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AMAZON LAUNCHES PRESCRIPTION VENDING MACHINES AT ONE MEDICAL CLINICS IN LOS ANGELES

Amazon is launching prescription drug kiosks at some One Medical offices in Los Angeles. They will work similarly to a vending machine and distribute prescriptions for patients within minutes of their doctor visit. Each machine can stock hundreds of prescriptions. By bringing the pharmacy directly to the point of care, Amazon is allowing patients to start treatments right away. Amazon plans to also deploy its prescription vending kiosks at pharmacy chains like Rite Aid, CVS, and Walgreens.

PLANET LABS TO LAUNCH SATELLITES PROMISING IMAGES IN AN HOUR

Planet Labs PBC's Earth observation satellites promise to deliver high-resolution, AI-analyzed images within the hour. The new Owl monitors will track changes ranging from the impacts of natural disasters to the movements of vessels and aircraft. Owl satellites are equipped with Nvidia chips, enabling them to use AI to identify objects and detect events faster. Planet Labs plans to build and deploy about 40 Owl satellites in the next few years, with an initial test launch slated for the end of 2026.

HOW ULTRASOUND IS USHERING A NEW ERA OF SURGERY-FREE CANCER TREATMENT

Histotripsy is a cancer treatment in which ultrasound waves are concentrated onto a small area of a tumor to destroy it. The ultrasound is delivered in quick bursts, creating tiny microbubbles that expand and then collapse in milliseconds, breaking apart the tumor tissue as they do. The patient's immune system then cleans up the remains. The treatment is fast, non-toxic, and non-invasive. Patients receiving it can usually go home on the same day, with most procedures over in one to three hours. Histotripsy has been approved by the US FDA for the treatment of liver tumors.

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INTRODUCING THE REACT FOUNDATION: THE NEW HOME FOR REACT & REACT NATIVE

React has grown into one of the world's most popular open source projects since Meta open-sourced the project over a decade ago. The incredible growth is thanks to its community. The React Foundation was created to help the React community and its members. It will maintain React's infrastructure, organize React Conf, and create initiatives to support the React ecosystem. The React Foundation will be part of the Linux Foundation.

A PRAGMATIC GUIDE TO MODERN CSS COLOURS

A lot about colors in CSS has changed over the last few years, including updates to the syntax of familiar features and all-new ways of working with colors. These new features can help developers who don't necessarily focus on design. This article looks at the most useful features for developers who aren't trying to pick their own colors or do any color manipulation.

AN INTERVIEW WITH OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN ABOUT DEVDAY AND THE AI BUILDOUT

In the last seven months, OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5, launched the viral video app Sora, and made several announcements about a massive AI buildout with a variety of partners. This article contains an interview with OpenAI's Sam Altman, where he discusses all of those infrastructure announcements, why Altman's investor skills are particularly useful as CEO, apps in ChatGPT, Instant Checkout, Sora, and how OpenAI thinks about user feedback. Altman and OpenAI are presenting an increasingly coherent vision about what OpenAI is building towards. The interview is also available as a podcast.

SHAYNE COPLAN BECOMES YOUNGEST SELF-MADE BILLIONAIRE AFTER POLYMARKET'S $2B INVESTMENT: BBG

Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of Polymarket, a blockchain-based prediction market, has become the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 27. His company will receive as much as $2 billion in investment from Intercontinental Exchange. Polymarket lets users wager on real-world outcomes using cryptocurrency. Users wagered more than $3 billion on potential outcomes during the 2024 US presidential election.

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OPENAI'S RISING TIDE STRATEGY

OpenAI's strategy may create a virtuous cycle where AI demand funds AI build out, which fuels AI demand.

IN DEFENSE OF RUTHLESS MANAGERS

While most engineers would prefer an empathetic manager, there are still several upsides to having a ruthless manager.

TOYOTA AIMS TO LAUNCH THE ‘WORLD'S FIRST' ALL-SOLID-STATE EV BATTERIES

Toyota claims its all-solid-state batteries, which could arrive as soon as 2027, significantly enhance driving range, charging times, and output.

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THE REMARKABLE RISE OF EBIRD—THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT

eBird allows ornithologists around the world to document bird distribution, abundance, habitat use, and trends within a simple scientific framework.

