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Anthropic proposed a computing deal with Meta in June that could be worth as much as $10 billion over two years. Meta is considering the deal, which would involve monthly payments and the option to opt out of any agreement early. The talks show how demand for more computing power is still high. The deal could open up a new line of business for Meta and provide Meta with a new revenue stream until demand for its own AI services catches up.
SpaceX is in talks to provide the Defense Department with computing capacity at a cost of up to several billion dollars. Some national security officials have raised concerns that the Pentagon is becoming too reliant on Elon Musk's services. Pentagon officials have said they want to reduce reliance on individual tech companies. The Pentagon is seeking $30 billion in funding for an initiative that will focus on securing high-end AI chips.
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket, India's first fully commercial satellite launcher, launched into a 280-mile-high orbit from an island spaceport in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday. The launch was delayed for more than half an hour to resolve a last-minute technical problem, but the flight was deemed a grand success. The Vikram-1 is India's first private orbital rocket to reach orbit on its very first attempt. A second Vikram-1 launch could happen before the end of the year.
Several companies are now racing to develop devices with built-in AI agents. ZTE Corp. has unveiled a lineup of co-designed smartphones with built-in AI services. The NaviX Ultra, which it calls the world's first agentic smartphone, pulls up ByteDance's AI agent Doubao with a voice command or the press of a button. It comes in black, pink, white, and blue.
Fine-tune leading open models (Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma, gpt-oss) on your proprietary data with no clusters to provision and no surprise bills [9]. Crusoe's token-based pricing ends the moment your model stops improving, and weights export in .safetensors format. Deploy in
Code migrations were typically multi-year endeavors until recently. Claude Code's capabilities change the math for these types of projects. This post details the six-step process Anthropic uses to perform code migrations. The core principle is to fix the process that produces the code rather than fixing the code itself.
scroll-world is a skill that turns any brand into a scrollable 3D world. It works with Claude Code, Codex, and any SKILL.md-compatible agent. The skill builds immersive, control-scrubbed 'fly through the world' landing pages for any industry or brand. A video example is available in the repository.
AI chatbots are now smarter and more capable than a lot of people, but there has yet to be an explosion or take-off in usage. Coming up with ideas was never the hard part. Most problems can't be worked out at a desk by thinking. Reality stays bound by how fast a thing can be built and whether it holds.
The newest generation of AI-infused companies offer a vision of how work could soon be structured in other American corporations. They have fewer workers, more on-staff engineers, and a flatter structure where everyone is a player-coach instead of strictly overseeing teams. The structure is a proving ground for the philosophy that corporate giants are trying to channel through reorganizations, de-layering, job cuts, and investment into AI.
Wispr Flow [5] works the same on your Mac, your PC, and your phone. Start an email on your laptop, finish a Slack reply on your phone. Same hotkey, same clean output, 4x faster than typing.
One of SpaceXAI's goals is to get Grok to catch up to Anthropic's Claude. The company recently released a new coding tool and beefed up its sales team, but it is still running behind its competitors in many measures. It has been in a state of chaos over the past few months, making it difficult for outsiders to see where Elon Musk imagines the company heading. Many insiders considered the company unprepared for the scrutiny that comes with being a company, and now that it is public, SpaceXAI has less room to maneuver.
Google has months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro. The company has been taking its time trying to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding. The delay has frustrated Google engineers, AI researchers, and managers, many of whom are concerned that the company risks losing an edge. The model is currently being tested with partners, and Google is productively engaged with the US government on model testing and broader frameworks.
Researchers restored hand movement and a sense of touch to a man paralyzed from the chest down using technology that partly rewired his nervous system. The 'double neural bypass' system combines a brain-computer interface, AI, and electrical stimulation of the spinal cord and brain to produce long-lasting changes. Many of the improvements were still present more than two years after treatment. The researchers are now planning larger trials and are testing the system for other conditions, including stroke.
The FDA has approved a pill that can lower cholesterol levels far beyond what can be achieved with statins. Made by Merck, enlicitide works by inhibiting a protein known as PCSK9. Its list price is $315 for a 30-day supply, and it will be available in a few weeks. Similar injectable drugs have been shown to reduce the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular deaths by 20% in high-risk people - Merck is now conducting studies to see if its pill has the same effect.
Bun was rewritten from Zig to Rust using Fable. A full rewrite would usually take too long, but the AI tool allowed it to be completed in 11 days. The project cost $165,000 with API pricing, consuming 5.9 billion uncached input tokens, 690 million output tokens, and 72 billion cached input token reads. The rewrite demonstrates how AI can now be cost-effective for codebase migrations when projects are well-engineered.
