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01GENERAL

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FEEL LIKE YOUR TABS HAVE TABS?

Developer tool sprawl is real. You've got one tab for logs, another for metrics, half a dozen for cloud services, and somewhere in there is the code you're actually trying to ship.

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

META'S SUPERINTELLIGENCE LAB UNVEILS ITS FIRST PUBLIC MODEL, MUSE SPARK

Muse Spark is the first AI model in Meta's Muse family. Spark is proprietary, but some of the other models in the Muse family will be open source. Muse Spark can get information from content posted on social media to link posts to locations or trending topics. Its standard thinking mode ranks comparably or better than competing models from leading AI labs. However, there are still performance gaps in long-horizon agentic systems and coding workflows. Meta Stark is available in the Meta AI app and website, as well as Meta's API for selected partners. It will be available to Meta's other platforms in the coming weeks.

arstechnica.com3 min read

ANTHROPIC LAUNCHES CLAUDE MANAGED AGENTS FOR BUSINESSES

Claude Managed Agents is a suite of composable APIs aimed at developers and enterprise teams looking to build and deploy cloud-hosted AI agents at scale. It is now available in public beta on the Claude Platform. The offering targets organizations that need robust, production-grade agent infrastructure without having to manage background tasks. It provides features such as secure sandboxed code execution, authentication, checkpointing, scoped permissions, and persistent long-running sessions.

testingcatalog.com1 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

US NUCLEAR STARTUP ANTARES GETS DOE APPROVAL FOR ITS MARK0 REACTOR DEMONSTRATOR

US nuclear startup Antres aims to achieve criticality for its reactor before the 4th of July this year. The California-headquartered startup is developing microreactors. After the demonstration of its Mark0 reactor, the company will work on achieving electricity generation for its Mark1 demonstration next year. The Department of Energy is aiming to achieve criticality in at least three advanced nuclear reactors before Independence Day this year as part of its Reactor Pilot Program.

interestingengineering.com3 min read

THE 2-SIGMA PROBLEM: THE 1:1 TUTOR

The technology to deliver 1:1 tutoring has finally arrived. Studies show that even having an average tutor shows significant improvement in student scores. However, no edtech companies are building an AI tutor yet, with many companies disavowing the technology's usefulness as it can't create a 100% perfect lesson plan yet. With AI, engagement and substantive learning no longer have to be diametrically opposed. A superhuman teacher will soon be buildable as AI labs continue to improve on accuracy and hallucination problems.

mackenziemorehead.com15 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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LIGHTFIELD SKILLS: TEACH YOUR CRM TO DO YOUR JOB

Lightfield [9] is the AI-native CRM that updates itself. Its new Skills let you define and trigger workflows like account research, deal scoring, and forecasting in plain English. The AI agent executes against your full CRM data graph with code execution, web search, and file I/O. 2,500+ startups are already on the platform.

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THE GIT COMMANDS I RUN BEFORE READING ANY CODE

This post introduces five git commands that can diagnose a codebase before a developer opens a single file. Commit histories can provide a diagnostic picture of a project. They tell you who built it, where the problems cluster, and whether a team is shipping with confidence or tiptoeing around land mines. The commands introduced in the post inform developers what the most changed files are, who the authors were, where bugs cluster, whether a project is accelerating or dying, and how often the development team is firefighting. They let developers know which code to read first and what to look for when they get there.

piechowski.io4 min read

FEEDBACK FLYWHEEL

Every AI interaction generates a signal. These signals can be harvested and fed back into a system to turn individual experience into collective improvement. This creates a feedback loop that turns each interaction into an opportunity to improve the next one. The infrastructure compounds as practice feeds back into it.

martinfowler.com18 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

MY QUEST TO SOLVE BITCOIN'S GREAT MYSTERY

The identity of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been a mystery for 17 years. Nakamoto left behind a huge corpus of texts, and this was expanded during a recent trial where an imposter was sued for falsely claiming to be Bitcoin's creator. This article contains an investigation that leads to the conclusion that Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto. Back is a British cryptographer and a leading figure in the Bitcoin movement.

links.tldrnewsletter.com68 min read

CAST ADRIFT, META EMPLOYEES HAVE NO IDEA WHO THE ‘TOKEN LEGEND' IS ANYMORE

Meta had an internal system called Claudeonmics that tracked employees' token usage. It ranked the top 250 employees and gave them badges for high rankings. Meta's staff reportedly used up about 60 trillion tokens in just 30 days, with the person in the top spot racking up 281 billion tokens. Meta has shut down the tracking system due to the data being shared externally.

gizmodo.com2 min read