An internal analysis from Tesla executives showed that the company's Robotaxi plans would lose money. The analysis also said that the company should focus on a new affordable electric vehicle called the 'Model 2', but Elon Musk canceled plans for the vehicle and pushed only for the Cybercab, replacing plans for the next-gen affordable EV with cheaper versions of the Model Y and Model 3. The decision is likely the reason Tesla is in a slump right now.
Scientists have grown nugget-sized chunks of chicken in a device that mimics the blood vessels that make up the circulatory system. The approach uses fine hollow fibers to deliver oxygen and nutrients to cells suspended in a gel. It paves the way for whole cuts of chicken, beef, pork, and fish to be grown in the lab. The same technology has the potential to produce functional organs.
Engineers have managed to double the number of transistors they can pack into the same area every two years, but the unwanted side effect of heat is becoming more and more prominent. Temperature affects performance, power consumption, and energy efficiency. Excessive heat can slow the propagation of critical signals in a processor, lead to a permanent degradation of chip performance over time, and cause transistors to leak more current, wasting power. As the density of logic circuits continues to grow, so does power density, generating heat as a by-product. Efficient heat dissipation will be crucial to maintaining chip performance and longevity as chips become increasingly compact and powerful.
Codex is a lightweight coding agent for the terminal. It was built for developers who live in the terminal and want ChatGPT-level reasoning plus the power to run code, manipulate files, and iterate, all under version control. Codex requires zero setup, runs network-disabled and directory-sandboxed, and is multimodal. It supports any model available with the Responses API.
Even if large language models (LLMs) continue to get more powerful, there will still be core engineering techniques that will make LLM-powered software more reliable, scalable, and easier to maintain. This article discusses 12 principles for building LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers. The fastest way for builders to create high-quality AI software is to take small, modular concepts from agent building and incorporate them into existing products. These concepts can be defined and applied by most skilled software engineers even if they don't have an AI background.
While large language model providers have spearheaded a new AI revolution, the jury is still out on whether they are good businesses. Investors are still wondering whether these pioneering labs will reap profits or whether other parts of the AI ecosystem will capture the lion's share of value. This article looks at the industry and suggests strategies that labs could pursue to secure good economics for themselves. While there are certainly challenges to the AI lab business model, there are still many strategic options open to them.
The FTC had wanted $30 billion to drop its antitrust case against Meta, but Mark Zuckerberg decided to offer $450 million instead. Zuckerberg was confident that President Trump would back him up with the FTC as he had been developing closer ties to Trump. The FTC said the offer was not credible and that it wasn't ready to settle for anything less than $18 billion and a consent decree. Meta upped its offer to close to $1 billion as the trial approached, but it wasn't enough.
ActorCore enables developers to build stateful, AI agent, collaborative, and local-first applications and deploy to Rivet, Cloudflare, Bun, Node.js, and more.
Delve went viral for pulling all-nighters to ship agents for SOC 2 that auto-collect all the evidence you need to pass an audit. Get compliant in 15 hours and close your next deal with Delve. Here are the results:
OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social media network. The company currently has an internal prototype that contains a social feed focused on ChatGPT's image generation. It is unknown whether the company plans to launch the social network as a standalone app or if it plans to integrate it within the ChatGPT app. Having a social media app would allow OpenAI to access real-time data to contain its AI models.
Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning Instagram out of Meta in 2018 due to concerns about the rising threat of antitrust litigation against Facebook. He had predicted that there would be a non-trivial chance that Meta would be forced to spin out Instagram and WhatsApp in the next 5-10 years. The company is currently being accused of monopolizing the social networking market - Instagram and WhatsApp are at the heart of the antitrust trial, which seeks to cleave the apps from Meta as a possible remedy. Meta disputes the allegations and says that regulators are failing to acknowledge a number of rivals.
Lipoproteins are a type of cholesterol that is undetected by routine tests and undeterred by existing drugs, diet, or exercise. People with high levels of the cholesterol are at extremely high risk of cholesterol buildup in their arteries, which raises their odds of heart attack, stroke, and early death from cardiovascular problems. Eli Lilly has developed a drug called lepodisiran that dramatically reduced levels of lipoproteins for up to one year. The effects waned after a year but only slightly.
Scientists captured rare footage of a colossal squid on March 9 off the South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The observed colossal squid was a juvenile and not fully grown at about a foot long - mature individuals grow to around 23 feet long and weigh over 1,100 pounds. It was found swimming at around 1,968 feet beneath the surface. This is the first confirmed live observation of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. Video of the young squid is available in the article.
Many engineering managers, directors, heads of engineering and startups, and mid-sized companies are reporting that they are currently finding it harder to hire than ever. Some previously common hiring approaches, like coding problems and take-home exercises, no longer work. Candidates are likely to inevitably hit potholes that AI assistants are able to fix eventually. Some companies are starting to introduce more in-person processes despite the cost.
