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APPLE GEARS UP TO LAUNCH ITS FIRST NEW MAC MINI IN TWO YEARS

Apple's first new Mac mini in almost two years will debut as soon as the next few days. The upgrade follows a surge in demand for the current Mac mini, which has become popular for running AI applications locally. It is part of a wave of new products Apple plans to release in the second half of this year. Apple is set to hold an event on September 9 where it will introduce its first foldable smartphone, as well as the iPhone 18 Pro line. The company is also preparing a range of new Apple Watches and fresh AirPods.

HOW UBER BUILT A SOFTWARE FACTORY FOR AGENTIC CODING: THE MCP GATEWAY AND THE PLATFORM UNDERNEATH

More than 70% of pull requests at Uber are now written by AI agents. Code shipped per engineer has doubled in a year. This was enabled through a software factory that runs on a platform that Uber built. The platform gives agents the pieces they need to work safely across thousands of engineers. This post looks at how the factory was built. It covers what MCP gateways are and why they are needed for agentic coding at scale, workflows, and more.

THE STATE MACHINE NOBODY DESIGNED

Every part of an agent harness adds information to the model's context, controls what information is allowed into that context, or checks the model's output after it is generated. This is just context engineering. Thinking in terms of harnesses makes developers think in terms of adding components. Context is limited, so it's not just about what you can add, but about what's worth keeping as well. The context window is the whole state machine.

THE BIGGEST DOGS IN STREAMING WANT YOU TO USE ONLY THEIR APP

YouTube and Roku are racing to become one-stop shops for all of the content people watch on their TVs. Some paying YouTube subscribers will soon have access to content from Peacock as part of a recent deal between the two companies. The streaming wars have now morphed into a bundling war. The biggest streaming companies no longer just want to have the most subscribers - they also want to be the main entry point to everything streaming has to offer.

HOW UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PREPARE FOUNDERS

Universities tend to resist the idea of keeping students less busy with coursework, partly because educators feel they have to take active measures to achieve something. However, student founders should be left alone to their own projects, partly because they will be more excited to work on a project that's entirely their own, and because many projects wouldn't survive official recognition. It seems excessive to change the whole schedule of a university just to encourage would-be founders, but giving students some of their time back would help all of the most energetic and ambitious ones. They'd have time to explore new things if the pressure of work were relieved for even a week or two.

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