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NVIDIA IS SPENDING $6 BILLION TO BUILD A POWERFUL US ALTERNATIVE TO CHINESE AI

Nvidia will invest $1 billion in AI startup Poolside at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion and will pay $6 billion to license Poolside's technology and hire the bulk of its engineers.

STARTING A QUANTITATIVE TRADING FIRM WITH 0 EXPERIENCE

Table/game selection is just as important as execution, especially in markets.

THE ASTEROID CURRENTLY HITTING FRONTEND WEB DEVELOPMENT

The front end is less risky to just hand to an agent, so many AI coders will feel comfortable just letting their agents handle it unsupervised.

ANTHROPIC EXPECTS TO MATCH OR TOP SPACEX'S RECORD IPO SIZE

Anthropic is preparing to file for its potential mega-IPO as soon as the end of this month. It is expecting to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting debut. Ahead of the IPO, Anthropic is set to finalize a revolving credit facility that will raise more than its roughly $10 billion target. The AI lab is considering adopting super-voting shares that would give its co-founders greater control over the company.

SLACK LAUNCHES SLACK CODE, WHERE TEAMS AND AI AGENTS BUILD TOGETHER

Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review, and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. Users tag a coding agent from any conversation, and it spins up a dedicated code channel that automatically archives itself after tasks end. Everyone in the channel can follow the work. Slack Code is now available in any Slack plan.

ELON MUSK GIVES A TIMELINE FOR SPACEX'S FIRST STARSHIP CATCH ATTEMPT

Elon Musk predicts that SpaceX will likely be able to catch the Starship upper stage with its launch tower arms in a few months. The first reflight of a Starship vehicle is expected by the end of 2026 or early 2027. Catching the upper stage of Starship would mark a major milestone as it allows both stages to return directly to the launch site for quick refurbishment and reuse. Musk has long said that true reusability is essential for making humanity a multi-planetary species.

TESLA'S AUSTIN ROBOTAXIS ARE NOW FULLY DRIVERLESS, TRACKING SHOWS

A crowdsourced project called Robotaxi Tracker noted that all 170 rides by Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin logged over the past fortnight didn't have a human safety monitor on board. Tesla doesn't publish fleet data and usually doesn't answer press questions, so the crowdsourced data is one of the few sources of information available. The expansion of completely driverless robotaxi vehicles is not confined to Austin. Roughly 30 driverless Teslas have been spotted running in Dallas and Houston over the past week.

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BETTER BATTERIES

The problem with Python's stdlib is its uneven quality. However, that's actually Python's core advantage - it makes functionality available early. Rust still doesn't have an API to get a stream of random bytes from the OS. This is possibly because, while it is an easy technical problem, it requires tricky organizational architecture, and the Rust team's capacity to execute design decisions is limited.

THE KIDS ARE REALLY ALRIGHT

Junior engineers still add capacity to an organization. The work of an engineer is to solve a customer problem with software while managing the technical complexity that exists in deciding how to. Staff engineers manage a lot of complexity, and junior engineers manage a little complexity, but the role is the same. Technical decision-making is still important, and junior engineers add to it, enabling organizations to do more.

THE BRAINS WHO POWERED CHINA'S SURPRISING AI LEAP

The rapid rise of Chinese AI models has sparked a host of questions about how these labs get so far so fast. However, the careers of the founders of two of the biggest Chinese labs show that China's AI push is nothing sudden. Tang Jie, who founded Z.AI, has been working on machine learning for about a quarter of a century. Yang Zhilin, who leads Moonshot AI, was Tang's former student.

THE END OF OPEN SOURCE

Intelligence services were never limited by what they could steal, but what they could read. Reading was the expensive part, so collection had to be selective. Every company that told itself it was too boring to be a target was relying on a foreign analyst's workload. AI removes this constraint. Closed source only removes your ability to see your exposure - it doesn't remove it.

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THEORY OF FLUIDS ENTERS THE 21ST CENTURY

Physicists have come up with a whole new way of defining what it means to be a fluid.

