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10 OUTDATED EMAIL MARKETING HABITS TO DROP

The list includes not reporting on open rates, using double opt-in, and competing for attention in the inbox.

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OPENAI'S CODEX HARDWARE

OpenAI's Codex Micro gadget is currently being displayed at the AI Engineer World Fair. A picture of the device is available in the article. The device is a keyboard designed to supercharge Codex usage. It was developed through a partnership between OpenAI and accessories company Work Louder.

A20 PRO LEAK SHOWS HOW IPHONE 18 PRO WILL RUN FASTER AND COOLER

A supposed image of the motherboard used in the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max was leaked over the weekend. The new design will make the A20 a very powerful and thoroughly thermally-managed chip and help Apple save some production costs. The overall size of the chip is roughly the same as the A19 Pro's footprint. There are also memory and NPU upgrades that will improve overall bandwidth and AI performance.

FROM BRAIN WAVES TO WORDS: BRAIN2QWERTY OFFERS A NEW PATH TO COMMUNICATION WITHOUT SURGERY

Brain2Qwerty v2 is a model capable of real-time sentence decoding from non-invasive brain recordings. The model was trained on approximately 22,000 sentences from nine volunteer participants, who each recorded for 10 hours while wearing a magnetoencephalography device and actively typing. The model achieves a word accuracy rate of 61%, which is significantly higher than the 8% word accuracy from other non-invasive methods. The full training code for v1 and v2 and the v1 dataset have been released on Hugging Face.

ROCKET LAB BUYS SATELLITE OPERATOR IRIDIUM IN BID TO CHALLENGE SPACEX

Rocket Lab is purchasing Iridium Communications to compete with SpaceX's satellite offerings. The deal will give Rocket Lab control over a satellite fleet and access to wireless resources. Iridium currently operates 66 satellites in low-Earth orbit. It has valuable spectrum rights to connect handsets and other devices to satellites. Rocket Lab plans to develop an upgraded fleet of satellites that will replace Iridium's current constellation.

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“IT'S HARD TO EVAL” IS A PRODUCT SMELL

Evals thinking is aligned with good product design. Gathering sporting data and breaking down workflows into smaller units makes automated grading easier. This post covers well-established design principles through the lens of the age of AI. Verification typically happens incidentally during the process of creating work product, but with AI, verification is the bottleneck.

APPLE DESIGN AWARD WINNER ACQUIRED BY APPLE FOR NEW SWIFT TOOLS

Apple has acquired Rabbit 3 Times, the company that made Play, a visual Swift development tool that won the Apple Design award for innovation. The acquisition appears to be aimed at asset stripping the company. Apple may be incorporating Play into its Apple Creator Studio, but for now, it appears the app is gone. Rabbit 3 Times' website has also been taken down.

TECHNOLOGICAL INVOLUTION

It appears we are approaching the upper bound of what's possible under human conception. Technology has stagnated as capitalism is no longer putting pressure towards innovation. Companies have started treating the populace as something to be mined. People with a deep belief in their ability to just do things have the power to change this trend. If the idea you're chasing is good enough, it will spread.

IN SAN FRANCISCO, EVEN $180,000 TECH SALARIES ARE NO LONGER ENOUGH

Young tech workers chasing the Silicon Valley dream have started to say that an affordable future feels increasingly out of reach. Property, utility, transportation, and grocery costs have risen significantly. A new class of AI elite has emerged that can outspend other tech workers. OpenAI's, Anthropic's, and SpaceX's IPOs combined could mint more than 20 new billionaires among current and former employees.

INSIDE CONSULTANTS' MESSY SHIFT FROM HOURLY BILLING

The traditional model of billing for human time may no longer work as AI grows.

YOU MIGHT NOT NEED… A SERVICE WORKER

There are a few things that only a service worker can do, but they're not the best solution for most situations.

QWEN 3.6 27B IS THE SWEET SPOT FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

By the standards of current frontier models, it's unremarkable, but it does the job.

AMAZON SEEKS CHEAPER AI ALTERNATIVES AS ANTHROPIC SHIFTS TO TOKEN-BASED PRICING

A renegotiated contract between Amazon and Anthropic will shift Anthropic billing to per-token pricing, which could substantially increase Amazon's costs.

