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An analysis of 300K LinkedIn posts shows links reduce reach ~16%, but don't “kill” it. Myths like stacking links helps, comment links protect reach, or editing links later works are now outdated. Comment links are often hidden and convert worse. Additive links outperform sales links, while native tools like newsletters, profiles, events, and DMs drive better results without hurting reach.
Older email domains tend to earn higher open rates than newer ones. Domains aged 1 to 2 years averaged 21.6% opens vs 34.9% for 5 to 6 year domains, even with proper authentication. Domain age appears linked to sender reputation, so new domains should focus on targeted outreach to build trust over time.
Changing a default setting can increase conversions when it matches what customers want most. A major low-cost airline changed its flight results from departure time first to lowest price first because its customers usually choose the airline to save money. The test increased bookings by 1.1%, which could add millions in annual revenue on a site with millions of travelers. Review every default in your website or app because small interface choices can influence customer decisions.
Poor tracking data is the biggest cause of wasted ad spend because ad platforms optimize campaigns based on the data they receive. Tracking errors such as duplicate tags and inflated conversion counts can cause advertisers to spend money on the wrong outcomes even if the creative and targeting are strong. Audit your tracking setup regularly and fix data quality issues before optimizing ads or landing pages. Brands spending about $80K per month on ads can often justify third-party tracking tools for incremental improvements after the core setup is accurate.
Coca-Cola refreshed its brand by doubling down on iconic assets, reinforcing familiar visuals instead of reinventing to keep recognition strong.
Librarians are teaching people to disable AI features, reflecting frustration with forced adoption and demand for more control.
B2B Unplugged built sold-out events by ditching panels for curated, small-group discussions.
Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that helps developers choose between AI models. The talks are still ongoing and could fall apart. Industry experts estimate that the business could fetch about $10 billion in a sale. Stripe is separately pursuing a deal for PayPal.
ChatGPT Health is now available to all US-based users over 18. The feature helps users with health-related queries. Users can let the feature access data from apps and integrate medical records from hospital systems. While several studies have found that AI bots are not reliable for medical advice, this has not deterred AI companies from launching health-related features.
Unitree's GD01 is a transformable mecha robot. It can transport a pilot in its torso-mounted cockpit, walk on either two legs or four, and wield fists powerful enough to knock down walls. Standing 9 ft tall and weighing half a ton, it has heavy-duty mechanical hinges that connect titanium-alloy limbs to a protective carbon fiber casing. Pictures of the robot are available in the article.
SpaceX has started to turn away satellite operators seeking dedicated rides on its Falcon 9 rocket beyond 2028. The company has also stopped building some non-reusable components for the Falcon family. SpaceX has publicly stated that it intends to offramp its Falcon 9 rocket for Starship, but has not disclosed a timeline. The company is likely to still use the Falcon 9 for launches for the Department of Defense and NASA.
The field of formal verification and deterministic system testing is about to cross a chasm. There are not enough skilled practitioners in the field. Bug-catching tools, when used in conjunction with adversarial code reviews by an LLM and with language analyzers driven by pre-commit hooks, will be a key component in software factories. They will enable people/agents to deliver reliable software without the burden of having to learn this specialized knowledge.
No amount of harness engineering or loopsmaxxing can solve what is fundamentally a model-training issue. Engineers are still stuck reading code. Companies can move 10x-100x faster by convincing themselves that the code doesn't matter anymore, but they could also embrace their constraints and just move 2x-3x faster, safely.
Optimizing the cost-to-outcome frontier in real world context means using the right model for each task, and optimizing the context, skills, tools, and agent harness around it. It's possible to take saturated frontier capabilities and deliver them at scale and at lower cost through models optimized for high-usage products, while continuing to use frontier models for frontier needs. The model is only one part of the hill-climbing system. Harness, memory, context, tools, skills, and user interactions all shape the evals and performance of these agentic systems.
Huawei is leading the way in reducing China's dependence on foreign AI chips. The company claims it has figured out workarounds for making near state-of-the-art silicon without leading-edge machinery. Huawei's deputy chairman attributes the company's progress to the restrictions the US has imposed on hardware exports. China still lags far behind the US, and chip-production capacity problems are preventing Chinese companies from deploying AI as quickly as they would like.
Google's research points to a future where the demand for highly skilled workers is accentuated rather than diminished.
Canvas UI is an open source library of creative, framework-agnostic components drawn on canvas.
The 'frontier' moniker justifies capital spending to investors, who believe that the spending is the moat.
SIMD is just about as easy as a for loop.
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Google has added a new video selfie option for account recovery.
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OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT for US adults, allowing users to connect Apple Health and supported medical records for more contextual health conversations. The company said connected health data and related chats would not be used to train foundation models or target ads.
Fugu-Ultra v1.1 is more capable across coding, agentic tasks, and advanced reasoning. It is now available at the same price as Fugu-Ultra v1.0. Fugu offers frontier-level performance without single-vendor dependency. It dynamically orchestrates the best models to tackle complex multi-step tasks.
