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95% of AI pilots fail, yet executives are under pressure to move quickly. This exclusive course [9] from You.com [9], featuring Field CTO Adam Oliner, provides a roadmap to transform your organization into a super-intelligent workforce. You'll learn how to identify where AI can cut costs and drive value, and uncover strategies to scale adoption beyond pilots.
GPT‑5.2-Codex is a version of GPT‑5.2 optimized for agentic coding. It features improvements in long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, improved performance in Windows environments, and significantly stronger cybersecurity capabilities. The model is now available in all Codex surfaces for paid ChatGPT users. OpenAI is working towards safely enabling the model for API users in the coming weeks.
Cloudflare's most recent outage was caused by a seemingly innocent but global configuration change. The incident shows why the largest systems in the world will have to implement safer ways to roll out configs. Implementing gradual rollouts for all configuration files is a lot of work, so it doesn't make sense unless the stability of systems is more important than fast iteration. Smaller companies and products probably won't need to implement staged configuration rollouts because the infrastructure work slows down product development.
One of the recurring ideological themes of the last few decades has been the idea of creating entirely new communities, cultures, cities, and even countries. In this world of a thousand nations, people would be able to choose the communities that best fit their values. These ideas inspired Vitalik Buterin to create Zuzalu, an experimental pop-up city in Montenegro, in 2023. This post provides an updated picture of the space, detailing what Buterin has learned since 2023, and sketches out a world that the movement could be driving towards.
Levels.fyi started in 2017 to make compensation information clear and easy to compare. Millions of professionals today rely on its shared salary data to better understand pay across roles, companies, and levels. This report details how compensation has evolved, the highest paying companies, high-level compensation trends, the top paying locations, and more.
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Good taste in testing code is one of the skills that differentiates a senior engineer.
This post provides tips and best practices for planning, coding, and collaborating with AI.
A Datacenter OS could transform an assembly of computers into one computer.
Anthropic designed an AI-powered vending machine to see what happens when an AI agent is given autonomy, money, and human colleagues.
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The buzz around agentic AI has reached a fever pitch. But outside of coding, most implementations are "agent-washing:" a chain of prompts or a normal workflow with an LLM in the loop.
OpenAI is in the early stages of a fundraising round that could raise as much as $100 billion, valuing the startup at as much as $830 billion. It aims to complete the round by the end of the first quarter at the earliest. It is unclear whether there will be sufficient investor demand to reach the goal. The round will be one of the biggest tests OpenAI has faced since the public market's exuberance for AI spending waned.
Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model code-named Mango. The model is expected to be released in the first half of 2026. Image generation has proven to be a vital front in the war between the big AI model companies. It is a primary point of interest for many users and a particularly sticky feature that keeps them coming back.
OpenAI's new agentic coding model is state-of-the-art on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0 with improved long-horizon work. OpenAI is launching a trusted access pilot to give vetted cybersecurity professionals access to future, more powerful models.
John Schulman estimates that with full hindsight, a few talented people could have built a ChatGPT-3.5-level model in 2018-2019 with a couple of GPU boxes. He described early OpenAI as a "rag tag" blend of small exploratory research projects and bigger engineering efforts inspired by DeepMind's AlphaGo. He expects value functions and offline RL to make a comeback, and warns that catch-up mode makes it harder to build exploratory research culture later.
GPT-5.2 is a frontier model only for the frontier. OpenAI's image 1.5 looks comparable to Nano Banana Pro, and the startup has a deal for Disney's characters. Gemini 3 Flash is a good model for its speed and price. It captures the bulk of Gemini 3 Pro's intelligence quickly at a low price.
OpenAI has proposed a new evaluation suite to measure how reliably model reasoning can be monitored via chains-of-thought. The study assessed monitorability across 24 environments and found that reasoning transparency can vary significantly with scale, reinforcement learning, and inference-time compute.
Agent Skills, folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that give AI agents new capabilities on demand, originated at Anthropic (which also created MCP) and is now an open format with adoption from Cursor, GitHub, VS Code, Claude Code, and OpenAI's Codex CLI. Skills let teams package domain expertise and workflows into portable, version-controlled packages that work across different agent products.
Replit built a compute and storage fabric that allows it to make changes in an isolated, reversible way. These primitives enable developers to experiment more frequently and faster. The company realized the same primitives could be used to superpower coding agents when it built Replit Agent in 2024. The system helps the human driving the agent, and the agent itself greatly benefits from the tools. This post explores the underlying systems that make the Replit Agent safe and how Replit uses them. It also takes a peek at Replit's near-term roadmap.
