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SAMSUNG'S TRI-FOLD PHONE, XR HEADSET, AND AI SMART GLASSES TO BE REVEALED AT SEP 29 UNPACKED EVENT

Samsung is set to unveil three new devices at its third Unpacked event of the year. The event will reportedly take place on September 29 in South Korea. Samsung will unveil a tri-fold smartphone, the Project Moohan XR headset, and new AI smart glasses. It is the first time Samsung has had three Unpacked events in one calendar year.

ALIBABA SHARES JUMP 19% ON CLOUD UNIT ACCELERATION, REPORT OF NEW AI CHIP

Alibaba's shares are now at their highest level since March. The tech giant has been investing in AI infrastructure and developing its own models, as well as selling AI services for its cloud computing unit. AI-related product revenue maintained triple-digit year-over-year growth for the eighth consecutive quarter. Alibaba's core e-commerce business has been showing signs of revival. It recently introduced a feature on Taobao that provides deliveries of certain products in China within an hour.

TEACHING AI HOW SCIENCE ACTUALLY WORKS

Current AI for science consists of specialized tools built on curated data sets, but much of science is hands-on experimentation and unrecorded tacit knowledge. AI scientists will need multimodal datasets that capture that tacit knowledge for them to become truly capable. The IFP has proposed an effort to generate and use the multimodal data necessary to unlock the full potential of AI for science. The program involves creating a lab that would simultaneously conduct research while recording everything and then using that data to make the whole process more productive.

THE LARGEST PROJECT IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY IS ABOUT TO ENTER A KEY PHASE: THE FINAL ASSEMBLY OF THE REACTOR CORE, LED BY AN AMERICAN GIANT

Westinghouse Electric Company has secured a €168 million contract to lead the assembly of the core of ITER's fusion reactor. The critical operation will involve the precise installation and welding of nine massive steel sectors to form the tokamak's vacuum vessel, the heart of the fusion reactor. Each 400-ton sector must be positioned and welded with millimeter precision to create a perfectly circular, hermetically sealed chamber. ITER's primary technical goal is to demonstrate fusion power at a commercial scale. If successful, the project is expected to spawn multiple approaches to commercial fusion.

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RIPPLE

Ripple is a TypeScript UI framework that combines the best parts of React, Solid, and Svelte into one package. It was designed to be a JavaScript/TypeScript-first framework, rather than HTML-first. Ripple has its own superset language that plays nicely with TypeScript and JavaScript, but with an interesting touch that leads to a better developer experience for both humans and large language models. It is still in an early development stage.

LESSONS ON BUILDING AN AI DATA ANALYST

This article looks at what it takes to build an AI data analyst. It provides tips on how to preserve quality where it matters without blowing up response times. Text to SQL isn't enough because the task is hard for current models - systems should instead run a multi-step workflow. Context and metadata can mean the difference between the right and wrong answer.

WHERE ARE ALL THE TRILLION DOLLAR BIOTECHS?

The drug development industry addresses the most tractable diseases with the biggest outcomes first. However, unlike with other industries, reinvesting capital from early wins back into the ecosystem hasn't accelerated the industry's progress - it has been on a reverse trend for a while now. For the industry to advance, manufacturing and trials need to get cheaper with each run, regulations should become more adaptive, approval frameworks should increase and not decrease in variance, and new therapeutic modalities should focus on unlocking new biology. Until these new paradigms take hold, it will be difficult to build a trillion-dollar biotech.

THOUGHTS ON (AMAZONIAN) LEADERSHIP

Amazon's Leadership Principles are famous in the tech world. They're generally sensible rules by which to run a company. The principles include Customer Obsession, starting with the customer and working backwards; Ownership, thinking long term that not sacrificing long-term value for short-term results and acting on behalf of the company, not just your own team; and Bias for Action, making fast decisions and being aware that many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. This article provides some commentary on these principles.

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CHROME INCREASES ITS OVERWHELMING MARKET SHARE, NOW OVER 70%

Chrome's closest competitor, Microsoft Edge, holds just 11.8% market share.

PROCESSORS ARE GETTING WIDER

Wider processors can retire more instructions per cycle.

THE TIME PICKER ON IPHONE'S ALARM APP ISN'T ACTUALLY CIRCULAR

It's actually just a really long list.

LYFT'S CEO ON THE ECONOMICS OF ROBOTAXIS, HOW TO END SURGE PRICING, AND REVIVING HIS COMPANY

Lyft's CEO, David Risher, known for his loud shirts and Citi Bike commutes, joined the company in 2023.

HOW BIG ARE OUR EMBEDDINGS NOW, AND WHY?

200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry a few years ago - Qwen-3, along with many others, is already at 4,096.

BLOCKY PLANET — MAKING MINECRAFT SPHERICAL

Blocky Planet is a tech demo that attempts to map Minecraft's cubic voxels onto a procedurally generated and fully destructible spherical planet with more than 20 different block types.