HOW WI-FI SIGNALS CAN BE USED TO DETECT YOUR HEARTBEAT

Pulse-Fi, a new heart rate monitoring technique that uses ambient Wi-Fi signals, is low-cost and easily deployable, and it removes the need for people to wear devices on their bodies.

HUMAN-ORIENTED MARKUP LANGUAGE

Human-oriented Markup Language is a serialization language for documents, datasets, and configuration that prioritizes strict form for human readability.

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SORA'S IOS DOWNLOADS IN ITS FIRST WEEK WAS NEARLY AS BIG AS CHATGPT'S LAUNCH

Despite being invite-only, the Sora app had 627,000 downloads compared to ChatGPT's 606,000 in its first week. It also reached No. 1 on the US App Store by its third day.

AN INTERVIEW WITH OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN ABOUT DEVDAY AND THE AI BUILDOUT

Sam Altman expects that OpenAI's revenue will eventually pay for its trillion-dollar infrastructure effort - but to lock in hardware agreements, he's willing to finance investments ahead of revenue. He portrays this as a better-than-average interest rate loan for key partners. OpenAI's success thus far comes down to two main surprises: ChatGPT far exceeded expectations at launch, and big tech companies have fumbled catching up since then.

OPENAI'S NICK TURLEY ON TRANSFORMING CHATGPT INTO AN OPERATING SYSTEM

Third parties can now reach ChatGPT's 800 million users during their everyday conversations. Apps are now part of the core ChatGPT experience. Developers can build interactive experiences in ChatGPT beyond just chatbots connected to their company's data. This article contains an interview with OpenAI's Nick Turley on how ChatGPT will distribute AGI to the masses.

STATE OF LLMS IN LATE 2025

The AI landscape has evolved into a hyper-specialized ecosystem where each model has distinct strengths. The challenges emerging include diminishing returns on scaling, massive energy consumption, and the rise of smaller specialized models. This guide explains the technical foundations that make each model different so developers can choose the right tool for their task. Success now means understanding each model's strengths, testing on specific use cases, routing intelligently, and staying current.

HARVARD ECONOMIST: AI DATA CENTER BOOM POWERS 92% OF US GDP GROWTH, MASKING ECONOMIC STAGNATION

The massive spending on AI data centers is almost single-handedly propping up the US economy. It drove 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year. The economy could have flatlined with just 0.1% growth without the investment. The surge stems from an escalating AI compute arms race. The spending raises concerns about an unsustainable bubble masking weakness elsewhere.

AI-GENERATED TESTS ARE LYING TO YOU

Developers have shifted to getting AI to generate unit tests over the last year. While this makes everything look good, often, developers are actually just replacing validation with transcription. The more developers automate testing without understanding it, the more they risk turning existing bugs into features. The future of software engineering belongs to those who automate the right things and keep thinking about the rest. AI can amplify good engineering discipline, but it can't replace it.

LESS IS MORE: RECURSIVE REASONING WITH TINY NETWORKS

A single Samsung researcher developed Tiny Recursive Model, which uses a 2-layer network that recursively improves its answer up to 16 times. It outperforms DeepSeek R1 and o3-mini-high on ARC-AGI by 10% to 30% despite having 0.01% of the parameters. The approach simplifies the Hierarchical Reasoning Model by eliminating complex mathematical theorems and dual-network hierarchies, and suggests that smaller networks with deeper recursion generalize better than larger ones without recursion.

MEET LLMC: BEATING ALL COMPRESSION WITH LLMS

LLMc uses AI models to compress natural language. It serves as a high-capacity probabilistic reference system, enabling compression based on token prediction and rank encoding. It efficiently identifies high-likelihood token sequences and encodes them into a compact form using LLMs' in-context capabilities. Benchmarks show that LLMc outperforms traditional compressors such as ZIP and LZMA across a range of datasets.

5 THINGS NVIDIA'S JENSEN HUANG SAID ABOUT THE STATE OF THE AI RACE WITH CHINA

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stressed the US is "not far ahead" of China in AI and urged a nuanced strategy to stay competitive. China's rapid energy production and AI adoption, coupled with local tech giants like Huawei advancing chip systems, pose significant competition. Huang warned of isolating American tech, advocating for global diffusion to maintain leadership in the AI race.

