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AI may become “bring your own AI,” as users carry their preferred tools from home to work.

AI STARTUP ROCKET OFFERS VIBE MCKINSEY-STYLE REPORTS AT A FRACTION OF THE COST

Rocket helps users decide what to build by generating consulting-style product strategies in a world where coding is easy.

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META'S SUPERINTELLIGENCE LAB UNVEILS ITS FIRST PUBLIC MODEL, MUSE SPARK

Muse Spark is the first AI model in Meta's Muse family. Spark is proprietary, but some of the other models in the Muse family will be open source. Muse Spark can get information from content posted on social media to link posts to locations or trending topics. Its standard thinking mode ranks comparably or better than competing models from leading AI labs. However, there are still performance gaps in long-horizon agentic systems and coding workflows. Meta Stark is available in the Meta AI app and website, as well as Meta's API for selected partners. It will be available to Meta's other platforms in the coming weeks.

ANTHROPIC LAUNCHES CLAUDE MANAGED AGENTS FOR BUSINESSES

Claude Managed Agents is a suite of composable APIs aimed at developers and enterprise teams looking to build and deploy cloud-hosted AI agents at scale. It is now available in public beta on the Claude Platform. The offering targets organizations that need robust, production-grade agent infrastructure without having to manage background tasks. It provides features such as secure sandboxed code execution, authentication, checkpointing, scoped permissions, and persistent long-running sessions.

US NUCLEAR STARTUP ANTARES GETS DOE APPROVAL FOR ITS MARK0 REACTOR DEMONSTRATOR

US nuclear startup Antres aims to achieve criticality for its reactor before the 4th of July this year. The California-headquartered startup is developing microreactors. After the demonstration of its Mark0 reactor, the company will work on achieving electricity generation for its Mark1 demonstration next year. The Department of Energy is aiming to achieve criticality in at least three advanced nuclear reactors before Independence Day this year as part of its Reactor Pilot Program.

THE 2-SIGMA PROBLEM: THE 1:1 TUTOR

The technology to deliver 1:1 tutoring has finally arrived. Studies show that even having an average tutor shows significant improvement in student scores. However, no edtech companies are building an AI tutor yet, with many companies disavowing the technology's usefulness as it can't create a 100% perfect lesson plan yet. With AI, engagement and substantive learning no longer have to be diametrically opposed. A superhuman teacher will soon be buildable as AI labs continue to improve on accuracy and hallucination problems.

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THE GIT COMMANDS I RUN BEFORE READING ANY CODE

This post introduces five git commands that can diagnose a codebase before a developer opens a single file. Commit histories can provide a diagnostic picture of a project. They tell you who built it, where the problems cluster, and whether a team is shipping with confidence or tiptoeing around land mines. The commands introduced in the post inform developers what the most changed files are, who the authors were, where bugs cluster, whether a project is accelerating or dying, and how often the development team is firefighting. They let developers know which code to read first and what to look for when they get there.

FEEDBACK FLYWHEEL

Every AI interaction generates a signal. These signals can be harvested and fed back into a system to turn individual experience into collective improvement. This creates a feedback loop that turns each interaction into an opportunity to improve the next one. The infrastructure compounds as practice feeds back into it.

MY QUEST TO SOLVE BITCOIN'S GREAT MYSTERY

The identity of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been a mystery for 17 years. Nakamoto left behind a huge corpus of texts, and this was expanded during a recent trial where an imposter was sued for falsely claiming to be Bitcoin's creator. This article contains an investigation that leads to the conclusion that Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto. Back is a British cryptographer and a leading figure in the Bitcoin movement.

CAST ADRIFT, META EMPLOYEES HAVE NO IDEA WHO THE ‘TOKEN LEGEND' IS ANYMORE

Meta had an internal system called Claudeonmics that tracked employees' token usage. It ranked the top 250 employees and gave them badges for high rankings. Meta's staff reportedly used up about 60 trillion tokens in just 30 days, with the person in the top spot racking up 281 billion tokens. Meta has shut down the tracking system due to the data being shared externally.

