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Dynatomics is a new company by Google co-founder Larry Page that is focused on applying AI to product manufacturing. The company aims to create highly optimized designs for objects and then have a factory build them. The effort is being run by Chris Anderson, the previous CTO of electric airplane startup Kittyhawk. Other companies exploring the ways AI could be used to improve manufacturing processes include Orbital Materials, PhysicsX, and Instrumental.

SpaceX's Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test on Thursday - this is the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. Flights into major Florida airports were briefly halted. The booster was successfully caught for the third time by the launch tower. SpaceX had made improvements to the lines that send fuel to Starship's engines, changed the temperature of the propellent, and added extra vents and a purge system ahead of the recent test flight.

The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research Project has added over 6,000 new microbes to the number of species found at the deepest regions of the ocean. Its investigations have revealed two adaptations that allow the microbes to thrive under intense pressure and a mutated gene that could boost their ability to survive. The study of these organisms could yield new medications and information that could be useful for engineering pressure- or radiation-resistant proteins.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander didn't crash, but it may not be upright. The lander was set to descend at Mons Mouton, a plateau near the lunar South Pole, at no earlier than 12:32 PM ET on Thursday. It contains a drill to search for ice, a 4G network test, three rovers, and a first-of-its-kind hopping drone. It is unclear how the imperfect landing may impact the mission. Athena launched last Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The newest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT app for macOS can edit code in supported developer tools, including Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains. Users can turn on an 'auto-apply' mode to allow ChatGPT to make edits without the need for additional clicks. The feature is available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers. It will roll out to Enterprise, Edu, and free users next week. The ChatGPT app for Windows will get direct editing soon.

Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition API that can turn any PDF into a text file. It is multimodal and can detect when there are illustrations or photos intertwined with blocks of text. The output is formatted into Markdown. Mistral OCR is available on Mistral's own platform and through its cloud partners - Mistral offers on-premise deployment for companies working with classified or sensitive data.

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While each of the founders that Y Combinator funded in its current cohort is highly technical and completely capable of building their own products from scratch, a quarter of the startups have 95% of their code bases generated by AI. Product builders who rely heavily on AI will need to be good at reading code and finding bugs. VCs and developers have been excited about AI-powered coding, with multiple startups raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding in the last 12 months.

AI wrappers are all the rage today - startups are offering AI chatbots, research tools, and other software applications for coding, clinicians, and customer service, all built at least in part on large language models. Investors are eager to put money into these services. However, some have started to question the wisdom of AI companies powering billions into developing models as companies like DeepSeek have proven competitive options can be created for much less. One of the biggest concerns with AI app companies is that a large language model developer may decide to compete directly with them, but it is unlikely that AI developers will build verticalized apps for every single possible use case.

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Diffusion large language models start all at once and then gradually come up with sensible words simultaneously - the technique is creating models that outperform similar-sized large language models in code generation.

Some of the languages developers are using other than C, C++, Rust, and Go include Zig, Odin, OCaml, and Nim.

Meta's business AIs will be able to automate redundant tasks, help businesses communicate and find more customers, and provide an almost concierge-like service to customers.

World Chat will help people to discern bots from humans by giving World Network digital passport holders - people who have proof-of-personhood-verified accounts - blue chat bubbles and a unique World ID gem displayed in chats.

Warewulf is a stateless, network-boot cluster provisioning system designed primarily for large clusters of bare metal and virtual systems.

Alibaba's QwQ-32B operates with 32 billion parameters compared to DeepSeek R1's 671 billion parameters - while rivaling its performance.

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Dynatomics is a new company by Google co-founder Larry Page that is focused on applying AI to product manufacturing. The company aims to create highly optimized designs for objects and then have a factory build them. The effort is being run by Chris Anderson, the previous CTO of electric airplane startup Kittyhawk. Other companies exploring the ways AI could be used to improve manufacturing processes include Orbital Materials, PhysicsX, and Instrumental.

SpaceX's Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test on Thursday - this is the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. Flights into major Florida airports were briefly halted. The booster was successfully caught for the third time by the launch tower. SpaceX had made improvements to the lines that send fuel to Starship's engines, changed the temperature of the propellent, and added extra vents and a purge system ahead of the recent test flight.

