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01GENERAL

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

OPENAI PREVIEWS ULTRAFAST API TIER FOR GPT-5.6 SOL

OpenAI's UltraOpenAI's Ultrafast API service tier can run GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 output tokens per second, 14 times the speed of Standard. The service is designed for products and workflows in which delays can determine whether an answer remains useful. Access is initially restricted to a select group of customers. Powered by Cerebras, a wider rollout is planned as capacity grows.

testingcatalog.com2 min read

X OPEN SOURCES ITS RANKING ALGORITHM, LETTING USERS SEE IF THEY'VE BEEN ‘SHADOWBANNED'

X has open-sourced its 'For You' algorithm and its core ranking engine under the Apache v2 license. The company has also expanded its previous efforts to open source parts of its codebase to add more detail, making it roughly 10 to 15 times larger than it was before. X is providing tools that will let users see for themselves if and how its ranking systems have impacted their account or posts. The tool will be available to a test group of accounts for at least a year as a pilot before rolling out more broadly.

techcrunch.com5 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

DRIVER SETS RECORD FOR HYDROGEN-POWERED VEHICLE AT MORE THAN 406 MPH

Andy Green set a record for the fastest land speed driving a JCB Hydromax on Tuesday at 406.320 miles per hour. The hydrogen-fueled internal-combustion vehicle took about 72 seconds to get from 50 miles per hour to 400. At 64, Green is the only person to break the sound barrier on land, driving a jet-powered car at an average speed of 763.035 miles per hour in 1997. The JCB Hydromax was not built to rival that record, but to set a new fastest speed for a hydrogen vehicle - the previous record for a hydrogen combustion vehicle was 185.5 miles per hour, set in 2004 by the BMW H2R.

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AMERICA WANTS TO MAKE ITS OWN HUMANOID ROBOTS. THAT WON'T BE EASY

China has a near-total dominance of the supply chain, so building a robot entirely free of Chinese parts is not practical. The Chinese robotics industry was built on billions of dollars in state funding. Fledgling robot makers in the US will need substantial financial and policy support to compete. The US humanoid robotics industry is still in its infancy, and makers of non-humanoid robots are struggling to compete with Chinese rivals.

links.tldrnewsletter.com9 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

DEEPSEEK HARNESS

DeepSeek Harness is now in developer preview, with source code included. Every capability is a plugin that can be swapped or recomposed. Developers can select, swap, or extend any capability in the configuration without changing the DeepSeek Harness source code. Everything the model sees is recorded in an append-only session log.

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FOREMAN

Foreman is an eve software factory that puts AI agents on every stage of the development loop and keeps people on the judgment calls. It takes tasks from GitHub and Linear, moves each one through four stations - Classifier, Analyst, Implementer, and Reviewer - and delivers a reviewed draft pull request on the repository. The Classifier triages the task, the Analyst turns it into a plan with acceptance criteria, the Implementer executes the plan in its own sandbox, and the Reviewer independently judges everything against the real diff. Developers just review, mark ready, and merge.

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05MISCELLANEOUS

PANGRAM, AUTHORSHIP, AND FRENCH THEORY

Being called out for using AI is the new way of dunking on people and posts. However, this calling out is a social function that isn't just 'AI bad'. People want authorship because it has meaning. Several AI labs have recently made announcements about watermarking outputs for easy AI detection.

a16z.news14 min read

THE DEEPSEEK THESIS

Liang Wenfeng, CEO of DeepSeek, is now richer than both Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. His little-known group of researchers has managed to consistently command the world's attention. Backed by the immense wealth of his hedge fund, they keep giving their work away for free. Liang believes that there is an inevitable causal relationship between automated learning and generalized intelligence, and that the pursuit of such advanced machine intelligence is the only problem worth solving right now.

chinatalk.media13 min read