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APPLE READIES ITS BIGGEST PUSH INTO HEALTH YET WITH NEW AI DOCTOR

Apple is preparing a completely revamped Health app and an AI health coach. A release is due as early as iOS 19.4 in the spring or summer of next year. The Health app will collect data from users' devices and the AI coach will use that information to tailor recommendations about ways to improve health. Food tracking will be a particularly big part of the revamped app. There will be features that use data from cameras.

OPENAI RAISES $40B AT $300B POST-MONEY VALUATION

HUMANOID ROBOTS ARE LOUSY CO-WORKERS. CHINA WANTS TO BE FIRST TO CHANGE THAT

Chinese startup UBTech is training human-like robots to sort auto parts and move containers. The AI-powered robots can work with other robots and figure out on their own how to get the job done - and also learn how to do it better. It currently takes two of UBTech's robots around 12 seconds to load a container onto a truck together, compared to three seconds for human workers, but the robots are expected to get faster and they can work around the clock. The startup plans to deliver 500 to 1,000 of its robots to clients this year.

BLUE ORIGIN PREPPING SECOND NEW GLENN LAUNCH IN ‘LATE SPRING'

Blue Origin is preparing for a second launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket in late spring. The company identified seven corrective actions after reviewing the booster failure that occurred during the attempted landing on an ocean platform on New Glenn's inaugural flight in January. They mainly focus on propellent management and engine bleed control improvements. Blue Origin will attempt another booster landing during New Glenn's second test flight.

GEMINI 2.5 PRO VS. CLAUDE 3.7 SONNET: CODING COMPARISON

Gemini 2.5 Pro, an experimental thinking model from Google, has become the talk of the town since its release. It is better at coding, has a one million token context window, and it's free. While Claude's 3.7 Sonnet is not that far behind, at this point, there's no point in using it over Gemini 2.5 Pro. Gemini 2.5 Pro has now taken the lead as the default answer to every model comparison.

AIRFLOW-AI-SDK

This repository contains an SDK that allows users to call large language models and orchestrate agent calls directly within Apache Airflow pipelines using decorator-based tasks. It can be used to define tasks that call language models to process text, organize straight multi-step AI reasoning, automatically parse and validate outputs, and change the control flow of a DAG based on output. The SDK supports all models in the Pydantic AI library.

OPENAI PLANS TO RELEASE A NEW ‘OPEN' AI LANGUAGE MODEL IN THE COMING MONTHS

OpenAI intends to release its first open language model since GPT-2 in the coming months. The model will have reasoning capabilities along the lines of o3-mini. The company plans to host developer events to gather feedback and demo prototypes of the model. The first event will take place in San Francisco within a few weeks. There will be sessions in Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.

TRUMP SAYS TIKTOK DEAL WILL COME BEFORE APRIL 5 DEADLINE

US President Donald Trump says that a deal with ByteDance to sell TikTok will be finalized before the April 5 deadline. Trump has previously stated that he is open to extending the deadline if a deal isn't reached. A group led by Susquehanna International Group and General Atlantic has emerged as the front-runner in TikTok talk deals. Private equity firm Blackstone is considering a small stake in TikTok's US operations.

THE `SELECT` ELEMENT CAN NOW BE CUSTOMIZED WITH CSS

The new CSS property, appearance: base-select, puts the `select` element into a new, configurable, and styleable state.

BKND

bknd provides a fully functional backend for database management, authentication, media, and workflows that can be deployed nearly anywhere.

AMAZON'S NEW AI AGENT IS DESIGNED TO DO YOUR SHOPPING

Amazon's Nova Act, currently only available to developers in research preview, is designed to perform tasks like online shopping in users' browsers.

APPLE AND MUSK CLASH OVER SATELLITE EXPANSION PLANS

Apple and SpaceX are competing for valuable spectrum rights, which are in limited supply.

23ANDME BANKRUPTCY: WITH AMERICA'S DNA PUT ON SALE, MARKET PANIC GETS A NEW TWIST

The collapse of 23andMe serves as a reminder about the everyday cyber hazards related to personal information.

STABLECOINS AND THE PARALLELS WITH MONEY MARKET FUNDS

The upcoming stablecoin legislation is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to upgrade the financial system.