The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research Project has added over 6,000 new microbes to the number of species found at the deepest regions of the ocean. Its investigations have revealed two adaptations that allow the microbes to thrive under intense pressure and a mutated gene that could boost their ability to survive. The study of these organisms could yield new medications and information that could be useful for engineering pressure- or radiation-resistant proteins.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander didn't crash, but it may not be upright. The lander was set to descend at Mons Mouton, a plateau near the lunar South Pole, at no earlier than 12:32 PM ET on Thursday. It contains a drill to search for ice, a 4G network test, three rovers, and a first-of-its-kind hopping drone. It is unclear how the imperfect landing may impact the mission. Athena launched last Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The newest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT app for macOS can edit code in supported developer tools, including Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains. Users can turn on an 'auto-apply' mode to allow ChatGPT to make edits without the need for additional clicks. The feature is available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers. It will roll out to Enterprise, Edu, and free users next week. The ChatGPT app for Windows will get direct editing soon.

Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition API that can turn any PDF into a text file. It is multimodal and can detect when there are illustrations or photos intertwined with blocks of text. The output is formatted into Markdown. Mistral OCR is available on Mistral's own platform and through its cloud partners - Mistral offers on-premise deployment for companies working with classified or sensitive data.

Inefficient knowledge management costs businesses 2.5BN hours annually – but yours doesn't have to lose out. In Atlassian's upcoming webinar, bestselling author Liz Fosslien and guest speaker Forrester analyst Julie Mohr dive into the latest research to reveal why enterprises struggle with knowledge management, and how to claim these vital hours back. Save your virtual seat.

While each of the founders that Y Combinator funded in its current cohort is highly technical and completely capable of building their own products from scratch, a quarter of the startups have 95% of their code bases generated by AI. Product builders who rely heavily on AI will need to be good at reading code and finding bugs. VCs and developers have been excited about AI-powered coding, with multiple startups raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding in the last 12 months.

AI wrappers are all the rage today - startups are offering AI chatbots, research tools, and other software applications for coding, clinicians, and customer service, all built at least in part on large language models. Investors are eager to put money into these services. However, some have started to question the wisdom of AI companies powering billions into developing models as companies like DeepSeek have proven competitive options can be created for much less. One of the biggest concerns with AI app companies is that a large language model developer may decide to compete directly with them, but it is unlikely that AI developers will build verticalized apps for every single possible use case.

TLDR is hiring part time curators to launch our TLDR Fintech newsletter.

TLDR Fintech already has over 200,000 pre-registered subscribers, it's a great way to build a personal brand within the fintech community.

The ideal candidate would have deep experience working directly in the fintech space, and enjoy analyzing news and trends within the space.

Time commitment is ~2-3 hours/week paid at a rate of $100/hr. To apply please send your LinkedIn or resume to [email protected] along with a couple sentences on why you'd be a good fit!

Diffusion large language models start all at once and then gradually come up with sensible words simultaneously - the technique is creating models that outperform similar-sized large language models in code generation.

Some of the languages developers are using other than C, C++, Rust, and Go include Zig, Odin, OCaml, and Nim.

Meta's business AIs will be able to automate redundant tasks, help businesses communicate and find more customers, and provide an almost concierge-like service to customers.

World Chat will help people to discern bots from humans by giving World Network digital passport holders - people who have proof-of-personhood-verified accounts - blue chat bubbles and a unique World ID gem displayed in chats.

Warewulf is a stateless, network-boot cluster provisioning system designed primarily for large clusters of bare metal and virtual systems.

Alibaba's QwQ-32B operates with 32 billion parameters compared to DeepSeek R1's 671 billion parameters - while rivaling its performance.

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Google may soon just tell users what's on the Internet instead of showing them. The company is expanding its AI search features and testing a more substantial change in the form of AI Mode - a version of Google that will only show AI results. Google insists that helping people discover content online remains central to its approach, but AI Mode won't show organic results - it is designed to operate in a conversational way, so users will have to refine their search or ask follow-up questions. The experimental feature is only available for Google One AI Premium subscribers.

Apple's MacBook Air lineup has been upgraded with the M4 chip. There are no major changes to the laptop's physical design, screen specs, keyboard, or ports. The 13-inch M4 MacBook Air will start at $999 and the 15-inch model will cost $1,199. The baseline configurations will come with 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and the 8-core version of the M4's GPU. The new MacBook Airs will have a 12-megapixel Center Stage camera and a new color option, Sky Blue.

Robot surgeries account for around 22% of surgeries nowadays. The method offers less bleeding, less time in the hospital, and faster recovery time with less pain. These robots are machines operated by highly trained and experienced surgeons that remotely operate arms that hold tiny surgical instruments. Using robots allows surgeons to comfortably maneuver in places that are otherwise quite restrictive. The technology is not only becoming more widespread, it is also becoming more advanced - it may be possible one day to have robots operating independently.

