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OPENAI'S CODEX HARDWARE

OpenAI's Codex Micro gadget is currently being displayed at the AI Engineer World Fair. A picture of the device is available in the article. The device is a keyboard designed to supercharge Codex usage. It was developed through a partnership between OpenAI and accessories company Work Louder.

A20 PRO LEAK SHOWS HOW IPHONE 18 PRO WILL RUN FASTER AND COOLER

A supposed image of the motherboard used in the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max was leaked over the weekend. The new design will make the A20 a very powerful and thoroughly thermally-managed chip and help Apple save some production costs. The overall size of the chip is roughly the same as the A19 Pro's footprint. There are also memory and NPU upgrades that will improve overall bandwidth and AI performance.

FROM BRAIN WAVES TO WORDS: BRAIN2QWERTY OFFERS A NEW PATH TO COMMUNICATION WITHOUT SURGERY

Brain2Qwerty v2 is a model capable of real-time sentence decoding from non-invasive brain recordings. The model was trained on approximately 22,000 sentences from nine volunteer participants, who each recorded for 10 hours while wearing a magnetoencephalography device and actively typing. The model achieves a word accuracy rate of 61%, which is significantly higher than the 8% word accuracy from other non-invasive methods. The full training code for v1 and v2 and the v1 dataset have been released on Hugging Face.

ROCKET LAB BUYS SATELLITE OPERATOR IRIDIUM IN BID TO CHALLENGE SPACEX

Rocket Lab is purchasing Iridium Communications to compete with SpaceX's satellite offerings. The deal will give Rocket Lab control over a satellite fleet and access to wireless resources. Iridium currently operates 66 satellites in low-Earth orbit. It has valuable spectrum rights to connect handsets and other devices to satellites. Rocket Lab plans to develop an upgraded fleet of satellites that will replace Iridium's current constellation.

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“IT'S HARD TO EVAL” IS A PRODUCT SMELL

Evals thinking is aligned with good product design. Gathering sporting data and breaking down workflows into smaller units makes automated grading easier. This post covers well-established design principles through the lens of the age of AI. Verification typically happens incidentally during the process of creating work product, but with AI, verification is the bottleneck.

APPLE DESIGN AWARD WINNER ACQUIRED BY APPLE FOR NEW SWIFT TOOLS

Apple has acquired Rabbit 3 Times, the company that made Play, a visual Swift development tool that won the Apple Design award for innovation. The acquisition appears to be aimed at asset stripping the company. Apple may be incorporating Play into its Apple Creator Studio, but for now, it appears the app is gone. Rabbit 3 Times' website has also been taken down.

TECHNOLOGICAL INVOLUTION

It appears we are approaching the upper bound of what's possible under human conception. Technology has stagnated as capitalism is no longer putting pressure towards innovation. Companies have started treating the populace as something to be mined. People with a deep belief in their ability to just do things have the power to change this trend. If the idea you're chasing is good enough, it will spread.

IN SAN FRANCISCO, EVEN $180,000 TECH SALARIES ARE NO LONGER ENOUGH

Young tech workers chasing the Silicon Valley dream have started to say that an affordable future feels increasingly out of reach. Property, utility, transportation, and grocery costs have risen significantly. A new class of AI elite has emerged that can outspend other tech workers. OpenAI's, Anthropic's, and SpaceX's IPOs combined could mint more than 20 new billionaires among current and former employees.

INSIDE CONSULTANTS' MESSY SHIFT FROM HOURLY BILLING

The traditional model of billing for human time may no longer work as AI grows.

YOU MIGHT NOT NEED… A SERVICE WORKER

There are a few things that only a service worker can do, but they're not the best solution for most situations.

QWEN 3.6 27B IS THE SWEET SPOT FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

By the standards of current frontier models, it's unremarkable, but it does the job.

AMAZON SEEKS CHEAPER AI ALTERNATIVES AS ANTHROPIC SHIFTS TO TOKEN-BASED PRICING

A renegotiated contract between Amazon and Anthropic will shift Anthropic billing to per-token pricing, which could substantially increase Amazon's costs.

REBUILDING THE COMPUTER ROOM

The computer room disappeared because we wanted more convenience, more ease, and less friction in our computing lives, but that friction isn't always a bad thing.

THE ECONOMY OF TOKENS

The appearance of stable interfaces is enabling specialization, independent innovation, and a modular re-organization of the AI ecosystem.

