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VANTAGE MCP SERVER

The Vantage MCP Server is an open-source tool that allows users to query cloud cost data using natural language through AI assistants and MCP clients.

JSFONTPICKER

jsfontpicker is a free, open-source JavaScript font picker component that supports system, Google, and custom fonts. It has features like dynamic loading, search, filtering, and translations.

SYCOPHANCY IN GPT-4O: WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT WE'RE DOING ABOUT IT

OpenAI rolled back the recent GPT-4o update in ChatGPT due to its overly flattering and sycophantic behavior, which made interactions feel uncomfortable and disingenuous. This behavior was from an overemphasis on short-term user feedback during the model's training. To address this, OpenAI is refining training techniques, building guardrails for honesty, and expanding user testing before deployments.

DARING FIREBALL: IS CHROME EVEN A SELLABLE ASSET?

Forcing Google to sell Chrome as a remedy for antitrust violations is impractical from both business and technical perspectives. Chrome's value is intrinsically linked to Google's ecosystem, not as a standalone entity, and a buyer would essentially only acquire the potential to collect traffic acquisition fees from Google, similar to Apple's Safari. Technically, Chrome is largely based on the open-source Chromium project, making its proprietary value questionable.

REACT-BASED STATIC SITE GENERATORS IN 2025: PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY

There are many React-based static site generators: Next.js is an enterprise solution, Astro is great for performance-oriented static sites, Remix offers developer-friendly full-stack capabilities, Qwik prioritizes performance innovation, TanStack Start provides a flexible modern stack, and Docusaurus specializes in documentation.

EVERYTHING WE ANNOUNCED AT OUR FIRST-EVER LLAMACON

At LlamaCon 2025, the Meta Llama ecosystem announced the Llama API for easier model building, new protection tools, a defender program for better security, and the recipients of the second Llama Impact Grants.

REACT NATIVE CALENDARS

React Native Calendars is a customizable, cross-platform React Native component for displaying calendars on iOS and Android with features like date marking, styling, and localization.

CHAIN OF RECURSIVE THOUGHTS

This repository shows a method that makes AI models think more effectively by having them recursively generate and evaluate alternative responses, leading to improved performance, especially during coding.

PYXL - GPIO BENCHMARK

PyXL is a custom hardware processor that runs Python code directly in silicon, achieving significantly faster and more deterministic GPIO performance compared to MicroPython by eliminating the interpreter and software stack.

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CHATGPT GOES SHOPPING WITH NEW PRODUCT-BROWSING FEATURE

OpenAI has announced new shopping features in ChatGPT Search that will allow users to search for products and purchase them through merchant websites after being redirected from the ChatGPT interface. The experience resembles Google Shopping - users click on a product image and the interface displays multiple retailers on the right side of the screen with buttons to complete purchases. Product reviews come from various online sources and users can choose which review sources for ChatGPT to prioritize. The product results are not sponsored for now, but the company is likely working towards enabling sponsored placements.

AMAZON LAUNCHES FIRST KUIPER INTERNET SATELLITES IN BID TO TAKE ON ELON MUSK'S STARLINK

Amazon launched its first batch of 27 Kuiper internet satellites into space on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida shortly after 7 PM ET yesterday. The Federal Communications Commission expects Amazon to launch half of its total constellation up in the air by July 2026. Amazon has booked more than 80 launches with ULA, SpaceX, Arianespace, and Blue Origin to deploy dozens of satellites at a time. The company will invest up to $10 billion to build the Kuiper network.

FIRST 3D-PRINTED STARBUCKS COFFEE SHOP OPENS TOMORROW IN TEXAS

A new 3D-printed Starbucks has opened in Brownsville, Texas. The Cobod BOD2-printed concrete fabricated shop is open for both in-person pickup and drive-through orders. It is not a very large store - its 1,400 sq ft shell is just enough for a mobile order pick-up desk and a drive-through coffee shop. There is no indoor seating and no in-person walk-in order system.

TOOTH SUCCESSFULLY GROWN IN LAB

Scientists from London's King's College and Imperial College have grown a tooth in a lab. They used a specially developed material to mimic the conditions required for natural tooth development. The technology could eventually offer patients a biological alternative to artificial fillings and implants. Now that researchers have replicated the right environment, the challenge is in translating the discovery into a clinical setting.

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MAGNITUDE

Magnitude is an end-to-end testing framework powered by visual AI agents that can see interfaces and adapt to any changes in them. It features a strong reasoning agent for planning and adjusting tests, a fast visual agent for reliably executing runs, and a reasoning agent that steps in if there is a problem. Magnitude saves plans to execute runs in the same way locally or in CI/CD pipelines.

THE ONE-PERSON FRAMEWORK IN PRACTICE

PlanGo had one developer until 2025. This was made possible through Rails, which allowed the developer to be fast and efficient. The company's apps combined have over 100,000 yearly downloads, all built and maintained by one Rails developer. This post discusses how PlanGo was developed, the lessons learned over 14 years of building as a solo technical founder, and PlanGo's future plans.

SYCOPHANCY IS THE FIRST LLM "DARK PATTERN"

OpenAI's models being overly sycophantic is bad because it's dangerous to validate people's belief that they're always in the right. This sycophancy is a dark pattern - a user interface designed to trick users into doing things they'd prefer not to do. The whole process of turning an AI base model into a model you can chat to is a process of making the model want to please the user. The problem happens when users collide with the real world and do things because a large language model has convinced them it is a good idea - and then they return to the model for comfort, and sink even deeper into the illusion.

