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BYD's 1,000-kilowatt fast chargers make charging an EV as quick as a gasoline fill-up. They can supply nearly 250 miles of fresh range in five minutes. BYD designs its own cars, chargers, and batteries - this vertical integration puts the company in a unique position in terms of engineering control. This article discusses the technologies that enable the company's megawatt charging speeds.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn't just another API standard, it's a wire protocol that enforces consistency. It allows developers to test, sanitize inputs, and handle errors in actual code and not just hope that the model formats requests correctly. MCP agents query capabilities dynamically and adapt automatically while running as a local process. The protocol's standardization creates an opportunity to have consistent patterns across all servers. The practical path forward involves maintaining APIs for human developers while adding MCP for AI agent integration.
Section 174 of the IRS Code of 1954 guaranteed that US companies could deduct 100% of the qualified research and development spending in the year they incurred the costs. This incentivized companies to develop their products in the US and fueled the rise of smartphones, cloud computing, and mobile apps. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed during President Donald Trump's first term slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, but it also added a future provision that meant that companies must spread the research and development deduction in smaller chunks over five or even 15-year periods. The provision went into effect in 2022, making companies' biggest source of expenses now a painful tax bill, which fueled mass layoffs.
OpenAI is selling premium AI services to universities for faculty and student use and running marketing campaigns aimed at getting students to use ChatGPT. It plans to overhaul college education by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life. The company wants universities to give students AI assistants to help guide and tutor them. In its 'AI-native universities' plan, professors would provide customized AI study bots for each class, career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews, and students would be able to use chatbots to quiz them before tests.
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Scale AI provides data labeling services to companies to help them train their AI models.
Declarative engineering is fine when software is 99% Python logic and 1% AI, but software would be poorly served by that paradigm if it was 99% AI and 1% Python.
Odyc.js is a small JavaScript library for coding video games even without programming experience.
Android development requires more effort to maintain compared to server-side development - developers planning to build an Android app as a hobby should keep the ongoing maintenance costs in mind.
This blog post demonstrates how to reverse-engineer Cursor's LLM client by setting up TensorZero as a self-hosted proxy service - this enables users to observe, analyze, and experiment with different LLM models while maintaining the full Cursor experience.
namerefs (introduced in bash 4.0) act as aliases for other variables and can also reference a specific element in an array, allowing for the creation of magic variables that evaluate any arbitrary expression.
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Traditional automation is no match for today's complexity. Agentic workflows [5]—autonomous, goal-driven agents collaborating to achieve business goals—require more than prompt engineering. They need a powerful workflow engine to orchestrate tasks, decisions, and outcomes at scale—with humans in the loop when it matters most. .
Amazon is building a 'humanoid park' to test robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers. The indoor obstacle course is about the size of a coffee shop. The company is developing artificial intelligence software that can power the robots. It will use hardware developed by other companies. Amazon is aiming for the robots to be able to travel in its Rivian vans and make deliveries from them.
Google has started tests of its AI Mode's new 'Search Live' experience, which lets users have real-time conversations with Google. The feature can answer questions while surfacing the sites used to inform the answer. It may ask clarifying questions to refine queries, and users can ask follow-up questions. The feature is currently rolling out to the Google app in Android and iOS.
Nucleus Genomics is a DNA testing and analysis company that plans to provide DNA testing for embryos to predict and reduce chronic diseases. It will analyze up to 20 embryos for $5,999, providing an analysis of up to 900 conditions. The embryos will be given probabilities for the likelihood they will get these chronic conditions and then it will be up to the parents to decide which embryos to use. Nucleus also provides possibility assessments for attributes such as IQ, height, and eye color.
Wing and Walmart have announced plans to roll out drone delivery to more than 100 Walmart stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, Tampa, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Walmart appears to be becoming confident in drone delivery - the expansion is a nearly five-fold increase in Wing's operations with the retailer. Wing is now decidedly out of the pilot and trial phase and scaling up its business.
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The founders of Clearspace, a startup that builds tools to help people reduce their screen time, have released an API that makes iOS Screen Time accessible on the web. The API allows developers to build tools that leverage screen time data. Example use cases include apps that auto-report large deviations in screen time, show group visibility, and automatically complete tasks every time a limit is passed.
