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OpenAI has set its sights on building a fully automated agent-based AI researcher that will be able to tackle large, complex problems by itself. The company says this research goal will be its North Star for the next few years. It plans to build an autonomous AI intern by September. This intern will be a precursor to a fully automated multi-agent research system to debut in 2028.
An X user reported that Cursor's new Composer 2 model appears to be based on Moonshot AI's Kimi 2.5. Cursor later confirmed that the model started from an open base model and was further trained with reinforcement learning.
OpenAI plans to expand its workforce from 4,000 to 8,000 by the end of the year. The new hires will be across several departments, including product development, engineering, research, and sales. The hiring spree will include specialists for technical ambassadorship, employees who will help businesses better utilize their AI tools. The company is currently in advanced talks with private equity firms to deploy its tools across a firm's portfolio of companies.
Elon Musk announced Terafab, a $20 billion joint venture by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to build the world's largest chip manufacturing facility, aiming to generate a terawatt of computing power annually. The facility in Austin, Texas, will produce chips for terrestrial uses, like self-driving cars, and space use, supporting projects such as the proposed orbital data center. Despite Musk's ambitious claims, he has underdelivered on past ventures like Hyperloop and fully autonomous driving.
MiniMax M2.7 offers 90% of the quality of Claude Opus 4.6 at just 7% of the cost, excelling in bug detection but less thorough in fixes. It performs better in floating-point calculations and matches Claude in vulnerability detection, though Claude provides more comprehensive solutions. With rates of $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens versus Claude's $5/$25, MiniMax is a cost-effective tool that bridges the gap between open-weight and frontier models.
The tools for building software factories exist right now. Stripe's Minions prove the model works at scale. The role of the software engineer is shifting toward that of a factory biller. Developers can now build self-improving factories that use agents to read user feedback, A/B tests, and production data, then populate the backlog without human curation.
Token spend doesn't matter if tasks aren't being completed. The total tokens consumed per task varies across models. A company that charges double for tokens could still be the cheaper option if its models return the right answer in fewer turns. Instead of using token spend as a KPI, companies should measure cost per successfully completed task.
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This repository contains development skills for AI coding agents. They can be plugged into any AI coding tool for structured, production-quality guidance for frontend, full-stack, Android, iOS, and shader development. Installation instructions for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode are available.
Flash-MoE is an inference engine that can run Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (a 397 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model) on a MacBook Pro with 48GB RAM at 4.4+ tokens/second. It streams the entire 209 GB model from SSD through a custom Metal compute pipeline without Python or frameworks. Details about the architecture are available in the repository.
Nemotron-Cascade 2 is a 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters that achieved Olympiad-level performance while maintaining high efficiency through Cascade RL and multi-domain distillation.
OpenHarness provides the building blocks for building very capable general-purpose agents in code. These agents can delegate work to other agents that run autonomously without prompting for permission. OpenHarness supports the AGENTS.md spec and connection to Model Context Protocol servers. It integrates with AI SDK 5's data stream protocol, so developers can use it to stream agent sessions directly to useChat-based React UIs.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to extreme lengths to secure compute capacity in 2025. The company has signed billions of dollars of infrastructure deals. As the company gears up for a potential IPO later in the year, it is starting to temper expectations and outline a more measured strategy. The company is starting to realize that the market doesn't necessarily appreciate its past approach to growth and spending.
'Tokenmaxxing' is a new status game where AI-obsessed workers spend tokens to prove how productive they are. Some companies have employees compete on internal leaderboards that show how many tokens each worker consumes. There are developers spending thousands of dollars a month trying to automate as much of their work as possible. A single full-time agent can spend 700 million tokens a week. The leaderboards don't show whether these tokenmaxxers are actually producing anything good, or whether it is all productivity theater.
Tencent launched ClawBot to integrate its WeChat platform with the OpenClaw AI agent, advancing in China's AI agent market. ClawBot aims to enhance AI services on WeChat, providing both consumer and business applications and potentially boosting user engagement. The initiative could impact Tencent's revenue streams via increased usage, payments, advertising, and subscriptions, though it faces challenges from competitors like Baidu and Alibaba.
