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TLDR 2025-11-26

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01GENERAL

02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

ALIBABA'S MAIN AI APP DEBUTS STRONGLY IN EFFORT TO RIVAL CHATGPT

Alibaba's Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch. The company will gradually add agentic AI features to support online shopping in the coming months. Alibaba has rebranded itself as an AI-first business. It plans to deeply integrate core lifestyle and productivity services directly into the Qwen app.

links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min read

ELON MUSK'S BORING COMPANY REVEALS PRUFROCK TBM'S MOST DISRUPTIVE FEATURE

The Boring Company's Prufrock-5 tunnel boring machine (TBM) will begin tunneling by December 1. One of the key features of the Prufrock machines is that they can be retrieved, upgraded, and deployed again with improvements. Standard TBMs are often left underground at the end of projects because retrieving them is usually too expensive and impractical. TBMs from the Boring Company could eventually be as reusable as SpaceX's boosters.

teslarati.com3 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

MAPPING THE SENSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE

Interoception is a sense that supplies the brain with a remarkably rich picture of what is happening throughout the body. It shapes our emotions, behavior, decisions, and feelings. A growing body of research suggests that many psychiatric conditions may be caused in part by errors in our perception of our internal environment. Scientists still need to develop a firm understanding of how interoception works, but someday it may be possible to treat some conditions by returning a person's internal sense.

links.tldrnewsletter.com10 min read

BRAIN HAS FIVE ‘ERAS', SCIENTISTS SAY – WITH ADULT MODE NOT STARTING UNTIL EARLY 30S

The brain experiences five major phases, split up by four pivotal turning points (at around the ages of nine, 32, 66, and 83 years) in which brain organization moves on to a different trajectory. Understanding the brain's structural journey helps scientists identify when and how its wiring is vulnerable to disruption. It could also give insights into risk factors for mental health disorders, which most frequently emerge during the adolescent period. An overview of the five stages is available in the article.

theguardian.com4 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

NEW GEMINI API UPDATES FOR GEMINI 3

Gemini 3 is now available for developers to build with via the Gemini API. Google has rolled out several updates to the API to support Gemini 3's state-of-the-art reasoning, autonomous coding, multimodal reasoning, and agentic capabilities. The changes are designed to give users more control over how the model reasons, how it processes media, and how it interacts with the outside world. Details are available in the article.

links.tldrnewsletter.com6 min read

WHAT A CTO SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TECH

Tech leaders should take the time to learn what they need to know about tech to be effective. Their job as a CTO is to make decisions in an extremely complicated environment and under conditions of considerable uncertainty. It's really important to understand clearly what tools and what teams are working with. A lack of understanding will eventually cause a messy crash.

deadsimpletech.com27 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

TECH PREDICTIONS FOR 2026 AND BEYOND

Technology has become so intertwined with day-to-day life that it influences everything, from our relationships to the way we work, protect ourselves, and even the things we choose to learn and when. The next year will see humans transition into a new era of AI in the human loop. This cycle will create massive opportunities to solve problems that truly matter.

allthingsdistributed.com24 min read

THE MATH OF WHY YOU CAN'T FOCUS AT WORK

You are not uniquely undisciplined. Deep work is mathematically rare unless you deliberately design for it. Just one less interruption per hour each day can transform your week. Learn how to split up tasks into smaller chunks. This post presents a model for increasing focus at work.

justoffbyone.com37 min read