The Android Earthquake Alert system, which is on by default in most Android phones, displays a notification to users when there is an earthquake nearby to warn them to get to a safer location. The system uses accelerometers to detect vibrations - an alert is triggered when there is widespread phone activity that matches the pattern expected for an earthquake. As of the end of March last year, the system has sensed a total of 1,279 events, ranging in magnitude from 1.9 to 7.8, of which only three were false positives.
Under the agreement, Uber will invest $300 million in Lucid, an electric vehicle maker, and Nuro, an autonomous vehicle startup, will develop self-driving technology that Lucid will use to supply Uber with robotaxis over the course of the deal and receive a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment.
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ChatGPT Agent combines Operator's web browsing with Deep Research's analysis capabilities, using its own virtual computer to handle multi-step tasks like calendar management, competitive analysis, and slideshow creation.
Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits since Monday morning, particularly among heavy users of the service. There was no announcement about any change in limits, so many users have concluded that their subscription was downgraded or their usage is being inaccurately tracked. Anthropic has acknowledged the issue but declined to elaborate further. Anthropic's pricing system sets tiered limits without ever guaranteeing a set level of access, leaving users unable to plan around usage limits.
Shopify bought 3,000 Cursor licenses with unlimited token spending after getting legal teams to default to "yes" on AI tools, then built an internal LLM proxy with MCPs connecting every data source. Non-technical sales reps now build performance auditing tools in Cursor, while a sales engineer runs his entire workflow through a dashboard that pulls real-time context from Salesforce, Slack, and GSuite without opening those apps.
AI systems, including LLMs, require extensive infrastructure, data management, and operational complexity, contrary to their initial promise of simplicity. To manage costs and complexity, deterministic software and ML models become necessary for tasks like tool selection and system monitoring. This parallels earlier ML systems, revealing hidden technical debt and the complexity beneath the "AI magic box."
Hugging Face's FutureBench is a benchmark for testing AI agents on their ability to predict future events across domains like science, geopolitics, and technology.
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Vercel has launched the AI Cloud, a platform designed to simplify AI app development by integrating AI-first tools like AI SDK and AI Gateway for flexible and secure execution. Fluid compute optimizes AI workloads by managing idle times and bursts efficiently, reducing costs significantly. The platform also introduces Vercel BotID for securing critical routes and Vercel Sandbox for safely running untrusted code, driving the shift into the agentic era of web development.
A new implementation of attention (“Power” attention) allows independent control of state size through a hyperparameter p, solving the challenge of balancing computational costs for long-context training. This mechanism outperforms standard attention on long sequences and allows custom GPU kernels that are 8.6x faster than Flash Attention at 64k context.
The Weighted Perplexity Benchmark offers a tokenizer-normalized evaluation method to compare language models effectively. It adjusts perplexity scores, considering differences in tokenization, to provide a fairer comparison across models. This approach enhances the accuracy of assessing NLP performance.
Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete in the next phase of AI adoption. It is rapidly adding millions of users in the world's second-largest internet and smartphone market. Perplexity has partnered with Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, to offer a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription to all 360 million subscribers. While the company has seen major growth in the country, monetizing its large user base remains a challenge.
Meta has acquired Mark Lee and Tom Gunter from the Apple Foundation Models team. Lee was Ruoming Pang's first hire at Apple, and Gunter was a distinguished engineer at Apple with an eight-year tenure. Meta recently poached Pang with a $200 million sign-on bonus. The company has been on an aggressive hiring spree, pulling top AI talent from across the industry.
The deep research mode breaks down complex questions, gathers sources from the web, and builds structured reports, while the new Voxtral-powered voice mode enables audio-in.
After classifying ChatGPT Agent as high bio/chemical risk, OpenAI launched a program to pay $25,000 to the first researcher to submit a universal jailbreak that answers all 10 challenge questions.
Tether's USDT has hit a record $160 billion market cap driven by increased adoption in developing countries and high profits from U.S. Treasury holdings, which now exceed $127 billion. CEO Paolo Ardoino called the milestone a testament to USDT's role as the “digital dollar,” especially on Tron, where ~$81 billion of the stablecoin circulates because of its lower fees and faster transactions. While analysts predict Circle's USDC will gain regulatory advantages under the GENIUS Act, Tether is expected to maintain dominance with 65% market share, supported by aggressive expansion into AI, telecom, and Bitcoin mining. Ardoino claims it will be the world's largest operator by 2025.
Bitcoin is trading at approximately $118,000, about 5% below its all-time high. Onchain data reveals unified accumulation across all wallet cohorts, from retail shrimps (<1 BTC) to institutional whales (>10,000 BTC), all registering Accumulation Trend Scores of 1, indicating aggressive buying pressure last seen in November 2024 and May 2025. Small to medium-sized holders alone are accumulating 19,300 BTC per month, significantly outpacing the 13,400 BTC monthly issuance rate and absorbing over 100% of new supply. This widespread accumulation pattern across every wallet size creates a supply squeeze effect, as retail and mid-sized investors alone are removing more Bitcoin from circulation than miners are producing.
Gauntlet has launched live USDC incentives on its USD Alpha vault (gtUSDa), which has grown to $5.7 million and currently yields 11.96% APY, with rewards streamed non-custodially via Sablier and claimable any time. The firm's USDC-denominated vaults now total $355 million – 3.4% of onchain USDC yield opportunities and 0.6% of circulating supply. Designed for institutional use cases like wallet earn programs, fund treasury optimization, and stablecoin merchant settlement, these incentives aim to balance attracting supply without fostering mercenary flows. Gauntlet plans to expand its strategy set in the coming weeks to capture a broader array of onchain yield opportunities.
