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NVIDIA SEEKS TO MAKE HUMANOID AI ROBOTS SAFER AROUND HUMANS

Nvidia has created a lab where robot makers and customers can run safety tests before going to regulators to receive the necessary certifications. Engineers at the lab can help with pre-inspection work and engineering tweaks as needed. Robot safety design is much more complicated than safety design for autonomous vehicles, which generally just involves avoiding contact with people and other objects. Robots need to be able to know what things they can or can't touch, move, or exert force on.

INSTAGRAM LOOKS TO TAKE ON STREAMING SERVICES WITH LONGER-FORM, EPISODIC, AND LIVE FORMATS FOR ITS TV APP

Instagram is experimenting with longer-form content, episodic series, and Live TV. It is testing a Series feature for Reels designed to make it easier to keep up with serialized content. Instagram's TV app is being rolled out to Samsung TVs. The app has received several new features, including channels, the ability to cast from a mobile device, and support for horizontal videos and stories.

SPACEX IS LAUNCHING A SECRET SPACECRAFT THAT COULD CHANGE HOW THINGS ARE MADE IN SPACE

SpaceX's Starfall is a reentry capsule that is capable of returning up to 2,200 pounds of payload from orbit. Its disk-shaped geometry maximizes structural efficiency and payload volume relative to mass. Starfall is designed to be mass-produced and launched on either Falcon 9 or Starship. SpaceX plans to launch the first flight of Starfall today from Space Launch Complex 40.

HOW TO WIN A SPACE WAR

Wars are now being fought in space. Russia is jamming GPS satellite receivers across most of Eastern Europe, Iran has launched hundreds of ballistic missiles through outer space, and China has openly contemplated destroying Starlink satellites. This post takes a practical look at the ways, means, and ends that are necessary to win a space war.

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THE OPTIMAL AMOUNT OF SLOP IS NON-ZERO

Software requires different levels of verification depending on its use case. Casual software has limited distribution and loose quality constraints. Business software needs to work, or organizations suffer losses. Acute software is mission-critical and merits the highest levels of scrutiny. The amount of permissible AI-slop decreases as the risks of the software failing increase.

YOU SHOULD USE AI FOR REVIEWING CODE ESPECIALLY WHEN THE DIFF IS HUGE

It's a mistake to use AI to nitpick a few lines of code here and there. LLMs now catch high-severity vulnerabilities, so individual line reviews aren't needed. A human code reviewer's role is now to transfer knowledge to the AI that it doesn't know. This workflow is best in places where each line of code isn't sacred.

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GOOGLE INVESTING IN ‘BACKROOMS' STUDIO A24

Google is investing in A24, the independent movie studio that released the hit, 'Backrooms'. The investment is part of a new AI research partnership between the two companies aimed at creating new tools for movie production and distribution. The multiyear, nonexclusive deal will likely involve the studio's roster of artists, but it won't give Google access to A24's data. A24 is already developing an application for AI-generated storyboards.

META IS 'PAUSING' EMPLOYEE TRACKING PROGRAM AFTER IT LET THE WHOLE COMPANY SEE SENSITIVE DATA

Meta has suspended its Model Capability Initiative, the AI training program that tracks its employees' key strokes and mouse movements. The program caused private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions to be made available to the entire Meta staff. Meta says there's no indication that the data was improperly accessed.

NEARLY HALF OF LG SMART TV APPS ARE LACED WITH PROXIES

Residential proxies are being embedded within screensavers, games, clocks, and novelty apps.

CLOUDFLARE TEAMS UP WITH CHROME, FIREFOX, AND EDGE ON A PRIVACY-FIRST ANTI-BOT PROTOCOL

PACT is an internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking users.

META'S WHATSAPP HEAD TO STEP DOWN, WILL BE REPLACED BY INDIAN FINTECH FOUNDER KUNAL SHAH

Kunal Shah founded Cred, a credit card payments platform that rewards users who pay their bills on time.

TRUMP SEEKS TO BOOST QUANTUM COMPUTING WITH NEW EXECUTIVE ORDERS

President Donald Trump has signed a pair of executive orders aimed at speeding up the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present.