Runway Media Router is a developer tool that automatically selected image, video, or audio models based on quality, speed, or cost. The release positions Runway Dev as an infrastructure layer offering unified API access to both Runway and third-party models.
Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode to support Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, while adding integrations with apps such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Google Calendar. The beta remains available to all users, with free accounts limited to Haiku and one connected app.
Poolside co-CEO Eiso Kant explains how a compact research team built the training infrastructure behind Laguna S, an 118B mixture-of-experts model reported to outperform much larger open-weight systems.
Kimi K3 uses an extreme amount of thinking tokens. It uses over 12 times more reasoning than Claude Opus 4.8 and over double that of Kimi K2.6. The model's performance is primarily due to its unique chain-of-thought approach in which it iterates upon designs like a full AI agent would, but inside its chain of thought. This article looks at Kimi K3's thinking traces to explain the model's performance.
Compute pricing coverage runs on headline rates, but many workloads don't consume them that way. Training, fine-tuning, and high-throughput inference need multiple identical GPUs in the same machine or cluster. A company that buys H100 futures to hedge a future four- or eight-GPU requirement carries real basis risk. The futures will hedge a rise in the broad H100 price and do nothing about the lack of co-located capacity.
Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3, a multimodal model that can generate images and audio-video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt. Its architecture could be used in the future in robotic perception and action.
Microsoft introduced MAI-Image-2.5-Pro for high-fidelity image generation and editing, alongside MAI-Voice-2-Flash for faster, lower-cost voice applications. Both models entered public preview and joined Microsoft's broader production model lineup.
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Intel reported better-than-expected results for its second quarter. The company's shares are up over 170% so far in 2026. It is starting to craft long-term agreements with customers for its server CPUs, a move that's becoming common in the industry. The company's CFO says Intel is supply constrained, with data center customers demanding more than it can produce.
Google Research discusses the AI economy's rapid growth, focusing on innovations and impacts across industries. The piece highlights AI's transformative effects on sectors like healthcare and finance. It emphasizes the need for strategic investment and regulation to harness AI's potential responsibly.
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OpenAI's naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model is now integrated with the ChatGPT desktop application.
A Huawei-led consortium has released a technical report that documents full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's V4 family on Huawei Ascend chips, measuring the run at 34.22% model FLOPs utilization.
Cognition has added The Interaction Company of California, the makers of Poke, a personal agent that can text natively on Apple Messages, to its team.
The deal gives Sierra immediate access to a platform that can power autonomous, multistep applications across enterprises.
Etched's new architecture enables AI chips to run math blocks at half the usual voltage, boosting FLOPs density and tackling thermal issues.
AMD and Cerebras have unveiled an AI inference solution that combines AMD Helios with Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine, enhancing low-latency AI workloads.
Google Photos introduced a toggle letting users switch instantly between Gemini-powered Ask Photos and classic keyword search, without navigating through settings. The addition responds to user complaints about irrelevant AI results and the previous absence of a quick way back to classic search, following a mid-2025 rollout pause. Users can now choose their preferred search mode per query, though Google still applies its own judgment about which system fits, and non-adopters must complete onboarding before accessing the AI option.
Webflow's MCP 2.0 upgrade lets AI agents build components from screenshots, edit over 50 CSS-variable design tokens per conversation, and query analytics conversationally, without needing the previous bridge app for most tasks. New "Instructions" features—rules and skills—let teams embed always-on guardrails and on-demand workflows directly into Webflow for agent use. Additional capabilities include managing forms, assets, page branches, custom code, and Enterprise-level site history tracking.
Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone, likely called the iPhone Ultra, in September after waiting for foldable display technology to mature and for Samsung to eliminate the screen crease. Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra demonstrates a nearly crease-free display that is believed to closely match the panel Apple will use, marking a significant improvement over previous generations.
Nir Eyal's Hook Model—trigger, action, reward, investment—maps onto AI products almost perfectly, with variable rewards and frictionless chat boxes arriving nearly pre-built. Eyal's own "Manipulation Matrix" and regret test offer a check: products that improve users' lives and that builders would use themselves qualify as facilitators, while those failing both tests risk becoming exploitative "dealers." The loop measures consumption, not benefit, so real success requires tracking outcomes like time saved rather than engagement metrics like messages sent.
Designers can turn competitors' negative reviews into persuasive evidence, since scattered complaint patterns reveal gaps stakeholders can't dismiss as opinion. Mining sources like Reddit, G2, and Trustpilot for recurring 1-2 star complaints—time-boxed and counted, not curated—surfaces real user language and frustration clusters. Charting these clusters' frequency converts qualitative gripes into data-backed arguments that move stakeholder conversations from opinion to evidence.
AI has made polished portfolios, case studies, and take-home assignments easy to generate, shifting the real proof of a designer's ability from artifacts to live conversations where they must explain, defend, and reflect on their decisions under pressure. Future interviews will increasingly focus on these "room tests," which reveal judgment, trade-off thinking, and experience through unscripted follow-up questions rather than polished presentations. The solution isn't to perfect portfolios but to regularly practice articulating decisions, discussing failures, and defending work in real time, because those skills are becoming the strongest signal of genuine expertise.