CHINA'S ROBOT TRAFFIC POLICE CAN DO ALMOST EVERYTHING EXCEPT STOP YOU

China's robot traffic police can direct cars, scold jaywalkers, and give lost tourists directions, but they aren't able to stop people, a limitation written into their design.

WAYMO HAS DESIGNED A ROBOCAR CHIP TO STAY AHEAD OF TESLA

Waymo's first custom silicon, built on TSMC's 5 nm process tech, is designed to convert raw sensor data into driver responses as quickly as possible.

APPLE REPORTEDLY LAYS OFF 60 VISION EMPLOYEES AMID SHIFTING PRIORITIES

Apple's resources are increasingly moving toward AI-powered smart glasses.

THE NEXT GITHUB IS NOT WORTH WINNING

GitHub is optimizing for cheap dirty experiments and serious long-lived projects, workloads that both want opposite things.

TESLA SAYS FSD V15 IS A ‘STEP-CHANGE,' OPTIMUS SELLS IN 2027

FSD v15 will be the third version in a row pitched as the one that finally gets there.

YOUTUBE OFFERS CREATORS MILLIONS TO NOT WORK WITH NETFLIX

YouTube is offering millions of dollars to popular channels for exclusivity. The company has yet to finalize any deals with creators. The move is an effort to halt Netflix's pursuit of YouTube's biggest stars. Creators who sign deals with Netflix will be less likely to be featured in YouTube's marketing campaigns, and they will also be excluded from collecting a share of proceeds from some major brand campaigns.

STRIPE SAYS "THE SINGULARITY" HAS BEGUN

Stripe says that the singularity started on January 1. The company believes that being privately held is the best structure for such a consequential moment. Remaining private enables it to fund acquisitions and long-term investments without diluting them. This implies that any IPO remains on indefinite hold.

MRNA CANCER VACCINE SUCCEEDED IN PHASE 3 MELANOMA TRIAL, MODERNA AND MERCK SAY

Moderna and Merck's novel mRNA-based vaccine was effective in a late-stage clinical trial of patients with melanoma. The vaccine, individually tailored to target a patient's unique cancer mutations, works using a synthetic mRNA that holds the unique genetic coding for up to 34 mutations in a patient's own cancer cells. The production process involves comparing the genetic sequences of a patient's cancer cells to those of healthy cells and picking out any cancer-specific mutations that could help the immune system differentiate cancer cells from healthy ones.

UNITREE SEES ROBOTS REACHING ‘MASS MARKET' WITHIN DECADE

Unitree's founder says that the humanoid robot market will take off once robots can handle 80% of tasks given to them via voice instructions in unfamiliar surroundings. He believes that will take two to 10 years. Robots already perform well in test conditions, but their execution collapses once objects or surroundings shift even slightly. Unitree plans to spend nearly half of the proceeds from its recent IPO to develop embodied AI, which it believes is the key to closing the gap between humanoid robots and human workers.

INTRODUCING THE HALF-DAY: 0-DAY IN THE AGE OF AI

AI introduces a tremendous amount of volatility and uncertainty to a marketplace where all parties already assume significant risk. The number of exploits discovered by AI is growing fast. The introduction of models like Mythos has enabled the production of work at a rate that far outstrips that of any human researcher. However, this doesn't mean security researchers are out of a job. The role of a researcher can and should change with a changing landscape.

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OneCLI is an agent harness built for teams. It provides every employee in a company with a secured, sandboxed personal agent. The agents are routed through a gateway that injects credentials and enforces policies. Agents run on the company's own infrastructure. The runner is outbound-only and holds no inbound ports.

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OPENAI ‘WILL BE A PUBLIC COMPANY IN 2027' OR SOONER, CFO FRIAR TELLS EMPLOYEES

OpenAI's CFO, Sarah Friar, told employees during an all-hands meeting that the AI lab will be a public company by 2027. The startup confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC in June, but it has not publicly disclosed when it plans to debut. Its chief rival, Anthropic, has also filed its prospectus with regulators and has been holding early meetings to test the waters with potential investors. OpenAI is under pressure to justify its $852 billion valuation ahead of its IPO, and investors are eager to get a more detailed look into the company's finances.