ELON MUSK SAYS XAI HAS ACQUIRED X IN DEAL THAT VALUES SOCIAL MEDIA SITE AT $33 BILLION

xAI has merged with X in an all-stock transaction that valued the artificial intelligence company at $80 billion and the social media company at $33 billion. As both companies are privately held and controlled by Elon Musk, the transaction was likely a stock swap, with X investors getting paid out in xAI shares. The companies have several mutual investors. X and xAI were already intertwined, with xAI's Grok chatbot available to X users.

THE SECRETS AND MISDIRECTION BEHIND SAM ALTMAN'S FIRING FROM OPENAI

OpenAI was set up to be a different kind of tech company from the start - one governed by a nonprofit board with a duty not to the shareholders, but to humanity. While Sam Altman's surprise firing was an explosive headline around the world, OpenAI's board had no answers for why he was fired beyond that he had not been consistently candid with the board. Altman was quickly reinstated after it was clear that the only way to keep the company from imploding was to bring him back. This article tells the inside story in detail.

FIRST THERAPY CHATBOT TRIAL YIELDS MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS

Dartmouth researchers have published the results of the first-ever clinical trial of a generative AI-powered therapy chatbot. The software resulted in significant improvement in participants' symptoms - people in the study reported they could trust and communicate with the system to a degree that is comparable to working with a mental health professional. The study showed that AI has the potential to provide real-time support for the many people who lack regular or immediate access to a mental health professional. While there is no replacement for in-person care, there are nowhere near enough providers available - generative AI could help the huge number of people outside of the in-person care system.

FIRST HORMONE-FREE MALE BIRTH CONTROL PILL CLEARS ANOTHER MILESTONE

Researchers from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy have laid the groundwork for the first hormone-free male birth control pill to enter clinical trials. YCT-529 is a hormone-free and orally administered male contraceptive that works by stopping the production of sperm. It appears to have no side effects (apart from infertility) in mice and non-human primates - both groups regained fertility after stopping the drug. The drug is currently undergoing safety and efficacy testing.

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GEMINI 2.5 IS THE NEW SOTA

While Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is not the best model for everything, it is the model you want for reasoning and raw intelligence. It can solve practical problems, it's fast, and it's not $200 a month. The model's release shows that Google can offer high-end large models, as well as the small models with large context windows that it has so far been releasing.

MCP - IT'S HOT, BUT WILL IT WIN?

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new open source software layer that can connect large language models to domain specific software. A broad set of companies have announced support for MCP. Middleware never quite lives up to its promises in practice. Over time, the negatives of either being easily replaced or having user experience and feature innovations ignored end up making the commitment to middleware look like a poor investment.

THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN

Those who entered media or image-making in the 90s are probably now doing something else for work because those industries have shrunk or transformed radically, shutting out those whose skills were once in high demand. People who once imagined they would be able to have a solid career while flexing their creative muscles have seen their work dry up over the past few decades as digital technology began seeping into their lives. Many in Generation X now find themselves shut out economically and culturally from their chosen fields. The shedding of jobs and upending of longstanding business models has come at a bad time, with the cost of living skyrocketing.

EMMETT SHEAR IS BACK WITH A NEW COMPANY AND A LOT OF ALIGNMENT

Emmett Shear, Adam Goldstein, and David Bloomin have a new 10-person start-up called Softmax. Softmax is part research lab and part aspiring money maker. It aims to figure out how to fuse the goals of humans and AI in a novel way. It is unknown yet what form the technology Softmax hopes to develop will take in terms of an actual product. The startup has raised an undisclosed amount from Andreessen Horowitz, Lionheart Ventures, and Plural.

POSTGRES LANGUAGE SERVER

This repository contains a collection of language tools and a Language Server Protocol (LSP) implementation for PostgreSQL.

WE FOUND THE ATOP BUG EVERYONE IS GOING CRAZY ABOUT

It's usually prudent to spend extra time with controlled disclosure because if someone malicious were to reproduce and exploit a bug before a patch is found, they would have free reign to take over affected systems until the bug is fixed.

THE HIGH COST OF QUANTUM RANDOMNESS IS DROPPING

Pseudorandomness is a theoretical way to represent quantum randomness that's indistinguishable from the real thing, without the computational load.

THE 500 MILLION WORKER PROBLEM

India had predicted that its roughly 500 million citizens entering the workforce over the next two decades would boost it to economic superpower status, but rapid advances in AI may erode all of the advantages of India's rich demographic dividend.

