The Daily Index — Thursday, December 18, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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THE STATE OF AI CODING 2025

Greptile's State of AI Coding report is a cross-industry study on recent trends in AI software development. It covers productivity gain across development workflows, AI tool adoption, model growth trends, performance across latency, cost, and tokenization, and recent papers on foundational models and applications. Code output has increased across teams. OpenAI is still the leading model provider, but the gap is closing.

greptile.com · 10 min

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THE OSCARS ARE HEADING TO YOUTUBE IN 2029

The 101st Academy Awards will be hosted on YouTube starting in 2029 through 2033. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has signed an exclusive rights deal with YouTube that includes red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content, and access to the Governors Ball. The coverage of the Academy Awards will be available to YouTube TV subscribers in the US and for free on YouTube for viewers around the world.

cnbc.com · 2 min

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OPENAI DISCUSSED FUNDING AT $750 BILLION VALUE

OpenAI has held preliminary funding talks with investors to raise tens of billions of dollars at a valuation of $750 billion. The yet-to-be-profitable startup plans to spend trillions on infrastructure to support the development of AI technology. It has raised billions in recent years at ever-larger valuations. The startup was most recently valued at $500 billion in the fall.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 1 min

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PAYING $3 FOR A DOLLAR: THE RATIONAL IRRATIONALITY OF VENTURE CAPITAL

VCs are forced to chase momentum against their better judgment, and once they enter the game, they are structurally unable to stop bidding.

docs.google.com · 6 min

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NEW PRODUCT MODE

New product mode is optimizing for optionality and speed without too much planning or commitment when building something new.

world.hey.com · 6 min

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📝 IS MOZILLA TRYING HARD TO KILL ITSELF?

Mozilla's new CEO has hinted that axing ad blockers is something that was considered due to the profit it would bring.

infosec.press · 3 min

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WAYMO AND TESLA'S SELF-DRIVING SYSTEMS ARE MORE SIMILAR THAN PEOPLE THINK

This post explains how Waymo's technology works and why it's more similar to Wayve and Tesla's technology than many people think.

understandingai.org · 15 min

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GOOGLE IS REPORTEDLY WORKING WITH META TO EXPAND SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR ITS AI CHIPS

Google is working with Meta on TorchTPU, a project that aims to make it easier for AI developers who use PyTorch to switch the hardware layer to Google's tensor processing units.

sherwood.news · 1 min

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COINBASE ADDS PREDICTION MARKETS AND STOCK TRADING IN PUSH TO BE ONE-STOP TRADING APP

Coinbase's CEO, Brian Armstrong, wants to make the platform a place to trade everything.

cnbc.com · 7 min