Mistral OCR 3 is designed to extract text and embedded images from a wide range of documents with exceptional fidelity. It is a major upgrade over the previous version in forms, handwritten content, low-quality scans, and tables. Mistral OCR 3 enables downstream systems to understand structure as well as document content. The model can be integrated via API and used with Document AI, a UI that parses documents into text or structured JSON.
Scale AI researchers developed a structured approach to reinforcement learning that uses checklist-style rubrics instead of traditional preference rankings to train language models on subjective tasks. The framework achieved up to 28% improvement on medical reasoning benchmarks by decomposing response quality into interpretable criteria like factual accuracy and completeness.
Alphabet and Nvidia have invested in Swedish vibe coding startup Lovable in a $330 million Series B round that places it at a $6.6 billion valuation. Lovable has raised over $500 million this year. The company has built a product popular with both enterprises and founders. Its platform uses AI models to help users build apps and websites using text prompts.
Anthropic has fixed Claude Code's signature flicker. Terminals weren't really designed for interactivity. Repositioning the cursor and writing over existing text easily leads to flickering if not done well. Anthropic chose to re-render only the changed parts. It rewrote the renderer from scratch while still keeping React as the component model.
Trying to treat LLM workflows as modular programs is a backwards, rigid, and the wrong fit for the most interesting tasks.
Superpowers 4.5 has better subagent-driven development.
Anthropic's AI shopkeeper experiment finally became profitable after upgrading to Sonnet 4.5, adding a CRM, and hiring an AI CEO.
Replit is the most feature-rich, well-thought-out, and powerful vibe coding tool, but v0 is the best if you're already a developer and want a technical interface.
Alexandre LeBrun, the founder of French health tech startup Nabla, will be the chief executive of the new LeCun's startup.
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You've done the research. You've got your thesis. But before you even place a trade on Hyperliquid, you've already lost money — slippage on the swap, bridge fees, gas on multiple chains.
Ethereum's state only grows. It is getting harder and more expensive for nodes to store, serve, and sync. Centralization is a risk if only large operators can run full infra. There are three potential initial directions: State Expiry (prune inactive state with proof-based revival), State Archive (separate hot vs. cold state so node performance stays stable), and Partial Statelessness (nodes hold subsets while clients/wallets cache what they need).
Bitcoin's realized cap hit a record $1.125 trillion and continued rising through the 36% correction from October's all-time high, valuing each bitcoin at its last-moved price to show actual capital inflows rather than speculative market cap. The metric's resilience contrasts with 2022's bear market, when realized cap fell from $470 billion to $385 billion during capitulation, with a similar pause during April 2025's tariff tantrum preceding new highs. Bitcoin materially underprices the supportive macro backdrop of resilient global growth, ongoing rate cuts, and steepening yield curves that weaken the dollar, casting doubt on the four-year cycle narrative with potential 2026 upside.
SoFi Bank's SoFiUSD is a stablecoin debuting on Ethereum positioned as “bank-grade” and aimed at both SoFi's crypto trading flows, payments, and remittances. SoFi hopes to share yield with holders and partners and expand to multiple chains over time, plus offer white-labeled stablecoin infrastructure for other companies.
Coinbase Advisor is an AI-powered financial advisor designed to manage your financial life. It turns natural-language requests into clear, actionable financial plans using the products, data, and tools available on Coinbase. It also surfaces “Daily Insights,” including news stories and proactive recommendations. Users can ask for recommendations using a chat interface and get an in-chat executable widget for Coinbase financial primitives like USDC Lend and prediction markets. It is in beta, with a larger release coming soon.
Aave Labs replaced Paraswap with CowSwap on the Aave website, redirecting 15-25 bps swap fees from DAO treasury to Labs-controlled addresses, leading to an estimated $10 million in annual DAO losses as the protocol-versus-product boundary collapsed. Aave Labs may have a fiduciary duty since the Aave brand was economically paid for through DAO governance, risk absorption, and treasury spending over years, while Labs claims the frontend operation sits outside protocol governance and monetization is justified. The tension escalated with Horizon generating $100k revenue versus $500k DAO incentives plus GHO opportunity costs, Labs bypassing ACI's MegaETH proposal to secure 30 million points directly, and ERC-4626 Aave Vaults positioning Labs-owned products as default Aave V4 UX, capturing fees built on DAO reputation.