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HOW TO GET YOUR COMPANY AI PILLED

Ramp got 99.5% of its team active on AI tools by being obsessed over every employee embracing the new technology.

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, AMAZON IS CUTTING OLD KINDLES OFF FROM THE KINDLE STORE

Older Kindle e-readers will no longer be able to buy or download books from the Kindle store starting on May 20.

WE'RE MISSING A MUCH BIGGER POINT ON MYTHOS

Mythos wasn't trained specifically for cybersecurity, it's just good at it because it's good at everything.

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THE INTL API: THE BEST BROWSER API YOU'RE NOT USING

The Intl API can handle almost all formatting requirements directly in the browser with zero kB of download and no JS bundle parsing required.

VERA

Vera is a programming language designed for large language models that addresses common model mistakes by making everything explicit and verifiable.

AI ADOPTION BY THE NUMBERS

Serving tech, legal, and healthcare buyers is clearly fertile ground right now, but there likely won't just be one 'winner' in each category.

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META INTRODUCED MUSE SPARK

Meta introduced Muse Spark, a multimodal reasoning model with tool use, visual chain-of-thought, and multi-agent orchestration, as part of its push toward personal superintelligence.

SCALING MANAGED AGENTS: DECOUPLING THE BRAIN FROM THE HANDS

Harnesses encode assumptions about what Claude can't do on its own. These assumptions need to be frequently questioned as models improve. Anthropic built Managed Agents as a system for 'programs as yet unthought of'. It is designed to accommodate future harnesses, sandboxes, or other components around Claude.

ANTHROPIC MANAGED AGENTS

Anthropic's Managed Agents is a hosted system that separates agent interfaces from underlying implementations to support long-running tasks as models evolve.

INTRODUCING LEARN MODE: YOUR PERSONAL CODING TUTOR IN GOOGLE COLAB

Google Colab has enhanced its Gemini integration with Custom Instructions and Learn Mode, enabling personalized AI assistance and coding guidance. Custom Instructions allow users to adjust Gemini's behavior to fit their workflow or project needs, and Learn Mode provides step-by-step coding support instead of complete solutions. These updates enhance user control and facilitate skill-building, sharing personalized AI settings with the Colab community.

INSIDE THE AI INDUSTRY'S MOST EXPENSIVE MISTAKE

An internal leaderboard at Meta that ranked employees on token usage revealed that, over a 30-day period, the company used around 60 trillion tokens. It is estimated that all books published amount to about 20 trillion tokens. The AI industry seems obsessed with token spend, but the metric is easily hacked, and more token use doesn't mean more value is provided.

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: BUILDING AGENTIC SOFTWARE THAT WORKS

Building reliable agentic software requires treating it as a full system, not optimizing isolated components like tools or storage. This post outlines five critical layers that must be designed together to avoid cascading constraints and failures. Using a real open-source example, it shows how structured data, enforced permissions, and consistent interfaces enable agents to improve over time and operate safely in production.

MONARCH: AN API TO YOUR SUPERCOMPUTER

Monarch is a distributed programming framework for PyTorch that makes running distributed training jobs on huge clusters easy. It makes clusters programmable through a simple Python API that exposes the supercomputer as a coherent, directly controllable system. Monarch is optimized for agentic usage, and it provides consistent infrastructure abstractions and exposed telemetry. It can turn a dev machine into a supercomputer, leveling up its agents.

CLAW-EVAL BENCHMARK FOR AI AGENTS

Claw-Eval provides a human-verified benchmark for evaluating LLM agents across 139 real-world tasks using Docker sandboxes, multiple services, and structured grading.

BUGBOT NOW SELF-IMPROVES WITH LEARNED RULES

Bugbot's resolution rate now nears 80%, significantly outperforming other AI code review products. Bugbot harnesses real-time signals from past runs to self-improve by transforming feedback into learned rules. Over 110,000 repositories use this feature to generate over 44,000 learned rules, enhancing Bugbot's focus on specific issues and business context.

