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WHAT BEING "INSPIRING" ACTUALLY MEANS

Inspiring at work means presenting a clear point of view and showing people, concretely, why taking action will make their work better.

THE NEW INNER GAME

As AI makes knowledge and execution abundant, emotional clarity becomes a critical advantage. The people and teams that thrive will make discerning decisions, confront conflict, embrace failure, and manage fear without letting it dictate their actions.

IS AI FOOLING YOU?

AI accelerates execution, but without shared vision and collaboration, it only magnifies misalignment. Strong product teams use AI to speed up iteration while keeping humans focused on judgment, alignment, and solving problems that matter.

STOP WRITING BLOG POSTS AND CALLING IT SEO

Publishing blog posts for SEO is often just content marketing masquerading as SEO, which frequently fails to drive business outcomes. A true product-led SEO strategy prioritizes making your product discoverable at the moment of intent, routing users directly into action-oriented conversion flows rather than passive reading.

BUILD THE AGENT OR POWER THE AGENT?

Founders must choose between "building the agent" and "powering the agent”. This decision hinges on where the customer works, whether the company owns the full workflow or a slice, and where the product's value resides: in data/context or capabilities/actions.

RICK AND MORTY'S STORYTELLING SECRET TO HOOK ANY READER

Dan Harmon's Story Circle turns the Hero's Journey into eight repeatable steps that move a character from comfort through conflict, transformation, and consequences. Its strict structure creates room for creativity, helping writers turn absurd ideas into accessible stories rooted in meaningful human struggles.

QUARTERLY PLANNING IS A SCARCITY RITUAL

Quarterly planning is an outdated 'scarcity ritual.'

PRODUCT MANAGER IS THE OLD TITLE

As AI reduces shipping costs, the traditional PM role is shifting toward Complexity Management: prioritizing strategic restraint, value clarity, ecosystem-level thinking, and the judgment to recalibrate.

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OPENAI UNVEILS FIRST CHIP AS PART OF BROADCOM DEAL IN EFFORT TO ‘BUILD THE FULL STACK'

OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño chip is designed for inference, the compute-intensive process of serving AI models to users. It took nine months for the companies to design the chips end-to-end. The use of OpenAI's AI models helped accelerate the process. Jalapeño is a major step in OpenAI's plan to build the full-stack behind its models and products.

TESLA, SUNRUN TEAM UP ON 16 GW VIRTUAL POWER PLANT FOR DATA CENTERS

Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home have announced an agreement to aggregate more than 16 gigawatts of home batteries and other devices into the largest distributed power plant in the US. The project aims to address the surging electricity demand from data centers. The companies already have more than 300 megawatts of capacity ready for immediate deployment in Virginia. They expect capacity to grow to at least 500 megawatts by 2030 as more home batteries and thermostats come online.

A NEW $500 MILLION FUND IS TRYING TO ELIMINATE THE COMMON COLD

Intercept is a project aimed at making respiratory infections like the common cold and flu a thing of the past. Launched on June 24, it will support research into the adoption of technologies like air filtration to remove pathogens from the air directly. The project has received $500 million in investments from a variety of sources, including Stripe and Anthropic. The funds will be used to back the development of treatments that could protect people from many viruses at once.

THE ROOMBA GUY'S SECOND ACT: A ROBOT YOU'LL WANT TO SNUGGLE

Colin Angle, who led iRobot for nearly three decades, has a new startup called Familiar Machines & Magic that is selling a robot designed to help people monitor their loved ones. The robot, called the Familiar, is an expressive, furry creature that can react to people's actions and feelings in an emotionally intelligent way. It is still in an early prototype stage, so there's no information about price or availability, but videos of the current iteration of the product are available in the article. The Familiar will use local small models to process requests and won't send any data to the cloud.

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WHAT I'M FINDING ABOUT LLM CODE STYLE AND TOKEN COSTS

Large language models will code from scratch unless you explicitly tell them about existing functionalities. They don't know to use existing code unless you tell them to. Letting them know what already exists can result in significant token savings. It can also help remove entire categories of security and reliability issues.

THE CASE FOR LANGUAGE-NATIVE SOFTWARE

Natural language is becoming an interface. Software is beginning to understand instructions in human language. Language-native software will accept intent in the language users already speak, translate it into structured operations, and execute them deterministically. This makes language the interface itself.

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THE CEO OF AWS ON WHY AMAZON IS HIRING 11,000 INTERNS AND JUNIOR EMPLOYEES

Amazon is increasingly in the business of selling software that does white-collar work. However, Matt Garman, the CEO of AWS, says he isn't worried about AI destroying a huge number of jobs. He believes that jobs might change, but they're not going away. This article features highlights from an interview with Garman where he discusses how technology changes work.

ANTHROPIC'S WHITE HOUSE NEGOTIATIONS ARE REPORTEDLY ON TRACK AFTER ‘WEIRDO' DARIO AMODEI WAS REPLACED

Dario Amodei was reportedly weird and hard to deal with during the negotiations between the White House and Anthropic. Talks are now on track now that his role in the discussions has been replaced by Tom Brown, another Anthropic co-founder. Brown's manner is warmer and more traditionally personable. He is working on the talks alongside Sarah Heck, Anthropic's Head of Public Policy, who is quite disciplined and cautious but comes across as enthusiastic and on-message.

