Titles are an imperfect signal of how one contributes to an organization. Title arbitrage shifts the relative status of certain positions and changes what people want to work on. Title deflation abandons leveling schemes in favor of flatter hierarchies. Some title refactors are simple name changes, while others are signals that a company is taking an opinionated view of the world. Title arbitrage and deflation are attempts to rewrite the status hierarchy and reshape culture from the top down.
Spotify has partnered with Netflix on video podcasts to compete with YouTube. Netflix will require videos not to be posted to YouTube in full as part of the deal, so only clips for promotional purposes will be allowed. Netflix can't hope to scale in the way YouTube has without user-generated content. This Spotify deal gives Netflix more content.
Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. However, getting that kind of coverage (and staying there) is hard and pricey for any team.
Starship performed a near-perfect flight test on Monday. The fifth and final flight of Starship's second-generation configuration, the test reached every objective and provided valuable data for the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy. It will likely be at least a few months before SpaceX is ready to launch the next Starship flight. Starship V3 will have larger propellant tanks, upgraded Raptor 3 engines, and an improved payload compartment to support launches of real Starlink satellites.
Shoppers are increasingly going to ChatGPT for gift ideas or help finding the best deals. ChatGPT users will soon be able to purchase items from Walmart directly in chat. Walmart has not disclosed the financial terms of the deal, nor has it set a release date. OpenAI has previously said it will charge companies a fee for transactions completed through ChatGPT.
Biologists have been building mathematical models of cellular processes for decades. There is now more data about the human cell than ever before, but figuring out equations for every process and putting them all together is a monumental task. Researchers are now exploring ways to use AI to create virtual cells. Virtual cells could make it faster and easier to discover new drugs and also give insight into how to treat diseases.
The first phase of the 'Dubai Loop' is expected to begin operations by the second quarter of 2026. A 17-kilometer underground transport system, the Dubai Loop is designed to move up to 20,000 passengers per hour. The project could turn The Boring Company from an experimental Las Vegas curiosity to a global player in next-generation urban transport. It is unclear whether the Dubai Loop will rely on Tesla vehicles like the Vegas Loop.
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The GitHub Spec Kit was born out of research on how to help steer the software development process with large language models more deterministically. It implements the concept of Spec-Driven Development to help developers produce deterministically good software. Spec-Driven Development makes specifications executable, directly generating working implementations rather than just guiding them. This post provides a walkthrough on how to get started with the GitHub Spec Kit.
Programming languages have evolved rapidly in recent years, making environment variables obsolete. While environment variables allow users to pass ad-hoc variables at runtime, they are awkward to use, and the interface is outdated. They have no namespaces or types, just a flat global dictionary of strings. This post looks at how environment variables work.
Thrive Capital's first fund was $5 million in 2010. Its eighth fund in 2023 was $3.3 billion. Thrive's bets on Instagram, Spotify, GitHub, Slack, Robinhood, and other companies have become conspicuous for being prescient, aesthetic, and exquisitely timed. This article takes a look at Thrive's founder, Joshua Kushner, his family, and how he built Thrive into the firm it is today.
Late last month, the Dutch economy ministry seized control of Nexperia from China's Wingtech Technology and suspended Wintech founder Zhang Xuezheng from his position as CEO. The seizure and ouster underscore US-China tensions across the tech sector. US officials had warned their Dutch counterparts earlier that if they wanted to avoid Nexperia from being put on a trade blacklist, they would almost certainly have to remove its Chinese owner as CEO. The Dutch economy minister claims that the move was based on evidence that the CEO was moving quickly to shift production capacity, financial resources, and intellectual property to China, not because of pressure from any other country.
OpenAI and Broadcom will develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and computing systems over the next four years. The new agreement, worth multiple billions of dollars, brings the total scale of computing capacity OpenAI has agreed to buy to 26 gigawatts. OpenAI plans to deploy custom GPUs starting in the second half of next year. It is aiming to build 250 gigawatts of new computing capacity by 2033.
Facebook is reviving its jobs board for US users on Android and iOS. The job listings will cater to young adults trying to find entry-level job opportunities. They will be public and visible to users 18 years and older. Users will be able to directly reach out to employees through Messenger to ask questions or schedule interviews.
Starship lifted off from Starbase at around 6 PM last night for its eleventh flight test. Every major objective of the flight test was achieved. Starship successfully deployed eight Starlink simulators and executed the third in-space relight of a Raptor engine during the flight. It also successfully executed a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
Anduril's EagleEye puts mission command and AI directly into operators' helmets. It gives soldiers enhanced perception, lethal connectivity, and heightened survivability. The HUD overlays digital information onto the real world to deliver vital real-time insights. Anduril partnered with Meta, Oakley, Qualcomm, and Gentex to bring the best in AR, rugged eyewear, compute, sensing, and ballistic helmets to EagleEye.
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nanochat is a minimal full-stack training/inference pipeline for large language models (LLMs) designed to run on a single 8XH100 node. It can train an LLM in as little as four hours. nanochat handles tokenization, pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, inference, and web serving.
Beads is a lightweight memory system for coding agents with a graph-based issue tracker. It helps agents be more organized and increases their ability to handle long tasks over multiple sessions. Beads enables agents to use issue tracking with proper epics, which makes it easier for them to reliably perform complex task streams in the right order. The issue tracker has a sophisticated audit trail, allowing agents to reconstruct complex operations.
The Dutch government has taken over Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands. It claims it invoked the 'Goods Availability Act' to prevent a situation in which the goods produced by the company would become unavailable in an emergency due to recent and acute signals of serious governance shortcomings and actions. Nexperia's daily operations will continue. The impact of the measures is not yet quantifiable.
Signal's latest updates are a significant step towards the messaging platform becoming fully quantum-resistant. Nothing will change for users as the changes are all under-the-hood - the apps will behave almost exactly as they did before. Signal has documented in great depth about the new design along with mathematical proof verifying that the updated protocol provides the claimed security properties. This article provides an overview of how the updated protocol works.
JPMorgan Chase has announced a $1.5 trillion plan that will mobilize capital for supply chains and advanced manufacturing, defense and aerospace, energy independence, and frontier technologies.