It was 18,700 days, or 51 years, between the time when the Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon and when Intuitive Machines' Nova-C Odysseus lander did on February 22, 2024. While Intuitive Machines' lander top toppled over, it still completed most of its scientific experiments. Firefly's Blue Ghost stuck its landing last weekend, making it two landings in slightly more than a year. Intuitive Machines plans to send a second Nova-C lander, Athena, to the Moon this afternoon - if successful, that would be three US landers in 377 days.

The Aider CLI Python utility uses an innovative solution to help end users install it in an isolated virtual environment without first needing to teach them what an 'isolated virtual environment' is. It uses the uv Rust binary to install aider-chat, which in turn installs a brand-new standalone copy of Python 3.12 and puts it into uv's own managed directory structure where it shouldn't hurt anything else. There's more to it, and more advanced users may opt for an alternative installation mechanism, but the pattern is a very tasteful way of getting everything working for non-expert Python users with minimal risk of breaking their systems.

Telemetry can tell you more than technical performance. Business observability adds commercial context to your log data, allowing you to extend traditional observability by incorporating business performance as an additional output. Find real world use cases, examples, and an actionable implementation framework in this Datadog eBook.

Lynx is a family of technologies that empower developers to create truly native UIs for both mobile and web from a single code base. It can deliver vibrant and engaging UIs for large-scale apps with its speedy, versatile rendering engine, performance-driven dual-threaded UI programming, and modern Rust-based tooling. Lynx is designed for diverse use cases and rich interactivity. Examples of UIs made with Lynx are available in the article.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is helping Digg make a comeback. Ohanian and Digg founder Kevin Rose have acquired the platform for an undisclosed sum. The new Digg plans to differentiate itself in the social media market by focusing on AI innovations designed to enhance the user experience and build a human-centered alternative. The platform will prioritize transparency, reward human effort, and foster enriching discussions. It will not just be a Digg or Reddit clone.

Columbia University student Roy Lee managed to land internships at Amazon, Meta, and TikTok using a simple AI program. He had originally planned to get a degree to work in Big Tech, but training for technical interviews killed his passion for the job, which led him to create the program. Columbia University has scheduled a disciplinary hearing for Lee's stunt, but he will not be attending - Lee plans to leave the university, saying that the program he built is proof that the jobs Big Tech are offering are becoming obsolete.

Apple may be opting to skip the M4 Ultra entirely and refresh the niche chips at a slower cadence.

OpenAI intends to launch several agent products tailored for different applications, with the most expensive rumored agent, which is aimed at supporting 'PhD-level research', priced at $20,000 per month.

Many experts, including those in government, believe that transformational artificial intelligence will be coming in the next two to three years.

The judge will likely want to block OpenAI's non-profit to for-profit conversion if they find that Elon Musk's donation gives him legal standing.

Some people desperately want large language models to be a bigger deal than what they are, but these people seem to be sailing against the winds of evidence.

Blue Origin employees say they are moving to a permanent 50-hour workweek with frequent 12-hour shifts and that badge scanners have been introduced to track employee time.

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Apple has launched a new iPad Air with a spec bump over last year's device. The M3-powered device supports Apple Intelligence and is twice as fast as the M1-powered Air. It comes in four colors with 11- and 13-inch models starting at $599. A Magic Keyboard attachment is available at $269 for the smaller model.

Google will launch a feature called Pixel Sense on the Pixel 10. Pixel Sense is an on-device assistant that can use data from other Google services to be a truly smart helper. It can also process media files, including text and images and associated metadata. The feature will run fully on-device so users' data stays private. The Pixel 10 series will be released later this year.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost has successfully demonstrated the ability to use Earth-based GPS signals on the Moon. Accurate and reliable navigation will be vital for future missions to the Moon. NASA currently tracks spacecraft using a mix of onboard sensors and Earth-based tracking signals, which generally requires oversight from a team of engineers. Using GNSS could reduce the need for human operators as the signals can be autonomously picked up by spacecraft.

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered mice to have mammoth-like fur using CRISPR. The mices' fur is of a color, texture, and thickness that resembles a mammoth's fur. The woolly coat may enable the mice to survive in cold climates. While the company believes that it will be eventually possible to re-create the woolly mammoth, there are still a lot of technical hurdles ahead.

The US is unique in having a tier above Big Tech. Across the UK, India, and the Netherlands, the highest compensation is Big Tech, but in the US, hedge funds, quant firms, and top scaleups can pay more. However, these positions are usually reserved for workers already in Big Tech, and switching can be difficult. It's a lot harder now to get into top-tier companies in today's tough job market.