WHY CALIFORNIA'S NEW AI SAFETY LAW SUCCEEDED WHERE SB 1047 FAILED

California's new AI safety law, SB 53, requires major AI labs to disclose their safety protocols, ensuring greater transparency. The law's success where SB 1047 failed is due to its focus on "transparency without liability" and includes whistleblower protections and safety incident reporting. This move could set a precedent for other states to adopt similar regulations.

GEMINI CLI EXTENSIONS

Gemini CLI Extensions allows 3rd party tools like Figma and Stripe to integrate directly into its command-line AI coding tool.

AI MODE CAN NOW HELP YOU SEARCH AND EXPLORE VISUALLY

Google's updated AI Mode for Search now allows users to find visual results using conversational queries.

GENESIS

A high-performance, open-source physics engine and simulation platform for robotics and embodied AI that offers ultra-fast, cross-platform physics, photorealistic rendering, and natural-language-driven generative data scene creation.

SORA EXTEND

Sora Extend allows users to seamlessly generate extended Sora 2 videos beyond OpenAI's 12-second limit.

COINBASE'S BASE BEGINS FORMAL TOKEN AND GOVERNANCE PLANNING

Coinbase's Base team has posted a new opening for a “token & governance research specialist,” signaling active work on a potential token launch and decentralization roadmap. The role will design token goals, draft a “Base constitution,” and define governance processes balancing community participation with long-term network growth. This follows comments from Jesse Pollak and Brian Armstrong that Base is “exploring” a native token to accelerate decentralization, marking a shift from earlier plans to rely solely on ETH as gas.

BITWISE SETS ULTRA-LOW 0.20% FEE FOR SOLANA STAKING ETF

Bitwise has priced its upcoming Solana Staking ETF at a 0.20% annual fee, lower than analysts expected and matching the fee range of approved Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. The filing comes as the SEC's review of new crypto ETFs stalls amid a US government shutdown, while competitors like 21Shares are adding staking features and fee waivers to attract investors.

INTRODUCING KLYRA: THE FUTURE OF TRADING

Klyra is a meta-layer trading platform routing orders across multiple exchanges for best execution rather than operating its own exchange, solving the problem where traders using single exchanges suffer worse execution, higher fees, and limited asset selection, like OKX lacking ENA perpetuals despite otherwise strong performance. The platform enables instant cross-exchange trading through internal transfers processing sub-second versus 15-60 minute deposits, using custodian-agnostic working capital deployment to aggregate liquidity across venues, including Hyperliquid, without requiring custom integrations. Advanced Conditional Orders allow traders to set arbitrary verifiable conditions like rate cuts, ETF announcements, or inflation data to automatically open trades, while Klyra Data aggregates cross-exchange order books, economic data, news, and asset-specific information, including tokenomics and unlock schedules in one interface. The platform plans integration with Patagon for private market access to companies like OpenAI and SpaceX, enabling traders to borrow against secondary positions and hedge correlated exposures, while positioning for the convergence of crypto and traditional markets as the US moves toward legalizing perpetual futures and specialized exchanges fragment across asset classes requiring unified margin account solutions.

UNICORN: THE NEXT LAUNCH MODEL FOR VIRTUALS

Virtuals is launching Unicorn to replace its Genesis model that became dominated by point farming rather than genuine conviction, creating a system where founders pay 100 $VIRTUAL to create launches that start at low valuations with 24-hour evaluation windows and anti-sniper taxes declining from 99% to 1% to prevent bot manipulation. The new model reserves 50% of supply for founding teams with performance-tied fundraising where 25% distributes linearly only after reaching 2M FDV through automatic limit-sells up to 160M FDV, ensuring founders receive proceeds based on market traction rather than promises, while the remaining 25% unlocks after one year with six-month vesting or upon reaching 160M FDV. Every Unicorn launch allocates 5% to ecosystem participants through weekly airdrops, with 2% going to $VIRTUAL stakers and 3% to active ecosystem users, transitioning away from the old points system that enabled farming behavior toward rewarding genuine long-term conviction and co-ownership of AI agents.

