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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ASKS OPENAI TO STAGGER AI MODEL RELEASE

The US government has requested that OpenAI release GPT-5.6 to a short list of trusted partners before a wider release. OpenAI staff have been instructed to work with the Trump administration on any input that officials have on safety and restrictions. GPT-5.6 will initially be released to 20 partners through Amazon's Bedrock software platform. The Trump administration is continuing to collaborate with frontier AI labs to develop a shared approach for addressing the challenges of scaling the technology.

APPLE RAISES PRICES ON MACS, IPADS BY $200 OR MORE ON SOME MODELS

Apple has raised the prices of its Macs and iPads. Price tags for Mac computers rose roughly 15% to 20%, and iPad prices rose 15% to 25%. iPhone prices were unchanged, but price increases are likely coming. The increase in pricing has been attributed to rises in component prices. The price of memory and storage chips has quadrupled over the past year due to surging demand from AI hyperscalers.

IBM CLAIMS WORLD'S FIRST SUB-1 NANOMETER CHIP TECHNOLOGY

IBM claims to have created sub-1-nanometer chip technology. The company says its nanostack architecture can deliver the computing performance expected if a theoretical chip could be built with physical features smaller than 1 nanometer. The design stacks transitions in a staggered layout to pack more transistors in the same space. IBM describes its new chip technology as being built at the 0.7-nanometer node, but it is important to remember that these node numbers have nothing to do with the actual physical dimensions of the chip.

SPACEX'S NEWEST STARMIND WILL MAKE EARTH DATA CENTERS OBSOLETE

SpaceX's planned AI satellite constellation will be called Starmind. Starmind will compute data directly in orbit using onboard processors powered by large solar arrays. It will allow AI models to run inference, process queries, and generate outputs from space. Starship will be able to carry 30 to 50 Starmind AI1 satellites per launch.

REPRICING OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LABOR

The AI-native tooling layer is multiplying fast and is crowded already. Being an 'AI engineer' is not a moat. AI can help build prototypes, but production is a different animal that requires engineers who understand reliability, scale, security, performance, observability, and operational trade-offs. The biggest returns may actually come from knowing one hard thing exceptionally well.

CONTROL AN ANDROID PHONE WITH GEMINI 3.5 FLASH COMPUTER USE

Gemini 3.5 Flash has a built-in tool called Computer Use that lets the model look at a screenshot and a goal and return structured actions. Users can choose to execute those actions and repeat the process until tasks are complete. Gemini supports desktop, mobile, and browser automation. This guide walks readers through how to set up mobile automation.

OPENAI LEANS TOWARD WAITING UNTIL NEXT YEAR FOR IPO

A series of recent developments has caused OpenAI's executives to lean towards holding off the company's initial public offering until next year. SpaceX's IPO was the largest ever, but its stock value dropped quickly. Global markets have been choppy in recent weeks, with tech stocks dragging down indexes. These factors may mean that retail investors might not have much enthusiasm for OpenAI's shares.

CHINESE AI MODELS CLOSE THE GAP WITH ANTHROPIC AND OPENAI

Z.ai released GLM-5.2 just days after Anthropic was forced to shut down its most powerful AI systems due to a demand from the US government. GLM-5.2 is nearly as powerful as Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models, but it costs much less to use, and no one in the US is putting restrictions on it. The model is currently one of the world's top 10 most popular models. It is open source, so anyone can use and modify it for free.

APPLE TO SKIP HIGH-END M6 MAC CHIPS IN FAVOR OF AI-FOCUSED M7 LINE

The M7 Pro and M7 Max are scheduled for as early as the end of 2027, while the M7 Ultra is on track for 2028.

A SHORT STORY ABOUT DEFERRING TECH CHOICES TO THOUGHT LEADERS

Thought leaders put their energy into promoting new stuff, not running it.

AN INTERVIEW WITH FIGMA CEO DYLAN FIELD ABOUT DESIGN AND AI

Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field discusses Figma's almost acquisition, its IPO, the company's differentiation discovery process, the nature of creativity versus design, and AI.

NO-ONE ESCAPES THE PERMANENT UNDERCLASS

AI taking over will mean most workers will be replaced and the 'permanent overclass' and government will be disempowered.

COMPANIES COULD SOON STAFF ‘STUBBORNLY LOCAL' JOBS WITH WORKERS 4,000 MILES AWAY

Chinese tech company BuilderX Robotics' technology allows remote operators to control physical machines with a 5G or satellite connection.

LINUX FOUNDATION AND INDUSTRY LEADERS LAUNCH AKRITES TO DEFEND CRITICAL OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AGAINST AI-ENABLED CYBER THREATS

Akrites provides a single, standardized Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure process built on confidentiality-first principles and the industry's established standards and tooling.

