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At Fern, we're building open source tools to automatically generate idiomatic SDKs and documentation for any API.
Copilot coding agent lets developers delegate issues so they can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most. Developers simply assign issues to Copilot as they would another developer, and Copilot will work in the background using a secure cloud-based development environment. The agent will explore the repository, make changes, and validate its work before it pushes. Developers can ask Copilot to make changes to pull requests by leaving comments. The agent excels in low-to-medium complex tasks in well-tested codebases.
Anthropic's Claude Code SDK allows developers to programmatically integrate Claude Code into their applications. It enables running Claude Code as a subprocess. The SDK currently supports command-line usage. TypeScript and Python SDKs are coming soon. This page provides a guide on basic SDK usage.
Vibe coding represents a fundamental reimagining of the software development process. Instead of crafting lines of code, developers get to focus on vision and creative direction. It has the potential to transform technology development for the better - anyone with an idea for how technology could solve a problem can create that solution without specialized technical training. Vibe coding isn't just a technical shift, it's a cultural one that challenges assumptions about who gets to create technology and how that creation happens.
Apple is known for not giving its employees free lunches - even Steve Jobs paid for his own lunch. However, recently, the team working on Apple Intelligence were given vouchers to eat for free, breeding resentment among other teams. The team still shipped late. This article looks at the multiple failures within Apple's AI efforts. Apple may need to make some big changes to catch up, such as a big acquisition. While it doesn't usually make such moves, the current situation isn't typical - the company needs to let go of the past and operate in the future.
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What began as a survival strategy against US sanctions has evolved into an initiative to position HarmonyOS as a dominant operating system across smartphones, tablets, TVs, and PCs.
This developer built custom terminal business cards to give others a way to connect to them that felt a little different.
This post looks at different ways to store information for large language models to access later in the interaction.
Poor design leads to semantic confusion and technical instability - this post presents a list of design principles to follow for formal database design.
Apple has been asked to approve Epic's submission for Fortnite on the US App Store or return to court to explain the legal basis as to why it has not done so.
A transcript of an interview with Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott, where he talks about the future of search, Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, Scott's feelings about AI's capabilities scaling up over time, and his thoughts on AI as a creative tool.
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Currently available on Android, this marks the AI research assistant's first mobile experience since launching in 2023. The app includes mobile-specific features like background playback and offline support for mobile users. An iOS version will be released tomorrow during Google I/O.
Microsoft is integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) natively into Windows and launching the Windows AI Foundry, which will allow AI agents to interact directly with the operating system and applications. The company is proceeding cautiously with security controls to prevent token theft and prompt injection.
Character.AI has rolled out chat memories, allowing users to input fixed personal information that Characters can remember.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, argues that America's chip export restrictions are “exactly wrong” as they force China to build competing AI ecosystems while causing American companies to lose revenue. Specifically, Huang estimated that Nvidia wrote off $5.5 billion in inventory and forfeited $15 billion in Chinese sales. Huang predicts AI will expand beyond IT into manufacturing and operations, creating a much larger market where enterprises will pay "$100,000 a year" for AI workers to address labor shortages.
OpenAI's o3 reasoning model has rapidly improved but may soon reach scaling limits. Current reasoning models like o3 could quickly converge with overall training compute growth (~4× per year) after initial rapid scaling. There are concerns about data constraints and generalizability, but researchers remain optimistic about continued advancements in reasoning capabilities.
China's AI market is a five-way race. Alibaba dominates open source, ByteDance leverages multimodal capabilities across its existing applications (similar to Meta), Shanghai-backed Stepfun excels in multimodal fusion, Tsinghua-affiliated Zhipu pioneers intelligent agents, and DeepSeek is research-focused, most known for novel architecture optimization.
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ShieldGemma 2, built on Gemma 3, is an open-source 4 billion parameter content moderation model from DeepMind designed as an input filter to vision language models or an output filter for image generation systems.
