An effective cloud diagram isn't about fancy isometric visuals - it's about creating a useful inventory and visualization of a cloud environment (present or future).
Apple is developing two new Vision Pro headsets despite glasses being a bigger goal in the long run. The company is also preparing to overhaul iPadOS to make its tablets more like Macs. iPhones made in China have been exempted from tariffs. Apple will not move production back to the US - instead, it is going all-out on India as its US production source. It would be impossible to move iPhone manufacturing back to the US.
OpenAI is readying GPT-4.1 and a full version of its o3 reasoning model for release soon. GPT-4.1, a revamped version of GPT-4o, will launch along with smaller mini and nano versions. While OpenAI is still not yet profitable, it is currently valued at $300 billion. ChatGPT was the most downloaded app on app stores last month.
The popularity of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss has led to companies competing to make new and improved anti-obesity medications. Boston-based Syntis Bio has created a daily pill that mimics the effects of gastric bypass without actual surgery. The drug is designed to redirect the absorption of nutrients from the beginning of the small intestine to its end, changing how the body absorbs food and leaving people feeling fuller from eating less. Early data from animals and a small group of humans shows that the pill is safe and may be able to suppress hunger.
A team of Spanish engineers has created a 3D hologram that can be physically interacted with. The technology allows users to control holographic objects using common phone gestures. Users testing the system were faster and more confident when manipulating objects compared to existing methods. A video showcasing the technology is available in the article.
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Datastar uses the simplicity of server-side rendering and the power of a full-stack SPA framework to build reactive web applications. It is only 14.5 KB but it can provide the functionality of both Alpine.j and htmx. Developers can easily add custom plugins to the core. There are official software development kits available to help developers get up and running quickly.
No- and low-code abstractions promised to democratize software creation, but the technology didn't even come close to replacing code or traditional programming. A decade later, vibe coding is showing that prompt-to-code workflows are possible. Large language models allow people to create actual code not locked into proprietary runtimes. They can generate code written to open standards, leverage industry best practices, and deploy to open infrastructure.
OpenAI's user base has doubled in just the past few weeks. The company plans to release a powerful open-source model near the frontier in response to DeepSeek. It is becoming much less restrictive on speech harms and taking a more permissive stance due to feedback that people don't want censorship. Sam Altman says that having a child changed a lot in him - but he doesn't think his kids will ever be smarter than AI.
It's been a decade since the release of Apple's most recent commercial successes - the Apple Watch and AirPods. The company's services lag behind rivals in subscriptions and half of its sales still come from the iPhone. Vision Pro sales were disappointing, but it was the company's issues with Apple Intelligence that exposed the dysfunction within the organization. There seems to be a breakdown of leadership, communication, and internal processes at Apple.
The first AGI will be dumb and largely underperform on all benchmarks, disappointing almost everyone, but it will be the first non-human system where you can meaningfully apply a measure of IQ.
Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup led by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation.
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OpenAI is rolling out improvements to ChatGPT's memory and making it a default for the chatbot to reference past conversations. The chatbot will now draw on past conversations to deliver more relevant and useful responses across all modalities on the platform. While AI long term memory could be useful for many tasks, some users are concerned with the privacy implications of the feature. Users are able to turn the feature on or off in ChatGPT settings.
Google's new Pixel 9a has most of what makes flagship Pixel phones so good at a $499 price point. While the cheaper price point means a trade-off in materials, charging, and the on-device AI capabilities the device has compared to its pricier siblings, none of those are deal-breakers. The modestly-priced phone, which will have lengthy support, could be the perfect purchase in a period of uncertainty for imported gadgets.
A new study published in the journal Science sets a new upper limit for the mass of a neutrino. Neutrinos are prolific across the cosmos - they are created virtually anytime atomic nuclei snap together or rip apart. They carry no electric charge and are notoriously difficult to detect. Learning more about neutrinos will help cosmologists fill in more knowledge about the universe, including how galaxies clustered together and what influences the expansion of the cosmos. Uncovering the exact values of the mass of neutrinos could lead to new physics.
