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'Baba is You' is a puzzle game where the rules have to be manipulated to win. The level of abstraction required to solve most levels makes it a formidable reasoning benchmark. This study looks at how large language models fare in playing the game. At the moment, Claude 4 is pretty bad at playing the game - a reasoning model may be better equipped to play, so the next step in the study may be to test those models.
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There's a lot of excitement about what AI can do, but many of the conversations about the technology are so abstract that they border on meaningless. This post attempts to concisely summarize how AI agents work. It looks at a handful of real-world use cases for the technology. AI agents are a multiplier on software quality and system design. If software or systems are poorly designed, agents will only cause harm.
Sakana AI's TreeQuest uses Multi-LLM AB-MCTS to combine multiple LLMs. Achieving a 30% performance boost over individual models, this technique leverages the unique strengths of different models through Adaptive Branching Monte Carlo Tree Search, dynamically assigning the optimal model for each task. Available as an open-source tool, TreeQuest allows businesses to apply this approach to complex problems, enhancing AI capabilities and reducing hallucination risks.
A framework for building collaborative multi-agent AI systems that can plan, delegate, and work together to solve complex tasks.
It's hard to get normal humanlike labor out of LLMs because they lack some fundamental capabilities. They don't get better over time, and this lack of continual learning is a huge problem. There's no way to give models human-level feedback, so users are stuck with the abilities they have out of the box. Messing around with system prompts doesn't produce anything close to the kind of learning and improvement that human employees experience. Humans are able to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task.
The Independent Publishers Alliance filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Google's AI Overviews misuse web content and have led to traffic and revenue loss for publishers.
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xAI's next data centers are expected to house millions of AI chips.
24-year-old German firm TNG Technology Consulting GmbH's DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera delivers a notable boost in efficiency and speed while using significantly fewer output tokens.
This post looks at NFDG's portfolio, advisory board, performance, success factors, and more.
CentML makes software that operates between users' AI models and the chips powering them, making the systems run better.
Grok 4 (grok-4-0629) offers unparalleled performance in natural language, math, and reasoning.
Researchers are embedding hidden AI prompts in academic papers on arXiv to influence peer reviews positively.
Bitcoin's implied volatility and monthly transactions have dropped to their lowest levels since October 2023, signaling a cooldown in onchain activity. June saw a 15% decline in transactions month-over-month, with miners picking up low-fee transactions buried in the mempool. Despite the lull, demand from U.S. spot ETFs has surged, with cumulative net inflows nearing $50 billion and holdings topping $137.6 billion. Public companies also added 65,000 BTC in June, underscoring a shift toward institutional dominance amid retail apathy.
EthCC in Cannes highlighted Ethereum's transition into institutional finance rails, with firms like BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Coinbase, Kraken, and Robinhood announcing tokenization and trading infrastructure built on Ethereum and its Layer 2 solutions. Robinhood became the first public US company to offer tokenized stocks via Arbitrum, while Deutsche Bank unveiled plans for a zkSync-based tokenization platform, and Coinbase and Kraken filed with regulators for onchain equities offerings. ETH gained nearly 6% on the week as companies like BitMine and Bit Digital shifted treasury reserves into ETH, and ether ETFs recorded back-to-back inflows, underpinned by stablecoin settlement dominance on Ethereum. Ethereum's decade-long uptime, security, and neutrality are now its core selling points for institutions seeking programmable, reliable finance infrastructure.
Lido DAO launched a dual governance system that grants stETH holders veto rights over protocol decisions. Holders representing at least 1% of total staked ETH can delay proposals for five days by staking stETH into an escrow contract. If dissent reaches 10% of staked ETH, the DAO enters “rage-quit” mode, freezing new proposals until conflicts are resolved. This design introduces an onchain check-and-balance to safeguard liquid stakers against potentially adverse governance actions.
