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You are a completely different person today than who you were seven years ago - there's no need to dwell on things for a version of you that doesn't exist, and there's no reason to plan for a future version either: focus your energy and attention on the present moment.
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X is evolving from a social media platform powered by advertisers to one betting on revenue generated from AI and subscriptions. This change appears to have had a positive effect as the company recently posted $91 million in revenue tied to data licensing and subscriptions in February, a 30% increase from last year. The company boasted nearly $1.5 billion in annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. X now has almost $1.1 billion cash on hand, but it still owes $12.5 billion in expensive debt.
Perplexity is building its own browser to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app and sell premium ads. Its CEO believes that users will be fine with its tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them. The company has said that it would buy the Chrome browser business if Google was forced to sell. It recently signed a partnership with Motorola to have its app pre-installed on the Razr series.
Despite reusable rockets being available nowadays, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch missions into orbit. Launches are now becoming more routine, with SpaceX sending batches of Starlink Internet satellites and other kinds of missions into space every few days. NASA is only one of SpaceX's customers - the US military is launching more missions than ever before and SpaceX is about to become the Pentagon's top launch provider. There's still a lot of demand, so prices haven't gone down.
Aurora Innovation plans to unleash driverless trucks on a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston by the end of the month. The company has been testing its vehicles in closed and virtual environments. It was denied an exemption request from a federal regulation that stipulates that truck drivers must deploy roadside warning devices whenever they're stopped on the side of the road. This prompted Aurora to sue the Motor Carrier Safety Administration, as the company doesn't have human operators to physically deploy the necessary devices.
Any prompt that has been fed into a public large language model has already probably been used for training, even if they haven't been disclosed publicly. This makes it difficult to create personal benchmarks for models - mainstream benchmarks already have a high risk of being gamed. This thread contains prompts that AI still can't answer, along with discussions about the inner workings of large language models. Examples include taking a common riddle and then changing one little detail, asking something about an obscure movie, and asking about things that don't exist.
Zev helps developers remember or discover terminal commands using natural language. Users describe what they want to do and Zev presents a list of commands which users can copy and paste to use. Zev can be used with Ollama and the OpenAI API.
While the smartest AI systems are surpassing humans in some domains, it's hard to argue that today's AI systems are conscious. Consciousness is a taboo subject within the world of serious AI research as people are wary of anthropomorphizing AI systems. However, that is starting to change, as there is a growing body of academic research on AI model welfare taking the prospect of AI consciousness more seriously as systems grow more intelligent. While AI models may not be conscious yet, it may be worth exploring for signs of consciousness as long as it's not diverting resources from AI safety and alignment work aimed at keeping humans safe.
CEOs looking to blindly implement AI may be doing so to find more funding rather than build a better product. Employees stuck working in these environments are best off deciding whether they want to go on a VC-driven startup ride or work somewhere else in a product-driven role. These types of AI implementations are often not a real strategy and are more for PR. Doing things for more funding and doing things that get the work done are not always the same. If funding is a real concern, the CEO's approach might be valid.
Remote staffers at several units within Google have to start showing up at the closest office for a hybrid work schedule or their roles may be at risk.
The code is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers.
CocoIndex is an open-source engine that supports custom transformation logic and incremental updates specialized for data indexing.
Waymo's expansion was aided by the company's partnerships with Uber, automakers, and the operations and maintenance businesses that tend to its vehicle fleets.
It's better to keep related code close together to reduce context boundaries and limit the amount of relevant detail.
The Nintendo Switch 2 preorder frenzy has led to widespread problems with the web infrastructure for major retail chains.
Greatness is more common than we release - it's actually more rare to be recognized for it.
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Tesla is now testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in the Austin and San Francisco Bay Area. The company has completed over 1,500 trips and 15,000 miles of driving. The robotaxi service will launch in Austin in June with 10 to 20 vehicles set to launch on day one. It will use Tesla's existing portfolio of vehicles rather than the Cybercab concept the company debuted last year. Autonomous vehicle companies in California need a range of permits to operate - Tesla so far only has a permit to test autonomously with a safe driver.
Google Gemini reached 350 million monthly active users as of March 2025, with a daily traffic of 35 million users. The number of users has increased significantly since late last year, when the service had tens of millions of users and 9 million daily active users. Despite the uptick in usage, Google is still far from catching up with OpenAI. The company is likely losing money on each user - OpenAI has previously noted that it loses money even on its $200 monthly plan.
Researchers have figured out a way to artificially expand the natural human color gamut. Humans usually have three different types of cone cells that combine their signals to form the normal color spectrum. The 'green' cones' function overlaps completely with the 'red' and 'blue' cones, meaning there's no wavelength of light that stimulates only the 'green' cones under natural conditions. Shooting a green laser at only the 'green' cones creates a color that the brain is unfamiliar with - the researchers have named the new color 'olo'.
A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for AI Safety, MIT's Medicine Lab, Brazilian university UFABC, and SecureBio claims that AI models can now outperform PhD-level virologists in problem-solving in wet labs, where scientists analyze chemicals and biological material. In the study, virologists scored an average of 22.1% in their declared area of expertise while OpenAI's o3 reached 43.8% accuracy and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 37.6%. The results are concerning to some scientists as for the first time in history, virtually anyone has access to a non-judgmental virology expert that could walk them through complex lab processes to create bioweapons.
You shouldn't just store the minimum data required to satisfy the current product spec, you should also store data that you'll highly likely use, such as timestamps and contextual metadata. For example, instead of just deleting rows from a database, engineers should instead store data on who deleted it, how they deleted it, when, and why. While not every bit of data stored will end up serving a purpose, the extra data could end up saving you one day, which makes up for the cost of storing it. While you shouldn't log just everything, people rarely complain about a table having too many timestamps.