Palantíri introduces a dynamic AMM that blends LMSR's bounded-loss pricing with adaptive liquidity inspired by PM-AMM using a time-varying function b(t) that grows with trading volume and gently decays as events near resolution. It incorporates a certainty throttle to protect LPs when probabilities approach 0 or 1, alongside fee mechanics and slippage guards to ensure fair compensation and stable pricing. By treating b(t) like a “smart thermostat,” the market deepens as interest rises and cools off before close, offering both scalability and risk control. Ongoing work will explore LP withdrawal methods, auto-compounding strategies, dispute resolution layers, customized time-decay profiles, and stress-testing with realistic trader behaviors.
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Uptrends are defined by higher highs and higher lows, best supported with exponential moving averages (EMAs),volume-weighted average pricing (VWAPs), and crossovers on higher timeframes for confirmation. Ranging markets dominate 80% of the time, so traders should avoid overtrading, mark key support/resistance, and watch for low volatility with volume to anticipate breakouts. Downtrends follow lower highs and lower lows, with ideal entries near high-probability zones like prior points of control (POCs). Regardless of structure, most profits come from catching the bulk of a move, not the bottom, and waiting is often the best trade.
Fusaka will ramp Ethereum's data availability capacity to 48 blobs per block via PeerDAS and BPO hardforks, building on EIP-4844's blob transactions and Pectra's doubled blob target. Base engineers teamed up with OP Labs, Test in Prod, and Soneium to unblock PeerDAS, optimize client implementations, and validate scaling through devnet tests. Their work, spanning spec authorship, performance improvements, and expanded test coverage, accelerates higher-throughput rollups by enabling beacon nodes to sample blob data rather than ingest it all. This L2–L1 collaboration invites more developers to join working groups and contribute to Fusaka and future Ethereum upgrades.
Stablecoins are blockchain‐based tokens pegged 1:1 to fiat that unlock instant, low‐cost, borderless payments, which is transformative for users in unstable economies or cross-border workers but less obvious to U.S. wage earners. Their value is often obscured by a lingering “regulatory loophole” stigma, even as they bolster US soft power abroad and serve as the rails of an “informal economy 2.0.” Institutions eye them for 24/7 settlement and cost savings, yet face a minefield of compliance, accounting, fraud detection, and tax challenges that require mature infrastructure. More than a crypto novelty, stablecoins embody both grassroots financial innovation and the top-down evolution of money, policy, and power.
“DeFi will win” was intentionally crafted as a three-word slogan to cut through jargon and create an instantly memorable rallying cry. Unlike traditional finance, which has mastered propaganda, DeFi projects too often neglect storytelling and must adopt concise, human-centered messaging to drive adoption. Drawing parallels to iconic campaigns like “Just Do It,” this slogan highlights how simple, rhythmic phrases tap into mass psychology and build movements. Winning the future of finance depends on the systematic application of communication principles, not just superior technology.
ETH ETFs recorded a massive $726.6 million net inflow on July 16 led by BlackRock ($499.2M) and Fidelity ($113.3M), with Grayscale's ETHE adding another $54.2M.
Monthly total payment volumes for crypto payments startups are scaling fast from $10M to $100M, making it harder for VCs to distinguish good from great companies.
Apple has redesigned its TV app for iOS 26 and tvOS 26, introducing a new Liquid Glass aesthetic that enhances buttons, menus, and player controls with a more transparent, immersive look. The update also brings vertical, theatrical-style poster art, improved content density to show more titles on-screen, and a refreshed app icon. These changes aim to improve both the visual appeal and functionality of the app ahead of major Apple TV+ content releases this fall.
The Association of Illustrators has unveiled the World Illustration Awards 2025 shortlist. Featuring 200 standout projects selected from over 4,700 global submissions, the shortlist spans diverse categories including Editorial, Children's Books, Science & Technology, and Site Specific, showcasing contemporary illustration talent with judges praising innovation and technical brilliance. Winners across categories, with recognition for both New Talent and Professional entries, will be announced during a live broadcast on September 16.
IPG Studios is establishing over 20 AI-powered graphic design studios called Sketch Pro within Unilever offices globally, aiming for 21 locations by 2026. These studios will create content for Unilever's home care brands using AI tools, such as Adobe Firefly, delivering assets up to three times faster than traditional methods. Unilever emphasizes that AI will work alongside human designers rather than replace them, with Sketch Pro handling execution while external agencies focus on strategic creative work.
Comprehensive resources and strategies for UX job interview preparation include practical guides, templates, and strategic question lists to help candidates prepare effectively. Key recommendations emphasize telling impactful stories about the business value of design work, asking strategic questions about team challenges and company direction, and using the STAR method when presenting examples. Rejection often reflects company circumstances rather than candidate shortcomings, encouraging persistence in the job search process.
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A 2010 Harvard study found that people experience greater happiness when focusing on current activities rather than letting their minds wander to other possibilities. This principle applies strongly to high-potential tech professionals who suffer from constant career optionality, mentally living in alternate career timelines instead of committing to their present roles. The research suggests that being present and committed to one's current career path generates more satisfaction than continually evaluating imaginary alternatives, even when those alternatives seem more appealing.
GeneralPublic Studio crafted a visual identity for Apoticari that blends traditional apothecary aesthetics with a modern sensibility. Drawing on the Hôtel-Dieu's heritage of botanical care for pilgrims, the design combines expressive and neutral typography, custom plant illustrations, disciplined layouts, and natural-toned materials to create packaging that feels both authentic and contemporary.
A mockup generator that helps designers create beautiful app icon mockups and showcase their app icons on the iPhone 16 Pro with iOS 26 home screen and wallpapers.