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META LAUNCHES AI ‘WORLD MODEL' TO ADVANCE ROBOTICS, SELF-DRIVING CARS

V-JEPA 2 is designed to understand the movements of objects to better understand, plan, and predict in 3D environments.

S5CMD

s5cmd is a very fast S3 and local filesystem execution tool that supports a multitude of operations, including tab completion and wildcard support for files.

PAYMENT COMPANY STRIPE TO ACQUIRE CRYPTO WALLET PROVIDER PRIVY

Privy helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences.

MINIMUM VIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

Startups that anticipate infrastructure improvements will ride the wave of rising local inference capabilities and create the next set of generationally defining businesses.

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A FRUSTRATED ZUCKERBERG MAKES HIS BIGGEST AI BET AS META NEARS $14 BILLION STAKE IN SCALE AI, HIRES FOUNDER WANG

Meta is finalizing a deal to invest $14 billion into Scale AI, a company that helps AI startups prepare data to train cutting-edge AI models. Meta is one of Scale AI's biggest customers. The social media giant appears to be taking a similar strategy as other tech companies like Google and Microsoft which are taking large stakes in prominent leaders in AI rather than buying them outright - Meta is currently on trial for antitrust claims and it doesn't want to further upset regulators by acquiring Scale AI. It will take a 49% stake in Scale AI, and Scale AI's CEO will help lead a new AI research lab within Meta.

OPENAI RELEASES O3-PRO, A SOUPED-UP VERSION OF ITS O3 AI REASONING MODEL

OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an advanced reasoning model, to ChatGPT Pro and Team users, as well as on OpenAI's developer API. Enterprise and Edu users will get access to the model next week. o3-pro is priced at $20 per million input tokens and $80 per million output tokens on the API. The model has access to tools and can search the web, analyze files, reason about visual inputs, use Python, personalize its responses using memory, and more. It can not generate images or use Canvas and its responses typically take longer than o1-pro to complete.

IBM NOW DESCRIBING ITS FIRST ERROR-RESISTANT QUANTUM COMPUTE SYSTEM

IBM has released plans for a quantum compute system that can perform 100 million operations without errors on a collection of 200 logical qubits. The hardware, which will be called Starling, will be available for use in 2029. While the system will be able to handle some problems, it will not be enough to perform the complex algorithms needed to do things like break encryptions - that would require waiting for IBM's Blue Jay, a system with 2,000 logical qubits the company expects to build by 2033.

SNAP TO LAUNCH SMALLER, LIGHTER AUGMENTED REALITY SPECS SMARTGLASSES IN 2026

Snap plans to release a sixth generation of its augmented reality glasses in 2026. The next-generation glasses will be called Specs and use AR technology to let people see and interact with digital imagery overlaid over the physical world. It will run on Snap OS. Developers will be able to incorporate Google's Gemini AI models and OpenAI's GPT family of AI models into programs they develop for the smart glasses. The most recent version of Snap's augmented reality glass was released in September 2024 to developers who had to pay $99 a month for a full year under a leasing model.

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ANDROID 16 IS HERE

Android 16 is now available on most supported Pixel devices. This release will be the only release in 2025 to include planned app-impacting behavior changes. There is another planned release for Q4 that will include new developer APIs, feature updates, optimizations, and bug fixes. The Android team plans to release updates quarterly. This post details some of the changes in Android 16, including changes to improve the consistency and visual appearance of apps, Android apps that adapt to any screen and window size, consistent progress notifications, and custom AGSL graphical effects.

PAWS-ON-MCP

Paws-on-MCP is a comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that implements the latest specification. It demonstrates production-ready adherence to the MCP 2025-03-26 specification. Paws-on-MCP features HackerNews and GitHub API integrations with AI-powered analysis through advanced MCP sampling.

REFLECTIONS FROM SAM ALTMAN

OpenAI started almost nine years ago with the goal of building the most impactful technology in human history: artificial general intelligence (AGI). The launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, kicked off the current AI revolution. Over the past two years, the company had to build almost from scratch around this new technology, which was a difficult and messy process. Sam Altman considers these years to be the most rewarding, fun, best, interesting, exhausting, stressful, and unpleasant years of his life so far. He is confident that OpenAI now knows how to build AGI and believes that the first AI agents will join the workforce this year and materially change the output of companies.

GOOGLE OFFERS BUYOUTS TO EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE COMPANY, INCLUDING SEARCH

Google has offered buyouts to employees across several of its divisions in an effort to reduce headcount. The 'voluntary exit program' applies to US-based employees. The buyout announcement comes along with a demand for employees to return to the office - workers who live within 50 miles of an office will be expected to assume a hybrid work schedule. Google has done multiple buyout offers in a few units this year.

NEWS SITES ARE GETTING CRUSHED BY GOOGLE'S NEW AI TOOLS

Traffic for publishers is plummeting as chatbots are replacing Google searches.

PARTIAL KEYFRAMES

It's possible to write CSS keyframe animations without specifying either a starting or ending point - this trick unlocks a capability within keyframe animations that makes them dynamic and composable.

OPENAI ANNOUNCES 80% PRICE DROP FOR O3, ITS MOST POWERFUL REASONING MODEL

OpenAI has slashed prices on o3 by 80% for both input and output tokens, making the model more accessible for developers seeking advanced reasoning capabilities.

HOW AI SAVED MY COMPANY FROM A 2-YEAR LITIGATION NIGHTMARE

Contracts are language, and large language models are exceptionally good at reviewing and creating them.

APPLE RETREATS

Apple appears to be retreating to safety and focusing on its core competencies.

