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SpaceX is close to finalizing a deal to acquire about 130,000 acres along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The deal is expected to be officially announced later this month. The site, known as Pecan Island, is an 18-mile stretch of marshland. It became available as part of a legal settlement that resolved dozens of lawsuits blaming ExxonMobil for pollution and coastal land loss.
Base Power's Core is a 39.2-kWh home battery that can keep a house running for up to 36 hours. Core, which can be installed in under an hour, can be connected to solar and has a built-in port for recharging from a portable generator. The lithium iron phosphate battery is designed to operate between -22F and 122F and has an IP67 rating for submersion in up to 3 feet of water. Core will only be available as part of a subscription service, and the company will retain ownership of the battery.
AI is set to transform human health. However, it will not be a magic wand: we don't understand human biology well enough for a clever enough reasoner to find the cures hidden in what we know. Aimed at biology we barely understand, AI will mostly help us generate failures faster. The path to real cures is to measure biology in the right way and use AI to derive novel insights from those measurements.
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Cloudflare Computer is a virtual file system that lives inside a Durable Object which holds the authoritative state in SQLite and exposes a pluggable execution surface. It handles the details and mechanics of what code runs in an isolate, a container sandbox, or a web browser. Cloudflare Computer gives each agent a computer optimized for efficiency and scalability.
The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you're prompting for. The domain knowledge makes you better at using AI because you have a sense of what a good solution might look like and can therefore write better prompts. The usefulness of domain knowledge suggests that human expertise will continue to be useful even as models get stronger.
Model labs and agent labs are converging. Model labs continue to develop first-party applications that compete with their customers, while agent labs are starting to train models. The gains from co-designing models with harnesses is why agent labs need to move into model training. The challenge is for agent labs to offer the best intelligence per dollar at margins that the model labs can't match.
The cost and benefits of AI are difficult to weigh. There are now thousands of models, and there is no consensus around how much energy a token requires, which model is best to perform a given task, or how many tokens it should take. The Linux Foundation established the Tokenomics Foundation in June to create common parameters for AI providers to disclose. Being able to measure the costs and benefits of AI will help researchers understand how AI is going to change everything.
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Whether to embrace or reject Chinese models has become a divisive issue in the US tech industry.
OpenRouter's Ori Eval helps users find the best model for what they're building.
Apple plans to introduce cross-device copy and paste by early 2028.
AI superforecasters have come close to the accuracy of top humans, and their performance is rising rapidly.
The maintainers of curl took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting, and this post explains the lessons they learned.
Software will be excavated rather than designed, created without a concrete plan, just a lot of accretion over thousands of working days.
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Apple's new Apple Upgrade leasing program hints at the company's next era of growth. Due to memory shortages, hardware prices have increased, and prices are only going to get steeper. Apple appears to be changing the psychology of the purchase. Instead of asking customers to justify spending more than $1,000 on a device, it's asking whether they can afford roughly a dollar a day, which is a much easier decision.
OpenAI recently gave a sneak peek into its next model, named Astra. An internal version of the model was able to create breakthroughs on 10 long-standing problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The total number of tokens used to discover all ten solutions would have cost around $2,000 at GPT-5.6 Sol API rates. Each solution was formalized in Lean, allowing them to be verified using the theorem-proving system.
Any biotech company with an experimental drug in Montana now has a clear path to selling it to consumers. Companies can now pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established board for approval, as long as the drugs have been through preliminary testing. The drugs will be sold via experimental treatment clinics, the first of which is likely to be open by the end of the year. Patients must provide fully informed consent, and each application must be reviewed by a board that includes a Montana-certified doctor, expert scientists, and an ethicist.
Balaji Srinivasan, a tech founder, said that he believed the US was descending into anarchy, so he decided to build a new city from scratch. He started by creating a tech community in Malaysia, setting up a campus with co-working spaces, a high-end gym, and meals designed by longevity guru Bryan Johnson. Two years in, his vision is now colliding with reality. The project has been shut down over licensing issues. Within hours of the government announcement, Srinivasan signed an agreement to open a campus in Kazakhstan.
GitHub Stacked PRs break large changes into a chain of small, reviewable pull requests that build on each other. gh stack is a GitHub CLI extension for managing stacked branches and pull requests. It automates creating branches, keeping them rebased, setting correct PR base branches, and navigating between layers. gh stack offers AI agent integration.