Mitochondrial transfer - when mitochondria skip from cell to cell on demand - has been observed in a wide variety of cells and in organisms as diverse as yeast, molluscs, and rodents. It isn't clear yet why mitochondria are so mobile, but there are hints that cells donate their mitochondria to neighbors during times of need. The implications for human health are still a mystery. It is unclear whether mitochondrial transfer happens inside the human body.
smartfunc turns docstrings into LLM-functions. It features schemas, inner function prompt engineering, support for async functions, and a debug mode. A video demo is available in the repository.
It's possible to configure private, custom domains for local webapps, so instead of having to remember and type 'localhost:4333', you can simply navigate to 'appname.localhost'. The process involves setting up each app as a launchd daemon that listens to a unique port, configuring /etc/hosts to redirect traffic to 127.0.0.1, and then redirecting traffic from 127.0.0.1 to the right port for the domain. This post provides more details on the process.
Companies are using AI agents and reasoning models to take on real enterprise workflows. Startups are moving from AI that merely responds to prompts to AI that solves problems and completes entire workflows, producing real business results. Startups focused on robots have made meaningful strides as they integrate models built using transformers with hardware. Companies this year will prove that AI can be trusted with meaningful workloads and deliver real results - next year, enterprise gains will start spilling into everyday life.
Apple experienced a major internal shake-up related to Siri last month. The company's struggles in AI were partly tied to its militant stance on user privacy and also poor leadership. Members of the Siri team at Apple were surprised at the features that the company demoed at WWDC last year as they didn't even have working prototypes. There seems to be more optimism within Apple that Siri is in good hands now.
The Liberty Phone, made by a company called Purism, is almost completely made in the USA - it costs $2,000, with specs that reviewers say are pretty outdated.
Thinking Machines Lab recently emerged from stealth and has no product or revenue, but it does have dozens of high-profile AI researchers in its ranks.
Reasoning models, which are supposed to be more capable than their non-reasoning counterparts in specific domains, are much more expensive to benchmark, making it difficult to independently verify claims.
Thomas Kurian was President of Product Development at Oracle, where he worked for 22 years, before he joined Google to lead its cloud division in 2018.
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Google has unveiled the latest version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a custom chip built to run artificial intelligence. The Ironwood TPU is positioned for inference rather than training. Inference is considered a high-volume market in the chip world. While Google pays Broadcom for each TPU in commercial production, it still saves more money using TPUs when compared to paying Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to use their chips for inference.
Samsung plans to launch its Ballie robot, which leverages Google's Gemini, this summer in the US and South Korea. The company first showed off Ballie in early 2020 but the project was delayed and reimagined in the years since. Ballie will leverage Gemini's multimodal features to assist users. It can process images and respond with recommendations. A video demonstration from Samsung is available in the article.
Intuitive Machines will launch its fourth moon lander along with two relay satellites for a NASA lunar communications network on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2027. The company recently crashed its second moon lander near the Moon's south pole. It plans to launch a third moon lander in 2026. Intuitive Machines' first moon lander tipped over after breaking a landing leg while attempting to land in 2024.
Zipline is launching an airborne delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Mesquite. The company plans to expand to Seattle by the end of the year. Zipline's automated drones can be loaded in seconds, carry small packages for miles, and deposit them with pinpoint accuracy. The company has already flown more than 1.4 million deliveries and covered over 100 million miles.
Hyperautomation allows developers to modernize legacy systems, replace homegrown solutions, and automate complex workflows. But it comes with challenges – from untangling RPA bots to ensuring seamless system integrations. Camunda's guide reveals how to deal with common hyperautomation scenarios, where to apply AI, and the best hyperautomation tech for designing, automating + analyzing processes. Read the guide.