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Machine-to-machine auth between services no longer needs a round-trip to validate. Clerk's JWT M2M tokens verify locally — significantly lower latency, zero per-verification cost. Built for services calling
Perplexity is adding a Market Research section powered by its agentic multi-model Perplexity Computer system.
AI startups made up 41% of venture dollars on Carta last year, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI raising substantial funding.
Open-source AI models are rapidly closing the performance gap with frontier models, potentially making local AI processing more feasible and attractive.
Companies will increasingly rely on AI agents, necessitating world models to manage them efficiently.
Claude will run scheduled tasks via cloud infrastructure, so users don't need to keep Claude Code running on their local machines.
Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro models in September, but it may not launch until December, following Apple's pattern of delaying more experimental models like the iPhone X. The foldable design appears finalized and in advanced production stages, and it may support multitasking with two apps side-by-side when unfolded. Separately, Apple could expand the lineup in March 2027 with a new large-format model—either an iPhone 18 Plus or a successor to the Air—continuing its shift in how it spaces out releases across the year.
Android Canary build 2603 introduces a subtle blur effect during app launch and exit animations, where the background softly defocuses as an app opens and sharpens when returning to the home screen, improving visual continuity and perceived smoothness. Powered by efficient GPU-based rendering, this lightweight effect enhances depth and usability without hurting performance, signaling Google's continued focus on refined motion design and a more polished, cohesive Android experience in future releases.
Meta is reportedly developing an AI detection tool that would allow users to upload and analyze content to determine whether it was created with artificial intelligence. The feature was discovered through internal app code and appears as an "AI Detector" option in the Meta AI interface, though it's not yet functional. This development comes as Meta's own AI tools have contributed to flooding the internet with AI-generated content, suggesting the company may be trying to address the problem it helped create.
Figma replaced its decade-old Instance Updater architecture with a reactive system called Materializer, improving the performance of common operations in large design systems by up to 50%. The new framework separates concerns — layout, variable evaluation, and instance resolution now operate independently — eliminating cascading update bugs and reducing editor lockups. Built as a generic, reusable foundation, it already powers new features like rich text and slots, accelerating development across the company.
Usability alone doesn't guarantee user confidence — subtle behaviors like hesitation, re-reading content, and verifying information elsewhere signal eroding trust even when interfaces work flawlessly. Poor information architecture, inconsistent content, and AI-generated text that feels generic or imprecise are key contributors to this quiet erosion. Tracking these behavioral signals and designing interfaces that clarify intent at every step are what separate products that users merely navigate from those they actually believe in.
Existentialist philosophy argues that meaning is not created by designers but emerges through users' choices, context, and engagement, challenging the idea of users as passive recipients of predefined experiences. Drawing on thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Søren Kierkegaard, it suggests that overly optimized, frictionless systems can undermine agency, depth, and authentic engagement—encouraging passive consumption, conformity, or self-deception. Instead, design should support meaningful choice, visible alternatives, ethical responsibility, and even some friction, recognizing users as active participants shaping their own meaning within complex social and technological environments.
Previewed is a free browser-based mockup generator that allows users to create 2D and 3D device mockups for app stores, social media, and promotional content.
Drama is a Mac app for designing animations and prototyping user interaction. It allows you to create an entire structure of interconnected Scenes with transitions between them, and then run a simulation of the prototype.
The Icon Of is a collection of 1,100+ pixel-perfect icons, available in part for free download. The icons are suitable for any project and come in multiple formats, with a Figma plugin available.
Buenos Aires public transport is described as suffering from systemic service design failures—outdated infrastructure, lack of real-time information, poor ventilation, and safety issues—that persist because users have no viable alternatives. These shortcomings are framed as deliberate outcomes of a system built around “captive users” who must tolerate poor conditions, raising ethical concerns about design being used to manage discomfort rather than resolve it.
