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MUSK'S XAI SEEKS UP TO $200 BILLION VALUATION IN NEXT FUNDING ROUND

Saudi Arabia's PIF sovereign wealth fund is expected to play a large role in the deal.

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MEMECOIN PLATFORM PUMP.FUN RAISES $600 MILLION WITHIN 12 MINUTES

Pump.fun has generated nearly $800 million in revenue since its launch in 2024.

THE WINDSURF DYNAMICS

The Windsurf founders and board might have actually done the right thing by leaving a graceful path for the team.

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF EARLY-2025 AI ON EXPERIENCED OPEN-SOURCE DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY

Getting a significant productivity boost from AI assistance may have a much steeper learning curve than most people expect.

FOLDABLE IPHONE DISPLAY PRODUCTION BEGINS AHEAD OF LAUNCH NEXT YEAR

Apple's first foldable iPhone OLED displays have begun production ahead of an expected launch next year. The phone is expected to feature an inward-folding OLED display and be refreshed annually in the fall, just like the other models. Apple plans to produce six to eight million foldable iPhones in 2026. Samsung Display has secured an agreement to provide Apple with foldable displays as the sole supplier for several years.

ROBINHOOD CEO'S AI MATH STARTUP VALUED AT NEARLY $900 MILLION

Harmonic AI is an artificial intelligence startup focused on building AI systems that can solve complex math problems. Co-founded by Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev, the startup recently raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and Paradigm. Harmonic plans to make its flagship AI model available to researchers and the general public later this year. Its ultimate goal is to solve major unsolved mathematical problems and expand that to problems in physics and computer science.

ROBOT SURGERY ON HUMANS COULD BE TRIALLED WITHIN DECADE AFTER SUCCESS ON PIG ORGANS

An AI-trained robot recently completed eight operations on pig organs with a 100% success rate. The robot, armed with tools to cut, clip, and grab soft tissue, successfully removed pig gall bladders without human help. They were trained on video footage of human medics conducting operations using organs taken from dead pigs. The success opens up the possibility of replicating, en masse, the skills of the best surgeons in the world.

TESLA MOVES TO EXPAND ROBOTAXI TO PHOENIX, FOLLOWING RIVAL WAYMO

Tesla has applied to test and eventually deploy its robotaxis in Phoenix, Arizona. A decision on the application is expected at the end of July. Tesla began a pilot test of its robotaxis in Austin, Texas, in June. Those vehicles are remotely supervised by employees in an undisclosed operations center, and they each include a human safety supervisor, who rides with the passengers.

AI IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AT GOOGLE: PROGRESS AND THE PATH AHEAD

This post discusses Google's newest AI-powered improvements and discusses further changes the company expects to see in the coming five years. It also presents a methodology for building AI products that deliver value for professional software development. Improving these surfaces can directly impact developer productivity and satisfaction.

HOW MUCH AI CODING TOOLS SPEED UP EXPERIENCED OPEN-SOURCE DEVELOPERS

A randomized controlled trial found that developers were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't. The results were surprising, as developers thought they were 20% faster with AU tools. The study asked 16 developers with moderate AI experience to complete 246 tasks in large and complex projects on which they had an average of five years of prior experience. A chart showing the results of the study is available.

THE ORIGIN OF THE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

Universities have existed for more than a thousand years, but for almost all of the time, they weren't centers of research. This article looks at what changed in 19th-century Germany that caused the birth of the research university. The real contribution of the research university is that it created a world where scholars don't have to be originals or geniuses to contribute.

5 THINGS I LEARNED FROM 5 YEARS AT VERCEL

Lee Robinson joined Vercel in 2020 when the company had 30 people. Five years later, the company has 650 employees and over $200 million ARR. During Robinson's time at the company, he went from IC to VP and worked on DevRel, product, community, docs, and more. This post contains some of the lessons Robinson learned and how he grew as a leader and manager.

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PEP 779: FREE-THREADED PYTHON IS OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED

The free-threaded build of Python is now supported and no longer experimental.

VARLOCK

Varlock is a CLI and library that communicates with native Mac applications and enables biometric auth to securely encrypt local secrets.

MUSK: GROK AI ARRIVING IN TESLAS NEXT WEEK

Elon Musk says that Grok 4 will arrive in Teslas by next week - it will allow drivers to talk to their vehicles more naturally and ask questions while driving.

MY RESPONSE TO AI 2027

Vitalik Buterin's thoughts on AI 2027, a hypothetical scenario that predicts that humanity will have created superhuman AI by 2027 and that the entire future of civilization hinges on how that turns out.

CO-FOUNDER EXITING AFTER PIVOT – WHAT'S A FAIR EXIT PACKAGE? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

A discussion on fair exit packages, vested equity, and cash buyouts.

SEO IS DEAD. LONG LIVE GEO

This article discusses how to win in the era of LLMs, AI Overviews, and GEO.

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XAI GAVE US EARLY ACCESS TO GROK 4 - AND THE RESULTS ARE IN

According to new benchmark tests, Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. Grok 4 is a reasoning model that costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. It is expected to be available via the xAI API, the Grok chatbot on X, and potentially on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. xAI's API serves Grok 4 at 75 tokens per second, which is slower than OpenAI's o3 but faster than Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus Thinking.

LINDA YACCARINO STEPS DOWN AS CEO OF ELON MUSK'S X

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as chief executive of X after months of uncertainty at the company. The company initially struggled with an exodus of advertisers under Elon Musk's ownership. X is now expected to see ad revenue growth for the first time since the takeover. Yaccarino said that this made it a good time to depart.

