Google FastSearch is a technology used by Gemini for grounding purposes. It is faster than Google Search but retrieves fewer results, which can result in lower quality results, but it's good enough for grounding. FastSearch is not directly available to third parties. It is integrated into Vertex AI, which is available to third parties - Vertex customers do not receive FastSearch-ranked web results, only the information from those results.
2025.09.04·seroundtable.com·2 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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If AI-assisted coding claims were true, then one could expect an exponential growth in shovelware as people start producing more - the data shows this isn't happening.
2025.09.04·mikelovesrobots.substack.com·11 min read·TLDR Simple first-in, first-out systems aren't viable for multi-tenant systems - fair queuing is a must.
2025.09.04·densumesh.dev·5 min read·TLDR Google says that Material 3 Expressive will make Pixel devices feel even more personal.
2025.09.04·techcrunch.com·3 min read·TLDR A look at how Google used AI to launch new camera features that other phones don't have.
2025.09.04·zdnet.com·18 min read·TLDR Polymarket has also closed its acquisition of derivatives exchange, QCX.
Stop thinking like a worker crossing tasks off a list and start thinking like an athlete building capacity over years.
2025.09.04·tobiaseichenwald.com·3 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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Google is positioned to keep its Search business running largely without interruption. The company will have to share more of its data with competitors and create an oversight committee to monitor its business practices, but it can continue many of the operations that the government challenged in the antitrust lawsuit, including its payments to Apple. Google sharing its data could help its competitors improve their search products. The company will not be forced to divest its Chrome browser.
2025.09.03·links.tldrnewsletter.com·7 min read·TLDR Anthropic has closed a $13 billion funding round at a $183 billion post-money valuation. The round was led by Iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research Co., and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Anthropic will use the fresh capital to deepen safety research, meet growing enterprise demand, and support international expansion. The company's run-rate revenue recently reached more than $5 billion, up from roughly $1 billion at the beginning of the year.
Starship's scale dwarfs that of other rockets. It has a capacity for more than a million gallons of super-cold liquid methane and liquid oxygen propellants. While SpaceX aims to eventually be able to launch at least one Starship a day, there are numerous bottlenecks to achieving such a fast launch cadence. One of these is simple logistics: it takes more than 200 tanker trucks traveling from distant refineries to deliver all of the fuel needed for a Starship launch, which takes time, emits pollution, and clogs roadways.
2025.09.03·arstechnica.com·4 min read·TLDR OpenAI for Science is a project within OpenAI aimed at building an AI-powered platform to accelerate scientific discovery. It aims to prove that AI models are ready to accelerate fundamental science and research all over the world. This thread shares several examples of how GPT-5 has helped and advanced science. More about OpenAI for Science will be unveiled in the coming months.
2025.09.03·threadreaderapp.com·3 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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Some people may find it difficult to get the results they see others getting with AI tools. This article discusses several tools and specific techniques that have helped developers increase their productivity. These techniques are scattered across documentation, blog posts, and threads, so finding them requires knowing what to look for. The article covers requirements and planning, UI, prototyping, coding, debugging, testing, QA, and cross-stage techniques.
2025.09.03·github.com·15 min read·TLDR Viewing CPU utilization is easy - just pull up a system monitor tool. However, trying to project these numbers is a bit more difficult - whenever people try, they find that CPU utilization doesn't increase quite linearly. This happens because of hyperthreading (the cores on the machine are sharing resources with other cores) and Turbo, a dynamic processor frequency adjustment technology used to increase performance. Reported utilizations are usually an underestimate, sometimes significantly so.
2025.09.03·brendanlong.com·5 min read·TLDR Google has been mandated to share certain search index data and user interaction information with competitors. While many are celebrating this as a win, it could be a mistake. The decision means that Google must now share its hard-earned knowledge with competitors who haven't made the same investments or taken the same risks. These companies should succeed by creating superior experiences, not by getting a free ride on Google's research and development. Sharing this level of behavioral data also creates new opportunities for misuse. A better option would address specific anticompetitive behaviors while preserving incentives for innovation.
2025.09.03·victorwynne.com·6 min read·TLDR Programmers have their own form of elitism. The industry is not that different from all the other industries that judge people based on appearance. Instead of going after 'the best' programmers, hire undistinguished workers and set them up for success. This is a lot cheaper and can produce better results.
2025.09.03·danluu.com·23 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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Bun's speed, simplicity, and built-tooling create a developer experience that feels both modern and approachable.
2025.09.03·pmbanugo.me·7 min read·TLDR This article discusses an opinionated syntax primer for the Lean programming language.
2025.09.03·overreacted.io·30 min read·TLDR Making something more energy efficient sometimes causes it to use more energy in total - this is good in some cases, like how improvements in solar have increased the proliferation of the technology.
