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REDDIT SUES ANTHROPIC, ALLEGES UNAUTHORIZED USE OF SITE'S DATA

Reddit says Anthropic unlawfully used its data for commercial purposes without paying for it and without abiding by the company's user data policy.

APPLE NAMES 2025 DESIGN AWARDS WINNERS

Apple named 12 winners across six categories (Delight and Fun, Innovation, Interaction, Inclusivity, Social Impact, and Visuals and Graphics), mostly indie apps and startups, with generative AI apps noticeably missing from the list.

BEYOND 2NM: APPLE'S A20 CHIP TO INTRODUCE NEW PACKAGING BREAKTHROUGH

Apple's A20 chip, built on TSMC's second-gen 2nm process, will be used in the iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, and iPhone 18 Fold. The processors use Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module packaging, which allows different components to be integrated directly at the wafer level. The technique, which connects the dies without needing an interposer or substrate, brings both thermal and signal integrity benefits. This is a big leap in chip design and shows how technologies once reserved for data center GPUs and AI accelerators are making their way into smartphones.

MUSK SAYS SPACEX REVENUE WILL NEAR $16 BILLION IN 2025

SpaceX is on track to generate about $15.5 billion in revenue in 2025. The startup is privately owned, so information about its performance is rare. SpaceX's two main business lines are its launch operation and Starlink. Elon Musk claims that commercial revenue at SpaceX will exceed NASA's entire budget next year. A large part of the startup's cash is flowing toward Starship.

HUMAN BRAIN CELLS ON A CHIP FOR SALE

Australian startup Cortical Labs' CL1 is a code-deployable biological computer that fuses human brain cells on a silicon chip to process information via sub-millisecond electrical feedback loops. A tool for neuroscience and biotech research, the CL1 offers scientists a new way to study how brain cells process and react to stimuli. It uses live human neurons capable of adapting, learning, and responding to external inputs in real time. The CL1 will begin shipping in the summer at $35,000 each, or $20,000 when purchased in 30-unit server racks.

NEURALINK COMPETITOR PARADROMICS COMPLETES FIRST HUMAN IMPLANT

Neurotech startup Paradromics implanted its brain-computer interface in a human for the first time on May 14. The patient was already undergoing neurosurgery to treat epilepsy. The brain-computer interface was implanted and removed from the patient's brain in about 20 minutes during that surgery. The procedure demonstrated that Paradromics' system can be safely implanted and record neural activity. The startup plans to kick off a clinical trial later this year to study the long-term safety and use of its technology in humans.

WHY GUIS ARE BUILT AT LEAST 2.5 TIMES

Your mental model for 'what making software is' is extremely important when trying to figure out how to 'manage' it. A lot of what is essential for making great products will look like 'waste' when viewed through a manufacturing lens. When 'making software' is viewed as a process of discovery, developers behave completely differently - they might try to get something into users' hands as fast as possible or run parallel experiments in production with different versions. The goal isn't just to produce, but to find out what should be built.

QUARKDOWN

Quarkdown is a modern Markdown-based typesetting system that can seamlessly compile projects into print-ready books or interactive presentations. It uses a Turing-complete extension of Markdown to ensure ideas can flow automatically into paper. Quarkdown brings functions and other syntax extensions to Markdown, opening up unlimited possibilities. Developers can define their own functions and variables within Markdown and create libraries to share with other users.

META AND YANDEX ARE DE-ANONYMIZING ANDROID USERS' WEB BROWSING IDENTIFIERS

Meta and Yandex Are embedding tracking code into millions of websites to de-anonymize visitors. The code abuses legitimate Internet protocols, causing browsers to send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device. It bypasses core security and privacy protections provided by the Android operating system and the browsers that run on it. Currently, the only way to protect against the tracking is to refrain from installing the Facebook, Instagram, or Yandex apps on Android devices.

DOES AI PROGRESS HAVE A SPEED LIMIT?

The external world puts a speed limit on AI development. Systems need to be tested in real-world conditions to encounter failures they can learn from. Edge cases can be learned, but that will often need to happen while doing real tasks. This creates a speed limit in two ways: you have to wait to collect that data and some people may be reluctant to try out the technology while the system works out its bugs.

EPIC GAMES' METAHUMAN CREATION TOOL LAUNCHES OUT OF EARLY ACCESS

MetaHuman enables developers to quickly create realistic human characters - it can generate real-time animations and audio from almost any mono camera.

COLOSSAL LABS WILL RELEASE THE SOUNDS OF DIRE WOLVES HOWLING ‘LATER THIS YEAR,' FOUNDER SAYS

Colossal Labs plans to release a bio-acoustic project that maps out the different types of dire wolf howls later this year.

