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MICROSOFT UNVEILS NEW AI MODELS TO LESSEN RELIANCE ON OPENAI AND LOWER COSTS FOR DEVELOPERS

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash, a coding model, and MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model, at its Build developer conference on Tuesday.

TRUST FACTORY

You can fix code, but you can't fix trust - once it's gone, it's hard-to-impossible to get it back.

GOOGLE IS QUIETLY BUYING CODE FROM PLAY STORE DEVELOPERS TO TRAIN AI

Google has emailed some developers with an offer to join a program that would allow them to generate additional revenue if they allow Google to access their codebases.

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NVIDIA INTRODUCES FIRST PCS DESIGNED FOR AI AGENTS

Nvidia has unveiled prototypes of a new generation of PCs designed for running AI agents. The new PCs will use a newly designed version of Nvidia's signature AI chips. There will be about 30 laptop models and 10 desktop models from Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Asus, and MSI. PCs with the new chip will be targeted at the premium end of the market.

ANTHROPIC FILES TO GO PUBLIC IN BLOCKBUSTER YEAR FOR IPOS

Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering that could see it go public this fall. This year is set to be a blockbuster year for IPOs. SpaceX is preparing to stage what is likely to be the largest IPO ever next week. OpenAI is also preparing for an IPO.

MODERNA GETS $50 MILLION TO DEVELOP MRNA EBOLA VACCINE AGAINST BUNDIBUGYO

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has pledged a little over $60 million to accelerate the development of three vaccine candidates against the Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV). There are currently two licensed vaccines against Ebola, but they both target a different strain. The lack of medical interventions is allowing the virus to spread out of control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The disease is spreading in an area with armed conflict, large population mobility, and significant need for humanitarian assistance.

BYD PLANS TO BRING ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERIES TO EVS BY 2027, BUT IT'S NOT ALONE

Several EV manufacturers plan to deploy vehicles with all-solid-state batteries in just a few months. The technology enables a driving range of over 1,000 kilometers. The first models to launch with the new battery technology will likely come from BYD's high-end sub-brands before trickling down to mass-market vehicles. Other manufacturers racing to introduce next-generation EV batteries include SAIC Motor and Changan Automobile.

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RETHINKING SEARCH AS CODE GENERATION

Perplexity's Search as Code (SaC) is a new search architecture that empowers models to reach into the search stack itself rather than merely consume the final outputs. It exposes the components of the search stack as primitives within an SDK that can be assembled on demand through code generation and execution within a secure sandbox into retrieval pipelines tailored to specific requests. This article describes SaC's design and implementation and provides benchmark results. SaC establishes a new cost performance frontier for agent search.

THE MATHEMATICS OF MULTI-TENANCY

An S3 customer's bucket migration resulted in a swarm of 503 errors coming from S3 due to the way S3 prevents users from explicitly defining partitions. S3 doesn't let users control partitioning because it would result in unpredictable usage patterns. This article looks deeper into the reasons why multi-tenancy works for S3 and presents a statistical model for better understanding multi-tenancy.

THE NEWEST INSTAGRAM "EXPLOIT" IS THE GOOFIEST I'VE SEEN

The recent slew of Instagram account takeovers was due to the exploitation of a simple vulnerability. Attackers simply tried to log onto target accounts using a VPN in a location close to the target and then told the Meta support AI that the account was hacked and to send verification codes to another email. There were no checks to see whether the emails belonged to the accounts. The vulnerability seems to have been patched, but it was exploited to take over accounts to be flipped or used for propaganda.

WHY IT MATTERS IF OPENAI OR ANTHROPIC WINS THE IPO RACE

Research has shown that IPOs tend to come in industry clusters. Companies listed later in a cycle don't tend to perform as well. Even in a hot market, there's only so much money going around. The first company that goes up is likely to absorb more of the increasingly scarce capital.

INTEL: OUR UPCOMING AI CHIP WILL BE CHEAPER, RUN COOLER THAN NVIDIA, AMD OPTIONS

Intel's new Crescent Island graphics processing unit uses cheaper memory and cooling technology to speed up inference tasks.

BLUE ORIGIN LAUNCHPAD DAMAGED IN ROCKET EXPLOSION MAY NOT BE RESTORED UNTIL 2028, NASA'S ISAACMAN SAYS

The incident will impact Blue Origin's customers, including NASA, Amazon, and AST SpaceMobile.

LEAN, NOT BACKPRESSURE

Lean manufacturing focuses on waste reduction and managing the unstable input of people.

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SPACEX RESERVES UP TO 5% OF IPO STOCK FOR STAFF AND FRIENDS

The company's friends and family list will not be subject to a lock-up restriction.

MICROSOFT AND GOOGLE ARE LATE TO AI CODING, BUT ‘ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL' THEY COMPETE FOR GROWTH

The AI code tools market is predicted to expand to roughly $30 billion by 2031.

REMOTE WORK - NOT AI - HAS SIDELINED RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES, RESEARCH FINDS

Companies are less likely to hire recent college graduates into roles that can be done remotely.

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APPLE TO OVERHAUL IOS 27 SIRI, AI FEATURES: HERE'S A FIRST PEEK

Apple plans to announce a revamped Siri interface, a new chatbot-style app, and other major iOS 27 changes at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. The launch will be a pivotal moment for the company's AI strategy. Apple previewed some of the features in 2024, but it suffered a series of delays that put it further behind competitors and hurt its reputation. The Siri revamp will likely be CEO Tim Cook's final major product launch before handing leadership over to John Ternus.

CLAUDE OPUS 4.8: “A MODEST BUT TANGIBLE IMPROVEMENT”

Claude Opus 4.8's most prominent improvement is its ability to be honest. It is more likely than previous models to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims. The model has a new feature that allows mid-conversation system messages. This means users can append updated instructions later in long-running conversations without restating the full system prompt.