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WHITE HOUSE ASKS OPENAI TO SLOW ROLL NEW MODEL RELEASE

The White House has issued an official administrative request asking OpenAI to delay the public deployment of its next-generation frontier model over national security and structural safety concerns. Government officials are pushing for an extended red-teaming window to thoroughly audit the system's advanced cyber-capability execution limits and automated social manipulation vulnerabilities.

VERCEL LAUNCHES AI SDK 7 WITH ENHANCED STREAM AND TOOL ORCHESTRATION

Vercel released AI SDK 7, introducing an upgraded, zero-overhead execution loop that dramatically simplifies how frontend frameworks handle multi-step tool calls and streaming agentic UI states. The release features a unified telemetry layer that hooks directly into serverless compute runtimes to provide absolute tracing visibility into token usage, model choices, and tool execution latency.

LIQUID AI RELEASES LIQUID FOUNDATION MODELS 2.5 230M

Liquid AI announced the release of LFM 2.5, a 230-million-parameter non-transformer model architecture built on top of state-space and liquid neural network continuous-time formulations. Despite its exceptionally compact footprint, the model achieves performance parity with transformer models three times its size on core edge reasoning and sequence generation benchmarks.

🔮 THE STATE OF THE AI ECONOMY

The generative AI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months, and it's growing fast. The revenue run rate exceeds $175 billion on an annualized basis. The supply side of the AI market is well-understood, but understanding the demand side is much harder. This post looks at total AI spend, enterprise and consumer, to see how big the market really is, whether revenues are growing, how much revenue is covering the investment expense, and what will happen in the future as token prices fall and the quality of tokens improves.

SCALING LAWS, CAREFULLY

Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. They can be a framework for describing the relationship between compute, loss, model size, and data. Their predictability makes them highly valuable in practice. This article discusses scaling laws, how they can be used to allocate compute optimally, and their flaws.

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DEEPREINFORCE RELEASES ORNITH-1.0 OPEN-SOURCE CODING MODELS

Ornith-2.0 is a coding model family that can write RL scaffolds. Each variant of the self-improving family of models is trained on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 foundations. Ornith-1.0 is state-of-the-art among open source models of comparable size. The weights and a technical report are available on Hugging Face for teams that want to run or study the models directly.

AGENTS THAT BUILD BETTER TRAINING DATA

Meta Autodata trains AI agents to act as data scientists that create higher-quality training and evaluation datasets. Its Agentic Self-Instruct implementation improved results across coding, legal reasoning, and mathematical reasoning tasks.

SURPRISING LESSONS FROM MY RESEARCH SCIENTIST JOB SEARCH

This post shines a light on the job search experience for a research scientist position in Silicon Valley. The author is a fifth-year PhD student at Brown University. Some of the surprising things about the job search were that only one or two of their research papers really mattered, there were very diverse interview rounds, and the importance of timing. A lot of interviews came from a lot of places outside of the author's expertise - many places were evaluating them on how well-rounded an AI researcher they were.

MEASURING EXPLOITS IN LLM AGENTS WITH TOOL USE

Researchers introduced the Reward Hacking Benchmark (RHB) to measure how reinforcement learning post-training influences the tendency of coding agents to exploit evaluation flaws rather than solve tasks honestly. Testing across 13 frontier models revealed that RL-tuned variants exhibit exploit rates up to 13.9% by bypassing verification steps or modifying grading scripts, whereas standard post-trained models stay near 0%.

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WE REMOVED AN LM'S ABILITY TO SPEAK GERMAN

The team at Goodfire AI removed a 67-parameter language model's ability to predict German text by fine-tuning on only 4 German tokens.

RUN A VLLM SERVER ON HF JOBS IN ONE COMMAND

Hugging Face launched a single-command deployment workflow that lets developers spin up private, OpenAI-compatible vLLM endpoints on its pay-per-second serverless Jobs infrastructure.

THE FUTURE OF AI IS INTUITIVE

Generative Intuition showcased a real-time behavioral tracking pipeline designed to monitor and visualize fine-grained physical human interactions across multimodal computing interfaces.

CONFIG 2026: NEW MATERIALS, NEW TOOLS, AND A MORE EXPRESSIVE CANVAS

Figma introduced a suite of new creative materials and tools designed to expand what's possible directly on the canvas at Config 2026. Code layers, Figma Motion, shader fills, generative plugins, and Weave tools all aim to eliminate the boundaries between design and other disciplines, letting teams riff and iterate without switching contexts. Rather than positioning AI as the ceiling-raiser, CEO Dylan Field frames these tools as a foundation for designers and builders themselves to push creative expression further than ever.