The world is short on people who can find the right problem, tell whether the machine solved it, and finish past where the machine stopped. Agents scale infinitely while humans don't. Anything gradable by someone else is getting automated. Seek taste and judgment on purpose, as they will stay durable and ungradable.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping endorsed the building of open-source AI models during a speech that implicitly criticized US moves to protect its lead in AI semiconductors and models. He cast China as a champion of openness and equality, saying that the country should oppose overstretching the concept of national security in the field of AI. The US and China have taken different approaches to building AI models, with Silicon Valley building largely proprietary models while China has released many open-source models. Chinese AI executives have expressed concern that they will struggle to close the gap with the US due to restrictions on access to the world's best chips and chip-making equipment.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has criticized Anthropic's limits on requests to Fable. He says the tool is too editorially controlled, and that its refusal to complete concern tasks doesn't make sense. The criticism is aimed at a valued Microsoft partner and client. Microsoft said in November that it was making a $5 billion investment in Anthropic, and Anthropic has agreed to spend $30 billion on Microsoft's Azure cloud.
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Block's role in the proposed Stripe/Advent/Block deal to buy PayPal hasn't received much attention in the press even though it is presumably a big part of the deal.
Stripe and Advent International have made a joint takeover bid for PayPal. They proposed paying $60.50 a share for PayPal in a deal that values the fintech company at around $53 billion. PayPal was valued at around $42 billion as of Friday. The company is currently in the early stages of orchestrating a turnaround under a newly appointed chief executive. There are no guarantees that PayPal will be receptive to the offer, as it has previously peaked at more than $300 a share.
Waymo and Uber are nominally partners. However, these days, the two companies are trading thinly veiled jabs in a gathering lobbying battle. An Uber representative highlighted at a public hearing this week how the company's drivers spend their earnings and pay taxes locally, while robotaxi profits flow to unnamed companies based elsewhere. A Waymo representative conceded that robotaxis would mean job losses, but noted that rideshare companies control drivers' earnings and are taking a significant chunk for themselves.
Blood tests for Alzheimer's disease could eventually transform the way the disease is diagnosed and even predict who might develop it and when. There are still questions about their accuracy, so they shouldn't be used diagnostically for people who don't have cognitive impairment. However, they appear to be effective for predicting risk when paired with other factors. There are currently no treatment options available for people without symptoms, but that could change in the next couple of years as some therapies are currently in clinical trials.
Hyundai's auto workers in South Korea have gone on a partial strike to demand pre-emptive action in response to the threat of humanoid robots. Workers are demanding job security against future industrial shifts as humanoid robot technology improves. Hyundai plans to deploy its Atlas humanoid robot by 2028 at its nonunionized Metaplant factory complex in Georgia. The company says it is committed to constructive engagement with the union to reach an agreement that supports the long-term interests of both employees and the company.
Your AI agent can cheerfully leak IP to 3rd parties without triggering any SIEM alert. How do you build controls to defend against plain language attacks? Gray Swan's AI Security 101 eBook [13] - based on research cited by frontier labs - looks at actually-working ways to
SDKs are supposed to save developers time, but AI has changed the cost curve. Integrating with an SDK is often as much work as calling the HTTP API directly. It is now cheap to write a tailored REST client for exactly the endpoints developers need to use while providing better unified observability. Instead of shipping SDKs, companies will likely start shipping agent skills that teach agents how to call the API correctly, reuse the right patterns, and avoid pushing every runtime call through a vendor package.
The marginal cost of correctness is going to zero. Engineers used to be able to differentiate themselves with raw technical talent, but this is becoming less true as agents are empowering anyone to write correct code. The most important skills to develop now are the ability to smell things out that just aren't right and the willpower to make them so.
Thinking Machines Lab released its first AI model yesterday. Inkling has 975 billion parameters and is trained to be a broad, balanced foundation model. It is strong across many domains and flexible enough to adapt. The model is designed to balance cost against performance rather than for raw power. It can be customized through Tinker, a cloud-based fine-tuning tool for AI developers and researchers that Thinking Machines released last year.
Google will begin distributing rival app stores starting next week. These stores will have access to the full catalog of Google Play apps by default. Google is allowed to charge reasonable fees to cover its security and compliance review of third-party stores. Stores are required to block malware, respect intellectual property, and include mechanisms to update and uninstall apps. App stores can be removed from the program if more than 2% of attempted app installs appear to be malware or unwanted software.