Coinbase filed preemptive lawsuits against Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut regulators, challenging their authority to classify prediction markets as unlicensed gambling, arguing they're CFTC-regulated financial derivatives protected by federal preemption over state gambling statutes, mirroring Kalshi's successful legal framework. The cases will determine whether platforms face fragmented state-by-state licensing regimes or nationwide federal oversight, enabling Coinbase's "universal exchange" strategy expanding beyond spot crypto into derivatives, tokenized assets, and prediction markets.
Coinbase now looks more like a top “neobank” because its latest rollout adds agent-to-agent (A2A) payments and an AI financial advisor, which could materially improve revenue-per-employee and operating leverage versus TradFi. It also claims Coinbase's x402 positioning + deep issuer partnerships (e.g., Circle planning for “billions of agents” over 3–5 years) could put Coinbase/Base in the path of trillions of agentic transactions.
JPMorgan moved its JPM Coin deposit token (“JPMD”) from its permissioned Ethereum setup on Kinexys onto Coinbase's Base, saying institutions want a bank-deposit “cash equivalent” on public chains where the main option today is stablecoins. The near-term use case is collateral plus margin payments tied to crypto trading (e.g., clients posting collateral at Coinbase), with JPM emphasizing permissioning/whitelisting and strong controls (it controls the smart contract and keys).
BVNK reached $30B in annualized stablecoin payment volume across 2.8M transactions.
Pendle is a “blue-chip yield” protocol with $33M revenue (cumulative, YTD 2025), ranking #3 in lending and money-market revenue behind Aave and Spark.
Intuit and Circle have entered into an agreement for USDC adoption use across TurboTax and QuickBooks.
Lido, a leading Ethereum liquid staking protocol, is expanding into vaults and other onchain products to optimize user holdings.
Apple has reportedly planned a special-edition iPhone for fall 2027 to mark the device's 20th anniversary. Featuring a curved display that wraps around the front and back edges while eliminating the traditional black frame, the design would resemble curved-display Android phones from Samsung, Motorola, and Xiaomi. Such displays have faced criticism for accidental touches, durability concerns, and issues with screen protector compatibility. With two years until release, Apple has time to address these common problems associated with curved-display smartphones.
Adobe's Firefly AI video app now features prompt-based video editing, allowing users to modify specific elements like colors and camera angles without regenerating entire clips. The update includes integrating third-party models, such as Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 for image upscaling and Topaz Astra for video upscaling to 4K. Adobe is offering unlimited generations to premium subscribers through January 15 as competition intensifies in AI-generated video.
Apple is reportedly exploring an OLED iMac for the first time. Early-stage discussions are underway with Samsung and LG about a 24-inch OLED panel that will offer 600 nits brightness and the same resolution as today's model. However, the project is at a very preliminary RFI stage, meaning an OLED iMac likely wouldn't launch until 2027–2028 or later, and Apple's preferred OLED technology currently can't support larger 30–32-inch iMac displays.
Instagram's role as a creative platform requires the design team itself to embody creativity through collaboration, diverse perspectives, and meticulous craft. Unlocking creativity demands both excellent tools and an audience to share with. The team draws inspiration from past design principles, like Charles Eames' "innovate as a last resort," applying this philosophy to products like the Edits app, which simplifies video editing based on creator feedback rather than pursuing novelty for its own sake.
Product teams often rely on user opinions from surveys and interviews, but research shows that people's stated preferences rarely align with their actual behavior due to cognitive biases and limited self-awareness. Opinion-driven development leads to fragmented experiences, wasted resources, and reactive roadmaps filled with minor tweaks rather than meaningful solutions. Instead, teams should observe real user behavior through analytics and usability testing, treat feature requests as signals of problems requiring deeper investigation, and anchor decisions in measurable outcomes.
The most impactful rebrands of 2025 weren't the loud, controversial ones like Cracker Barrel, Jaguar, or HBO Max, but quiet, strategic evolutions by brands such as Amazon, Walmart, Apple TV, Eventbrite, and La-Z-Boy that refined clarity, coherence, and long-term brand systems. The key lesson is that effective rebranding now favors evolution over shock, systems over spectacle, and listening to audiences over imposing radical change.