Google's Firebase Studio is a cloud-based development environment that brings Gemini-powered AI agents, customizable coding workspaces, and end-to-end deployment tools into the browser. It combines prototyping, coding, and deployment in a single-browser-based IDE and provides always-on AI assistance across the entire development workflow. Firebase Studio can be used to generate full apps using natural language, images, or drawings.
xAI has made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with 'reasoning' capabilities available via API. Grok 3 is priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. xAI has been accused of being misleading in its benchmark reporting for Grok 3 and several users on X have pointed out that Grok 3 via xAI's API has a smaller context window than advertised - the API maxes out at 131,072 tokens.
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Isomorphic Labs was spun out of Google DeepMind after the tech giant achieved one of the biggest biological breakthroughs in the last 50 years - AlphaFold2, an AI system that can predict the structures of proteins. The company recently made AlphaFold3 available to the scientific community for non-commercial use. It claims that the new system can predict the structures of and interactions between all life's molecules. The company aims to eventually solve all diseases through AI-powered drug discovery.
Google will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its Gemini models and SDK, but the company has not provided a timeline for the integration.
A local taxi fleet operator, Nihon Kotsu, will drive about 25 vehicles manually for the purposes of gathering mapping data - the first has already been spotted in a parking lot in Tokyo.
Figure is seeking to raise $1.5 billion in a funding round at a $39.5 billion valuation despite having no revenue last year and just a few dozen robots in production.
For too long, marketing has been about creating messages that people don't want to hear, delivered via interruption. RAD Intel is an AI-driven disrupter putting the human touch back in marketing, and generating huge amounts of investment in the process.
The company's patented AI persona generator reveals exactly who a company's customer is – down to the topics, interests, and triggers that drive action – before pinpointing the perfect (human) personality to deliver the message.
The Trump administration believed it had a plan to save TikTok last Wednesday, but the Chinese government would not let the deal proceed due to new tariffs on Chinese imports. President Trump extended the deadline for a TikTok deal into mid-June in response. ByteDance was reportedly comfortable with the new suggested plan, but even before the tariff announcement, there was no guarantee that China would approve of any deal. The talks about TikTok are likely to become even more complicated as the trade war between the two countries escalates.
Late last month, Elon Musk announced that he was merging X with xAI in a deal that valued the newly combined company at more than $100 billion. This article reveals the string of events that helped Musk announce the deal before Trump's tariffs effectively closed the market for deals. The deal moves Musk closer to his longtime goal of turning X into an 'everything app'. The combined company will initially focus on more tightly embedding xAI's Grok chatbot into X, making it more central to the app experience.
Slate Auto, which could start production as soon as next year, is an EV startup that has been quietly operating since its founding in 2022. It has hired hundreds of employees, many of whom came from Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, and Harley-Davidson. The company is aiming to build an affordable two-seat electric pickup truck for around $25,000. It raised at least $111 million in a Series A round in 2023 that Jeff Bezos participated in. It is unknown how much Bezos put into the company.
Praxis is a self-described 'sovereign network' funded by Silicon Valley investors looking for at least 10,000 acres somewhere in the world to build its first city. Its co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dryden Brown will visit several candidate sites in a world tour kicking off in May. The locations include Nuuk in Greenland, Buenos Aires, Rome, Athens, Auckland, Marrakesh, Tokyo, Kyiv, and the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo. Once a location is announced and the host country's support has been secured, Praxis will dispatch a small delegation of supporters to move into 250 to 1,000 modular houses.
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OpenAI has released the Evals API for developers. The API enables developers to programmatically define tests, automate evaluation runs, and quickly iterate on prompts. It allows developers to integrate Evals anywhere in a workflow. Evals are still available in the dashboard.
Apache ECharts is an open source JavaScript visualization library. It features flexible chart types, a powerful rendering engine, elegant visual design, and a healthy community. The library can automatically generate chart descriptions and decal patterns for accessibility. It provides easy ways to add intuitive, interactive, and highly customizable charts to commercial products.