HUGGING FACE JUST LAUNCHED A $299 ROBOT THAT COULD DISRUPT THE ENTIRE ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

Hugging Face's Reachy Mini is a $299 desktop robot designed to address accessibility in robotics development. It features six degrees of freedom in its moving head, full body rotation, animated antennas, a wide-angle camera, multiple microphones, and a 5-watt speaker. There is a fully autonomous wireless version that includes a Raspberry Pi 5 computer and battery. The robot can be programmed in Python - JavaScript and Scratch support is planned. Hugging Face plans to release all hardware designs, software, and assembly instructions as open source.

INSIDE A NEUROSCIENTIST'S QUEST TO CURE COMA

Neuroscientist Daniel Toker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurology at UCLA, is on a quest to understand the neurobiology of unconsciousness. He says consciousness and unconsciousness are deeply intertwined - and we still don't really know what it means to be conscious. Unconsciousness is a common endpoint for a lot of conditions, so it's easier to study scientifically and also medically important. Toker's grandest aim is to cure coma and other disorders of consciousness, such as the vegetative state.

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SYSTEMD HAS BEEN A COMPLETE, UTTER, UNMITIGATED SUCCESS

Before systemd, developers were using init scripts of varying quality with janky dependencies and wildly varying semantics. This article looks at how systemd has changed the Linux landscape. It looks at the problems with init, the features systemd introduced, and other ways systemd changed the development process. systemd has largely been a success story and it proved many dire forecasts wrong.

ANNOUNCING FOKS, THE FEDERATED OPEN KEY SERVICE

FOKS is a fully open-source and federated key service with SSO and YubiKey support. It aims to give teams of users, each with multiple devices, shared secret keys so they can share data securely across the internet. Anyone can run a FOKS server and control their own localized namespace. FOKS allows for an open market of service providers - users can pick the one with the security, privacy, availability, and moderation policies that best suit them, or host their own.

HOW NVIDIA BECAME THE WORLD'S FIRST $4 TRILLION COMPANY

Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a market value of $4 trillion on Wednesday morning. The company's fortunes have surged over the past three years thanks to the rise of generative artificial intelligence. It builds the chips that power the AI industry. This article looks at the history of the company and how it developed into the AI chip giant it is today.

OPENAI IS REPORTEDLY RELEASING AN AI BROWSER IN THE COMING WEEKS

OpenAI plans to release an AI-powered browser in the coming weeks. The browser will supposedly keep some user interactions inside ChatGPT instead of linking out to websites. It may integrate Operator, OpenAI's web-browser AI agent, as a key feature. Launching a browser would allow OpenAI to gain direct access to user data and create novel user experiences.

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APPLE LOOKS TO BID ON BECOMING US HOME FOR FORMULA 1

ESPN's Formula 1 contract ends next year - Apple will be up against many other bidders.

META POACHED APPLE'S PANG WITH PAY PACKAGE OVER $200 MILLION

The compensation package consists of a base salary, a signing bonus, and Meta shares, with the stock as the weightiest part of the package - much of the money is tied up in performance targets to be unlocked after years of loyalty.

APPLE M4, MORE COMFORTABLE STRAP WILL HEADLINE FIRST MAJOR VISION PRO UPDATE

A new version of the Vision Pro could arrive as early as this year.

GALAXY UNPACKED 2025: EVERYTHING SAMSUNG ANNOUNCED INCLUDING THE Z FOLD 7, Z FLIP 7, AND GALAXY WATCH 8

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is Samsung's thinnest foldable ever, but it no longer has S Pen support.

TESLA IS DAYS AWAY FROM VIOLATING A TEXAS LAW. WHAT'S GOING ON?

Tesla is days away from missing a deadline to hold an annual shareholders meeting.

SEEING LIKE AN LLM

Large language models autocomplete a context and answer what they think is asked - the more context they are given, the more likely they are to provide the right answer.

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SAMSUNG'S EVENT SPOILED BY MASSIVE LAST-MINUTE LEAK

A reliable leaker has shared a whole bunch of marketing materials for Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event (which kicks off today at 10 AM ET) containing details and images of the company's upcoming devices. The Z Fold 7 will measure 4.2 millimeters when unfolded and the Z Flip 7 will measure 6.5 millimeters when unfolded. None of the marketing materials highlight an S Pen on the Z Fold 7, suggesting that the device may not support an S Pen at all. The leaked material also contains images and specs for new Galaxy Watches, which have upgraded storage, displays, and batteries.

META INVESTS $3.5 BILLION IN WORLD'S LARGEST EYE-WEAR MAKER IN AI GLASSES PUSH

Meta has bought a minority stake in EssilorLuxottica. It acquired just under 3% of the Ray-Ban maker, a stake worth around $3.5 billion at the current market price. Meta is considering further investment that could build the stake to around 5% over time, though those plans could still change. The deal provides EssilorLuxottica with a deeper presence in the tech world.

CHINA JUMPS AHEAD IN THE RACE TO ACHIEVE A NEW KIND OF REUSE IN SPACE

China likely completed the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling sometime last week. Two of its satellites appeared to dock together in geosynchronous orbit, coming together and then becoming indistinguishable as a single object. Besides refueling satellites in space, the technology could also be used to approach, capture, and disable other satellites. The US Space Force plans to perform the first refueling of a US military asset in orbit as soon as next year.

CRISPR BREAKTHROUGH ALLOWS SCIENTISTS TO EDIT MULTIPLE GENES SIMULTANEOUSLY

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a new CRISPR method that can modify dozens of genes simultaneously. It can be used to systematically modify entire gene networks in a single step. The technique uses the lesser-known Cas12a enzyme, which is slightly more precise in its ability to identify targeted genes and can handle shorter RNA molecules compared to the traditional Cas9 enzyme. It enables scientists to explore broad genetic interactions.

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