THE MOST SPECTACULAR ROCKET EXPLOSION SINCE N1 JUST HAPPENED IN FLORIDA

A spectacular explosion occurred during a static fire test of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket last night. The super heavy lift rocket exploded shortly after engine ignition. No one was injured during the failure, and the cause is still being investigated. A video of the explosion is available in the article.

WAYMO OPENS OJAI ROBOTAXIS TO SELECT RIDERS AS COMPANY AIMS TO LOWER COST OF FLEET EXPANSION

Waymo's new Ojai robotaxis are designed to work better in snowier conditions. They are cheaper to manufacture and feature the sixth-generation Waymo Driver, which can better detect critical details in low-light situations. The vehicles will be available to some public passengers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with service expanding to San Diego, Las Vegas, and Denver in the summer. Waymo plans to have thousands of Ojai cars on the road by the end of the year.

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INTRODUCING DYNAMIC WORKFLOWS IN CLAUDE CODE

Dynamic workflows in Claude Code enable Claude to take on challenging tasks end-to-end. Claude dynamically writes orchestration scripts that run hundreds of parallel subagents, checking the work before returning it to users. The feature is available now in research preview in the Claude Code CLI, Desktop, and the VS Code extension for Max, team, and Enterprise plans. It can consume substantially more tokens than a typical Claude Code session, so it is recommended that users start with a scoped task to get a feel for usage.

THE ORCHESTRATION TAX

Spawning agents is easy. The real skill is in designing the system around human attention. Agents can make you feel productive while barely producing anything. This failure mode will be invisible until the system breaks and the developer realizes they have no idea how it works anymore.

HOW META IS LOOKING FOR REVENUE OUTSIDE ADVERTISING TO JUSTIFY ITS BALLOONING CAPEX BILL

Meta's capital expenditures are forcing it to explore new revenue sources. The company has announced a series of subscription tiers and it is monetizing its AI chatbot. It is also launching a new Enterprise Solutions unit, which will mimic the forward-deployed engineer models used by Google and OpenAI to open up B2B revenue streams. The company is considering opening its own cloud computing business once it has excess compute.

HOW ONLINE SLEUTHING HELPED CATCH THE ‘GOOGLE INSIDER' ON POLYMARKET

Polymarket doesn't require users to submit proof of identity, making it mostly anonymous. However, it uses blockchain-based technology, which makes it possible for anyone to monitor the bets, profits, and losses of individual accounts. This allows sleuths to spot suspicious activity and call it out, even if they can't identify the actual traders. Online sleuths have become an unexpected ally of law enforcement in tackling the emerging challenge of insider trading on prediction markets. Blockchain trading is transparent and traceable - even sophisticated actors have trouble staying hidden.

WE'RE IN THE OVER-ENGINEERING GAME NOW

AI allows developers to over-engineer everything as the vision for the application is no longer constrained by resources.

THE RADICAL NETWORK REDESIGN THAT LED AWS TO FORGE A MORE RESILIENT CLOUD

A look at how a team at Amazon applied random graph theory to a data center network.

IBM RALLIES AFTER COMMITTING TO SPEND $10 BILLION TO PURSUE THE HOLY GRAIL OF QUANTUM COMPUTING

IBM plans to spend over $10 billion over the next five years to create a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer.

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ANTHROPIC NEARS $1 TRILLION VALUATION IN LATEST ROUND

Anthropic is now the most valuable AI company in Silicon Valley.

PACKAGE MANAGERS THAT PACKAGE PACKAGE MANAGERS

A look at 42 package managers and whether they install other package managers.

JD.COM FOUNDER VOWS TO PROTECT CHINESE JOBS FROM AI AND ROBOTS

The company has promised to prevent its 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation.

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HOW SPACEX IS STRUCTURED TO FAVOR ELON MUSK

In January, SpaceX granted Elon Musk a pay package that will eventually total 1.3 billion in restricted shares. While he has not achieved the goals that the award is contingent on, SpaceX's IPO prospectus says that he can use those shares in voting on shareholder decisions. SpaceX does not plan to have the majority of its board be independent directors, and any shareholder claims under federal securities laws must be resolved through arbitration. The measures allow Musk to pick the people who determine his pay and largely insulate himself from shareholder lawsuits.

NASA SELECTS JEFF BEZOS'S BLUE ORIGIN FOR FIRST OF THREE UNCREWED LUNAR MISSIONS

NASA plans to send three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart the construction of a moon base. It has chosen Blue Origin to conduct the first mission, which will launch as early as Fall. NASA has also announced a series of smaller contracts with private companies, including Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace, involved with the agency's Moon-to-Mars projects. The agency aims to establish a base with operating capability by 2032.

US SEEKS TO GIVE WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM TO START-UPS FOR FUEL

The Trump administration plans to give plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to companies to convert it into fuel for nuclear power plants. The Energy Department has more than 50 tons of surplus plutonium left over from nuclear weapons programs. One of the bottlenecks in expanding nuclear power right now is a lack of fuel. Harvesting old plutonium stockpiles could provide a short-term fix.

NASA TAKES STEPS TOWARD BUILDING MOON BASE, INCLUDING DISCUSSING A “PERIMETER”

NASA has announced a series of contract awards for the initial elements of a lunar base. Astrolab and Lunar Outpost have been selected to build approximately one-ton rovers to be ready for delivery to the Moon in 2028. Each rover is expected to have a range of 200 km and drive autonomously with guidance from operators on Earth or by astronauts. Blue Origin will deliver the rovers to the lunar surface separately with its Blue Moon Mark 1 lander. The goal of the mission will be to establish a perimeter for a Moon base.

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