AN AGENT CAPABILITY LIBRARY

An AI capability index lists the things agents can do, each with a short description of when to use it and a pointer to a doc that explains how.

WHY AMERICAN DATA CENTERS CAN'T PLUG IN

The US has the energy to power the AI infrastructure buildout, but grid operators are significantly backlogged.

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SPACEX SIGNS COMPUTING POWER DEAL WITH OPEN-SOURCE AI STARTUP REFLECTION WORTH UP TO $6.3 BILLION

SpaceX signed a deal worth up to $6.3 billion with Reflection AI for access to its supercomputer Project Colossus. This agreement allows Reflection to use Nvidia GB300s for training open-source AI models, reflecting a shift toward increased demand for compute power in AI development. SpaceX aims to capitalize on this by offering its infrastructure to outside AI companies, bolstering its position in the AI and data center space.

OPENAI LAUNCHES NEW SECURITY TOOLS AND UPDATES GPT-5.5-CYBER

OpenAI recently launched an updated Codex Security plugin, GPT-5.5-Cyber (in limited release), a Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, and an open source security initiative called Patch the Planet. Daybreak is a defensive cyber stack for the AI era. OpenAI is promoting Daybreak through a partner model rather than direct broad model access. It aims to embed GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber into existing security products and services while keeping access governed through partner systems.

ALIBABA'S AI VIDEO MODEL RISES TO NO. 2 IN GLOBAL RANKINGS, AS OPENAI'S SORA AND BYTEDANCE'S SEEDANCE FALL AWAY

Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.1 AI video generation model delivers production-ready video through an API built for integration into enterprise software stacks. It is now live on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio with a 40% sitewide launch discount for the first two weeks. HappyHorse supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and subject-to-video generation, as well as video editing. Its abilities cover the full spectrum of commercial video needs, from ideation through production to post-production.

GLM-5.2 RAISES THE BAR FOR OPEN MODELS

TheZvi examined GLM-5.2's capabilities and benchmark results, arguing it represents a significant improvement over previous open models. The analysis positioned it as one of the strongest openly available models while still trailing the leading frontier systems.

THE TEXT IN CLAUDE CODE'S “EXTENDED THINKING” OUTPUT IS NOT AUTHENTIC

Claude Code's 'Extended Thinking' reasoning is encrypted. Anthropic holds the key, and users' machines never receive it. The API returns a summary of the reasoning, and not the reasoning itself. Receiving the full thinking output requires an enterprise agreement.

MODEL SIZE SCALING IN 2023-2031

Targeting a particular speed of token generation puts a constraint on the total parameters of the model. If there isn't enough pretraining compute, models will remain smaller. This article looks at these considerations and estimates model sizes feasible for each year between 2023 and 2031. There are many assumptions that go into the estimates, which predict total parameters for models to reach 1.4 quadrillion in 2031.

KNOWLEDGE AGENTS: BEAT FRONTIER MODELS WITH BETTER STRUCTURE

Anthropic pulled its Mythos model, while the article's author developed smaller agentic models called "knowledge agents" to match larger frontier models. These agents enhance AI by injecting specific, relevant knowledge, performing well even with smaller models like Qwen 3.6 27B. The methodology involves embedding, structuring data, and multiple search passes, successfully augmenting LLMs for specialized queries and proprietary data.

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MOEBIUS

Moebius is a highly efficient lightweight inpainting framework. The 0.22B model rivals and even surpasses the generation quality of the 11.9B industrial generalist FLUX.1-Fill-Dev. It does this with an under 15x acceleration in total inference time. Moebius liberates real-world image inpainting and AI object removal from parameter bloat.

USING CODEX FOR LONG-RUNNING PROJECTS

This guide outlines strategies for treating Codex as a persistent workspace that can maintain context across extended projects. It covers workflow management, task decomposition, and techniques for balancing autonomous execution with human oversight.

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ANTHROPIC SAYS CLAUDE MAY WANT TO SEE YOUR ID

Anthropic may require identity verification in certain circumstances starting on July 8. The company has not provided specific examples of when users will be asked to provide government-issued documents. An Anthropic spokesperson claims that the change will only apply to a small subset of users whose accounts are flagged but not outright banned. Anthropic uses Persona as its identity-checking provider.