More and more people are using large language models instead of search engines, but many developers are finding that the technology is not well suited to finding factual information. Search engines are still better at finding specific links and real information. Large language models can be helpful for many things, like helping someone unfamiliar with a topic better refine their searches by getting the terminology correct and exploring research topics. Search engines are still required for many things as large language models get lots of very important things wrong.
Apple shipped five flights worth of Apple products in three days to the US in the last week of March to stock its warehouses. This is usually a time of the year when the company starts winding down its current-year products and starts manufacturing its September releases. The reserves that arrived at a lower duty will temporarily insulate the company from the higher prices it will need to pay under the revised tax rates. Apple is expected to take a $33 billion hit due to the Trump Administration's newly instated tariff plan.
Thinking Machines Lab has gained former OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew and Alec Radford, a former OpenAI researcher behind many of the company's more transformative innovations.
A look at how to correctly set up and use standard PostgreSQL Full-Text Search (FTS) for optimal performance that demonstrates the true speed of built-in FTS.
Several people working in the video game industry or related fields tell stories about their daily interactions and struggles with artificial intelligence in the workplace and what it means for the jobs they've been trained and hired to do.
Gemini is the cheapest, most accurate, and among the fastest models on the market; GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet are pretty good, but not worth the 20-30x price premium over Gemini; and newer models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.5 seem more creative and not ideal for doing exactly what you want to do.
An unsubstantiated rumor that Meta artificially boosted its Llama 4 benchmark results began circulating on X and Reddit over the weekend. Meta's VP of generative AI Ahman Al-Dahle has denied the rumors, saying that Meta did not train its models on test sets. The rumor appears to have originated from a post on Chinese social media from a user claiming to have resigned from Meta in protest over the company's benchmarking practices. Researchers have observed stark differences in the behavior of the publicly downloadable models compared with the models hosted on LM Arena.
OpenAI is reportedly in discussions to buy the company former Apple design lead Jony Ive is building with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Ive is working with Altman on io Products, a startup that aims to build products 'less socially disruptive than the iPhone'. OpenAI may end up partnering with io Products instead of acquiring the startup. io Products currently has a small team that includes former Apple designers. It has reportedly been working on different concepts of AI-enabled devices.
Dire wolves went extinct around 13,000 years ago. Scientists at Colossal Biosciences have bred gray-wolf pups that carry dire wolf genes. The three animals are currently living in captivity in the northern United States. The technology used to create them could potentially help revive other species and conserve species that have not yet gone extinct. Pictures of the dire wolf pups are available in the article.
TSMC introduced a 2-nanometer chip on April 1, with mass production expected for the second half of the year. The chips represent a major step forward in performance and efficiency and could potentially reshape the technological landscape. They provide a 10% to 15% boost in computing speed at the same power level or a 20% to 30% reduction in power usage at the same speed as 3nm chips and increase transistor density by about 15%. The new chips enable devices to operate faster, consume electricity, and manage more complex tasks efficiently.
Browser MCP allows users to connect AI apps to their browsers to automate tasks. Automation happens locally on users' machines, resulting in better performance without network latency. Browser activity stays on-device and isn't sent to remote servers. Browser MCP uses existing browser profiles, keeping users logged into all of their services. It avoids CAPTCHAs by using real browser fingerprints.
AI IDEs don't actually understand codebases, they're just sophisticated autocomplete tools with good marketing. The difference becomes painfully obvious on any moderately complex project. The next generation of tools will build rich mental models from multiple perspectives, just like experienced developers do. This article discusses an approach to building an AI that understands where files should be logically placed, which patterns to follow, how to extend existing abstractions instead of creating new ones, and when to reuse code vs create new implementations.
Large language models generate disproportionate benefit for regular people while their impact is more muted and lagging in corporations and governments. It is a major multiplier to individuals' power levels across a broad range of capabilities. Frontier-grade performance is very accessible and cheap - money can't buy a better ChatGPT. This is a unique situation in the history of technology - the future is already here, and it's shockingly distributed.