This repository fine-tunes the Qwen2.5B model for reasoning tasks using a cost-effective SFT + GRPO pipeline inspired by DeepSeek R1 and optimized for AWS.
This study highlights vulnerabilities in LLM-based safety judges, showing that prompt sensitivity and adversarial attacks can significantly impact evaluation reliability.
Microsoft and Hugging Face expanded their partnership to integrate over 10,000 Hugging Face models into Azure AI Foundry.
Databricks is acquiring Neon, a serverless Postgres company, to enhance developer and AI-native database capabilities. Neon revolutionized databases by decoupling storage and compute and supporting AI-driven operations. This acquisition aims to disrupt the $100B OLTP database market with a platform optimized for developers and AI agents.
The OpenAI to Z Challenge is a community competition that invites developers to build AI-powered apps across 26 creative categories, from A to Z. Winners in each category get $2,500 in API credits and a chance to be featured by OpenAI. Submissions are open now through May 31.
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NVIDIA introduced NVLink Fusion to support hybrid AI infrastructures, combining NVIDIA GPUs or Grace CPUs with third-party chips.
Microsoft has made xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini available via Azure AI Foundry, offering full service-level agreements and direct billing through Azure.
Perplexity has partnered with PayPal to enable in-chat purchases, allowing U.S. users to shop directly through the platform.
Crypto investment products saw $785 million in inflows last week, marking the fifth consecutive week of gains. Ethereum was labeled the “standout performer” after adding $205 million (the strongest showing this year). The uptick reflects renewed investor confidence following Ethereum's Pectra upgrade and leadership changes, even as U.S. spot ETH ETFs contributed just $41.8 million.
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) acquired 7,390 BTC for approximately $765 million at an average price just under $103,500 as bitcoin climbed past $100 K, lifting its year-to-date bitcoin yield to 16.3% and bringing its total holdings to 576,230 BTC purchased at an average cost of $69,726. At today's prices, those holdings are worth over $59.2 billion, representing an unrealized gain of $19.2 billion (47%). In a concurrent SEC filing, Strategy disclosed a class-action lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia accusing its executives of misleading investors about the profitability and risks of its bitcoin-focused strategy.
MegaETH tackles the scalability bottleneck of redundant work by dividing network roles into four specialized node types: Sequencers that hold state in RAM and produce 10 ms blocks, lightweight Provers that generate cryptographic proofs asynchronously, resource‑efficient Replicas that apply state diffs and verify them via proofs, and optional Full Nodes that re‑execute blocks for maximum trustlessness. This architecture eliminates the need for every node to perform every task, achieving 1.7 Gigagas/s throughput today without pricing out smaller participants thanks to minimal hardware requirements for Prover and Replica nodes. Sequencer rotation among a set of builders preserves decentralization, while Full Nodes offer a trust anchor for critical applications. MegaETH's long-term goal is 1ms block times and over 10 Gigagas/s capacity.
CDP's new policy engine allows wallets to filter transactions to a restricted set of addresses, limit access to known smart contracts, and enforce per-address transaction limits. Combining the policies with AgentKit enables a spectrum of guardrail strength for ensuring agents have autonomy to the degree a human is comfortable with. CDP's wallet product is now a leading solution for building programmable, server-side wallets with applications including neobanks, AI agents, and embedded experiences.
Vitalik Buterin has outlined a refinement to Ethereum's scaling roadmap that preserves the ability to run personal full nodes despite rising L1 gas limits. “Partially stateless nodes” verify blocks without storing the full state, keeping only user-specified data. This enables private, censorship-resistant, and trustless local access to the chain. Short-term priorities include fully rolling out EIP-4444, building erasure-coded distributed history, and repricing storage-heavy opcodes to lower the barrier for node operation in a more data-intensive future.
