summarizing, and answering notifications on users' behalf. Over the last few years, on-device models have started to summarize, reorder, and rewrite notifications before users see them. Notifications are also evolving into triggers consumed by agents. This post discusses the implications for developers and how to adjust notifications accordingly.
While Tesla's product is still respected by owners, the brand has become politically charged, competitively pressured, and no longer 'cool' in the way it once was.
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NASA plans to send three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart the construction of a moon base. It has chosen Blue Origin to conduct the first mission, which will launch as early as Fall. NASA has also announced a series of smaller contracts with private companies, including Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace, involved with the agency's Moon-to-Mars projects. The agency aims to establish a base with operating capability by 2032.
In January, SpaceX granted Elon Musk a pay package that will eventually total 1.3 billion in restricted shares. While he has not achieved the goals that the award is contingent on, SpaceX's IPO prospectus says that he can use those shares in voting on shareholder decisions. SpaceX does not plan to have the majority of its board be independent directors, and any shareholder claims under federal securities laws must be resolved through arbitration. The measures allow Musk to pick the people who determine his pay and largely insulate himself from shareholder lawsuits.
The Trump administration plans to give plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to companies to convert it into fuel for nuclear power plants. The Energy Department has more than 50 tons of surplus plutonium left over from nuclear weapons programs. One of the bottlenecks in expanding nuclear power right now is a lack of fuel. Harvesting old plutonium stockpiles could provide a short-term fix.
NASA has announced a series of contract awards for the initial elements of a lunar base. Astrolab and Lunar Outpost have been selected to build approximately one-ton rovers to be ready for delivery to the Moon in 2028. Each rover is expected to have a range of 200 km and drive autonomously with guidance from operators on Earth or by astronauts. Blue Origin will deliver the rovers to the lunar surface separately with its Blue Moon Mark 1 lander. The goal of the mission will be to establish a perimeter for a Moon base.
One big reason is the interplay between three key (and sometimes contradictory) forces: business leaders, IT executives, and technology providers. Gartner sits at the nexus of all three, providing a unique intelligence advantage. See how in the 2026 Hype Cycle for Agentic AI and all things AI in our AI hub.
The built-in AI feature in Chrome is cost-efficient and performant. It works offline, protecting user privacy. This post takes a look at how trAIlblazers leveraged the built-in AI features to create its blog editor. Other real-world success stories include Drupal, which uses the Summarizer API for SEO tag generation within CKEditor; Yahoo! Japan, which uses the Prompt API for community comment moderation, and Trip.com, which helps shoppers navigate complex flight booking options with AI overviews.
Analog Mono was designed to fix the crimes of the classic pixel font that was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Coral Pixels is a color font with 1990s and 2000s colorful fringing baked in. Two Slice is a font that's only 2 pixels tall while remaining somewhat readable. Geist Pixel is a font that maintains the visual texture that teams want while reserving the typographic rigor that products require.
American Airlines will install Starlink on more than 500 of its narrow-body Airbus planes starting early next year. The carrier has no plans to change providers on its Boeing fleet, which uses services from Viasat and Panasonic. Members of its frequent flyer program get free in-flight Wi-Fi. Delta Air Lines said in March that it will use Amazon Leo for in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2028. United, Southwest Airlines, and Alaska Airlines have selected Starlink.
Google announced its new powerful Gemini models, AI agent plans, and changes to Search at its recent I/O event. This article features an interview with CEO Sundar Pichai recorded just after the conference. In the interview, Pichai discusses how he had to rethink how Google works, the executive changes and decisions needed to get the company into a more aggressive posture, the new announcements, and more.
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The LeRobot Humanoid project provides robot builders and researchers with access to a bill of materials, files for 3D-printable parts, wiring documentation, physical assembly instructions, and software tools for creating a pair of humanoid robot legs.
Most agents run on borrowed sessions. The user authenticates, the agent inherits their full OAuth token, and a support agent that looks up invoices can also refund, delete, and modify. The agent needed read access to one record. The blast radius is every account in the system.WorkOS is built to solve it. Agents need their own identity, scoped credentials, and permission boundaries. WorkOS ships the OAuth flows, RBAC, and fine-grained authorization to scope what each agent can do, plus audit logs tied to every agent, every action, every authorization.Read the full guide →
Huawei expects to be able to make chips on par with leading products manufactured by Intel and other top global companies by 2031. It has developed a technique that can create chips that match the transistor density of those manufactured with a 1.4-nanometer process. The US has restricted China's access to advanced semiconductor technologies since 2022. Huawei's technology could remove this obstacle for China in its tech rivalry with the US.
The Ferrari Luce, designed in partnership with Jony Ive, is an electric vehicle that will test the appetite of the superrich for EVs. The first Ferrari with five seats, the Luce will be among the most expensive Ferraris that aren't part of a limited production run at a starting price of roughly $640,000. It accelerates from 0 to 60 miles an hour in less than 2.5 seconds with a top speed that exceeds 190 mph. The vehicle has a range of roughly 330 miles despite an unusually large battery.
The scientific loop has four roles: poser, proposer, verifier, and curator. These roles are not interchangeable. While AI is getting better at some roles, which questions are worth asking remains entirely human. The question of what to look for has not been automated.
A team of engineers from Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and several Japanese universities has completed a successful ground combustion trial of a ramjet engine designed for a Mach-5 hypersonic aircraft. The test simulated a flight at five times the speed of sound. It was focused on validating the aircraft's heat-shielding, control surfaces, and engine performance under extreme conditions. The project's goal is commercial hypersonic passenger service by the 2040s.