ANTHROPIC LOSES APPEALS COURT BID TO TEMPORARILY BLOCK PENTAGON BLACKLISTING

A federal appeals court has blocked Anthropic's request to temporarily block the Department of War's blacklisting of the company as a lawsuit challenging the sanction plays out. Anthropic is now excluded from the Department of War's contracts, but it can continue working with other government agencies while the litigation plays out. Defense contractors will be prohibited from using Claude in their work with the agency, but they can use it for other cases.

AI AGENT POKE MAKES SETTING UP AUTOMATIONS AS EASY AS SENDING A TEXT

Poke, a new AI agent accessible via text messaging apps, simplifies automation with pre-made "recipes" for tasks like scheduling and smart home control. Backed by $25 million in funding and valued at $300 million, Poke aims for widespread adoption by offering flexibility in pricing and encouraging user-generated automation recipes. Unlike complex systems like OpenClaw, Poke's user-friendly approach targets a broader audience without compromising on functionality.

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APPLE SHOWS ITS CARDS, PLANS TO MOVE THE PRODUCTION OF ITS UPCOMING BALTRA ASIC IN-HOUSE

Apple has a well-established proclivity for vertical integration.

ALTK‑EVOLVE: ON‑THE‑JOB LEARNING FOR AI AGENTS

ALTK-Evolve enhances AI agents by transforming raw agent trajectories into reusable guidelines, improving reliability in complex tasks without increasing context bloating.

PERPLEXITY'S SHIFT TO AI AGENTS BOOSTS REVENUE 50%

Perplexity's move from AI-powered search to AI agents has reportedly paid off.

THIS WILL BECOME THE DEFAULT WAY TEAMS USE NOTION + CLAUDE

Run roadmaps and task boards inside of Notion, assign out tasks to Claude Agents, and then collaborate with the agents and team to review the work from inside of Notion all the way through to merged PRs in GitHub.

ENTERPRISE AI ADOPTION

OpenAI reported rapid enterprise growth, with AI moving beyond experimentation into core business workflows and a strategy centered on unified agents and a company-wide AI layer.

GOOGLE PHOTOS ROLLS OUT AI ENHANCE AND VIDEO PLAYBACK SPEED CONTROLS

Google Photos is rolling out an Android update featuring a one-tap "AI Enhance" button that automatically adjusts lighting and contrast, plus controls for video playback speed ranging from 0.25x to 2x. The AI Enhance feature is available globally for Android users, while video speed controls are available in a phased rollout. These updates transform Google Photos from primarily a storage app into a more capable editing and viewing tool, reducing the need for separate apps.

IPHONE FOLD IS ‘ON TRACK' TO LAUNCH THIS SEPTEMBER, PER MARK GURMAN

Despite earlier reports of production problems, Apple's foldable iPhone is still on track for a September launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro models. Sources suggest the company remains confident in its timeline. While initial supply could be constrained due to the device's complexity and plans aren't fully finalized since production hasn't ramped up, Apple is currently aiming to release it at or after its usual launch window.

ADOBE LAUNCHES ACROBAT-BASED STUDENT SPACES, A FREE AI-POWERED STUDY TOOL FOR STUDENTS

Adobe's Student Spaces is a free AI-powered study tool that allows students to create presentations, flashcards, and quizzes from PDFs, documents, and notes. The tool competes with Google's NotebookLM and other AI study platforms by offering a one-stop solution within Adobe's ecosystem. Students can upload various document types and generate study materials, including mind maps, podcasts, and interactive content, without requiring login credentials.

AI PRODUCTS HAVE TERRIBLE UX: HERE'S WHY

AI products often suffer from poor user experience design due to rushed development cycles and technical complexity overshadowing usability considerations. The three-month development gap for AI agents creates challenges in properly addressing user interface and experience design needs. Technical teams frequently prioritize functionality over intuitive design, resulting in powerful products that are difficult for users to navigate effectively.