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TLDR 2025-07-23

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01GENERAL

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

FOLDABLE IPHONE'S DISPLAY SIZES LEAKED

Apple will likely launch its foldable iPhone in the second half of 2026. The device will come with a 7.8-inch inner display and a 5.5-inch outer display. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has an 8-inch inner screen and a 6.5-inch outer screen. Apple's foldable iPhone will feature a 'crease-free' inner display and have two rear cameras, one front camera, and a Touch ID power button instead of Face ID.

macrumors.com1 min read

OPENAI AGREED TO PAY ORACLE $30B A YEAR FOR DATA CENTER SERVICES

Oracle disclosed in an SEC filing last month that it had signed a cloud deal that would generate $30 billion a year in revenue. The company that signed that deal has been revealed to be OpenAI. Oracle collectively sold $24.5 billion worth of cloud services in its fiscal 2025 to all customers combined. OpenAI and Oracle still have to build the data center, which will be a costly endeavor.

techcrunch.com2 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

DEEPMIND'S QUEST FOR SELF-IMPROVING TABLE TENNIS AGENTS

Google DeepMind recently used table tennis as a testbed for its technology, as the sport requires robots to master a confluence of difficult skills - it requires perception and demands exceptionally precise control. This makes table tennis an ideal domain for developing and evaluating robust learning algorithms that can handle real-time interaction, complex physics, high-level reasoning, and the need for adaptive strategies. This article looks at the study and the insights gained from it. One important lesson learned from the project is that VLMs can be leveraged for explainable robot policy search.

spectrum.ieee.org5 min read

GENETICS REIMAGINED

Scientists recently confirmed the healthy births of children through mitochondrial donation. The innovation opens new doors for reproductive choice. It offers at-risk families a viable path to parenthood without the lingering fear of passing on devastating inherited conditions. However, it also opens up the possibility of designer genetics that will be passed down to future generations. Those currently living with conditions will still face daily challenges, but for the next generation, the landscape has changed.

thestatesman.com4 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

ANY-AGENT

any-agent is a Python library that provides a single interface for evaluating different agent frameworks. It can be used to create and evaluate agents, implement and use custom callbacks, integrate Model Context Protocol tools, deploy agents with Agent-to-Agent communication, and more. Tutorials on how to get started are available.

github.comGitHub repository

VIBECODING A HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEM

This developer recently used agentic coding to build a system to crawl a billion web pages in around 24 hours. Less than 4% of the code was written by hand. The post discusses how AI helped code the tool and where it fell short. AI was a huge boost during the development process. Some of the learnings from this project could also apply to building other high-performance systems.

andrewkchan.dev24 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

HOW APPLE'S INTERNAL VETO AGAINST OPEN-SOURCE AI SPARKED A TALENT EXODUS TO META

Apple had a plan to open-source its core AI models, but its leadership decided against it due to fears of exposing performance compromises made for on-device processing, a pivotal decision that has ignited a crisis of confidence within the company's AI division. The move has directly triggered an exodus of top talent to rivals like Meta. Many engineers are frustrated with the internal conflict between Apple's famous secrecy and the open culture of AI research. There are now serious doubts over the future of Apple Intelligence and the company's ability to compete in the AI arms race.

links.tldrnewsletter.com4 min read

READING QR CODES WITHOUT A COMPUTER!

This article provides an interactive explanation of how QR codes work. It covers the anatomy of a QR code, mask patterns, encoding, reading, and decoding. Readers can enter their own custom data to generate a QR code to follow along with the article. The article gives readers all the information they need to decode simple QR codes by hand.

qr.blinry.org9 min read