Should you choose Claude, Gemini, GPT, or an open source model for AI-powered search? Algolia tested every major LLM (24 models altogether) on 1,577 shopping queries across three dimensions of quality: addressing user queries with relevant info, avoiding hallucinations, and responding in users' language. Understand which LLMs perform best
Microsoft Webwright is a simple SWE-style browser agent framework that achieves state-of-the-art results on long-horizon web tasks. It gives agents a terminal that allows them to launch multiple browser sessions to inspect pages and complete web tasks. Webwright captures and inspects screenshots only when needed, and it enforces each web task to be completed end-to-end within a re-runnable Python script. It uses a small harness that adds just enough structure around completion, context, and reuse to avoid creating new failure modes.
Agent Sandbox enables the easy management of isolated, stateful, singleton workloads. It is ideal for use cases like AI agent runtimes. The core Sandbox API allows users to manage a single, stateful pod with a stable identity and persistent storage. Agent Sandbox supports extensions that build on the core Sandbox API to provide more advanced features.
AI will absolutely disrupt the job market, but the US has a long track record of creating new jobs in response to disruption. The growing demand for data centers has created more than 200,000 construction jobs since 2022. AI may eliminate jobs in some sectors, but it will lead to growth in others. The US economy can and will adapt to major advances in technology.
Microsoft is canceling most direct Claude Code licenses within its Experiences and Devices group. Affected engineers have been told to migrate to GitHub Copilot CLI by June 30. The pullback shows how the unit economics of enterprise AI coding do not work at current token prices.
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Many people seem to think the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible, but the technology can also be used to write high-quality code.
Pope Leo XIV has issued a letter warning that AI will reduce humans to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency and that the concentration of power in the hands of a few private actors must be countered.
GELT will be tied to the official currency of the country of Georgia and enable lower transaction costs, near-instant settlement, programmable payments, and more.
Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev broke the non-enhanced world record time of 20.88 with a 20.81-second swim, earning him $250,000 for first place and a $1 million bonus for eclipsing the non-enhanced world record.
Epic Games has released a short teaser trailer showing an updated version of Rocket League running on Unreal Engine 6 with more detailed car models and dynamic lighting reflections.
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SpaceX launched an upgraded version of its Starship rocket from a new launchpad at its Starbase facility on Friday. The booster successfully separated from the spacecraft, but it wasn't able to conduct an engine maneuver and eventually crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Starship lost one of its engines but was able to make it to space. It deployed devices that mimic satellites, as well as two satellites that took images of the flying spacecraft. Starship exploded after it touched down in the Indian Ocean.
Sundar Pichai believes that AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. He says it is natural that people feel anxious about the future the technology will bring, especially with its extraordinary pace of progress. Pichai thinks the industry has to do a lot more work in showing the benefits that are possible with the technology. This article contains a transcript of an interview with Pichai where he discusses the future of Google Search, how he's using AI agents, and his advice for college students.
China's Shenzhou-23 mission sent three astronauts to the Tiangong space station on Sunday. One crew member may remain in orbit for a full year, the longest human space mission in China's history. The astronaut selected for the extended stay will be determined later during the mission. The mission will also conduct the first autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking procedure with Tiangong's core module, a capability expected to support future lunar operations.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is the world's biggest bet on fusion energy. At an estimated cost of $22 billion, ITER is a donut-shaped vacuum chamber designed to contain temperatures 10 times hotter than the core of the Sun. The project is so daunting in scale that longtime geopolitical rivals are collaborating on the project, pooling their resources to share in its potential risks and rewards. This article provides an overview of the project and contains a video showing what the heart of the experiment looks like.
Upload a headshot, an anime character, a brand mascot, or an AI-generated portrait — and Tavus turns it into an interactive AI human instantly. It sees you, hears you, reads emotion, and responds in real-time. The only limit is what you can imagine into a single image.
TeamPCP is deploying supply chain attacks at an unprecedented scale, turning what was an occasional nightmare into a near-weekly episode. It has corrupted hundreds of open source tools, sowing a new level of distrust in the ecosystem used to create the world's software. Even GitHub has been breached by the group through a poisoned VSCode extension. The group appears to be financially motivated as it often deploys ransomware or data extortion campaigns against its targets. It is also willing to sell victims' data to any buyer.
auth.md provides secure agent registration that any app can implement. The Markdown file tells agents how to register on behalf of users, informing them which flows are supported, which scopes exist, and how to register for services. Agents' identity providers vouch for users - no human interaction is required.
Many people would like to be able to predict which jobs, companies, and industries will be most affected by AI. However, this is mostly impossible. Past technology trends have seen some industries that should have suffered end up bigger, and some of the industries that should have been immune suffer. Right now, there are too many factors at play to predict what the impact of AI will be.
Andrew Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for more than 20 years, is leading Meta's gargantuan efforts to transform itself into an AI-first company that can innovate as fast as nimble startups. Bosworth is set to make nearly $1 billion if he can help increase Meta's market cap by more than 500% in the next five years. His focus now is on getting workers to use AI more in their work, and when possible, hand tasks over to it entirely. This article takes a look at his career up until now.
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Snap Specs will be the first relatively normal-looking glasses that can place interfaces and virtual objects onto users' physical space without significantly dimming or distorting their view of the real world.
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