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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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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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.
OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a 5% stake, worth roughly $42.6 billion, to defuse mounting political pressure. CEO Sam Altman says that giving the public a financial interest in the company is the best way to share the upside of AI. The suggestion is part of a larger proposal in which the government would hold 5% of each of the leading US AI developers via a government vehicle. The proposal was first pitched directly to the Trump administration in early 2025.
SpaceX showed off a prototype for a handset-like device to investors prior to its IPO last month. Designed to run on a proprietary operating system and integrate AI technology from SpaceX's AI, the device would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. Elon Musk has previously considered building a smartphone due to frustration over how Apple controls the distribution of third-party apps. A device could help Musk become less reliant on other companies.
Several startups have announced general-purpose robots in the sub-$10,000 range. Nori Robotics is selling a bimanual robot for under $1,400 that's tall enough to reach the top of a table or countertop. The BracketBot is a wheeled robot manipulator with hoverboard-style drive wheels that will sell for under $3,000. Weave's Isaac 1 is a fully capable home mobile manipulator that can put away laundry and tidy a room. It will cost $8,000 or $450 per month.
Biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane piece by piece, and the bag of molecules started to behave like life. The lab-made cell grew, replicated its DNA, and divided. While the cell is not alive, it is the strongest demonstration yet that it is possible to generate life from nonlife. It can't survive without constant deliveries of food and ribosomes, and it has no defenses or a good waste removal system.
Web Apps for Meta Ray-Ban Display use standard web APIs. This guide shows developers how to build optimized Meta Ray-Ban Display Web Apps. The easiest way to build Web Apps is using AI coding tools and app platforms such as Replit, Claude Code, and Cursor.
ZCode is the official development environment for GLM-5.2. It is available now for download on macOS, Windows, and Linux. GLM Coding Plan subscribers now have a 1.5x usage quota in ZCode.
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The debate over the degree to which the US federal government should control access to cutting-edge API tools is now heating up. There is a growing awareness of how powerful these new tools are, but little agreement on how they should be controlled. AI proponents say that bans and implementations would hurt the US in its efforts to stay ahead of China in the geopolitical AI race. Administration officials and advisers are attempting to balance innovation and security while addressing safety risks in the most minimally invasive way possible.
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models. The business will generate revenue from excess computing power from the data centers Meta built to fuel its AI ambitions. One potential plan is to sell access to various AI models hosted on Meta's infrastructure, similar to AWS Bedrock. Another option may be to sell access to raw computing capacity like CoreWeave.
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The 'usermedia' HTML element reduces boilerplate code, improves security, and provides a seamless recovery path for users who have previously denied access.
Xbox is testing out a disc-to-digital feature that will create a 'digital entitlement' for games that can be moved between Microsoft accounts and Xbox profiles.
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Anthropic's newly released AI model Claude Sonnet 5 delivers near flagship performance at mid-tier prices. The model is aimed at giving cost-conscious enterprise developers access to powerful agent capabilities at lower costs. Sonnet 5 is now the default model for users on Free and Pro plans. API pricing is set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until August 31, after which prices will rise to $3 and $15, respectively.
Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, but the negotiations never advanced. It is unclear why the talks broke down, but some say Mansour would not move forward with a sale and that Meta was concerned about the legal and ethical questions surrounding the business. Meta appears to still want to tap into the prediction market craze. Prediction markets have become one of the fastest-growing parts of the tech industry in recent years.
Realta Fusion has successfully powered a lightbulb using electricity harvested directly from its demonstration fusion device. The company plans to use direct electricity conversion to heat the plasma in its reactor. The process is estimated to be 90% efficient. Helion, a startup backed by Sam Altman, is also planning to deploy direct energy conversion technology in its reactor, though it has yet to demonstrate that publicly.
Conception, a stem cell technology company, has successfully generated the first early human egg cells derived from stem cells. The company converted blood cells into stem cells and then coaxed those stem cells into becoming miniature human ovaries, which grew early eggs. The next step in the research involves growing the stem cell-derived eggs to a point where an IVF physician could collect them surgically.
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Copybara is a tool for transforming and moving code between repositories. One common use case is for projects that require maintaining a confidential repository and a public repository in sync. The tool allows contributions to any repository, but one repository must be selected as the authoritative repository so that there's always one source of truth. Copybara is stateless, which allows several users to use it for the same config/repositories and get the same result.
AI often generates high-quality local chunks of code, but it struggles when asked to generate code that requires a global understanding of the program. This problem could be solved in the next one or two generations of models. One possible way of solving the issue is through programming language design. It is likely that a large company will attempt to solve the issue through programming language design soon, especially if model advancements don't fix it.
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Anthropic has agreed to address the workarounds that researchers at Amazon used to evade the safeguards for Fable. Access to the model will begin to be restored today. The agreement is expected to involve the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a government testing unit.
Amazon is investing $1 billion into a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will help customers build and roll out AI systems. Forward-deployed engineers are employees who are embedded directly within another business to accelerate a technical transformation. The term was coined by Palantir more than a decade ago, but it has recently seen a resurgence in the AI era. Other leading model developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, also have their own FDE units.