Web2 attack vectors like social engineering, key leakage, supply‑chain exploits account for over three times the value lost to smart‑contract bugs ($3.31 billion vs. $983 million since January 2023), driven by poor DevOps, phishing, and lax device/key management. A paranoid “Don't Trust, Verify” mindset, strict phishing education, hardware‑key 2FA, sandboxed code execution, and rigorous password/key rotation are critical for thwarting threats ranging from script kiddies to nation‑state actors. This guide includes platform‑specific best practices for Twitter, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Google Workspace, GitHub, cloud environments, and multisigs, plus physical security measures against tailgating and device compromise.
Bipartisan sponsors designed the GENIUS Act to establish a pro-growth federal stablecoin framework. It requires fully backed, privately issued “digital dollars” to maintain U.S. Dollar primacy, cut payment costs for families and small businesses, and direct fintech investment to American communities. Progressive advocacy groups like Americans for Financial Reform and Better Markets instead pressured the SEC under Chair Gensler toward enforcement-first crypto regulation, leading to high-profile policy missteps and disenchantment among crypto-savvy voters. Their behind-the-scenes influence derailed early congressional hearings and favored enforcement over transparent rulemaking, alienating a key constituency in the 2024 election.
With EIP-7702 now live, developers would like permit2 (Uniswap-created workaround for gasless token approvals) to be retired because of its added security risks and implementation complexity. Unlike permit2, which required broad approvals and was prone to multi-asset abuse via a single signature, EIP-7702 enables clean batch transactions without added smart contract code. Though adoption will take time, 7702 offers a more secure and streamlined path forward, making permit2 redundant.
Over the next 12–24 months, major crypto wallets like Phantom and Trust Wallet are expected to roll out integrated crypto cards, streamlining onchain-to-real-world spending.
Japanese investment firm Metaplanet purchased 1,004 BTC for ~$104M, bringing its total holdings to 7,800 BTC (~$806M).
Claiming that altcoins deserve a “monetary premium” just because Bitcoin has one is flawed logic.
Many assets today move on narrative, not fundamentals, and some always will.
Hedra raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total to $44 million since 2024. Its Character 3 model lets users create lifelike AI character videos from text, audio, and images via Hedra Studio. With 3 million users and over 10 million videos made, it powers viral content like AI talking babies. Hedra plans to triple its 20-person team and boost research to enhance video quality and control.
Maxon unveiled a real-time rendering tool for architects and designers at the AIA Conference in Boston. The tool integrates Cinema 4D and Redshift into Vectorworks, enabling cinematic 3D visuals without complexity. Features include real-time previews, cinematic lighting, and high-quality renders, with future platform support planned. The tool also supports cross-platform use and seamless transfers to Cinema 4D using blockbuster-grade tech.
VUZ raised $12 million in a pre-Series C round to grow its immersive video platform in emerging markets and the U.S. With 15 million users and nearly 3 billion screen views, it secured exclusive streaming deals, revamped monetization, and hit EBITDA profitability in 2024. Focusing on hyper-local content, creator support, and partnerships, VUZ aims to stand out from giants like YouTube and TikTok and reach 5 billion views by 2026.
UX research moves from data (observations) to findings (patterns) to insights (actionable value). Designers should aim for theoretical saturation, not statistical significance, to avoid costly mistakes. The “What Happened + Why + So What” framework turns findings into stories that highlight business value, making UX insights harder to dismiss in stakeholder meetings.
Designers can avoid shadow planning, or copying existing designs, by not relying on analogies like “It's like Amazon but for pets.” Instead, they should define value propositions by identifying target users, key problems, provisional personas, and unique selling points. This keeps designs contextually relevant and protects creative control, especially as AI threatens to standardize interfaces.
Jaguar's 2023 rebrand by Accenture Song aimed to position it as an all-electric luxury brand by 2026 but ended up alienating loyal fans, confusing new buyers, and cutting sales nearly in half. Critics say it dropped emotional and visual assets without a strong new identity. As Jaguar seeks a new agency, the lesson is clear: rebrands should evolve identity and preserve emotional connection, even in a tech-driven future.