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This post looks at the state of affairs in aging research. It offers some basic background knowledge for each topic covered. Longevity-focused research hasn't led to anything significant yet, but the field is still very young. Scientific discovery works in strange ways - research from longevity could end up impacting other fields, leading to unexpected returns.
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Pickaxe is a TypeScript library for building fault-tolerant and scalable AI agents. It handles the complexities of durable execution, queuing, and scheduling so that developers can focus on writing core business logic. Pickaxe enables developers to build agents that call tools, other agents, or any other functions they define. A video demo is available.
Python can call Mojo code now. The setup is pretty simple - this post walks through how to set it up and provides some examples of how to use it. Development on the stack is still early, so it's not yet production-ready. Mojo is a lot easier to learn than Rust while still providing a meaningful function speedup.
This post evaluates the state of AI's biggest players, primarily through the lens of the Big Five: Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon. It looks at each company's infrastructure, models, partners, data, distribution, core business, scarcity risk, and more and analyzes its position in the industry. The post also looks at model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic and discusses the elephant in the room: China.
Venture capital and zero-interest-rate policy supplied a ton of money to startups, allowing them to grow even if they were selling customers services at a loss. Today, investor money is going straight into subsidizing the costs of AI products. AI products will likely soon start showing ads to monetize. AI serves its users for now, but in the near future, AI will serve ads.
Apple has updated the Liquid Glass Control Center to be a bit more opaque in the second iOS 26 developer beta - a comparison is available in the article.
LogTape is a logging library for JavaScript and TypeScript that provides a simple and flexible logging system.
Sam Altman previously described advertising as a last resort for OpenAI, but his stance has since softened.
The Midjourney suit has the potential to set a precedent around artificial intelligence and how AI companies can operate or train their models - it will have an impact on all creatives.
Newer, more powerful Chromebooks will soon have image generation, text summarization, and more built into the OS.
Apple is preparing to offer new concessions primarily related to its steering rules ahead of a June 26 deadline, after which the European Commission can impose escalating daily fines of up to 5% of Apple's average global turnover.
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Free trials are meant to drive adoption, not rack up costs. But for modern SaaS apps, trial abuse is a growing threat: fake signups, disposable emails, and automated account farming drain compute and distort metrics.
Tesla began limited operations of its self-driving taxi service yesterday in Austin, Texas. The service is only available to 'Early Access' riders and the vehicles are confined to certain streets. Tesla employees will be riding in the front passenger seats and the vehicles may not operate in bad weather. Tesla's stock market valuation rests largely on promises that the company will be able to use artificial intelligence to allow its vehicles to drive autonomously pretty much anywhere there are roads - the Austin project will provide the first indications of whether Tesla's technology can match its ambitions.
Meta and EssilorLuxottica revealed the Oakley Meta HSTN on Friday. The HSTN smart glasses feature Meta's artificial intelligence assistant and have a starting price of $399. They contain Oakley's PRIZM Lens technology, which helps athletes see better across changing light and weather conditions. The glasses will come in various frame-and-lens color combinations - a limited edition with gold lenses and accents will be available for $499. The limited-edition version will be available to preorder on July 11 and the standard Oakley Meta HSTN will go on sale later this summer.
The NASA Psyche spacecraft launched in October 2023 and proceeded normally until April 1 this year, when it detected a drop in pressure inside the line that feeds xenon fuel to its four thrusters. The craft reacted to the pressure signature by powering off the thrusters - this will have no effect on the mission's scheduled arrival at asteroid Psyche in August 2029. The spacecraft recently switched to its backup fuel line and resumed full thruster operations. The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026.
MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine developed a technique that uses AI-generated polymer films to physically restore damaged paintings in hours. It works by printing a transparent 'mask' containing thousands of precisely color-matched regions that conservators apply directly to an original artwork. These masks can be removed whenever needed, so it's a reversible process. Using the technique creates a digital record of what mask was used, so future conservators will have an extremely clear understanding of what was done to every artwork.
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Vibe coding is a new way of building software where you let the AI models do most of the work. Users write prompts, sketch out a plan, and let the model take over. This allows users to build features in hours, but it requires some experience to wield. This article provides some tips on how to vibe code for people who know what they're doing. It covers how to write a good prompt, what AI is good and bad at, the required tools for vibe coding, and more.
Serious engineering teams that want to build thoughtful, well-crafted products need to learn to use AI as it can result in building better products. Building with AI is fast - the velocity gains are important as they allow teams to tighten feedback loops with users faster. Using AI to write software requires a huge shift that challenges some of the ideas previously considered common wisdom. This post looks at how teams should approach working with AI tools.