The UK cleft charity CLAPA rebranded to move beyond its child-focused, nostalgic identity and better represent people with cleft conditions across their entire lives, after feedback that its old image alienated adults. Working with The Team, the update replaced the “smiley face” with a more inclusive visual system, shifted its name from “Association” to “Action” to emphasize advocacy, and introduced a modern, experience-driven design aimed at increasing credibility, engagement, and long-term impact.
Usability and desirability are two distinct levels in UX design, with usability serving as the foundational requirement for an easy, intuitive product experience. Desirability goes beyond usability by solving the right problem and creating an emotional appeal that separates market leaders from competitors. While usability ensures functionality, desirability makes products memorable, recommendable, and commands premium pricing in the marketplace.
New York–based illustrator Xiao Hua Yang creates dreamlike, emotionally subtle work that blends digital and hand-drawn techniques, using surreal natural scenes and open-ended imagery to invite interpretation rather than define meaning.
Creative agency Something Familiar redesigned the visual identity for the non-profit Onvero, whose CEO, Sandi Wassmer, is blind.
Crochet artist Nicole Nikolich creates oversized textile replicas of early 2000s internet icons, such as Game Boys, flip phones, and computer game screens, including The Sims and Minesweeper.
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OpenAI's GPT-5.4 improves frontend development due to stronger image comprehension, native tool integration like Playwright for verification, and the capacity for longer, more autonomous development workflows. To achieve the best results, developers should provide clear design constraints, visual references, structured narratives, and define explicit design systems.
The OpenUI team built their parser in Rust/WASM, but experienced the "WASM Boundary Tax": the overhead of copying data between JavaScript and WASM. After trying multiple solutions, they rewrote the entire parser in TypeScript and implemented an O(N) statement-level incremental caching system to improve streaming performance over the prior O(N²) re-parsing approach.
TRQL (Trigger Query Language) is a SQL-style domain-specific language that provides users with secure SQL access to a shared multi-tenant ClickHouse cluster. TRQL queries are parsed into an Abstract Syntax Tree, which undergoes schema validation, automatic tenant isolation, and time restrictions before being compiled into ClickHouse SQL.
True value inherently requires significant time to develop and cannot be rushed or instantly replicated. There's a modern obsession with instant gratification, particularly in software development, where a focus on speed often leads to diminished quality, fleeting projects, and eroded trust.
It is 100% OK to wait and see if something is actually useful instead of feeling pressured to try new tech. For example, there was a lot of early hype around the metaverse which didn't pan out. If a technology is truly revolutionary, one can easily pick it up later at a chosen time.
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Writing custom auth screens for every platform is tedious. Clerk Expo 3.1 ships prebuilt sign-in, user button, and profile views rendered natively via SwiftUI on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android. Google Sign-In now uses platform-native APIs with no browser redirect required. See what's new in Clerk Expo 3.1.
OpenCode is a popular open-source AI coding agent. It has flexibility, supporting over 75 LLM providers, including local models, and integrates with existing subscriptions like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT Plus.
Project N.O.M.A.D. (Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data) is a self-contained, offline-first knowledge server that provides tools, educational resources, and AI capabilities without requiring an internet connection. The platform uses a Docker-based "Command Center" to manage a suite of services, including offline Wikipedia, local AI chat via Ollama, mapping tools, and an education platform.
The Rust Project's survey on AI showed that while contributors find value in AI for non-coding tasks like searching and reviewing, its application in coding is not as consistently good. Some main challenges include the difficulty of reviewing AI-generated code, its potential to hinder new developers, and broader ethical and legal issues concerning data provenance, bias, and copyright. The influx of low-quality, AI-generated contributions creates a heavy burden on maintainers too.
As AI agents increasingly outnumber human employees in the coming years, managing businesses will transform into a complex video game. The solution proposed is an "enterprise world model," a simulation engine that understands a company's rules, tracks its state, and predicts the consequences of various actions. This model would enable leaders to simulate "what-if" scenarios, from pricing changes to maintenance decisions.