REBUILDING THE COMPUTER ROOM

The computer room disappeared because we wanted more convenience, more ease, and less friction in our computing lives, but that friction isn't always a bad thing.

THE ECONOMY OF TOKENS

The appearance of stable interfaces is enabling specialization, independent innovation, and a modular re-organization of the AI ecosystem.

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DEVIN FUSION

Devin Fusion is a multi-model harness from Cognition that mixes frontier and cost-effective models, reducing expenses by 35% on the FrontierCode benchmark while maintaining top-tier performance. This system uses dual-agent architecture with a main agent and a sidekick for dynamic model routing, optimizing task handling and avoiding costly cache misses. Fable 5 integration further enhances efficiency, achieving a 41% reduction in cost, promising advancements as models evolve.

GEMINI'S PERSONALIZED AI IMAGE GENERATION IS NOW FREE FOR US USERS

All eligible users in the US can now access the Nano Banana-powered image generation feature within the Gemini app for free. The feature can generate images based on the AI model's understanding of users' likes and preferences without users having to specify them in the prompt. Personal Intelligence is an opt-in feature and users can decide which apps Gemini can access. Google has several updates for the Gemini app planned, including a new 'Daily Brief' feature, a revamped interface, access to the AI video model Gemini Omni, and a personal AI agent called Gemini Spark.

BUILD FROM ANYWHERE WITH CURSOR FOR IOS

Cursor for iOS, now in public beta, allows developers to manage projects from anywhere using cloud or local agents. Launch or control agents via the mobile app, receive updates through Live Activities, and merge PRs on the go. This app supports workflows such as incident handling, resolving customer issues, and acting on user feedback efficiently.

RL BEYOND THE VERIFIABLE

RL in verifiable areas is clearly working. The next big leap will come from approaches that help bring the same achievements to things that are harder to verify. This article looks at why verifiability is a constraint, the techniques that are working now, and the companies attacking the problem.

THE ECONOMY OF TOKENS

AI is transitioning from closed, vertically integrated systems to a modular ecosystem supported by standardized interfaces like Transformer architecture and inference APIs. This architectural disaggregation enables open-weights models to compete effectively with closed systems, significantly reducing costs while accelerating innovation across the entire stack.

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DEEPSEEK OPEN SOURCES DSPARK, A NEW FRAMEWORK TO SPEED UP LLM INFERENCE BY UP TO 85%

DSpark is a system designed to make large language models answer faster without changing what the underlying model is trying to say. Most AI models write one small chunk of text at a time. DSpark acts as a scout that runs a few steps ahead, guesses the likely path, and lets the larger model quickly check which steps are safe. When guesses are good, the model moves faster, but if they are weak, DSpark tries not to waste time checking them.

ROADMAPBENCH: EVALUATING LONG-HORIZON AGENTIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS VERSION UPGRADES

RoadmapBench evaluates long-horizon coding tasks, spanning multiple files and languages, grounded in real version upgrades across 17 repositories. The benchmark tests 115 tasks, requiring agents to implement functionalities with a median modification of 3,700 lines across 51 files.

DISCOFORMER: ONE TRANSFORMER FOR DENSITY AND SCORE, ACROSS DISTRIBUTIONS

DiScoFormer, a transformer model, estimates both density and score from data in a single pass without retraining, surpassing classical kernel density estimation (KDE) in accuracy, especially in high dimensions. Utilizing cross-attention, it adapts to new data distributions on the spot, improving accuracy for generative modeling and Bayesian inference. Trained with Gaussian Mixture Models, DiScoFormer reduces score error by 6.5x and density error by more than 37x over KDE in 100 dimensions.

GOOGLE CLOUD WILL SELL SPECIALIST AI MODELS BUILT FOR SCIENCE

Google will start offering specialist AI models from SandboxAQ through Google Cloud. SandboxAQ's large quantitative models are trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The addition of these models will widen enterprise and research access to AI built for drug discovery, materials science, and semiconductor manufacturing. Researchers can combine the models with Gemini, using the language model for reasoning and interface and the quantitative model for the underlying science.

SALESFORCE EMPLOYEES ARE CONFUSED ABOUT WHY THE COMPANY IS PROMOTING A COMPETITOR INSIDE SLACK

Salesforce helped promote Claude Tag when it launched. This caused some confusion among employees, as Slack has its own Slackbot and Agentforce platform - which runs on Claude. Claude Tag offers a parallel experience inside the same platform. Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and it holds roughly a 1% stake in Anthropic, so it has financial reasons to promote Claude Tag despite the competitive tension.