Before AI, development costs made it rational for complex software to ship with large configuration files, extension systems, and plug-in systems. Now, the cost of creating software and making changes has dropped dramatically. Software that can be personalized doesn't need a plugin system or config file. Users can just make the changes they need themselves, with the help of agents if required.
When Trump came into office, he took the guardrails that were hindering AI development, and Larry Ellison cashed in by signing several large infrastructure deals. This big bet on AI was built on an astronomical amount of debt in every imaginable form. The hypothesis was that whoever controlled the most computing power would control the AI economy. Investors have started questioning whether this level of spending is sustainable in recent weeks and are concerned about whether the money being pumped into data centers will ever return the promised profits.
Leopold Aschenbrenner had planned a multiday celebration for his wedding, but his fund started unraveling just when guests started to arrive. The 24-year-old investor had built a $45 billion investment powerhouse that primarily bought stocks in the AI trade. The firm borrowed too much money to make these AI bets, leaving it at risk as they faltered. Citadel then swooped in and purchased the vast majority of the firm's public stock portfolio at a discount of more than 10% to the market value of those shares. The firm is left with a portfolio of stocks and stakes in startups valued at more than $10 billion, but it is still alive.
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A team with a broken development pipeline can't produce software.
Despite growing calls for the US to develop stronger open-weight models to compete with China, investors are reluctant to back open-weight startups.
While code is easier and faster to write, good software is still hard to get right as it needs care and requires good judgment.
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OpenAI recently announced the solution to ten open problems in mathematics discovered by a yet-unreleased model.
The unicontext is a scenario in which the ways you should act become the same across all different contexts.
The Baochip-1x is a mostly open-source microcontroller with a core module that can be removed and used as a hardware security token.
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Tesla executives have been told to prepare for a separation of the China business ahead of a potential merger. The company's advisers have discussed possible options for a separation, including a spinoff, sale, or closure. Tesla's Chinese business is designed to be easily separated from its US business because of geopolitical tensions. Separating the company's China operations would address potential conflicts that may arise from SpaceX's work as a major US defense contractor.
OpenAI is reducing the price of Terra to $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens. It is also cutting the cost of Luna to 20 cents per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. The company is facing pressure to cater to a more cost-sensitive customer base. Sol's pricing remains the same.
Solid-state batteries have several potential advantages over lithium-ion batteries. A solid-state battery would be lighter and safer than the liquid electrolyte used now. This article looks at why solid-state batteries have these advantages compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries. It also looks at how they fit into the broader arc of lithium battery improvements.
Microsoft's Project Silica produced excellent research and was a praiseworthy attempt to craft a technical solution to the extremely difficult economics of the market for archival media. However, the excellent technology will likely fail in the market. LTO tape is well established, has a credible roadmap, and is built into the processes of the likely customers. It is difficult to justify spending more capex to reduce future opex with non-zero interest rates.
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At AWS re:Invent, 70% of the 2,200+ sessions are hands-on: workshops, chalk talks, and code talks with service engineers and partners in the
GitHub Stacked Pull Requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests that each represent focused layers of the change. They allow developers to independently review and check each pull request, then merge everything together in one click. Stacked pull requests provide short, narrowly scoped pull requests, allowing developers to introduce smaller individual changes while shipping larger features. The feature is built into GitHub, so existing reviews, checks, and merge requirements all work out-of-the-box.
Kai, Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform, helps most of Stripe's employees with their day-to-day work. The tool handles the data security requirements and specific workflows Stripe needs. It can query data warehouses, research accounts before sales calls, triage incidents, model revenue scenarios, and prepare compliance reviews. Most Kai sessions require many turns.
Situational Awareness has sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Citadel after suffering deep losses. The firm had amassed over $20 billion in assets, making it one of the fastest-growing firms in years. It encountered funding issues due to margin-call demands from its lenders. Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge-fund firms, has a long record of acquiring assets from forced sellers.
Chrome 149 and Chrome 150 shipped with a total of 1,072 bug fixes, more than the previous 23 releases combined. AI is changing security analysis and enabling better flaw detection. Google is now piloting a system that would update Chrome twice per week. The company is working on ways to allow patches to be installed without restarting the browser.
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