ON DROPOUTS AND BOOTSTRAPS

Many in the tech industry arrived at where they are through their own work and research - reading the source code, books, and manuals and trying things out. While this may make some of them think they're better than college graduates, this is likely not the case: people are really good at justifying their status, and this is just another way for some people to reinforce existing power structures. A lot of college dropouts worked really hard to get where they are, but that doesn't mean they didn't also just get very lucky.

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WHATSAPP IS WORKING ON VIDEO AND VOICE CALLS ON THE WEB

A screenshot of what looks to be a WhatsApp group chat in a web browser that shows camera and phone icons is available in the article.

NETFLIX INTRODUCES A NEW KIND OF SUBTITLES FOR THE NON-HEARING IMPAIRED

The new format omits additional information needed by the hard of hearing, including character names, music cues, and sound effects.

BYD IS COMING FOR TESLA'S LUNCH

BYD has set an ambitious target to double its overseas sales to more than 800,000 cars in 2025.

NEW APPLE VISION ‘AIR' PRODUCT COULD LAUNCH THIS YEAR, PER REPORT

It is unclear whether the lighter version will be considered a replacement for the Vision Pro or a cheaper alternative.

GO READ PETER NAUR'S "PROGRAMMING AS THEORY BUILDING" AND THEN COME BACK AND TELL ME THAT LLMS CAN REPLACE HUMAN PROGRAMMERS

Large language models will need to be able to build theories about programs before they can replace human programmers.

BUSINESS FOUNDERS ARE LESS VALUABLE THAN THEY THINK

Founders often struggle to find a cofounder because they are not as valuable to the startup endeavor as they think they are.

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ANTHROPIC ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL

Anthropic announced the creation of a council of top economists to advise on the economic impacts of AI and guide research for its Anthropic Economic Index.

HUGGING FACE 3D-PRINTED ROBOTIC ARM

Hugging Face is selling a programmable 3D-printable robotic arm called SO-101 that can pick up objects. It is a camera-equipped robotic arm with improved assembly and motor performance.

OPENAI UPGRADES CHATGPT SEARCH WITH SHOPPING FEATURES

OpenAI has updated ChatGPT search to enhance online shopping by offering product recommendations, images, reviews, and purchase links. The new feature, part of its strategy to rival Google, uses structured metadata rather than ads, ensuring personalized and independent shopping results. OpenAI plans further personalization through ChatGPT's memory feature for Pro and Plus users, excluding some European regions.

SPEEDING UP GRAPH LEARNING MODELS WITH TORCH.COMPILE

This article demonstrates how to boost PyTorch graph learning model speeds by up to 35% using PyG and torch.compile without losing model accuracy.

DETECTING AND COUNTERING MALICIOUS USES OF CLAUDE

HANDLING MISSING LABELS WITH MULTIPLE IMPUTATION

This research introduced a multiple imputation method for evaluating classifiers with missing labels, offering accurate and robust predictive distributions even under MNAR conditions.

UNLEARNING IN LLMS

ReLearn offers a data augmentation and fine-tuning pipeline for effective unlearning in large language models.

GENERATIVE VIDEO MODELS FOR DRIVING

Valeo AI presents VaViM, an autoregressive video model that predicts spatio-temporal token sequences, and VaVAM, a model that translates learned video representations into driving trajectories via imitation learning.

THE EU IS ASKING FOR FEEDBACK ON FRONTIER AI REGULATION

The European AI Office is seeking expert feedback on interpreting key obligations for governing general-purpose AI (GPAI) under the EU AI Act. Major AI labs have agreed to align with these Codes of Practice, which will set a compliance baseline. Key topics include systemic risk thresholds, training compute estimation, and downstream fine-tuner responsibilities. Feedback is open until May 22.

DEEPMIND SHOWCASED ALPHAFOLD 3'S EXPANDED MOLECULAR PREDICTION ABILITIES

DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 has new capabilities to predict DNA, RNA, and molecule structures. It also has improved accuracy for complex molecular interactions. The tool is now free for non-commercial use through EMBL-EBI.

INTRODUCING MOBILITY AI: ADVANCING URBAN TRANSPORTATION

Google Research built new ML models to analyze congestion, parking, and travel demand patterns. The tools also estimated greenhouse gas reductions and transportation safety impacts. The project advanced urban mobility planning using geospatial and real-time data.

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GOOGLE CLOUD WAN FOR THE AI ERA

Google shares how its global WAN evolved to support resilient cloud services, which maintained connectivity during the West African cable outages.

ADOBE AND FIGMA TOOLS ARE GETTING CHATGPT'S UPGRADED IMAGE GENERATION MODEL

OpenAI made its upgraded image generator model accessible to other companies via the "gpt-image-1" API.

FIGMA 2025 AI REPORT: PERSPECTIVES

Figma surveyed designers and found strong optimism for AI-driven creative workflows in 2025.

ETHEREUM RESEARCHER PROPOSES 100-FOLD 'EXPONENTIAL' GAS LIMIT BOOST TO IMPROVE MAINNET SCALING

Ethereum researcher Dankrad Feist has proposed EIP-9698, a plan to increase the network's gas limit by 100x over four years, potentially enabling up to 2,000 transactions per second. While it could greatly improve scalability and competitiveness, it may strain less-optimized nodes and slow block propagation, requiring gradual adaptation.

NEXO TO REENTER US MARKET AFTER TWO-YEAR REGULATORY EXIT AND $45 MILLION SETTLEMENT

Nexo is reentering the U.S. market nearly two years after exiting due to regulatory scrutiny, having paid a $45M settlement without admitting wrongdoing. Announced at a private event attended by Donald Trump Jr., Nexo's return aligns with the Trump administration's more crypto-friendly regulatory stance and includes plans to relaunch savings accounts, asset-backed loans, and other core services.