Shopify now expects its staff to use AI. The prototype phase of any GSD project should now be dominated by AI exploration. Shopify is adding AI usage questions to its performance and peer review questionnaire to encourage staff to learn to prompt and load context. Teams must now demonstrate why they can't achieve their goals using AI before asking for more headcount and resources.
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says that it's more cost-effective to trail frontier model builders by three to six months and build on their successes than to compete with them directly.
Understanding your customers isn't just about knowing who they are. It's about understanding what they do. Event data (AKA behavioral data) tells the full story of what your customers want to do with your product, and what they manage to achieve.
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Meta's new Llama 4 model suite includes four new models, Maverick, Scout, Behemoth, and Reasoning. Both Maverick and Scout are available to download now from the Llama website and Hugging Face and have been added to Meta AI. Behemoth is an upcoming model that Meta claims is among the world's smartest large language models. More information about Llama 4 Reasoning will be released in the next month.
China has withheld approval for a deal that involved the launch of a new US-based version of TikTok owned and operated by a majority of American investors. White House officials had planned for President Trump to sign an executive order approving the proposal, which had the blessings of investors and ByteDance. Trump's recent tariffs have angered China and prompted retaliatory measures against the US. The deadline to reach a deal has been extended by another 75 days.
Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge, and Eric Philips were the first people to fly over Earth's poles in space. The private mission launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon 9 rocket on March 31. While these were the first people to make the journey, low-Earth polar orbits are commonly used for weather-tracking and spy satellites. Photos and video from the mission are available in the article.
Scientists at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have developed a technology that allows brain-computer interfaces to provide touch feedback to users. The technology was implanted into a patient who was paralyzed from the chest down after a driving accident. It allowed the patient not only to control movements in his hand but also to receive touch feedback and 'feel', using those sensations to guide movements. The patient was able to pick up a cup and drink from it just by thinking about performing the task and pick up an empty eggshell without cracking it.
Sparks is a typeface for creating sparklines in text without code. It uses OpenType's contextual alternates feature to perform simple replacement operations on numbers. Sparks works on desktop and on the web without JavaScript (but it requires a browser that can make use of OpenType features in text). It is currently compatible with Microsoft Word 2010 and later, Apple Pages, Adobe Creative Cloud applications, Chrome 33+, Safari 6+, Firefox 4+, and Internet Explorer 10+.
Model output is now actually worth more than the cost of real dev work. It's starting to make sense to throw a lot of money towards inference. This will probably cause some disruption in the junior dev job market - or at least disrupt what it means to be a junior dev. Code-writing agents are predicted to essentially match college graduates in almost all software tasks by the end of 2026.
OnlineOrNot was launched in 2021 when there were more than 200 listed alternatives to the tool its creator wanted to create. There are even more competitors today. OnlineOrNot is a self-funded and sustainable business. This post looks at the lessons learned by its creator throughout the lifetime of the business.
OpenAI plans to release both o3 and o4-mini in a couple of weeks. The company had previously canceled the launch of its o3 reasoning model but reversed course due to its upcoming GPT-5 model. GPT-5 will now roll out later than originally anticipated as the company prepares enough capacity to support what it expects to be unprecedented demand. The model will incorporate voice, Canvas, search, deep research, and more.
AI-driven advertising that generates 3.5X ROI? 1700% valuation increase over three years? No wonder Fortune 500 insiders are rushing to back RAD Intel. The share price changes on 4/10, invest now to lock in the current price.
AI will create a future where we will be able to solve almost all problems, but figuring out how we distribute limited resources is an unsolved question.
Two DOGE staffers, Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, plan to launch a hackathon to build an API that would grant cloud providers easy access to (and export of) IRS data including taxpayer names, addresses, social security numbers, tax returns, and employment information.
Open source just means that the source is open - it doesn't mean that it's open to contributions, that support is offered, that users are entitled to feature requests or developer time - or anything, and it doesn't mean that it's free.