THE LIQUIDITY PROBLEM IN PREDICTION MARKETS

Prediction markets suffer from adverse selection, where informed traders with perfect information can gap prices 30+ cents instantly, leaving market makers holding worthless inventory with no hedging options, unlike traditional markets, where defensive strategies exist. The problem stems from toxic counterparties having sufficient capital to clear entire order books across multiple platforms simultaneously, creating scenarios where market makers face unlimited losses against insiders who essentially "see their hand" in poker terms, making liquidity provision unprofitable and driving providers away. Unlike crypto spot markets, where market makers can hedge on alternative venues or Indian index options, where massive retail flow compensates for occasional toxic losses, prediction markets lack sufficient retail volume to offset gap losses while offering no effective hedging mechanisms when informed traders move prices to 100% certainty. The current binary, instant-liquidity primitive exemplified by Polymarket creates unsolvable adverse selection where market makers must either widen spreads dramatically or stop providing liquidity entirely during high-risk periods, leading to the liquidity death spiral that constrains prediction market growth despite their theoretical advantages over traditional sportsbooks.

FUSAKA BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION

Ethereum's upcoming Fusaka fork introduces PeerDAS, splitting blobs into 128 columns so nodes custody data proportional to stake, creating three roles (supernodes, validators, and full nodes) and enabling an 8x theoretical scaling limit with erasure coding. Devnet tests suggest the BPO schedule to 10 and 14 target blobs keeps validating nodes within EIP-7870 limits at roughly 17–25 Mb/s, while supernodes absorb heavier peaks and features like distributed blob building, MEV relays, and a max-blobs flag mitigate proposer bandwidth.

STABLECOINS CROSS $200B: THE END OF BANKING MONOPOLY

Stablecoins crossing $200 billion represents the separation of dollar hegemony from American banking distribution, enabling 8 billion humans to custody dollars without permission, bank accounts, or touching the US banking system in what constitutes the most important geopolitical money shift since Bretton Woods. Three second-order effects emerge: capital controls becoming ineffective as governments cannot trap what they cannot custody or sanction seed phrases, the $150 billion annual remittance extraction flipping to near-zero cost and staying in emerging economies, and central banks forced to compete for citizens who can exit bad monetary policy in 30 seconds, making inflation a customer retention problem. The shift eliminates rent-seeking infrastructure, including correspondent banking's 47-intermediary fee maze and T+2 settlement delays that were always artificial complexity for float extraction, with traditional players like Stripe, PayPal, Visa, and BlackRock now building rather than resisting as the debate ends and deployment begins.

THE REAL ALT SEASON IS IN CRYPTO EQUITIES

Bitcoin dominance sits at 58% in a steady uptrend since November 2022 without the historical pattern where Bitcoin appreciation precedes altcoin outperformance, suggesting alt season is occurring in crypto equities rather than crypto assets as institutions deploy fresh capital into familiar accessible formats. Crypto equities show dramatic outperformance with Coinbase up 53% YTD, Robinhood up 299%, Galaxy up 100%, and Circle up 368% since its June IPO, compared to Bitcoin's 31%, Ethereum's 35%, and Solana's 21% gains over the same period. Institutional capital flows into equities rather than crypto assets because institutions already have operational infrastructure for custody, compliance, and dealer relationships, while purchasing crypto tokens requires new capabilities that may fall outside their mandates entirely. The crypto equities alt season shares characteristics with historical crypto alt seasons including asset concentration with only a handful of attractive equities similar to under 100 tokens in past cycles, access to leverage through traditional equity lending desks unlike collapsed crypto-native lending infrastructure, and likely rotation between different equity metas from stablecoin stocks to exchanges to digital asset treasuries as traders take profits from expensive assets and redeploy capital.

BITMINE IMMERSION ADDED $821M IN ETHER

BitMine Immersion Technologies added 179,251 ether worth approximately $820 million to its balance sheet last week, bringing total ETH holdings to over 2.83 million tokens representing more than 2% of Ethereum's supply and extending its lead as the largest listed ether treasury firm.

COINBASE EARN REACHES $200M

In two weeks since launch, Coinbase's Earn product, powered by Morpho vaults, has reached over $200 million in deposits.

ALIPAY QUIETLY LAUNCHES EURO STABLECOIN WITH MAJOR BANKS

Alipay is launching a Euro-denominated stablecoin (BREUR) under ESMA's new framework, becoming only the second entity to be approved by the EU regulator.