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META NAMES CHATGPT CO-CREATOR AS CHIEF SCIENTIST OF SUPERINTELLIGENCE LAB

Meta has named Shengjia Zhao, ChatGPT co-creator, as chief scientist of its new Superintelligence Lab to bolster its AI initiatives. Zhao will lead research direction, working closely with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief AI Officer Alex Wang. The move highlights Meta's aggressive recruitment strategy to close the gap in advanced AI capabilities.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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WHY CHINA ISN'T ABOUT TO LEAP AHEAD OF THE WEST ON COMPUTE

Chinese hardware has closed the computational performance gap from 10x to just 3x behind NVIDIA's latest chips, yet over 90% of notable Chinese language models since 2017 were still trained on Western hardware. Major bottlenecks in chip manufacturing yields—SMIC achieves below 50% compared to TSMC's 90%—and immature software ecosystems mean Chinese developers continue preferring NVIDIA when available.

epoch.ai · 13 min

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CLAUDE CODE IN PRACTICE: ANTHROPIC CASE STUDY

This case study explores how Anthropic's internal teams, from legal to engineering, are using Claude Code to automate tasks, bridge skill gaps, and accelerate complex projects.

anthropic.com · 26 min

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THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S FIRST AI-ORGANIZED EVENT

An AI orchestrated a successful event, handling tasks such as scheduling, marketing, and logistics. The event highlighted AI's potential to automate complex organizational tasks. This advancement could streamline event management and reduce human workload.

lesswrong.com · 1 min

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QWEN3 235B THINKING (HUGGING FACE REPO)

Alibaba's latest open-source thinking model achieves 92.3% on AIME25 math competitions, matching OpenAI's O4-mini performance while surpassing it on coding benchmarks with 74.1% on LiveCodeBench. The 235B parameter mixture-of-experts model activates only 22B parameters during inference, making it more efficient than traditional dense models.

huggingface.co

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EVERYTHING I'VE LEARNED SO FAR ABOUT OPENAI'S AGENTS

This article looks at what OpenAI's new Agents can do, can't do, their available applications and tools, and more. Examples of work done by the agent are provided in the article. There are still many things OpenAI's Agents are unable to do. There are also many performance and output issues, making the product seem unfinished.

leonfurze.com · 10 min

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THE CLOUD COST CONUNDRUM: RISING EXPENSES HINDER AI INNOVATION IN EUROPE

High cloud infrastructure costs are slowing AI development in Europe. Compute-intensive workloads like model training are facing sharp budget constraints. Many startups report needing to scale back experiments or delay releases due to rising cloud bills. The region's innovators are calling for more efficient architectures and pricing models to remain competitive globally.

akamai.com · 3 min

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lovart.ai

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THE DOMINANCE OF CHINESE OPEN MODELS IS UNDERSOLD

The top four open source AI models are from Chinese labs.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min

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THE 14 PAINS OF BILLING FOR AI AGENTS

The original billing complexity hasn't gone away, we've just added a whole new layer of agentic complexity on top.

arnon.dk · 13 min

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USING GITHUB SPARK TO REVERSE ENGINEER GITHUB SPARK

GitHub Spark is GitHub's implementation of the prompt-to-app pattern - this post explores its system prompt in detail.

simonwillison.net · 19 min

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FASTER HUGGING FACE CLI

Hugging Face has renamed its CLI from huggingface-cli to hf, reorganizing the command structure into a more intuitive format.

huggingface.co · 3 min