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A supposed image of the motherboard used in the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max was leaked over the weekend. The new design will make the A20 a very powerful and thoroughly thermally-managed chip and help Apple save some production costs. The overall size of the chip is roughly the same as the A19 Pro's footprint. There are also memory and NPU upgrades that will improve overall bandwidth and AI performance.
OpenAI's Codex Micro gadget is currently being displayed at the AI Engineer World Fair. A picture of the device is available in the article. The device is a keyboard designed to supercharge Codex usage. It was developed through a partnership between OpenAI and accessories company Work Louder.
Rocket Lab is purchasing Iridium Communications to compete with SpaceX's satellite offerings. The deal will give Rocket Lab control over a satellite fleet and access to wireless resources. Iridium currently operates 66 satellites in low-Earth orbit. It has valuable spectrum rights to connect handsets and other devices to satellites. Rocket Lab plans to develop an upgraded fleet of satellites that will replace Iridium's current constellation.
Brain2Qwerty v2 is a model capable of real-time sentence decoding from non-invasive brain recordings. The model was trained on approximately 22,000 sentences from nine volunteer participants, who each recorded for 10 hours while wearing a magnetoencephalography device and actively typing. The model achieves a word accuracy rate of 61%, which is significantly higher than the 8% word accuracy from other non-invasive methods. The full training code for v1 and v2 and the v1 dataset have been released on Hugging Face.
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Apple has acquired Rabbit 3 Times, the company that made Play, a visual Swift development tool that won the Apple Design award for innovation. The acquisition appears to be aimed at asset stripping the company. Apple may be incorporating Play into its Apple Creator Studio, but for now, it appears the app is gone. Rabbit 3 Times' website has also been taken down.
Evals thinking is aligned with good product design. Gathering sporting data and breaking down workflows into smaller units makes automated grading easier. This post covers well-established design principles through the lens of the age of AI. Verification typically happens incidentally during the process of creating work product, but with AI, verification is the bottleneck.
It appears we are approaching the upper bound of what's possible under human conception. Technology has stagnated as capitalism is no longer putting pressure towards innovation. Companies have started treating the populace as something to be mined. People with a deep belief in their ability to just do things have the power to change this trend. If the idea you're chasing is good enough, it will spread.
Young tech workers chasing the Silicon Valley dream have started to say that an affordable future feels increasingly out of reach. Property, utility, transportation, and grocery costs have risen significantly. A new class of AI elite has emerged that can outspend other tech workers. OpenAI's, Anthropic's, and SpaceX's IPOs combined could mint more than 20 new billionaires among current and former employees.
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A renegotiated contract between Amazon and Anthropic will shift Anthropic billing to per-token pricing, which could substantially increase Amazon's costs.
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SpaceX plans to launch a new Starlink mobile service for customers in the US. The company is considering building its own terrestrial mobile network in the country. The new retail offering would put SpaceX in direct competition with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Some analysts say that the idea may be a gamble to extract better deals from the company's telecom partners, as it would cost billions of dollars to roll out the required infrastructure.
Meta is building an app that allows people to make bets on practically anything, similar to Polymarket and Kalshi. Arena, which is now a top priority within Meta, will use points instead of real money and is aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds. The company is now actively trying to form partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi, but it is unclear what kind of arrangement Meta is seeking. If released, Arena will be a stand-alone app, but Meta eventually plans to integrate parts of it into Facebook and Messenger.
Amble, a European electric car company, has released a $25,000 electric buggy designed for places where a normal car feels out of place. The Amble One has a range of more than 60 miles with a top speed capped at 40 miles per hour. It takes five hours to charge the vehicle from any standard home socket. The vehicle weighs under 450 kilograms, which allows it to drive on public roads in Europe without being treated as a car.
Around 8% of the land in the major coastal cities in the US was underwater in the 1890s. Some cities, like Boston and Charleston, have doubled in size by reclaiming land. The demand for land is now higher than ever, but the country has virtually ceased to reclaim any at all. Regulations introduced in the 1970s made it enormously expensive to reshape the landscape. Lifting these legal barriers could mean hundreds of thousands of new homes near the centers of the country's most valuable cities.
This handbook describes the most important patterns used in software engineering when money is the primary focus of the system. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding for people entering fintech, those already in it, and those outside the industry. The guide follows three principles: no invented data, no lost data, and no trust. Money can't be created out of nowhere, everything that happens to money has to be tracked and persisted, and everything must be verified.
A local setup is a viable alternative to using proprietary services for many coding workflows. Running agents locally makes them transparent, inspectable, and free to run apart from hardware and electricity costs. This tutorial walks readers through how to set up a production-ready coding agent with a fully local stack. The agent uses a locally served LLM with a coding harness that allows it to read files, make edits, run commands, and verify changes.
Intel was flailing until the US government intervened and took a 10% stake in the company last summer. The company is now showing signs of a turnaround, with its value having more than tripled. Intel has since added big customers like Nvidia and Apple. The AI boom has reshaped the chip market and benefited Intel greatly.
Anthropic is now allowed to serve its Mythos 5 model to trusted companies and government partners. Fable 5 remains restricted and restrictions on Mythos 5 still apply to entities that aren't trusted partners. The US government is racing to implement an executive order recently signed that gives federal cybersecurity officials a say in AI model evaluation. The industry is in limbo and will have to react to case-by-case decisions by the administration until the order is implemented and standards are in place.
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