The GENIUS Act has catalyzed a new wave of global stablecoin adoption by turning regulatory clarity into a tailwind. Major players like Stripe, PayPal, and Walmart are building on compliant infrastructure, while Fireblocks reports that 86% of firms already have stablecoin systems in place. Stablecoins are now powering payments, onchain FX, RWA strategies, and yield markets, with protocols like Cap, Gauntlet, and Perena aggregating fragmented DeFi opportunities. With 99%+ of onchain FX volume in USD stables and compliance tools maturing fast, stablecoins are evolving into programmable financial infrastructure for the mainstream.
Effective bet sizing balances maximizing gains when a thesis is correct and minimizing losses when it isn't, making it one of the most impactful skills in trading. Stanley Druckenmiller's 1992 decision to double Quantum Fund's entire position against the pound at George Soros's urging exemplifies conviction in asymmetric opportunities. Clear entry triggers and decisive sizing can yield outsized returns. Consistent risk management, with predefined invalidation points and strict cut-loss rules, is essential to prevent catastrophic drawdowns and preserve capital for future high-conviction trades.
Celestia is being unfairly scapegoated despite sharing the same -90% chart, tokenomics, and VC dumping behavior as countless other projects. Polychain's aggressive selling has crushed the price, yet the backlash is harsher due to outsized early hype, slow adoption, and underwater airdrop participants. Celestia's core tech remains a rare “zero to one” innovation that's more robust now than when TIA traded at $20.
DKING has secured $300 million from a top sports-betting hedge fund to deploy via its autonomous Meta-Model, which dynamically trades global football markets using real-time data and institutional risk frameworks. Profits flow back into $DKING buybacks, aligning hedge fund alpha with protocol growth. As sports betting evolves into an institutional asset class, DKING is building the on-chain infrastructure to make that edge accessible to everyone.
The U.S. Secret Service's Global Investigative Operations Center has seized nearly $400M in crypto from criminals, with $225M recovered in June (largest in its history).
TON has launched a crypto-native path to UAE residency, offering a 10-year Golden Visa for $100K in staked TON and a $35K fee, slashing the typical entry cost by 80%.
EIP-7983 would cap Ethereum transaction gas at 16.77 million to reduce DoS risk, improve performance for zkVMs, and better balance block resource use.
A wallet consolidating 180 block rewards (9k BTC) from 2011 has sparked speculation that a long-dormant miner is active again.
Ferrari lost a trademark dispute with Malaysian energy drink brand Wee Power over the use of horse imagery in its logos. The High Court ruled that Wee Power's design, which features two red horses facing each other with a 'W' background, didn't infringe Ferrari's prancing horse trademark. Ferrari was ordered to pay legal costs but has filed an appeal at the KL High Court.
Leaked hands-on images of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 suggest a noticeably slimmer and more refined design, with a chassis around 4.5mm thick when open, making it sleeker than its predecessor and more competitive with rival foldables. The camera array has also been redesigned. It now features slim silver rings, instead of the bulky black ones on the Z Fold 6, and has a bold new “Blue Shadow” color. An EU label leak indicates the device will retain similar battery life. Full details are expected at Samsung's Unpacked event on July 9th.
Lovable, a fast-growing Swedish AI startup focused on building web apps from text prompts, is reportedly raising over $150 million at a near $2 billion valuation, just months after a $15 million pre-Series A round. The company, founded in 2023, has quickly scaled to $50 million in annual recurring revenue within six months of launching its product, drawing comparisons to competitors like Replit and Bolt. Lovable recently launched a beta AI agent for automated code editing and debugging, adopting a usage-based pricing model aligned with industry trends and investor expectations.
Traditional marketing and storytelling have lost their effectiveness as power has shifted from brands to consumers through the rise of short-form video and creator culture. "Trustnomics" is a four-step framework where trust becomes the essential currency for brand growth in an era of indistinguishable real and AI content. This approach emphasizes identifying key product moments, treating products as content, building repeatable systems over scalable campaigns, and operating through a trust-focused flywheel rather than traditional marketing funnels.