GOD IS HUNGRY FOR CONTEXT: FIRST THOUGHTS ON O3 PRO

OpenAI's o3-pro is very smart, but it needs a lot of context in order to work well.

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APPLE WWDC 2025: THE 13 BIGGEST ANNOUNCEMENTS

Apple showed off a sleek design refresh for its operating system, new features for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and AirPods, and more at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. This page rounds up the biggest announcements from the event. There are big changes in store across Apple's platforms. Apple's new operating systems, which are now named by year, are now available as developer betas and will be available to all users this fall.

OPENAI HITS $10 BILLION IN ANNUAL RECURRING REVENUE FUELED BY CHATGPT GROWTH

OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The figure includes sales from the company's consumer products, ChatGPT business products, and OpenAI's API, but excludes licensing revenue from Microsoft and large one-time deals. OpenAI had around $5.5 billion in ARR last year - it is targeting $125 billion in revenue by 2029. The company currently supports 500 million weekly active users, with three million paying business users.

DOCTORS COULD HACK THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH ULTRASOUND

Focused ultrasound stimulation (FUS) is a technique that involves using sound waves to reduce inflammation in targeted areas of the body. It could help with many disorders, including diabetes, obesity, arthritis, heart disease, and certain cancers. The technology offers a precise and safe way to provide healing treatments for a wide range of both acute and chronic maladies - without surgery, and potentially at home with a wearable device. This article discusses in-depth how FUS works and its potential applications.

XROBOTICS' COUNTERTOP ROBOTS ARE COOKING UP 25,000 PIZZAS A MONTH

XRobotics' countertop robot, xPizza Cube, can make up to 100 pizzas an hour. Roughly the size of a stackable washing machine, the xPizza Cube can be retrofitted to work with pies of different sizes and styles. A unit can be leased for $1,300 a month for three years. XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round - it will use the capital to produce more units and install more robots for customers.

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APPLE ANNOUNCES FOUNDATION MODELS FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPERS TO LEVERAGE AI

Apple's Foundation Models Framework is a new API that allows third-party developers to build apps that leverage Apple's on-device large language models. It enables developers to build AI-powered features that work offline, protect privacy, and incur no inference costs. The framework is available for testing starting today through the Apple Developer Program. A public beta will be available through the Apple Beta Software Program next month.

CONTAINER

container is a tool for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on macOS. It consumes and produces OCI-compliant container images, so developers can pull and run images from any standard container registry. Developers can also push images to those registries, and run the images in any other OCI-compliant application. container is optimized for Apple silicon.

LLMS ARE CHEAP

Generative AI is relatively cheap, especially when compared to search APIs. While inference was very expensive at the start of the AI boom, it has since gotten a lot cheaper. The real cost problem will be from the backend services that AI agents will want to access.

ONE MAN ARMIES

This post contains a list of one-person (or mostly one-person) projects. The list includes Stardew Valley, Linux, the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and jQuery. Each entry names the project's creator. The list shows how incredible things can be made by a single person. If you care enough about your ideas, they might be worth trying.

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SOMO

somo is a human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

THE CODE REVIEW FRUSTRATION

Treating vibe code as precious is a productivity killer.

A BIT MORE ON TWITTER/X'S NEW ENCRYPTED MESSAGING

From a cryptographic perspective, XChat, X's new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, isn't great - there's no forward secrecy and user private keys are stored at X.

THE SIGNALFIRE STATE OF TALENT REPORT - 2025

Tech's talent gap has widened - entry-level hiring is collapsing and geographic power centers are evolving fast.

AI'S METRICS QUESTION

Measuring AI use is difficult because the term 'AI' can refer to many different things.

SILICON VALLEY'S QUEST TO REMOVE FRICTION FROM OUR LIVES

Silicon Valley's real sin is that it is removing long-existing frictions too hard and fast, causing hidden costs to pop up faster than society can patch them.

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EVERYTHING APPLE PLANS TO SHOW AT ITS IOS 26-FOCUSED WWDC 2025 EVENT

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference will focus on design and productivity enhancements for its long-established operating system franchises. The keynote address will begin at 10 AM PT today. It will introduce redesigned software interfaces for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, along with minor tweaks to the Vision Pro headset. Apple also plans to introduce a sweeping change to its software brand, shifting version numbers to a year-based system. The AI changes that Apple plans to introduce will be minor and are unlikely to impress industry watchers.

MICROSOFT AND ASUS ANNOUNCE TWO XBOX ALLY HANDHELDS WITH NEW XBOX FULL-SCREEN EXPERIENCE

Microsoft and Asus have been working together over the past year to create two new ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. The white ROG Xbox Ally ships with AMD's Ryzen Z2 A processor and the ROG Ally X adds a better AMD processor and impulse triggers. The hardware specs make them very similar to Asus' existing Windows-powered handheld gaming PCs, but there are much-needed changes to the software side that make the experience a lot better. There are tweaks to the operating system, Xbox PC app, and Game Bar to make Windows more handheld-friendly. The reveal trailer for the devices is available in the article.

BREAKTHROUGH IN SEARCH FOR HIV CURE LEAVES RESEARCHERS ‘OVERWHELMED'

Researchers have found a way to force HIV out of hiding inside human cells. HIV's ability to conceal itself within certain white blood cells has been one of the main challenges for scientists looking for a cure. Further research is required to determine whether revealing the virus is enough to allow the body's immune system to deal with it or whether other technologies or therapies will need to be used to eliminate it from the body. The method will require successful tests in animals followed by safety trials in humans before efficacy trials can even begin.