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Google has released an alpha version of its Google Trends API, which is designed to help researchers, journalists, and developers understand Search behaviors and patterns. Users will need to apply to get access. Data on the API goes back five years, and it includes daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly aggregations and geo restrictions. A video of the Google Trends API announcement is available.
Cognitive biases affect how we perceive time. Your actual productivity patterns, based on data, might actually surprise you. This post discusses how to optimize coding time with action steps and tools. Manual tracking often fails because it interrupts flow state - the key is finding a method that works automatically without adding friction to workflows.
Many studies seem to make GLP-1 therapies seem like holy water drawn from the fountain of youth, but the reality is that the final verdict on this medicine is still many years away. This article looks at whether GLP-1 drugs are really as good as they seem, how the drugs work, why they seem to be able to do everything, and whether everyone should be taking them. While the development of these drugs is exciting, the current side-effect profile isn't worth the risk for otherwise healthy patients.
Sean Goedecke wrote a post describing the kind of work he wanted in 2021 - this is a follow-up post on the type of work he wants now. Since 2021, the balance of power in tech has shifted away from engineers and towards tech companies. The biggest change in Goedecke's engineering values is that he no longer wants to work in a pure maintenance role on existing legacy systems. Overall, his 2021 and 2025 statements of values are fairly similar, despite changing a lot as an engineer over the years.
The Trump administration is willing to shut down TikTok if China doesn't approve of the sale of the platform.
Apple has released the first public beta versions of most of its next-generation operating systems.
vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the curl | bash pattern.
Starting August 25, all links in the shortened format will no longer work and return a 404 error message.
Google's search tool has proven surprisingly resilient to competition from AI companies that offer search capabilities.
Intel plans to refocus its strategy on the highly competitive market for AI chips.
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Which products should a user see when they search for “gaming computer”? The answer used to depend on CODE, a series of rule-based algorithms and calculations. With LLMs, we're entering an era where code matters less than CONTEXT [4].
Cursor's Bugbot is a coding safety net that automatically catches bugs and security vulnerabilities in pull requests before they reach production. Early users report over 50% resolution rates.
OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 as early as August as an AI system that incorporates distinct models for different functions, including the o3 model, as part of the company's broader effort to merge its o-series and GPT-series models into unified systems.
Google's Web Guide is a Search Labs feature that uses a Gemini-powered system to intelligently cluster search results into meaningful groups.
This post benchmarks Moonshot AI's Kimi K2, a low-cost open-source model optimized for agentic coding tasks, against Anthropic's Claude 4 Sonnet. The comparison covers code quality, performance, and pricing. Kimi K2 showed competitive results and a significant cost advantage.
Startups should allocate 10-15% of their R&D budget to AI, as engineer salaries average $200k and AI tools cost about $30k per year. AI adoption varies, with AI-native startups potentially spending more. Companies should adjust as AI becomes more integrated into operations.
AI technology will experience a profound jump in capabilities within the next decade. While some groups predict that AI adoption will be slow due to concerns about safety and other barriers to progress, the technology seems to be advancing very quickly. Control without alignment may not be sufficient to mitigate risk. Developers should prepare for risks that aren't immediate, as doing otherwise would be irresponsible.
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The latest update of Qwen-MT (qwen-mt-turbo) builds upon the powerful Qwen3, achieving significant improvements in translation accuracy and linguistic fluency. The updated model leverages trillions of multilingual and translation tokens to comprehensively enhance its multilingual understanding and translation capabilities. Its key features include multilingual support for 92 languages, high customizability, low latency, and cost efficiency. This post provides a quick start guide along with benchmark results.
Memories.ai is a research lab built by ex-Meta researchers to take on the challenge of true, persistent video understanding at any scale. It recently introduced an advanced memory system for video AI inspired by human memory. The system enables persistent Video Chat across entire archives. Memories.ai aims to become an indispensable tool for creators, marketers, researchers, and developers seeking to unlock the value hidden inside their video archives.
TimeScope is an open-source benchmark designed to test vision-language models on long videos by inserting short "needle" clips. It measures localized retrieval, information synthesis, and fine-grained temporal perception, showing that many top models still lack robust temporal understanding.
