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WWDC26 — THE SMALL THINGS

A list of the smaller changes announced at WWDC.

WHY DEVELOPERS USE LLMS TO WRITE BLOG POSTS

A lot of people who use LLMs to write have never written before, and while most perform substantial editing, they don't feel that LLMs capture their voice or ideas.

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APPLE REVEALS NEW AI-POWERED VERSION OF ITS SIRI DIGITAL ASSISTANT

Apple has introduced a new, improved version of Siri and new features to Apple Intelligence. Siri can now handle tasks like researching concert tickets and brainstorming recipes for a party. Apple is using AI models and cloud computing services from Google to power Siri and Apple Intelligence. Siri and Apple Intelligence features will be integrated across Apple's apps, so users will be able to do things like alter photos or ask Siri questions about what they're photographing. There will be daily limits on image generation features due to compute limitations.

OPENAI CONFIDENTIALLY FILES FOR IPO, PREPPING WALL STREET FOR MEGA AI DEBUT

OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC. The company has yet to decide on the timing of the offering. It may be a while before OpenAI goes public, as there are things the company wants to do that are likely easier as a private entity, but the filing gives it the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best. OpenAI plans to facilitate a tender offer that will allow employees to sell shares at its latest $852 billion post-money valuation to alleviate some near-term liquidity pressure.

SAMSUNG REPORTEDLY INVOLVED IN SPACEX XAI SATELLITE CHIP PROJECT

Samsung is reportedly in the early stages of producing AI space computing chips for SpaceX's satellite chip ambitions. SpaceX plans to build satellites in space that process and beam data back to Earth. TSMC has also been named as a manufacturing partner. Early-stage chip production could include anything from prototype silicon to limited qualification runs.

GATES-BACKED COMMONWEALTH FUSION SAYS ITS TECH VALIDATED TO MAKE POWER

Commonwealth Fusion Systems says that the physics of its commercial-scale power plant has been validated by five peer-reviewed papers. The company is now targeting the early 2030s to put energy on the grid. It is building a 400-megawatt facility in Virginia and a demonstration machine in Massachusetts. It has so far raised almost $3 billion from investors, including Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Nvidia's venture arm.

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CORE AI

Apple's Core AI framework allows developers to build, run, and deploy AI models in apps on Apple silicon. It enables access to the latest model architectures and inference techniques across the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine. The Swift API gives developers control over model specialization, caching, and inference performance while making common tasks simple. Core AI integrates with Xcode and the developer toolchain.

LOOP ENGINEERING

Loop engineering is when a developer replaces themselves as the person who prompts the agent with a system that does it instead. The loop is a recursive goal where the user defines a purpose and the AI iterates until complete. The technology is still early - users have to be careful about token costs and still monitor to ensure quality - but this is likely the future of how people work with coding agents. Stop prompting coding agents and design loops that prompt agents instead.

CHATGPT FAILED TO KILL GOOGLE SEARCH

Google Search queries reached an all-time high last quarter. AI Overviews and AI Mode are driving user engagement, and AI-powered ad tools are driving better ROI for advertisers. Search AI Mode has crossed 1 billion monthly active users, and AI Overviews has over 2.5 billion monthly active users. Search saw revenue grow by 19% year on year last quarter.

THE 24-YEAR-OLD AI WIZ WHO COUNTS JANE STREET AS AN INVESTOR

Leopold Aschenbrenner had no professional investing experience when he launched his AI-focused investment firm, Situational Awareness. The firm's assets have vaulted from a few hundred million dollars to more than $20 billion in less than two years. One of its most successful bets is a stake in Anthropic. The firm's investors include Jane Street, a savvy quant-trading firm that rarely allocates capital to outside money managers.

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WHERE MY HEAD IS AT WITH LLMS AND THE WEB

We are potentially in a golden age for the web, as many major barriers to entry are being removed.

ASK HN: WHAT ARE TOOLS YOU HAVE MADE FOR YOURSELF SINCE THE ADVENT OF AI? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

A look at the different projects developers have made with AI coding tools.

EXPANDING THE RADIUS OF DAILY LIFE

Flying cars promise a future where humans have more options on where to live, work, and visit.

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CONVICTED FTX FOUNDER SAM BANKMAN-FRIED FILES FORMAL REQUEST FOR TRUMP PARDON

Trump has previously said that he has no intention of pardoning Bankman-Fried.

APPLE REVEALS NEW AI ARCHITECTURE BUILT AROUND GOOGLE GEMINI MODELS

The new architecture runs Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google both on-device and on Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.

1,000 DATA BREACHES LATER, THE DISCLOSURE LAG IS WORSE THAN EVER

Companies would rather protect shareholder value than ensure customers are informed about data breaches.

GOOGLE TO PAY SPACEX NEARLY $1 BILLION A MONTH IN CLOUD-COMPUTING DEAL

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 to June 2029 to rent data center capacity. Google has the right to cancel the agreement in October if SpaceX doesn't provide the promised 110,000 Nvidia chips. Either party can cancel the agreement starting next year with 90 days' notice. This is the second major deal SpaceX has made in recent months to rent out compute capacity to a competitor. SpaceX is expected to go public on June 12 in a public offering that values the company at $1.77 trillion.