XAN, THE CSV MAGICIAN

xan is a command-line tool that can process CSV files directly from the shell.

OPENAI'S LATEST FUNDING ROUND COMES WITH A $20 BILLION CATCH

OpenAI could lose half of its upcoming $40 billion funding round if it is unable to successfully restructure into an independent for-profit company by the end of the year.

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IPHONE USERS CAN NOW SET WHATSAPP AS THEIR DEFAULT CALLING AND TEXTING APP

iPhone users on WhatsApp version 25.8.74 have the option to choose WhatsApp as their default app for calls and text messages. The setting can be changed in Settings > Apps > Default Apps and then selecting the Messaging and Calling options. The feature was introduced in iOS 18.2. A screenshot of the options menu to enable the feature is available in the article.

META DEBUTS FRIENDS TAB

Meta has introduced a Friends tab on Facebook to revive the original spirit of the social networking app. The Facebook Friends tab is designed to show users the latest posts from their friends instead of recommended content. It is now available in the US and Canada - there is no word on when it will debut in other countries.

PARALYSED MAN STANDS AGAIN AFTER RECEIVING ‘REPROGRAMMED' STEM CELLS

Scientists at Keio University in Tokyo injected neural stem cells into four patients to treat spinal cord injuries - one patient, who was previously paralyzed, can now stand on his own. Another patient can move their arms and legs, but the remaining two did not show substantial improvements. While trials have shown that the therapy is safe, it has so far had mixed results. Preliminary analysis of the data suggests that the treatment works, but larger trials will be needed.

SCIENTISTS JUST TRANSPLANTED A PIG LIVER INTO A PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME

A Chinese team has successfully implanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The organ remained functional until the end of the experiment 10 days later - there were no signs of rejection or inflammation. The pig liver is designed to be a stop-gap measure rather than a full replacement. It can keep patients temporarily alive until a human donor organ becomes available or the patient's own liver recovers.

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OPEN SOURCE DEVS ARE FIGHTING AI CRAWLERS WITH CLEVERNESS AND VENGEANCE

Sites hosting free and open source projects share most of their infrastructure publicly, so they tend to have fewer resources than commercial products. Many AI bots don't honor the Robots Exclusion Protocol robot.txt file, hide behind other IP addresses, and pretend to be other users, making it difficult to block them. Anubis is a reverse proxy proof-of-work check that must be passed before requests are allowed to hit a server - it blocks bots but lets through browsers operated by humans. It has been popular among the FOSS community as many projects are experiencing the same issue.

HOW TO WRITE BLOG POSTS THAT DEVELOPERS READ

The biggest mistake software bloggers make is meandering - Internet attention spans are short. Readers are looking for relevant material that benefits them, so try to show readers you're writing for them and make it clear how your article will benefit them within the first three sentences. This article teaches techniques that help blog posts succeed and discusses pitfalls that cause some blogs to languish in obscurity. Many errors, once recognized, are easy to fix.

SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE IN 2025

Consumers adopt a new S-curve when they are both overserved by what exists already and also underserved by the existing solution - and like the new thing because it's cheaper and better. Right now, code is capital, but going forward, the true capital asset will be big models and chips - things that you can finance and rent. We are now solidly in the agent S-curve - this will change how we think about software businesses and their profit potential.

APPLE NEEDS A SNOW SEQUOIA

Snow Leopard was an update released two years after macOS Leopard that added very little and took a lot away. It was one of the most solid software releases Apple has ever put out. Snow Leopard improved the underlying system while shrinking it in size. Apple's latest releases are screaming for such a reset - they feel like software developed by people who don't actually use that software. Snow Leopard's clean-up paved the way for years of solid, reliable upgrades - spring cleaning would make the Mac, iPhone, and iPad really shine.

APPLE'S FIRST IOS 19 TEASE GIVES OFF A VIBE THAT WE NEED MORE OF

Apple may focus on fun with its new software.

ROBINHOOD IS LAUNCHING BANK ACCOUNTS THAT WILL DELIVER PHYSICAL CASH ‘TO YOUR DOORSTEP'

Robinhood Banking will let users access their accounts completely through a dedicated app, making up for not having a physical location by delivering cash on-demand to users' doorsteps.