GOOGLE'S NOTEBOOKLM NOW LETS YOU SHARE YOUR NOTEBOOK — AND AI PODCASTS — PUBLICLY

Viewers can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.

STOP OVER-THINKING AI SUBSCRIPTIONS

The current best deal is Claude Max, which gives users almost unlimited use of Claude Code.

META PRIORITIZING ULTRALIGHT HEADSET WITH PUCK FOR 2026 OVER TRADITIONAL QUEST 4

The next candidate for a traditional form factor Quest most likely won't ship until 2027.

LINGO.DEV COMPILER

The Lingo.dev Compiler makes any React app multilingual at build time without changing any components.

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META AIMS TO FULLY AUTOMATE AD CREATION USING AI

Meta is betting that automation is the future of ads. It plans to enable brands to fully create and target ads from scratch with AI by the end of next year. The company also plans to enable advertisers to personalize ads using AI. For example, companies will be able to generate variations of existing ads that fit users' current locations.

HOW MUCH SHOULD THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN GET PAID?

Elon Musk was paid $0 last year for his role as Tesla's chief executive. He has not been paid for several years amid a legal battle over a stock award in 2018. A court has twice thrown out his pay package despite two votes of support from shareholders. The company is now exploring a new compensation package for Musk. This article looks at three possible approaches to paying Musk.

ARTIFICIAL BLOOD THAT COULD WORK FOR ALL BLOOD TYPES IN TRIALS

Clinical trials for a universal artificial blood are underway in Japan. The artificial blood is usable for all blood types and can be stored for up to two years. It is a potential solution to critical shortages in blood supplies for emergency and chronic health care worldwide. The scientists are seeking clinical approval and practical rollout of the universal artificial blood by 2030.

BLUE ORIGIN LAUNCHES 6 PASSENGERS ON SUB-ORBITAL TRIP TO THE EDGE OF SPACE

Blue Origin's twelfth New Shepard passenger flight blasted off on Saturday carrying an international crew of four men and two women. The crew rocketed to the edge of space, an altitude of nearly 65 miles, before descending in the West Texas desert 10 minutes after liftoff. Blue Origin has now launched 68 passengers, four of whom have flown twice. It is estimated that a seat aboard New Shepard costs upwards of $500,000.

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9 LESSONS FROM CURSOR'S SYSTEM PROMPT

This post takes a look at what makes Cursor's prompting so effective. It breaks down the system prompt, the two user prompts, and the tool calling prompts. The prompts from the post were obtained by setting a custom API endpoint in Cursor and reading the payloads. They reveal how Cursor's capabilities aren't magic, they're just the result of incredibly thoughtful and detailed prompt engineering.

MY AI SKEPTIC FRIENDS ARE ALL NUTS

Large language models can write a lot of the tedious code you'll ever need to write and reduce the number of things you need to Google. While there are many objections to using the technology, it is undeniable that AI can speed up many workflows, even if it makes mistakes sometimes. Developers have always been responsible for what's in their code - AI doesn't change that. They still have to check code for mistakes and to understand how it all works.

OF COURSE WORKERS WANT A FOUR-DAY WEEK. COMPANIES SHOULD TOO

Studies across hundreds of businesses and nonprofits switching to four-day-week pilot programs show that working one day less every week with no reduction in pay results in reduced burnout, better mental health, and improvements in physical health. Organizations saw excellent results in performance metrics such as revenue, absenteeism, and resignations - less than 10% decided to discontinue the four-day week. Companies appear to be able to maintain 100% of their performance despite 20% less time at the workplace. The most common productivity hack used by companies was to cut down on meetings.

GOOGLE'S PIXEL 10 PHONES WILL REPORTEDLY LAUNCH ON AUGUST 13TH

Google reportedly plans to launch the Pixel 10 series at a Made by Google event on August 13. The handsets will arrive in stores a week later on August 20. Google is expected to launch four Pixel 10 phones: a regular model, Pro, Pro XL, and Pro Fold. The company will likely announce the Pixel Watch 4 at the same event.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 2010S?

The average earnings growth for Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft from 2010 was 17% - it was around 7% for the rest of the S&P 500.

ASK HN: HOW DO I LEARN ROBOTICS IN 2025? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

This thread contains resources and advice for learning robotics.

TYPING 118 WPM BROKE MY BRAIN IN THE RIGHT WAYS (A YEAR-LONG JOURNEY)

Learning how to type fast can make you a better developer - faster at writing code, better at documentation, and less frustrated when typing out large amounts of text.