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SPACEX PLANS TO LAUNCH STARLINK MOBILE SERVICE IN THE US

SpaceX plans to launch a new Starlink mobile service for customers in the US. The company is considering building its own terrestrial mobile network in the country. The new retail offering would put SpaceX in direct competition with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Some analysts say that the idea may be a gamble to extract better deals from the company's telecom partners, as it would cost billions of dollars to roll out the required infrastructure.

ZUCKERBERG URGES META TO EXPLORE WORKING WITH POLYMARKET AND KALSHI

Meta is building an app that allows people to make bets on practically anything, similar to Polymarket and Kalshi. Arena, which is now a top priority within Meta, will use points instead of real money and is aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds. The company is now actively trying to form partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi, but it is unclear what kind of arrangement Meta is seeking. If released, Arena will be a stand-alone app, but Meta eventually plans to integrate parts of it into Facebook and Messenger.

WHY THE WEST STOPPED MAKING LAND

Around 8% of the land in the major coastal cities in the US was underwater in the 1890s. Some cities, like Boston and Charleston, have doubled in size by reclaiming land. The demand for land is now higher than ever, but the country has virtually ceased to reclaim any at all. Regulations introduced in the 1970s made it enormously expensive to reshape the landscape. Lifting these legal barriers could mean hundreds of thousands of new homes near the centers of the country's most valuable cities.

APPLE AND AUDI ALUMNI HAVE MADE A LUXE EV BASED ON THE MOON BUGGY

Amble, a European electric car company, has released a $25,000 electric buggy designed for places where a normal car feels out of place. The Amble One has a range of more than 60 miles with a top speed capped at 40 miles per hour. It takes five hours to charge the vehicle from any standard home socket. The vehicle weighs under 450 kilograms, which allows it to drive on public roads in Europe without being treated as a car.

USING LOCAL CODING AGENTS

A local setup is a viable alternative to using proprietary services for many coding workflows. Running agents locally makes them transparent, inspectable, and free to run apart from hardware and electricity costs. This tutorial walks readers through how to set up a production-ready coding agent with a fully local stack. The agent uses a locally served LLM with a coding harness that allows it to read files, make edits, run commands, and verify changes.

FINTECH ENGINEERING HANDBOOK

This handbook describes the most important patterns used in software engineering when money is the primary focus of the system. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding for people entering fintech, those already in it, and those outside the industry. The guide follows three principles: no invented data, no lost data, and no trust. Money can't be created out of nowhere, everything that happens to money has to be tracked and persisted, and everything must be verified.

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INTEL'S CHIP BUSINESS SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLE

Intel was flailing until the US government intervened and took a 10% stake in the company last summer. The company is now showing signs of a turnaround, with its value having more than tripled. Intel has since added big customers like Nvidia and Apple. The AI boom has reshaped the chip market and benefited Intel greatly.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ROLLS BACK PART OF ANTHROPIC MODEL BAN

Anthropic is now allowed to serve its Mythos 5 model to trusted companies and government partners. Fable 5 remains restricted and restrictions on Mythos 5 still apply to entities that aren't trusted partners. The US government is racing to implement an executive order recently signed that gives federal cybersecurity officials a say in AI model evaluation. The industry is in limbo and will have to react to case-by-case decisions by the administration until the order is implemented and standards are in place.

AI IS MAKING SILICON VALLEY PRODUCTIVE, ANXIOUS, AND AFRAID TO LOG OFF

People using AI agents are working longer hours than before due to anxieties about how AI might advance without them if they log off.

GOOGLE IS RATIONING GEMINI ACCESS TO META BECAUSE IT CANNOT PROVIDE ENOUGH COMPUTE

Meta has told staff to use AI tokens more efficiently and shift to using the company's own Muse Spark model.

AGENTICS/TECH THINGS: TOKENMAXXING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE TOKENMAXXING

Tokenmaxxing the top labs will never stand up to any amount of CFO scrutiny, but using open models may shift the cost-benefit equation.

AN “INFOVORE” SHARES HIS CHATS

Tyler Cowen is a polymath who uses ChatGPT to pursue his endless curiosity.

DEFINING TASTE

Taste is the ability to consistently make high-quality qualitative judgments where no objective metric exists.

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER 2,000 PEOPLE TRIED TO HACK MY AI ASSISTANT

Prompt injections are still a real security problem, but defenses are getting better.

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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.