LOOP ENGINEERING CLEARLY EXPLAINED

Loop engineering shifts AI development from manually prompting agents to designing autonomous systems that decide what to work on, execute tasks, verify outcomes, and improve over time. The core agent loop is simple, but the hard problems are defining reliable stopping conditions, preventing context rot, designing agent-friendly tools, and building verification mechanisms that can independently judge success.

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ANTHROPIC PREPARES COWORK SUPPORT FOR MOBILE APPS

Anthropic plans to expand its Cowork system to mobile apps, enabling task scheduling and viewing across devices.

TENCENT TESTS AI ASSISTANT IN CHINA'S MOST POPULAR APP AS IT LOOKS TO CATCH UP WITH RIVALS

Tencent is testing Xiaowei, an AI assistant, within WeChat to enhance user interaction and challenge AI competitors like Alibaba in China.

JOHN TERNUS SET TO RE-ESTABLISH IMPORTANCE OF APPLE'S DESIGN TEAM WHEN HE TAKES OVER AS CEO

Apple is reportedly preparing for a shift back toward design-led product development under incoming CEO John Ternus, after years in which operations and finance gained greater influence following the departure of Jony Ive. Ternus has been working closely with Apple's industrial design team and wants to restore its authority, reflecting a philosophy closer to the era when design played a dominant role in shaping Apple's products. He is expected to become the public face of major hardware launches, including Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, and has emphasized that Apple products should remain among the most beautifully designed items customers own.

WHATSAPP IS ROLLING OUT A NEW MESSAGE ANIMATION ON IOS

WhatsApp is testing a redesigned message animation for iOS that makes sent and received messages smoothly fade and scale into view instead of appearing instantly. The feature, currently available to some beta testers, includes a new toggle in Settings → Chats → Animations, allowing users to enable or disable message animations for the first time on iPhone, bringing the iOS experience more in line with Android.

WORLD MODEL MAKER ODYSSEY NABS $1.45B VALUATION BACKED BY AMAZON AND OTHER BIG NAMES

Odyssey, an AI world model startup co-founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, raised a $310M Series B at a $1.45B valuation, with backers including Amazon, AMD Ventures, and GV. Founded in 2023, the company builds world models for use cases ranging from video game creation to robotics, collecting real-world physical data through camera-equipped people rather than vehicles. The Amazon partnership designates AWS as Odyssey's preferred cloud provider, with model optimization planned for AWS's Trainium chips.

VIBE ARCHITECTS: AGENTIC VIBE CODERS

Non-developers are building complex agentic AI systems relying on intuition honed through extensive trial-and-error, YouTube, and Reddit rather than technical knowledge. A study of seven such "vibe architects" found that despite hundreds of hours invested, deep opacity persists: participants delegated decisions to Claude with minimal oversight, held inaccurate mental models, and dealt with systems that decayed over weeks. The research concludes that raw capability isn't enough to unlock this market — without clearer onboarding and usable entry points, the tools will continue to favor only those already close enough to the technology to figure it out alone.

WHAT IS SKILL.MD, AND WHY SHOULD WEB DESIGNERS CARE?

SKILL.md files are structured instruction sets that teach AI coding agents how to perform specific tasks according to professional standards — closing the gap between raw AI output and production-quality work. Unlike one-off prompts, skills are durable, versioned, and shareable across teams, encoding judgment like preferring CSS Grid, using design tokens, and enforcing accessibility checks. Web designers should take notice because AI without clear guidance drifts from established standards, and SKILL.md is a practical way to define them once and apply them consistently.

THE T-SHAPED UX PROFESSIONAL IS GIVING WAY TO THE POLYMATH ARCHITECT

AI is reducing the value of narrow specialization by making it easier for individuals to perform work that once required multiple specialists, shifting demand toward professionals who can oversee entire workflows and combine broad capabilities with strong judgment. While deep expertise remains important for evaluating quality, making decisions, and spotting mistakes, the most valuable people will increasingly be those who can work across disciplines, direct AI tools effectively, and focus on outcomes rather than a single role or craft.

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES, SCREEN CAPTURE, AND SOPS

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TURN PHOTOS INTO LIVING MOMENTS

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