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BUILD A DOCUMENT PROCESSING WORKFLOW IN 30 MINUTES

Mistral Workflows is a durable and fault-tolerant orchestration platform tailored for executing and monitoring multi-agent AI pipelines.

SAKANA FUGU LAUNCHES WITH 93.2 LIVECODEBENCH SCORE AFTER CLAUDE BAN

Fugu Ultra beat Fable on LiveCodeBench and starts at $5 per million input tokens.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RUN A CUDA KERNEL

This post follows a kernel from the code down to the warps, and back up to the answer.

NO, YOU HAVEN'T ACCIDENTALLY DOWNLOADED A BANKING APP – THAT REALLY IS THE NEW WINTER OLYMPICS 2030 LOGO

The new Alpes 2030 Winter Olympics logo has been widely praised for its elegant, modern design, thoughtful symbolism, and versatile branding system, with separate but related Olympic and Paralympic marks inspired by a mountain revealed by light and the colours of the Alps. Despite its strong execution and French Modernist influences, the minimalist, geometric design feels more like the branding of a fintech company or cultural institution than a sporting event, making its connection to the Winter Olympics and the French Alps less immediately recognizable. While this abstraction sacrifices some sense of place compared to earlier Olympic identities, it creates a distinctive, timeless visual system that is likely to age well and succeed across digital, physical, and merchandising applications.

APPLE'S BIGGEST MACBOOK PRO REDESIGN IN YEARS MAY SKIP THE CHIP EVERYONE EXPECTED

Apple's next MacBook Pro is expected to launch later this year with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips rather than the anticipated M6 series. Reports suggest the M6 lineup may only include a base model before Apple returns to multiple chip variants with the M7 generation. The biggest upgrade is expected to be an OLED display, bringing improved contrast, brightness, and viewing angles, alongside a redesigned screen featuring a smaller hole-punch camera cutout instead of the current notch. Apple is also reportedly developing M7-powered MacBook Pros and plans to bring OLED displays to the MacBook Air in the future.

KOBO'S BEST KINDLE-RIVALLING FEATURE IS FINALLY LIVE

Kobo's StoryGraph integration is now live, letting users automatically sync current reads, reading progress, and finished books between Kobo and StoryGraph. The feature works with both ebooks and audiobooks and can be enabled through Kobo account settings. It gives Kobo readers a Kindle-like Goodreads advantage, but with StoryGraph's stronger focus on reading stats, recommendations, challenges, streaks, and book clubs.

THE LAYERS OF AI EXPERIENCE

Generative AI has made product systems probabilistic and multi-dimensional, rendering the traditional deterministic design model — where teams mapped every user state — insufficient. A new framework of six interdependent layers (user interface, context, harness, model, governance, and emergence) shows that design influence now extends well below the surface interface. Effective AI designers must be fluent across all these layers, from shaping model behavior and context engineering to accounting for unpredictable emergent outputs they can't fully control.

WHAT DOES FIGMA DO NEXT?

Figma revolutionized product design by turning the canvas into a multiplayer collaboration space, displacing incumbents like Sketch almost overnight. However, as AI collapses the gap between visual intent and working code, the canvas risks becoming peripheral — with coordination infrastructure, design systems, and live artifacts mattering more than static design files. Figma now faces a strategic fork: keep pulling everything back into its canvas, or accept a humbler role as one collaborative lens into a system where code and runtime are the real source of truth.

THE ORGANIZATIONAL COST OF LOW TASTE

As AI makes creation cheap and abundant, the real constraint for organizations shifts from producing work to exercising good judgment about what deserves to exist. Companies become slow and complex not primarily because of scale, but because they lack a shared standard of quality ("taste") that allows teams to reject weak ideas early, leading to endless meetings, more process, politics, feature bloat, and the eventual departure of people with the highest standards. In the AI era, where generating ideas and products is nearly effortless, organizations with strong judgment will have a growing competitive advantage because they can filter, simplify, and make decisions quickly, while those without it will become overwhelmed by an ever-expanding number of plausible options.

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AI-GENERATED VIDEO CREATION PLATFORM

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