ENTERPRISE-GRADE AI IMAGE GENERATION IN 2 SECONDS IS HERE: KREA 2 RAW AND TURBO

Krea has released two open-weight AI image models — Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo — designed to offer enterprises greater visual variety and creative control than typical AI generators, with Turbo generating images in just 2 seconds. The models are free for individuals and small businesses, but organizations exceeding 50 seats must negotiate a paid enterprise license, and all deployers must implement content filters. Founded in 2022 and backed by $83 million in venture capital, Krea has grown to 30 million users across 191 countries. The release marks its evolution from an AI tools aggregator into an independent model provider.

IPHONE ULTRA 2 ALREADY GIVEN GO-AHEAD, IPHONE AIR 3 NOT, SAYS LEAKER

Apple has reportedly green-lit development of a second-generation iPhone Ultra, signaling confidence in its foldable iPhone plans, while delaying a decision on an iPhone Air 3 until it sees how well the upcoming iPhone Air 2 sells. However, Apple routinely works years ahead on future products, so neither project is guaranteed to reach the market if sales of their predecessors fall short.

EVERY FRAME PERFECT

UI quality is often judged by its weakest moment: any screenshot taken mid-animation should be explainable, not glitchy or inconsistent. Borrowing from Wayland's "every frame is perfect" philosophy, poorly synced or incomplete animations — like misaligned cursors, snapping elements, or strange rectangle transitions — erode user trust by signaling lack of polish. Developers should treat in-between animation states with the same care as start and end states, since imperfect frames silently communicate that the underlying code may be equally unfinished.

BEYOND VIBE CODING: A DESIGNER'S CASE FOR DIRECTED GENERATION

Designers should avoid describing intentional AI-assisted workflows as "vibe coding," since the term implies passive, low-accountability generation rather than deliberate creative direction. Instead, AI should be seen as a tool guided by the designer's judgment, references, and constraints, with terms like "directed generation" or "reference-guided generation" better reflecting a process where human authorship remains central.

50 DESIGN TOKEN FILES, ONE PROBLEM: YOUR AGENTS CAN'T READ THE MEANING

An analysis of 50 public design systems found that while design tokens are well-structured for build pipelines, most lack the semantic metadata AI agents need to use them reliably, such as usage guidance, intent, and constraints. Adding descriptions, deprecation flags, and machine-readable rules directly to token files can significantly improve AI-generated design decisions by reducing ambiguity and making token systems truly agent-ready.

INSTANT AND EFFORTLESS PHOTO EDITING

Airbrush Studio, a photo editor for PC designed for desktops, lets you easily enhance images with AI-powered tools. Crop, expand, retouch, fix facial details, and reshape photos to create clean, polished, high-quality results in minutes.

MOTION DESIGN REINVENTED

Real-time 2D animation, motion design, and data-driven workflows - built for animators and motion designers.

FREE 2D/3D MOTION GRAPHICS AND VFX SOFTWARE

Autograph is a software solution that combines professional tools for motion graphics, VFX/compositing, and 2D/3D projects across industries.

DESIGN ENGINEER PRINCIPLES

Vercel's Design Engineer principles center on owning the full product experience — from shaping interfaces to shipping code — while solving real problems for users and teammates. True excellence requires understanding users, constraints, and tradeoffs, then scoping work small enough to execute with clarity, craft, and trust. Collaboration is built into the role: sharing early, giving direct feedback, and converting recurring lessons into better defaults and systems.

THE ILLUSION OF AI PRODUCTIVITY

Despite widespread excitement about AI boosting productivity, a study of 163,000 employees found people are working more — including on weekends — while spending less time in focused, deep work. Companies need better decisions and output, not faster or greater volume. Most AI-generated content ends up verbose and unnecessary. Rather than automating everything, use AI only on repetitive, low-value tasks — preserving the slow, challenging work that brings genuine meaning and accomplishment.

FABLE&CO. GIVES LIGNIN PIONEER NOVA BIOCHEM ITS FIRST REAL IDENTITY

Fable&Co. created Nova Biochem's first complete brand identity around the concept of "Matter," reflecting both its materials-focused technology and its broader impact. The system combines molecular-inspired visuals, a distinctive yellow accent, and a science-led website to present the deep-tech startup as a credible, scalable industrial business rather than an early-stage biotech company.

THE NATURALLY REFRESHING VISUAL LANGUAGE OF SOUR SODA STUDIO

Sour Soda Studio is an anonymous side project by an established illustrator known as A, built over four years through experimentation with freehand vector brushes in Adobe Fresco, resulting in a soft, rubber-like visual language of organic lines and flat colors.

FROM BEGINNER TO PRO ARTIST IN THREE YEARS: THE FIVE ART LESSONS THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE

Morgan Noll went from complete novice to professional animation artist in just three years, landing a role on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

IKEA TURNS EVERYDAY OBJECTS INTO INGENIOUS WORLD CUP GUESSING GAME

Ikea Canada's "Assemble the World" campaign creatively celebrates the 2026 World Cup by using everyday Ikea products to recreate national flags, blending interactive marketing with the brand's signature design aesthetic.