Arch Gateway handles the critical but pesky tasks related to the handling and processing of prompts, including detecting and rejecting jailbreak attempts, intent-based routing for improved task accuracy, mapping user requests into 'backend' functions, and managing the observability of prompts and LLM API calls in a centralized way. Several demo apps, as well as a quick start guide, are available in the repository.

Matt Mullenweg intends to stay as CEO at Automattic, but he's been thinking of a succession plan for the company. Mullenweg doesn't want to pass WordPress onto a committee but rather to another CEO who will continue to act as a steward to the WordPress community. He says the most 'iconic' companies are those where the executive has retained some majority in voting control, something he is considering in his succession planning. Automattic has helped boost the adoption of WordPress by introducing more than 100 million people to the software.

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Waymo has officially launched driverless taxis in Texas with the help of Uber. People in Austin can now take a driverless Waymo robotaxi using the Uber app. The launch comes as Tesla is expected to debut Unsupervised Full Self-Driving services in the city later this year. There will be no additional costs for accessing Waymo robotaxis. Riders will be able to use the Uber app to unlock the vehicle, open the trunk, and activate the trip.

There are still currently few details about the device, but it runs on a new kind of operating system developed by Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google for extended reality devices.

The CL1 is a biological computer filled with hundreds of thousands of lab-made neurons that can learn from digital inputs.

AI startup Sesame released a demo for its Conversational Speech Model in late February - it intentionally creates imperfections to achieve 'voice presence', a magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

Amazon's reasoning model may be launched in June under Amazon's Nova brand.

The new group is dedicated to creating AI systems that help people automate parts of their lives.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian wants to buy TikTok and bring it on-chain as part of billionaire Frank McCourt's bid to acquire the social media platform under Project Liberty.

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Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity are partnering to develop an AI phone that will have Perplexity's AI integrated on a system-wide level. Users will be able to interact with the phone's AI assistant even on the lock screen. The phone will offer access to various AI providers. It will have some agentic capabilities, but it is unclear yet how it will execute tasks. The phone will be officially launched in the second half of this year priced at under a thousand dollars and hit the shelves at some point in 2026.

Anthropic has just closed a funding round at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation. The $3.5 billion round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners - other investors included Salesforce, Cisco, and Fidelity. Anthropic plans to use the funds to advance its development of next-generation AI. It plans to expand its compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion in Asia and Europe.

Sequencing-by-expansion is a new proprietary method that pulls apart DNA molecules and amplifies the signal of each individual base, allowing scientists to avoid the time requirements of cycle-based sequencing as well as the comparable difficulties in distinguishing true signals among the noise. The technology is still in development and not yet commercially available, but it could one day be suitable for whole genome and exome sequencing as well as parsing RNA. The science behind the technology represents a significant breakthrough that addresses the limitations of existing sequencing solutions. It has the potential to revolutionize the use of sequencing in research and healthcare.

NASA plans to launch a telescope this week to provide insight into how the universe began. The SPHEREx telescope has a very wide field of view. It can detect infrared light and other wavelengths too long to be seen with the naked eye. The mission will image the entire universe four times over two years and create a very large data set about the visible universe.

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The agents.json Specification is an open specification that formally describes contracts for API and agent interactions. It is built on OpenAPI, the gold standard for describing how API endpoints work and can be executed. The specification introduces flows and links to enable AI agents to take the right sequence of actions.

Yoke is a project that takes the idea of Infrastructure as Code to the next level. It allows developers to write infrastructure definitions in Go or Rust, compile them to WebAssembly, and then take input and output from Kubernetes manifests that get applied to the cluster. Yoke has a feature called Air Traffic Control, which is a Kubernetes operator that lets developers define infrastructure as CustomResourceDefinitions - the data in the CustomResource is passed into the Flight you associate with it, and the Flight generates the manifests that get applied to the cluster. Air Traffic Control makes deploying things to clusters easier than ever.

The call to bring crypto into the mainstream through government regulation has opened up a kill-or-be-killed battle among industry players. New laws could be devastating for individual players depending on what side of new rules they are on. Tether may be an industry leader, but Circle has been calling for greater regulation that would benefit Circle at Tether's expense. This article details the battle between Circle and Tether, which has been going on since crypto trading hit the mainstream in 2020.