Data tables in enterprise applications require careful design to help users scan, understand, and manipulate structured information effectively. Key design practices include proper content alignment (left for text, right for numbers, and center for icons), clear visual contrast with bold headers and subtle row separators, and essential functionality such as sorting, filtering, and pagination for large datasets. Advanced features, including column resizing, show/hide options, drag-and-drop reordering, hover states, bulk actions, horizontal scrolling, proper link styling, and inline editing with error handling, enhance usability and give users control over their data viewing experience.
The ongoing debate over design titles, reignited by Shopify's decision to drop specialist roles, reflects a deeper issue: the design community's tendency to create false dichotomies that fragment rather than advance the discipline. In an era shaped by AI, the future of design depends not on defending labels, but on embracing design as an integrative, cross-disciplinary practice rooted in synthesis, adaptability, and human-centered problem solving.
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Decofy is an AI-powered home design platform that helps you virtually decorate your space. It takes a photo of your room and instantly generates a professionally designed look with real furniture and decor.
Transform your ordinary screenshots into eye-catching visuals that make your message stand out.
Figma Make is a generative AI tool that converts prompts and screenshots into functional code aimed at streamlining designer-developer workflows. Despite being buggy and limited in its current state, the tool shows potential for enabling faster prototyping, seamless handoffs, and allowing designers to fix minor bugs themselves, though it currently makes unwanted design decisions without user input. While AI integration may blur the lines between design and development roles, designers must remain responsible for final decisions and avoid the risk of design homogenization.
Apple rigorously tests its devices across four categories—environmental, water, impact, and vibration—to ensure durability in real-world conditions. It runs thousands of trials, including exposure to salt, sweat, and sand, as well as drops on various surfaces and vibrations from motorcycles. Select attendees toured Apple's testing labs during WWDC 2025, gaining insight into the extreme simulations that iPhones and other products must pass, such as submersion in water, soda exposure, and pressure testing for IP certification.
St Andrews Links, the historic "home of golf," has undergone a major rebrand led by agency Dark Horses to position itself as a global lifestyle brand and unlock new revenue streams through retail, partnerships, and international expansion. With redesigned course icons, a custom typeface inspired by local landmarks, and a refreshed color palette drawn from the landscape, the rebrand aims to appeal to a broader, worldwide audience of golfers beyond those who can visit in person.
A wave of design agencies, including Dusted, Elmwood, Fiasco, and Ragged Edge, have recently rebranded themselves with new positioning, identities, and websites.
A global digital campaign for the new Cat in the Hat movie faced backlash as fans accused it of using AI to place the character's hat on world landmarks, criticizing the stunt as uninspired and emblematic of a growing distrust toward AI-generated content in film marketing.
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NFDG, a $1.1 billion AI-focused VC fund led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, achieved a 4x return in two years before being acquired by Meta. Meta's unique acqui-hire offered full NAV liquidity to LPs without governance rights over portfolio companies. The deal reflects a shift as investors prioritize direct involvement in AI development over traditional venture returns.
Google had 14 major AI announcements last month, spanning from new Gemini 2.5 models and voice conversations in Search to AlphaGenome for DNA research and weather prediction tools.
Palmer Luckey, supported by Joe Lonsdale, is launching Erebor, a new crypto-focused bank, to fill the gap left by Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. Erebor is seeking a national bank charter and plans to offer services to tech sectors, including AI and crypto, using a digital-only model. The bank, which aims to be the most regulated entity in this sphere, will integrate stablecoins for fast transactions.
AI tools are outperforming human creators and changing business landscapes by offering superhuman advisory capabilities and reduced judgment anxiety for users. Traditional software interfaces and roles are becoming obsolete as rapid AI-driven product creation reshapes industry dynamics. Embracing AI as a collaborator enables success, while ignorance leads to irrelevance amidst this significant economic shift.
Apple's Eddy Cue just testified that search volume dropped for the first time in 22 years because people are using ChatGPT instead. Google's stock crashed 7%, wiping out $100 billion. However, here's what everyone's missing: when people ask AI tools buying questions, they're asking the same high-intent queries that drive SEO. "What is the best CRM software?" works the same whether you type it into Google or ChatGPT. Instead of panicking about AI killing search, just answer the questions your sales calls reveal customers actually ask.