WHY LOW-COST AI MODELS HAVEN'T SLOWED DOWN AMERICAN AI COMPANIES

Businesses are increasingly using routers and model serving platforms to access cheaper models. The new router spend is concentrated amongst a segment of businesses that are still increasing their AI spend on closed American models. These businesses are the fastest growing in terms of both revenue growth and business spend. Their increased spend on open-source models tends to happen on the margin without crowding out or replacing American AI models.

BETTERWRIGHT

BetterWright is a persistent, policy-guarded Playwright browser for AI agents.

APPLE ACCIDENTALLY LEAKED MORE THAN 10 NEW PRODUCTS IN MACOS UPDATE

macOS 26.7's code contains references to AirPods with infrared cameras for Visual Intelligence, the long-rumored foldable iPhone, an all-new Apple smart home hub, the first-ever MacBook and iPad mini models with OLED displays, an updated Siri Remote for a next-generation Apple TV, and more

PALOMAR

Palomar, a registry of Lean-verified mathematics, is now open for submissions.

WHY REDDIT'S CHATGPT CITATION DROP ISN'T FULLY EXPLAINED

Your decision to use Reddit should come down to whether it makes sense for your brand, not whether it appears in ChatGPT citations.

ON COMPUTER USE

Computer use means giving an agent access to a computing environment and real user credentials.

A FASTER WAY TO CALCULATE THE DAY OF THE WEEK

This post is for people interested in low-level bit manipulation, optimizing high-performance date libraries/database engines, compiler authors, and crazy people in general.

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OPENAI REWRITES SAFETY FRAMEWORK AS LARGEST TRAINING RUN STAYS PAUSED

OpenAI is rewriting its Preparedness Framework while expanding monitoring, strengthening research-environment isolation, and moving alignment work earlier in model training. It has resumed many smaller or lower-risk workloads after a pause of little more than two weeks, but the largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run and significant Astra and cyber workloads remain paused. Astra is an unreleased model that may reach OpenAI's Critical cyber threshold. OpenAI has not released the promised technical postmortem of the Hugging Face breach or the evidence behind Astra's possible Critical classification.

STATES SEEK $200 BILLION FROM META OVER CHILD SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION CLAIMS

California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey have accused Meta of harming children with technology designed to be addictive. The states claim Meta fueled a national youth mental health crisis and deceived users by promoting its apps as safe. They have filed a lawsuit charging the company with violating federal child privacy laws and state consumer protection laws. Meta plans to argue that it put in safeguards to protect young users and that it was truthful to consumers. The states are seeking damages approaching $200 billion, nearly 14% of the entire stock value of the company.

CHINA'S PRIVATE ROCKET MAKER JUST LANDED A BOOSTER LIKE SPACEX'S FALCON-9--HERE'S HOW THEY DID IT

China's LandSpace recovered the first-stage booster of its ZQ-3 rocket on its second attempt. The ZQ-3 is comparable to SpaceX's current workhorse, the Falcon 9. It has a stainless steel rocket body and liquid oxygen-methane engines, which could enable it to achieve even lower launch costs than the Falcon 9. Its landing-leg recovery method allows the rocket to be quickly refurbished and relaunched as engineers only need to maintain the rocket itself without having to repair ground recovery equipment.

GENBIO LAUNCHES A “VIRTUAL CELL” AI MODEL

GenBio has announced a world model of a cell that can simulate both its natural state and responses to successive perturbations. AIDO Cell currently supports K562 and HepG2, two of the most widely used immortalized human cell lines in biomedical research. GenBio is preparing to launch an early-access academic collaborator program for scientists across academia, biotech, and pharma. AIDO Cell and similar systems could eventually become powerful tools for basic biological research, allowing scientists to perturb genes, proteins, or pathways, follow the predicted consequences across biological levels, generate hypotheses, and identify relationships that might take much longer to uncover in the lab.