STOP PROGRAMMING IN MARKDOWN

People are using LLMs inappropriately in situations where regular code would fare much better.

QUALCOMM LANDS META AS FIRST NAMED CUSTOMER FOR ITS DRAGONFLY DATA CENTRE CHIPS

The Dragonfly C1000 is a general-purpose server processor expected to be available in 2028.

AMAZON SELLER REVEALS RARE GLIMPSE OF SHADOW BRIBERY MARKET

Middlemen on messaging apps like Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp are offering access to people inside Amazon who can get things done for a price.

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WRITING LOOPS, NOT PROMPTS, EXPLAINED

Automate the parts of prompting that you keep repeating, and keep judgment close to the parts that matter.

STOP BUILDING CHATBOTS. BUILD AGENTS THAT OPEN PRS

PRs are an artifact that can be reviewed or rejected by a human.

I WROTE A 70X FASTER SQL PARSER WHILE BARELY LOOKING AT THE CODE

Lessons learned when rewriting PostHog's SQL parser using multiple Claude Code sessions running in parallel.

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JALAPEÑO: OPENAI'S NEW CHIP

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, the first accelerator in a planned family of LLM inference chips optimized for performance per watt and rapid deployment. The companies said the processor was designed in nine months with AI-assisted development and is intended for gigawatt-scale data center deployments.

GEMINI RESEARCHERS JOIN ANTHROPIC

Bloomberg reported that Gemini researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel left Google for Anthropic, continuing a wave of high-profile AI talent departures. The trend followed recent exits by Noam Shazeer and DeepMind director John Jumper amid increasing competition between leading AI companies.

INTRODUCING COMPUTER USE ON GEMINI 3.5 FLASH

Google launched native computer-use capabilities for Gemini 3.5 Flash, allowing the lightweight model to interact directly with digital desktop interfaces. The model processes continuous screenshots to execute click, scroll, and typing actions seamlessly across varied software environments.

NOTES ON AMAZON V. PERPLEXITY

Amazon is suing Perplexity for breaking the Amazon Store's Conditions of Use as Perplexity's Comet browser circumvents the requirement to clearly identify itself as an agent and instead identifies itself as Chrome. The idea that Perplexity's client needs to behave in a certain way goes against the basic principles of the open Web, which are about user control. The increased user agency of the open Web is what distinguishes it from downloadable apps. Sites have historically attempted all kinds of technical measures to prevent users from experiencing their content on their terms, but at the end of the day, the site is rendered on the client, so users mostly have the ability to download a client that renders the site in the way they prefer. Agentic browsing is just another browser feature that lets users engage with the Web on their terms.

GLM-5.2 IS THE STEP CHANGE FOR OPEN AGENTS

GLM-5.2 seemed like an incremental update, but the small change in benchmarks and training opened up a wide range of new use-cases. It feels right at home in coding harnesses as a general agent. Many in the AI community have praised the model after using it personally.

ACCELERATING TRANSFORMERS FINE-TUNING WITH NVIDIA NEMO AUTOMODEL

NVIDIA launched NeMo AutoModel on Hugging Face to optimize the fine-tuning pipelines of massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures like Qwen3 and DeepSeek V3. The framework introduces Expert Parallelism and DeepEP fused communication kernels to distribute specialized expert weights dynamically across GPU clusters. Benchmark results demonstrate up to a 3.7x increase in training throughput alongside a 32% reduction in peak GPU memory usage compared to native Transformers v5 libraries.

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TRIANGLE SPLATS FROM VIDEO DIFFUSION LATENTS

Google's FLAT introduces a feedforward method that decodes triangle splats directly from video diffusion latents, improving geometric accuracy over 3D Gaussian-based approaches.

QWEN-AGENTWORLD

Alibaba introduced Qwen-AgentWorld, a family of language world models trained on more than 10 million environment interaction trajectories to simulate agentic environments across multiple domains.

ORCA

Functions as an open-source Agent Development Environment designed to manage and orchestrate fleets of parallel coding agents simultaneously.

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AS AI COMPANIES RACE FOR POWER, AMAZON AND GOOGLE HAVE THE LEAD

Amazon has an incumbent advantage in the race for hyperscalers to get their hands on more electricity. It has been building tons of data centers over the past two decades. The company is expected to add the most data center and power capacity in the US through 2030. However, Google will have significantly closed its gap with Amazon by that time.

ANTHROPIC AND ALIBABA LAUNCH JOINT AI MODEL DISTILLATION CAMPAIGN

Anthropic and Alibaba have initiated a collaborative open-source framework focused on distilling advanced reasoning intelligence from frontier models into hyper-efficient edge models. The partnership leverages Anthropic's safety-alignment techniques alongside Alibaba's massive cloud infrastructure to compress compute footprints without severe capability degradation.

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FABLE 5 HAS NOW REPORTEDLY ALSO REAPPEARED IN AMAZON BEDROCK

Claude Code v2.2.190 introduces several string changes that hint at preparations for the return of Fable 5.

ANTHROPIC VETERANS' STARTUP SEEKS TO HELP SCIENTISTS DEVELOP THEIR OWN AI

Mirendil has raised $200 million in seed funding to make and distribute AI that accelerates AI research for everyone.