Claude Composer CLI is a wrapper for Claude Code that adds enhancements around automation, UX, and configuration. It automatically handles permission dialogues based on configurable rules and uses rulesets to define exactly which actions to allow automatically. Users can configure which tools Claude can use and stay informed without switching contexts through system notifications.
Google has released an upgraded preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro. It will be generally available in the coming weeks. The model leads in coding across benchmarks like AIDER Polyglot and has top-tier performance on GPQA and Humanity's Last Exam. It has an Elo score of 1460 on LMArena and 1443 on WebDevArena.
AMC plans to use AI company Runway's technology to both generate marketing images and help pre-visualize shows that have yet to be produced. The AI production images could help showrunners figure out what would or wouldn't work on the air without the high cost of shooting the material or designing from scratch. They are not intended to be used in shows at this point. Other studios are also tinkering with AI models, but they are staying silent about it due to the early nature of the tech and the sensitivity of the issue with Hollywood guilds.
Speedometer 3, created collaboratively by Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and Mozilla, was designed to measure web responsiveness through several workloads like HTML parsing, JavaScript and JSON processing, pixel rendering, CSS application, and more.
Apple says that 90% of the billings and sales on its global App Store business did not involve paying Apple a commission.
The AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month.
SCIM (the System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is a standard used by identity providers for communicating three kinds of changes to other software.
The new feature will display a callout box that shows when a post has been widely liked by users with differing opinions.
Layer is a screen designed to showcase digital art in the best quality possible.
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Apple is working on new head gestures, sleep auto-pause, camera control, Audio Mix, and wider classroom support for AirPods. It is expected to announce these features along with major updates across all of its platforms at WWDC25. AI will play a smaller role at the conference this year. The spotlight will likely fall on design refreshes and software improvements. Details about the new AirPods features are available in the article.
OpenAI has added new features for business users into ChatGPT. There are now integrations with different cloud services, meeting recordings, and MCP connection support for connecting to tools for deep research. The cloud integrations will allow ChatGPT to look for information across users' services to answer questions. MCP support will only be available to Pro, Team, and Enterprise users.
Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic material that breaks down in seawater without leaving any residual trace. The material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics and can be used like regular plastic when coated. It breaks down when exposed to salt, and the components can be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria. It is non-toxic, non-flammable, and does not emit carbon dioxide. While the team has not yet detailed any plans for commercialization, their research has attracted significant interest.
Waymo was frequently mocked for being heavily geofenced. Tesla's universal 'no map' approach seemed to make more sense. However, 83% of the US population lives in urban areas - autopilot doesn't really need to be able to drive everywhere. Solving that last 20% of self-driving might be 80% of the effort. Waymo is happily chasing densely populated areas - it's now doing more than 250,000 paid rides without a driver a week.
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Mistral has released a vibe coding client to compete with Windsurf, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code is a fork of the open source project Continue. The AI-powered coding assistant bundles Mistral's models, an 'in-IDE' assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tools into a single package. It is currently in private beta for JetBrains development platforms and Microsoft's VS Code. Mistral plans to contribute at least a portion of its improvements to Mistral Code to the Continue open source project.
Large language models (LLMs) essentially mirror the skill of their operators. AI shouldn't be banned from the interviewing process - allowing AI in the interviewing process enables you to observe how they use the technology. Companies that ban AI will either miss out on outstanding candidates or they will find their employees will start using AI in stealth. The best way to determine if someone is a skilled operator is to watch them dance with an LLM.
The Switch 2 was released today. The first iteration of the console was a major hit for Nintendo, selling roughly 150 million units. The Switch 2 has a bigger screen, better graphics, and larger controls. Many enthusiasts showed up early at stores to pick up their units at midnight. Nintendo had warned customers that delivery of the console was not guaranteed on launch day.
There's no evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percentage of jobs. However, there are hundreds of years of evidence showing the opposite is true: AI will almost certainly create more jobs than it displaces. The press and media cover hype stories because they draw clicks. Previous technological revolutions took jobs away from some workers, but this resulted in greater productivity, employment, and more options for workers. AI may permanently alter the employment landscape, but it is unlikely to displace a massive portion of the workforce.
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The feature will likely be revealed at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference alongside other iOS 26 improvements, including automatic translation and polls in Messages.
If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a schema, you can write machine code.
Life is a creative force that builds artifacts that could not have come about randomly - aliveness is what an object does to its surroundings.
Former 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki bid $305 million through her recently founded nonprofit TTAM Research Institute.