Building a fully functioning code-editing agent is easy. This post shows how to build a small yet highly impressive agent in less than 400 lines of code, most of which is boilerplate. It explains how to use the Anthropic Go SDK to access Claude, what tools are, and how to access them. The post covers essentially all there is to the inner loop of a code-editing agent.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed deleting all friends lists to get people to use Facebook more in 2022. The idea was to wipe the lists and have everyone start again. It was discussed over emails but was never implemented. The company has taken a different approach to revitalizing the Facebook experience lately by introducing a revamped friends tab that doesn't show algorithmic content to users.
Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, complicating Rippling's efforts to serve Buoaziz over a lawsuit that accuses him of bribing a Rippling employee to spy on the company. The UAE has a reputation for being a safe haven for those wanting to avoid extradition. Its legal environment makes extradition very difficult, although the country has told the media it is committed to working with international partners on law enforcement and recently stepped up extraditions of some long-wanted criminals. Deel has responded to the lawsuit by denying all wrongdoing.
Pursuing an IPO in the current climate is surprising, even at an exploratory level, but just because the company is working on an IPO doesn't mean it will proceed in the usual timeline.
MCP-Shield scans installed Model Context Protocol servers to detect vulnerabilities like tool poisoning attacks, exfiltration channels, and cross-origin escalations.
Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. But getting that kind of coverage—and staying there—is hard and pricey for any size team.
Apple will start training artificial intelligence models by analyzing data on customers' devices to improve its AI platform. The company currently trains its models using synthetic data, but synthetic information isn't always representative of actual customer data. Customer data will remain on-device and won't be directly used to train AI models. The new system will roll out in an upcoming beta of iOS and iPadOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5.
The FTC's antitrust case against Meta seeks to compel the company to undo its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta allegedly wields an illegal monopoly in social media. The company says that the FTC's case ignores how people use technology today - Meta currently faces stiff competition from YouTube, TikTok, and other video platforms. It plans to demonstrate that competition is alive and well in the social networking industry.
A new AI model from Google running on Pixel phones is helping researchers better understand the language of dolphins. DolphinGemma was created using dolphin language data collected over 40 years. It was built specifically for Pixel devices. Google plans to share DolphinGemma as an open model this summer. The research may eventually enable us to construct sounds that dolphins might understand.
German researchers have revived algae cells that were dormant for over 7,000 years. Found buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea imprisoned under layers of sediment, the cells were deprived of oxygen or light for millennia. They showed full function recovery after being revived and started multiplying again with no issues. It is now possible to conduct 'time-jump experiments' into the various stages of Baltic Sea development in the lab.
gh-signoff is a GitHub command-line extension for local CI. It enables developers to run CI on their own machines and sign off when they pass. Developer machines are super-fast nowadays and chronically underutilized - Cloud CI services are typically slow, expensive, and rented. gh-signoff brings CI back in-house.
The job market is currently having a tough time, but this isn't because companies are actually replacing developers with autonomous AI agents. There are macroeconomic factors, layoffs, and other things leaving tons of highly qualified devs out there looking for work. Some companies are operating under the myth that AI will make developers obsolete soon so they're not hiring as aggressively as they otherwise would. However, despite AI evangelists claiming that, any day now, companies won't need human developers to build their products, human developers are still needed.
French bailiffs hired by Rippling were unable to locate Deel's CEO, Alex Bouaziz, during attempts to serve him with papers as part of a lawsuit alleging Deep paid one of its employees to spy on Rippling. Bouaziz is known to be 'highly nomadic' but remains very attached to France, where he has a listed address. Rippling may need to apply to serve him via email.
OpenAI has launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1 that excels at coding and instruction-following. The models, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, are available through OpenAI's API but not ChatGPT. They are multimodal and have a 1-million-token context window. GPT-4.1 costs $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens, GPT-4.1 mini is $0.40/million input tokens and $1.60/million output tokens, and GPT-4.1 nano is $0.10/million input tokens and $0.40/million output tokens.
Privacy is less needed for people whose life situations are relatively normal, and more needed for people whose life situations deviate from the norm, in any direction - and you never know when you will become someone who needs it.
Interoperable apps enable users to easily explore different experiences or their data, allowing applications to compete on an experience of users' data rather than on owning it.
MCP has rapidly grown into the de-facto standard for integrating third-party data and tools with AI agents, but it has a lot of nuanced vulnerabilities and limitations.
An effective cloud diagram isn't about fancy isometric visuals - it's about creating a useful inventory and visualization of a cloud environment (present or future).
Apple is developing two new Vision Pro headsets despite glasses being a bigger goal in the long run. The company is also preparing to overhaul iPadOS to make its tablets more like Macs. iPhones made in China have been exempted from tariffs. Apple will not move production back to the US - instead, it is going all-out on India as its US production source. It would be impossible to move iPhone manufacturing back to the US.