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 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'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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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Apple's industrial design organization used to be the heart and soul of the company. Today, the organization no longer has a true seat at Apple's executive table. It has become a place where other teams come to get what they need before promptly leaving. This article tells the story of the group's decline, its impact on the company, and Apple's plans to restore the design studio's prowess.
Tesla has filed a trademark application for a product called 'Megapod'. The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads. The product appears to be a turnkey AI data center building block that includes the full rack-and-room of servers, networking, power, and cooling. It would compete with Nvidia's already dominant platform.
DNA doesn't do anything by itself. The information only becomes something when an enzyme unzips the helix and copies a stretch into messenger RNA, after which its instructions are decoded to create chains of amino acids. Similarly, the weights of a neural network don't mean anything on their own. They only become meaningful during the forward pass, activated during inference. In both cases, a passive informational substrate is brought to life only by a process outside of it.
Shinkei is a startup that makes a refrigerator-sized robot that scans fish with computer vision, identifies the species, locates the brain, then pierces the brain and severs the gills so the fish dies before it can thrash or suffocate. The system prevents the fish from experiencing a slow death, which floods the meat with stress hormones and lactic acid, dulling the flavor and shortening shelf life. The process delays decomposition long enough for the flesh to be safely aged for days or longer before it is served. The aging period gives top-tier sashimi its concentrated, umami-heavy flavor.
AI shows up in 60% of software engineering work. Only about a fifth of it can be handed off without someone babysitting the output. Agents are still missing the context your team has. Join live June 24 (FREE) [11] to find out how teams pulling ahead are using a context layer to save time and tokens.
A well-supervised agent can offer dramatic speedups when paired with someone who cares about software, cares about the craft, and has specific goals they want to achieve. They can be used to significantly speed up the PR process. Agents can turn open issues into prompts, generate solutions, edit the output to meet standards for mergeability, and then commit as soon as it's ready, all on their own. This means issues can be fixed just hours after being identified.
Agent Hooks allow developers to interject themselves into an agent's workflow while they are doing work rather than after the work is done. They can stop agents from ignoring rules. This means agents can be used for deterministic checks that work 100% of the time. This article discusses how to create two agent hooks: one that ensures agents never use an 'input' tag directly, and another that ensures agents never claim work is done while tests are still failing.
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Jane Street is looking to hire more than 500 employees this year. The previously secretive firm is starting to edge more into the spotlight to catch the attention of AI startups and talent. It is aiming to become a major AI investor and supercharge its trading with the technology. Jane Street is eager to make new AI investments and deals for computing power.
Anthropic claims that AI model intelligence has become dangerous. AI will continue to grow exponentially in capability, but most people will stop seeing progress. Only a few will have access to superintelligence above the classes of models seen this year. Open models are not likely to improve past Fable class due to huge compute requirements and government lockdowns.
AI agents generate 48% of code on average, yet 55% of leaders worry about losing shared understanding and 39% about shipping with confidence. Project-level rules help standardize AI-driven
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The restrictions on Anthropic have yet to be formally rescinded, and Anthropic has not publicly indicated whether it plans to modify its guardrail policies.
Every finance task takes multiple steps. Check runway? Find the right report, cross-reference your burn, interpret the graph. Pay a contractor? Track down the invoice, navigate to transfers, fill in the details. Freeze a card? Dig through settings.
AI startup Midjourney has announced a hardware project in the personal health and medical sector. Its full-body ultrasound machine, the Midjourney Scanner, requires users to be partially submerged in water. The company plans to build a fleet of 50,000 scanners, with the first to debut in a 'Midjourney Spa' location in San Francisco. The scanners don't use any AI. Midjourney is currently working on four hardware and four software initiatives and plans to ship at least two of those hardware efforts in the near term.
AWS is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chips to other companies for use in data centers. The company has so far resisted selling its chips as compute capacity for the current chips in its data centers is already sold out. Selling its chips to other companies may mean current customers will be left waiting, unless AWS has figured out how to manufacture more chips, which is unlikely.
NASA has hired Relativity Space to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch it into space, and fly it to Mars. The Aeolus mission will contain four instruments to measure and image Mars from orbit. It will provide the space agency with its first daily global view of dust, winds, and temperatures in Mars' atmosphere. The data will make it safer for landers and astronauts to visit the surface of the planet. The mission is set to launch in 2028.
A growing number of tech firms have started introducing usage-based pricing options for AI services rather than charging a flat subscription fee. The shift to this pricing model may lead to more selective use of the technology. It has forced businesses to confront their spending on AI and take stock of the return on that investment.
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Durability is a property of the entire execution layer underneath a loop. Durable orchestration is fundamental to building an agent loop architecture. This article breaks down the agent loop architecture. It explains where loops commonly break, what happens when things break, how to build an agent that builds its own skills, and more.
Clear is a programming language where the specification and implementation are in the same file. There's no translation step or drift between docs and behavior as they are the same artifact. Clear is built for agents to read and execute while being readable by everyone on the team. It compiles to any target without any change in the spec.
Intel shares jumped after President Donald Trump and Apple announced an agreement to work with the company to design and build chips in the US. Intel was underperforming for years until Lip-Bu Tan became CEO in March 2025. Trump initially raised concerns about Tan's potential close ties to China, but Tan's charm won him over. Intel has since received a lot of help from the Trump administration.