Klarna shut down around 1,200 SaaS a year ago as it had developed an internal tech stack that brought data and knowledge together, resulting in serious productivity gains. The company found it was able to use AI to quickly deploy new interfaces and interactions. There was no longer any need for it to continue with a lot of its SaaS as the tech stack allowed it to consolidate its technology and knowledge and remove the silos. Besides the savings, Klarna gained the unification and standardization of its knowledge and data.

Pricing for the same model can differ substantially across providers - model size is a good predictor of price.

There will quite likely be sentient AI systems in the future.

GPT-4.5 has a different form factor with unique advantages that are hard to describe precisely in words.

DeepSeek's smallpond project allows the company to scale up simply without having to rely on complex and heavy distributed frameworks by default 'just in case'.

The Ollama function caller is a command-line tool for prompting Ollama models locally that supports streaming and gives users access to important settings, like context length and temperature.

Evals aren't great due to their false appeal as a substitute for proper testing with users.

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Apple's AI division now believes that a true modernized conversational version of Siri won't reach consumers until iOS 20 at best in 2027. iOS 19 will likely not include any significant consumer-facing changes to Apple Intelligence because the company is still working on getting the features announced last year out the door. The company is currently not moving fast enough internally to create the underlying AI technology that it needs to keep up with the competition, suggesting that change is required.

Amazon usually announces dozens of new gadgets at its event, but it spent 70 minutes at its press conference last week instead talking about Alexa Plus, its new generative AI-powered Alexa voice assistant. The company has focused on building cheap hardware for Alexa over the past decade and wasting efforts on failed ways for people to interact with the assistant rather than improving the core technology. The new Alexa was 100% rearchitected and is far more capable than its predecessor - which will remain accessible. It can order food, control smart home devices, create natural language security reports and menus, and much more.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on the Moon's surface early Sunday morning. The smooth touchdown makes Firefly Aerospace the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful soft landing on the Moon. Blue Ghost is carrying 10 NASA experiments on board. The lander will capture high-definition imagery of the March 14 total eclipse, when the Earth will pass between the Moon and the Sun.

Alphabet's Taara chip could lead to low-cost, high-speed internet connectivity even in distant locations. It is about the size of a fingernail and works by using a very narrow, invisible light beam to transmit data at speeds as high as 20 gigabits per second at distances of up to 20 kilometers. The technology works similarly to traditional fiber except the light doesn't travel through cables. It only takes days to install instead of the months or years it takes to lay down fiber. The chip is expected to become available in 2026.

Large language models (LLMs) make coding mistakes that aren't instantly caught by the language compiler or interpreter all the time. Hallucinations in LLM-generated code are usually obvious because they result in an error, but just because code looks good and runs without errors, doesn't mean it's actually doing the right thing. One of the reasons LLMs won't put software professionals out of work is because their job is to prove that code works - manually testing code is essential. Being able to read, understand, and review code written by other people is a crucial skill.

Vibe Coding is a mode of coding where the developer fully gives into the vibes and forgets that the code even exists - this is made possible by large language models (LLMs). Developers can now just talk to LLMs and write code while barely even touching the keyboard. Even looking at the code becomes unnecessary. The Vibe Coding meme is a hint at where things are headed - developers are building towards a future where AI can be harnessed to build better software products safely and efficiently.

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Reviews say that OpenAI's newest AI model, GPT-4.5, is big, expensive, and slow. The model provides marginally better performance than GPT-4o at 30 times the cost for input and 15 times the cost for output. There seems to be diminishing returns in training unsupervised-learning large language models - scaling laws may have possibly met their natural end. OpenAI seems well aware of these limitations, which is why it released the model as a limited 'research preview'.

The stable middle ground of tech employment - the middle-class engineer - isn't needed anymore. Product builders who can code can ship entire products in days when armed with AI. A single developer can now accomplish what once required an entire team. Companies are streamlining their operations, focusing on engineers who can use AI and demonstrate they can do the job of multiple engineers. The biggest losers in this shift may be the fresh graduates looking to enter the industry - recent graduates now have to be better than people already working.

Users want their default font sizes to respond to changes in window sizes, but browsers (as a rule) don't make responsive typography available in user settings.

Choosing the right JavaScript framework is a difficult task - developers should choose boring, simple, and well-maintained technology so they aren't the first team to ever encounter a problem or the last team stuck using old technology.

The biggest economic transformation of our lifetime may come from diabetes drugs.

AI is upending the business models of major content sites in a phenomenon being called Product-Market Fit Collapse.

Around 70% to 80% of large US employers now use some form of employee monitoring using all kinds of sensor data.

Many features of an effective approach to troubleshooting are domain agnostic.