Completing the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) requires deep insight, creativity, and formal reasoning. Large language models usually struggle with Olympiad-level tasks, but Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro was able to complete five out of six problems correctly on the IMO 2025. The result shows how important it is to develop optimal strategies to harness the full potential of powerful models for complex reasoning tasks.
A thriving black market has moved over $1 billion worth of banned Nvidia B200 chips to China in just 3 months by routing shipments through Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and Thailand before final delivery. Chinese distributors are openly advertising ready-to-deploy server racks at 50% premiums and developing new routes through European countries as the US prepares to tighten controls on regional intermediaries.
This post discusses a three-layer framework for determining where the ROI for AI agents comes from. The first layer is labor efficiency - while this layer is easy to explain, developers need to understand that AI efficiency doesn't equal immediate realized ROI. The second layer is net-new revenue, the backlog of stuff businesses never did until AI that create new value. The final layer is optimization - AI models bring decision fluency and ML brings decision precision, which creates value.
Opal, Google Labs' new tool that helps users build and share AI mini-apps by linking together prompts, models, and tools while using simple, natural language, is now available in US-only public beta.
Google's AI Overviews now serve 2 billion monthly users across 200 countries, up from 1.5 billion in May, and the company's monthly token processing has doubled to 980 trillion tokens.
Prem Qu Nair, employee #2 at Windsurf, has joined Cognition to work on the future of software engineering
Ten fintech and crypto trade groups asked President Trump to stop JPMorgan from charging aggregators for consumer banking data access, calling it a “punitive tax” that could debank millions and slow stablecoin and self-custody wallet adoption. JPMorgan's fees could run ~$300M annually, or 75% of revenue, for Plaid, jeopardizing how users fund exchanges and wallets via services like Plaid and MX. The dispute centers on the CFPB's Rule 1033, which mandates free access to consumer data. Industry leaders, including Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi, warn this shift risks re-centralizing data access, arguing crypto offers an alternative.
BitMine Immersion now has more than 566,000 ETH (~$2.04B), making it the largest publicly traded Ethereum treasury holder. Backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Ark Invest, the firm's aggressive accumulation, aiming to control 5% of total supply, added ~$1B in ETH in just 10 days. This move escalates the corporate ETH arms race, outpacing SharpLink and fueling projections of a $20B institutional wave into Ethereum via treasuries and ETFs.
Optimistic rollups hinge on fraud proofs, but today's interactive bisection games are slow, costly, and vulnerable to griefing. MegaETH replaces that with non‑interactive ZK fraud proofs: a challenger submits a single zkVM proof that the proposed state is invalid, $100 only when fraud exists. The chain keeps a 7‑day detection window, yet once challenged, finality is restored in ~1 hour, and dishonest sequencers are slashed, eliminating stall attacks. EigenDA supplies the data needed to reconstruct blocks, ensuring anyone can verify and generate proofs, strengthening an efficient, scalable, onchain security model.
Binance has integrated Circle's tokenized money market fund, USYC, as off-exchange collateral for institutional derivatives trading, deepening the partnership between two of crypto's biggest players. USYC, comparable to BlackRock's BUIDL, offers yield exposure to U.S. Treasurys and near-instant convertibility with USDC, making it a capital-efficient bridge between tokenized dollars and real-world assets. The integration, which includes native issuance on BNB Chain, marks a major move for Circle's RWA strategy and comes shortly after its IPO and acquisition of tokenization startup Hashnote.
Tokenization has shifted from concept to inevitability this year, with over $24B in RWAs sitting on public chains with ~200 issuers including BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Siemens, and J.P. Morgan. Liquidity is migrating to programmable rails – Figure has processed $13B onchain, Ondo issued $1B in tokenized Treasuries and is adding equities, Robinhood's Stock Tokens were added on Arbitrum, and Coinbase's Base show fintechs racing to own sequencers and infrastructure. Most assets still grant transferability but not full shareholder rights, setting up a fight over governance and ownership. The tipping point will be when daily onchain equity volume tops $1B or tokenized equity AUM hits $100B. Regulatory clarity, app-specific chains, UX/compliance abstraction, and portable KYC layers are the catalysts for onchain becoming the default venue for capital formation, price discovery, and settlement.