OpenAI's new and improved image generation feature is now available on its API. Developers are able to generate multiple images at a time, control generation quality/speed, and adjust moderation sensitivity. All images will be watermarked with C2PA metadata so they can be identified as AI-generated by supported platforms and apps. It costs around 2 cents to generate a low-quality square image and 19 cents for a high-quality square image.
Claire Butler joined Figma in 2015 as the first marketer and business hire. Since then, the company has grown from nine people coding quietly in a small office attached to a rental its CEO shared with its co-founder to 1,400 employees and millions of users. Butler just left the company - this post contains a succinct list of lessons that Butler learned over the decade.
Twenty years ago, Jawed Karim uploaded a 19-second clip to his new platform YouTube, sparking a new era in online video. Founded by Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley, the service was sold to Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion. It has since evolved into a global media juggernaut worth up to $550 billion. YouTube is set to become the biggest media company by revenue this year. A key challenge for YouTube will be the possible remedies the Department of Justice will seek in Google's antitrust case.
The group says that restructuring OpenAI to a for-profit entity would subvert the company's charitable purpose, remove nonprofit control, and eliminate critical governance safeguards.
The high price tag could reduce the number of offers for the browser.
OpenAI plans to release an 'open' benchmark topping reasoning model sometime this year.
Build AI-native apps rather than add AI to existing apps.
OpenAI expects its AI agents and other new products to generate more sales than ChatGPT by 2029.
c/ua is a framework that enables AI agents to control full operating systems within virtual containers.
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When asked if OpenAI would join in the bidding if Google had to sell Chrome, OpenAI's head of product for ChatGPT Nick Turley said unequivocally that the company would. OpenAI has reportedly been considering building its own Chromium-based browser to compete with Chrome. Having a browser would give OpenAI a massive install base of users and the user data flowing through the browser would be invaluable in training agentic AI models that can operate browsers on users' behalf. There's a lot of discussion about who should buy Chrome, but relatively little about spinning it off into an independent company - despite Google's claims, the existence of its multibillion-dollar search placement deals indicates the browser can survive on its own.
Microsoft has rolled out stricter internal policies to reinforce its performance management system. The new guidelines help managers address underperformance more decisively while rewarding high achievers more clearly. Changes include a tougher exit policy for employees consistently rated in the lowest performance bracket and the introduction of performance-related tools aimed at increasing transparency and consistency in evaluations and rewards. Microsoft is developing AI-powered training tools that simulate real-life feedback scenarios to help improve confidence and communication during performance discussions.
Earlier this month, an international crew of four private astronauts took a journey into space aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Chun Wang, a Chinese-born cryptocurrency billionaire, paid SpaceX an undisclosed sum for the mission to fly into orbit with three of his friends. The mission was named Fram2 after the Norwegian exploration ship Fram used for polar expeditions at the turn of the 20th century. It orbited over Earth's pole for a perspective on the planet that no human eyes had seen before. This article details what happened on the mission - footage from the mission is available.
Lab-grown chocolate could rival traditional chocolate in several ways. The process can grow cells that multiply swiftly and mature within a week, as opposed to the six to eight months usually required for a conventional cocoa crop. The resulting product can also contain higher levels of health-promoting chemicals and fewer contaminants such as heavy metals or pesticides. The price of cocoa is skyrocketing as the industry deals with drought and other problems.
Python is the dominant option for running production workloads for data analysis and machine learning. This article contains several lessons on how to run Python in production. It covers how to maintain project quality, ensure project maintainability, and deploy.
Nerdlog is a fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer laser-focused on being efficient. It can query logs from multiple remote machines simultaneously, filter them by time range and patterns, and draw timeline histograms for quick visual insight. Nerdlog establishes an SSH connection to every node that the user wants to collect logs from and keeps them idle in the background so there's no need for a centralized server. Logs are not downloaded to the local machine in full and all log analysis is done on the remote nodes.
Mike Rockwell recently took leadership over Siri at Apple, and it seems like he isn't wasting any time in implementing major changes internally within the Siri teams. The management team leading Siri's development has been overhauled, with much of the leadership replaced with lieutenants from the Vision Pro software group. Teams related to speech, understanding, performance, and user experience have also been restructured. It is clear that Siri's new boss is taking decisive action to right Siri's years of stagnation.
Nvidia has become the fastest-scaling hardware company in history, and with an immediate lack of alternatives, it will continue to print cash. However, the company's long-term durability may be affected by hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta developing competitive, highly-credible chip efforts. The sheer scale of compute needs is driving an enormous shift towards distributed, vertically-integrated, and co-optimized systems. This means that even though Nvidia has the highest-performing GPUs, it can still lose.
Google's deal with Samsung to preinstall Gemini is a two-year agreement that involves monthly payments and Google giving Samsung a percentage of its ad revenue from the Gemini app.
Instagram's Edits video creation app offers features similar to TikTok, including background replacement, automatic captioning, and AI tools that can turn images into video.
AutoKitteh is a scalable "serverless" developer platform for workflow automation and orchestration that provides a full set of advanced engineering features out of the box.
Google has decided not to roll out Privacy Sandbox, a feature that would help users disable third-party cookies, and instead leave cookie support as is.
Pipelining is a feature that allows developers to omit a single argument from parameter lists by instead passing the previous value.
Hyperwood is an open-source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats that empowers anyone to build robust furniture using minimal tools and locally sourced materials.
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