INSIDE APPLE'S SECRET MEETING THAT LED IT TO FINALLY TAKE AI SERIOUSLY

Several top Apple employees held a meeting - without Tim Cook - centered around the company's AI strategy in early 2025. At the time, the company's rivals were rapidly advancing, and the executives were concerned about how much trouble the company was in if real changes weren't made immediately. The meeting's aim was to formulate a recommendation to Cook about how the company should respond. The team decided that fresh leadership was necessary and recommended that Cook give Siri to Mike Rockwell, the creator of the Vision Pro headset, who was passionate about AI and had long argued that Apple needed to take it more seriously.

WHY ROBOTICS IS A PRE-PARADIGM FIELD

The choice of tools roboticists choose to use today encode an implicit theory of what embodied intelligence is. These tools are paradigm-level commitments, and any of them can be wrong. Scientists need to continue making progress on defining what embodied intelligence actually is. Choosing the wrong paradigm limits the progress that can be made on building a general robot.

SMALL MODULAR NUCLEAR REACTOR REACHES CRITICALITY IN FIRST TEST

A startup called Antares has successfully achieved criticality in one of its test reactors. Criticality means that the nuclear reaction inside the reactor had become self-sustaining. The system uses a new fuel system that takes some of the complexity and safety out of the reactor design and places them in the fuel design. An attempt to run an entire system that includes electrical generation is expected to happen next year.

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THE INTENT DEBT

Intent debt comprises the artifacts that were never written down: the goals, constraints, and rationale for why a system is the way it is. This can sometimes exist within team documents or discussions, but it is likely unorganized and incomplete. Agentic engineering only makes intent debt more expensive, as intent can only come from humans. Models don't know why decisions were made, and this changes the economics of not writing things down.

THE FUTURE OF THE WEB IS WEIRDLY HUMAN

HTML-in-canvas is a new experimental feature in Chrome that allows ordinary HTML to be rendered inside rich canvas environments while retaining useful HTML features. Its development hints at a future where the document remains intact, but stops dictating the shape of the human experience. It will allow developers to stop shaping human experiences around what machines can reliably understand and create a future where the web is a lot more like the things it's trying to describe. This post contains several examples of what the new API could create, like fully accessible DOM elements drawn into Doom's wall textures and new types of engaging UIs and experiences.

APPLE'S WWDC: TIM COOK'S AI LEGACY AT STAKE IN HIS FINAL DEVELOPER CONFERENCE AS CEO

The centerpiece of Apple's WWDC is expected to be a major overhaul of Siri. For investors, this will be a test of whether Apple Intelligence can become a real driver for iPhone upgrades, and for developers, this will be a test of whether Siri can be a platform worth building for in the agentic era. For Tim Cook, it's a legacy moment, as he is preparing to move on to becoming executive chairman of Apple's board, with John Ternus stepping up to become Apple's next CEO.

CHAT IS DEAD

OpenAI's plans to shift towards creating a super app reflect the company's growing conviction that the future of AI lies in agents that perform tasks for users and not chatbots. While it doesn't indicate that the 'chat' element of ChatGPT is going away, it shows how the company is putting effort into moving beyond it. OpenAI is trying to expand its user base as it inches towards an IPO. The company is reported to have already surpassed the 1 billion monthly active user mark.

WHY SOFTWARE AUTOMATION IS HARD

Being able to develop software faster may not be that useful if market feedback still comes in at the same speed.

GOOGLE CHROME TESTS SENDING USERS STRAIGHT TO AI MODE INSTEAD OF SEARCH

A commit from Google explicitly says that the company is currently just exploring the function and there are no current plans to push it live.

PG_DURABLE

pg_durable allows developers to orchestrate retries, scheduling, parallel fan-out, and conditional branching with a tiny SQL DSL, without containers or external services, only Postgres.

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A NEW ERA FOR SOFTWARE TESTING

The introduction of automated QA will likely raise the bar of quality for new software releases.

SEM

sem is a semantic version control tool that works on top of Git that tells users what entities changed (functions, methods, and classes) instead of just what lines changed.

THE JEVONS MISUNDERSTANDING

Jevon's Paradox assumes that the old production system continues to scale when demand expands as a result of new technology, but with AI, expansion can bypass the old labor bundle, meaning workers stay employed but at progressively lower wages in worse conditions, not seeing the benefits of the market expansion.

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FIRST AI AGENT FOR MESSAGES BUSINESS CHAT APPROVED BY APPLE

AI assistant Poke is now available on iMessage via the Apple Messages for Business platform. Poke can send emails, set reminders, generate images, and more, from within the Apple Messages app. It is compatible with third-party services and products like the Oura Smart Ring, Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, GitHub, and Navan. Poke will conduct light actions, process manual prompts, and do background tasks for free, but any intensive requests will require payment, which can be negotiated.