2025.09.03·andymasley.substack.com·20 min read·TLDR The Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) enables developers to run agentic workloads across any system or cluster.
2025.09.03·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR Parallel agents are able to work on multiple problems simultaneously rather than sequentially, making a real difference in productivity.
2025.09.03·morningcoffee.io·15 min read·TLDR Using voice input can help ideas flow faster.
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2025.09.02·threatspike.com·Sponsor·TLDR Samsung is set to unveil three new devices at its third Unpacked event of the year. The event will reportedly take place on September 29 in South Korea. Samsung will unveil a tri-fold smartphone, the Project Moohan XR headset, and new AI smart glasses. It is the first time Samsung has had three Unpacked events in one calendar year.
2025.09.02·zdnet.com·3 min read·TLDR Alibaba's shares are now at their highest level since March. The tech giant has been investing in AI infrastructure and developing its own models, as well as selling AI services for its cloud computing unit. AI-related product revenue maintained triple-digit year-over-year growth for the eighth consecutive quarter. Alibaba's core e-commerce business has been showing signs of revival. It recently introduced a feature on Taobao that provides deliveries of certain products in China within an hour.
Current AI for science consists of specialized tools built on curated data sets, but much of science is hands-on experimentation and unrecorded tacit knowledge. AI scientists will need multimodal datasets that capture that tacit knowledge for them to become truly capable. The IFP has proposed an effort to generate and use the multimodal data necessary to unlock the full potential of AI for science. The program involves creating a lab that would simultaneously conduct research while recording everything and then using that data to make the whole process more productive.
Westinghouse Electric Company has secured a €168 million contract to lead the assembly of the core of ITER's fusion reactor. The critical operation will involve the precise installation and welding of nine massive steel sectors to form the tokamak's vacuum vessel, the heart of the fusion reactor. Each 400-ton sector must be positioned and welded with millimeter precision to create a perfectly circular, hermetically sealed chamber. ITER's primary technical goal is to demonstrate fusion power at a commercial scale. If successful, the project is expected to spawn multiple approaches to commercial fusion.
2025.09.02·evidencenetwork.ca·7 min read·TLDR Sponsored
Going from bed to desk might be hurting you long-term. The folks behind viral weight loss app Simple have launched a solution, their Chair Yoga program [9] combines low-impact yoga with proven principles of mobility training. Strengthen your body in just 10 minutes a day!
Ripple is a TypeScript UI framework that combines the best parts of React, Solid, and Svelte into one package. It was designed to be a JavaScript/TypeScript-first framework, rather than HTML-first. Ripple has its own superset language that plays nicely with TypeScript and JavaScript, but with an interesting touch that leads to a better developer experience for both humans and large language models. It is still in an early development stage.
2025.09.02·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR This article looks at what it takes to build an AI data analyst. It provides tips on how to preserve quality where it matters without blowing up response times. Text to SQL isn't enough because the task is hard for current models - systems should instead run a multi-step workflow. Context and metadata can mean the difference between the right and wrong answer.
2025.09.02·pedronasc.com·12 min read·TLDR The drug development industry addresses the most tractable diseases with the biggest outcomes first. However, unlike with other industries, reinvesting capital from early wins back into the ecosystem hasn't accelerated the industry's progress - it has been on a reverse trend for a while now. For the industry to advance, manufacturing and trials need to get cheaper with each run, regulations should become more adaptive, approval frameworks should increase and not decrease in variance, and new therapeutic modalities should focus on unlocking new biology. Until these new paradigms take hold, it will be difficult to build a trillion-dollar biotech.
2025.09.02·ladanuzhna.xyz·28 min read·TLDR Amazon's Leadership Principles are famous in the tech world. They're generally sensible rules by which to run a company. The principles include Customer Obsession, starting with the customer and working backwards; Ownership, thinking long term that not sacrificing long-term value for short-term results and acting on behalf of the company, not just your own team; and Bias for Action, making fast decisions and being aware that many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. This article provides some commentary on these principles.
2025.09.02·daemonology.net·6 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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Chrome's closest competitor, Microsoft Edge, holds just 11.8% market share.
2025.09.02·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR Wider processors can retire more instructions per cycle.
2025.09.02·lemire.me·2 min read·TLDR It's actually just a really long list.
Lyft's CEO, David Risher, known for his loud shirts and Citi Bike commutes, joined the company in 2023.
2025.09.02·sherwood.news·15 min read·TLDR 200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry a few years ago - Qwen-3, along with many others, is already at 4,096.
2025.09.02·vickiboykis.com·11 min read·TLDR Blocky Planet is a tech demo that attempts to map Minecraft's cubic voxels onto a procedurally generated and fully destructible spherical planet with more than 20 different block types.
2025.09.02·bowerbyte.com·26 min read·TLDR Sponsored
Ship features multiple times a day without waiting on days-long regression tests.