Apple is considering potentially bidding for artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI to address the need for more AI talent and technology. The internal discussions are at an early stage and may not lead to an offer. Acquiring Perplexity would help Apple develop an AI-based search engine, which could help it cope with the potential loss of its longstanding arrangement with Google. Meta tried to buy Perplexity earlier this year, but the companies failed to reach an agreement.
Startups trying to reach unicorn status used to aim to hire rapidly, but these days, the bragging rights are going to entrepreneurs who can keep their headcount the lowest. Fast and lean growth has been made possible by AI assistants, advisers, coders, and marketers. Companies with just a handful of employees are now claiming tens or even hundreds of millions in annual revenue through botscaling.
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This post looks at TPU internals from the bottom up.
Project Crystal Land, which involves establishing a high-tech hub focused on manufacturing AI-powered industrial robots and advancing artificial intelligence technologies, aims to replicate the scale and integration of China's Shenzhen.
Beauty isn't arbitrary - it emerges from coherence, proportion, and pattern.
Avoid negative echo chambers - these places aren't just bad for your career, they're bad for your mental and physical health too.
Phoenix.new is a fully online coding agent tailored to Elixir and Phoenix - a video demo is available.
Microsoft's Azure Quantum group has settled on a plan for getting error correction on quantum computers - it will take hardware qubits with an error rate of about 1 in 1,000 and use them to build logical qubits where errors are instead 1 in 1 million.
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Mark Zuckerberg's AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence, and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence earlier this year, but its efforts were rebuffed. Zuckerberg started negotiating with Gross soon after those talks ended. Both Gross and Friedman will join Meta and work on products under Alexandr Wang. Meta will get a stake in NFDG, a venture capital firm run by Gross and Friedman.
X users will soon be able to make investments and trades on the social media platform. The company is also exploring the introduction of an X credit or debit card. Elon Musk aims to change X into an 'everything app' - a one-stop shop for messaging, payments, and shopping. X Money, a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment service, is launching later this year. The push into financial services will open X up to regulatory challenges, such as compliance with licensing and money laundering regulations.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new HIV-prevention medication called Yeztugo. The drug nearly eliminated the spread of HIV in clinical trials. It is the first in a new class of antiretrovirals that block HIV from infecting and making new copies of itself inside the immune cells it targets. It costs $14,109 per injection, so health insurers will likely decline to cover the treatment in favor of other forms of PrEP, which can cost as little as $30 per month.
A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded during a ground test late Wednesday. The explosion destroyed the upper stage that was slated to launch on the next Starship test flight. Preliminary data suggests that the incident was caused by the failure of a high-pressure nitrogen tank inside Starship's payload bay. SpaceX had set June 29 as a tentative launch date for the next Starship test flight, but that won't happen now. The extent of the damage at the site is unclear, so it is unknown how long the test site will be out of commission. Videos of the explosion are available in the article.
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Software development tools are getting killed off and replaced by agentic coding. The typical agentic coding workflow doesn't involve using traditional IDEs - it is console-based. This lets developers work faster, be more ambitious, and have more fun. Developers should start learning how to use these tools or start thinking about other career options.
Kubernetes is a massive force multiplier, but it has a steep learning curve. A decade after its release, there is still a lot of churn inside the ecosystem and people stepping on well-documented landmines. This post looks at what can be added to Kubernetes to make the great tool even more applicable to more people and problems.
DARPA is enlisting researchers to find out ways to conduct high-level mathematics research with an AI 'co-author'. It has created a grant-making program called Exponentiating Mathematics to speed up to pace of progress in pure math. Pure math is a domain where visionary theoreticians make audacious observations about how the world works. Progress in the field can take decades or centuries to solve.
There's an increasingly sharp distinction between corporate use of open source software and people's cooperative use of it. While open source licenses allow corporate use of open source software, it is qualitatively different than the personal cooperative sphere of open source. This means that the social rules are different. Existing open source licenses, practices, and culture don't draw this distinction. The current system for corporate use of open source is an increasingly bad deal for the open source people involved.
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The Base Commerce Protocol offers a glimpse into a new payment architecture that is transparent, programmable, and structurally more efficient than what we've relied on for decades.
AI agents can be used to measure code quality.
The best engineering organizations are the ones where normal software engineers can consistently make progress, deliver value to users, and move the business forward.
OpenAI has changed the pricing structure of the business version of ChatGPT to include a credits system that clients can use to upgrade to more advanced tools and add more features.