Most DAOs falter because they lack clear goals, aligned incentives, and functional hierarchy. Token rewards and airdrops often optimize for short‑term or legal risk offloading rather than sustainable governance. For example, Compound drifted into mere treasury management after costly, low-delivery hires, while Aave retained strong team leadership, implemented revenue sharing/buybacks, and kept execution tight, and Lido's dual governance lets stETH holders delay/veto proposals at 1%/10% thresholds. Uniswap's split between DAO, Foundation, and Labs enabled $145M in UNI spending and triggered a delegate resignation, and Arbitrum's hybrid model funds outside managers as Offchain Labs' Timeboost has already sent $2M+ to the treasury. Emerging “BORGs” mix legal entities with automated, onchain processes, emphasizing the broader point that decentralization should be applied where it fits, not by default.
Felix's weekly points program currently awards ~2.5–2.8k USD per point, translating to an estimated 21-40% APY on the capital deployed, depending on assumptions around total point inflation and airdrop share. Even conservative models (<20% airdrop over 20 weeks) imply ~$11/point and a $120M token distribution, while more realistic scenarios (30% airdrop over 15 weeks) push that to ~$21/point and ~$180M total. Latecomer users farming ~94 points/week could net ~$5.9k–$8.8k in airdrops on a $60k position, before accounting for lending yields or referrals. Smaller portfolios (< $20k) may find the entry cost too high, but larger holders can lock in attractive yields and leverage Felix's broad integration with HyperEVM protocols.
Layer3 positions itself as the “Google + Duolingo” of Web3 by solving discovery and onboarding through narrative quests and CUBE NFTs that record onchain actions as portable reputation. Its $L3 token underpins a burn-to-launch model for projects, helping drive $16.5M in revenue split ~40%/60% between partners and users. Case studies like Ondo (92% of $1.04M TVL retained) and Jito (70% assets retained after a month) evidence high-quality engagement. Partnerships such as Robinhood's RWA rollout showcase Layer3 as an onboarding and education partner, while v3 evolves it into an “onchain OS” with a built-in wallet and AI-driven campaign automation. The main risk is incentive gaming, and ensuring CUBEs reflect genuine understanding rather than optimized farming.
Chris Larsen-linked wallets have transferred 50 million XRP (~$161M) since July 17, with ~$140M sent to exchange addresses, according to onchain sleuth ZachXBT.
Acctual has launched the Stablecoin Directory, a global hub of 240+ verified businesses that accept stablecoins across sectors like food, fashion, and finance.
The Celestia Foundation has acquired Polychain Capital's remaining 43.45 million TIA for $62.5 million and will reassign the tokens to new investors on a rolling unlock schedule from August 16 to November 14.
The value of tokenized real-world assets on Ethereum has passed $8 billion, driven by institutional adoption from asset managers like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and WisdomTree.
Google Photos announced new creative tools that transform static images into six-second videos and artistic remixes using AI technology. The photo-to-video feature, powered by Veo 2, rolls out today, while Remix transforms pictures into anime and comic styles. A new Create tab, arriving in August, will centralize all creative features, including safety measures such as digital watermarks.
Webflow has launched real-time collaboration in private beta, enabling entire website teams, including designers, developers, and marketers to work simultaneously on the same page without handoffs or delays. This feature streamlines workflows, reduces bottlenecks, and enables faster, more integrated project delivery, with updates syncing instantly and providing visibility into who is working on what.
Meta has developed a neural interface wristband that utilizes surface electromyography to detect electrical signals from muscle movements, enabling users to control computers without physical contact. This breakthrough challenges traditional wearable design by eliminating setup friction, enhancing accessibility, and introducing new interaction models that could influence the future of AR, computing, and health tech.
"Idea killers" are statements that prevent organizational change despite often containing poor logic. Common examples include "we tried that before" and "we don't do that here," typically said by those in positions of power. The solution involves preparing counterarguments and asking questions to examine the value of ideas rather than allowing dismissive statements.
As of June 28, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) made it legally mandatory for businesses selling in the EU to meet accessibility standards—or risk hefty fines from multiple member states. Beyond legal compliance, accessibility improves user experience, expands your potential customer base, and enhances product quality for everyone, making it a smart business decision, not just a moral one.
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