AIRBNB CEO BRIAN CHESKY WANTS TO BUILD THE EVERYTHING APP

This post contains a transcript of an interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky where he discusses AI and Airbnb, his relationship with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive, the difference between a product manager and a program manager, and much more.

AI DIDN'T KILL STACK OVERFLOW

What killed Stack Overflow was its community and governance - AI merely exposed the extent to which the community had already lost its spark.

DIGG'S FOUNDERS EXPLAIN HOW THEY'RE BUILDING A SITE FOR HUMANS IN THE AI ERA

The rebooted version of Digg will give people who create content and manage online communities a bigger stake in the platform's success.

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CHATGPT FUTURE JUST REVEALED — GET READY FOR A ‘SUPER ASSISTANT'

The Justice Department's antitrust case against Google revealed a heavily redacted document from OpenAI from late 2024 that detailed the company's internal strategy and its goal to create a de facto 'interface to the internet'. While much of the document was blacked out, it was clear how much OpenAI expects ChatGPT to revolutionize the internet. The company planned to spend the first half of 2025 building out ChatGPT as a super assistant and then shift in the second half to generating monetizable demand. One of the company's cornerstone strategies is to build out more data centers to keep up with ChatGPT's ballooning user base.

GOOGLE NOW LETS YOU USE AI WITHOUT INTERNET ON SMARTPHONES

Google's new app, Edge Gallery, allows users to download and use AI models on smartphones. The Android app can be downloaded and installed through a GitHub repository - an iOS version will be available soon. There are several models available, including Gemma 3 and 3n and Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 models. The models can be used without an internet connection once installed.

IT'S WAYMO'S WORLD. WE'RE ALL JUST RIDING IN IT

Waymo cracked a million total paid rides in late 2023. By the end of 2024, it reached five million, and it is on track to blow past 20 million full autonomous trips by the end of the year. The company's service is only available in a few cities right now, but it might be available everywhere sooner than expected. The competition in the industry is just getting started, with Tesla planning to reveal a robotaxi service in the coming weeks.

ELON MUSK TO BUILD ENORMOUS TEXAS ‘GIGABAY' TO STORE 1,000 STARSHIPS

SpaceX plans to build the biggest structure in the world to house up to 1,000 Starship rockets per year. The gigabay is part of the company's plans to launch multiple rockets per day to reach and colonize Mars. Elon Musk estimates that SpaceX will need to launch up to 2,000 rockets to Mars in every two-year window to carry the cargo needed to set up a colony. He aims to send humans to Mars by 2029.

CLAUDE CODE: AN ANALYSIS (BOOK)

This is a report on Claude Code generated by Claude Opus 4 with the help of almost all of the major flagship models. Claude Code is an agentic coding tool with a few new novel components. It has a streaming architecture that handles real-time model responses, tool execution, and UI updates, safety systems that provide security without disrupting workflow, a tool design that bridges AI reasoning and system execution, and prompt engineering that reliably controls complex model behavior. The report covers the foundation of Claude Code's architecture, data structures and the information architecture, control flow and the orchestration engine, tools and the execution engine, and much more.

SYSTEMS CORRECTNESS PRACTICES AT AMAZON WEB SERVICES

AWS strives to deliver reliable services that customers can trust completely, which requires maintaining the highest standards of security durability, integrity, and availability. Systems correctness serves as the cornerstone for achieving these priorities. This article looks at the formal methods used across AWS to deliver complex services with high confidence in correctness. It covers more traditional formal approaches such as theorem proving, deductive verification, and model checking, as well as more lightweight semi-formal approaches such as property-based testing, fuzzing, and runtime monitoring.

FOR SOME RECENT GRADUATES, THE A.I. JOB APOCALYPSE MAY ALREADY BE HERE

Millions of young graduates are entering into industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence. This emerging crisis for entry-level workers is being fueled in part by rapid advances in AI capabilities. Unemployment for recent college graduates has jumped to an unusually high 5.8% in recent months. While some executives are making a calculated bet on AI systems, there are many risks, for example, the expectation that entry-level jobs are short-lived may lead companies to underinvest in job training, mentorship, and other programs aimed at entry-level workers, leaving those workers unprepared for more senior roles later on.

THE U.S. PLAN TO HOBBLE CHINA TECH ISN'T WORKING

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CLAUDE 4 - FROM HALLUCINATION TO CREATION?

Claude created an SVG for an icon when it couldn't find the icon within the library the developer had provided for it.