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WEB NEURAL NETWORK API

The Web Neural Network API is a dedicated low-level API for neural network inference hardware acceleration.

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MUSK'S SPACEX FILES TO GO PUBLIC IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST IPOS EVER

SpaceX has confidentially filed IPO paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company is aiming to raise between $40 billion and $80 billion. The filing puts it on track to potentially list shares by July. The confidential filing means most investors will have to wait until closer to the IPO to see the company's financial performance.

OPENAI IS FALLING OUT OF FAVOR WITH SECONDARY BUYERS

OpenAI shares have dropped in value on the secondary market as investors pivot to Anthropic. Investors are, in some cases, unable to sell their shares. Meanwhile, buyers have indicated that they have $2 billion in cash ready to deploy to Anthropic. Anthropic and OpenAI don't allow investors to trade shares on secondary markets without permission, but access is still available on many platforms through mechanisms such as special-purpose vehicles.

GOOGLE'S QUANTUM CRYPTO PAPER TELLS YOU QUITE A LOT

Google Quantum AI recently dropped a whitepaper with a headline finding that the cryptography that secures Bitcoin and most of the crypto ecosystem can be broken using fewer than half a million physical qubits on a superconducting architecture in about nine minutes. The company withheld the specific quantum circuit used in the name of responsible disclosure, but the paper constrains the search space so tightly that reproducing comparable circuits is well within reach for any serious quantum algorithms group. The qubit counts that make these cryptographic attacks feasible are roughly the same number of qubits required to make quantum-enhanced AI feasible. This suggests that the threat and capability of quantum computing will arrive roughly on the same timescale.

ECONOMISTS ON AI AND ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT

Economists and AI experts predict major AI progress, but there will be no dramatic break from economic trends. GDP growth rates will remain similar to today's despite a moderate decline in labor force participation. There will be significant economic impacts by 2050. It is predicted that by 2050, the labor force participation rate will be 55%, and 80% of wealth will be held by the top 10%, the highest disparity since 1939.

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THE SPEC LAYER

Spec-driven development means writing durable intent down before implementation, using it to plan, build, check, and revise the work. The goal is to reduce execution freedom. Specs should be declarative, layered, and cheap to revise. When a rule can be enforced mechanically, move it out of the spec and into lint, schemas, tests, or the harness. Specs matter, but they're just one layer. The winning model puts a narrow interface between human intent and machine execution.

THE FEEDBACK LOOP IS ALL YOU NEED

The most dangerous failure mode in agent-driven systems is silent drift - code that compiles and passes every test, but quietly violates the architectural assumptions that were thought safe. While humans can catch these mistakes through intuition, agents can't, so they need deterministic, immediate signals. This means tightening the feedback loop by shrinking the gap between a wrong change and a clear failure signal. Focus on feedback rather than chasing clever prompts.

WHAT I LEARNED FROM NEARLY 1,000 INTERVIEWS AT AMAZON

The people who get hired are the ones who can tell a clear story about their work and capabilities and make the interviewer think, 'I want to work with that person'. This is a skill, and like any skill, it can get better with practice. Most people never practice because they don't think it is something they can prepare for. A little preparation here goes further than almost anything else you can do for your career.

MICROSOFT CFO'S AI SPENDING RUNS UP AGAINST TECH BUBBLE FEARS

Amy Hood, Microsoft's longtime chief financial officer, has one of the hardest jobs in tech. The decision of how much to invest in AI without starving out other parts of the company or spooking investors with bottomless spending is a tough call, especially as projects about AI are educated guesses at best. While the industry consensus is to open the spigot for fear of missing out, Hood has kept a lid on costs, and Wall Street loves her for it. Huge AI investments have forced other companies to start burning cash, but Microsoft's margins have been largely stable.

THE GREAT CONVERGENCE

The AI industry is converging on the same idea of software that can take a goal, use tools, and do work on users' behalf.

ANTHROPIC PREDICTS DEMAND FOR COWORK AGENT TO DWARF CLAUDE CODE

Cowork is designed to tackle a broader range of tasks, so it potentially appeals to a bigger audience.

AMAZON LOOKING TO BUY GLOBALSTAR, THE COMPANY BEHIND APPLE'S SOS VIA SATELLITE

The deal is likely beneficial to Apple users, as long as Apple retains access to the Globalstar network.

EMDASH

EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS that takes the ideas that made WordPress dominant and rebuilds them on serverless, type-safe foundations.

KREMLIN ENTERS THE CHAT WITH RUSSIA'S NEW SUPER-APP

Russia's new superapp makes it easier for the Kremlin to curb internet freedoms and curtail the reach of Western tech platforms.

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ENTIRE CLAUDE CODE CLI SOURCE CODE LEAKS THANKS TO EXPOSED MAP FILE

Anthropic recently published a version of the Claude Code npm package that included a source map file that could be used to access the entirety of Claude Code's source code. More than 512,000 lines of code were leaked on a public GitHub repository, which has since been forked tens of thousands of times. Developers are already analyzing the code to find out how Claude Code works. Anthropic has publicly acknowledged the mistake.

APPLE TESTS SIRI FEATURE THAT HANDLES MULTIPLE COMMANDS AT ONCE

Apple is testing a feature in Siri that will let it process multiple requests in a single query. Siri currently requires users to make requests individually. The new feature will allow users to combine requests, for example, ask Siri to check the weather, create a calendar appointment, and send a message, all within a single prompt. The new Siri is expected to be released at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8.

MICROBUBBLES

Microbubbles are tiny gas-filled bubbles with a protective outer shell that are capable of carrying drugs or genetic material to cells in the body. They are too large to leave the bloodstream, so they deliver drugs by bursting on command, briefly forcing open biological barriers to allow treatments to pass through. The force of their bursts can be used to break apart kidney stones. These bubbles can be steered, so they can carry therapies through the bloodstream to release precisely where they're needed.

QUANTUM COMPUTERS NEED VASTLY FEWER RESOURCES THAN THOUGHT TO BREAK VITAL ENCRYPTION

Two independently written whitepapers have come to the same conclusion that building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack elliptic curves requires far fewer resources than anticipated. The papers are the latest sign that cryptographically relevant quantum computing at utility-scale is making meaningful progress. The advances are being driven by new quantum architectures that operate correctly even in the presence of errors, and ever more efficient algorithms. Neither of the papers has yet been peer reviewed.

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INSIDE THE CLAUDE CODE SOURCE

Claude Code CLI's source code was recently leaked on GitHub. This post breaks down how the system works, where Anthropic made clever engineering choices, and where Anthropic's approach diverges from OpenAI's Codex. Claude Code is about 500,000 lines of TypeScript, with the actual API call comprising maybe 200 of them. Everything else in the harness.

WHAT IS INFERENCE ENGINEERING? DEEPDIVE

Inference is when a model takes an input and generates an output, one token at a time. Inference engineering is becoming more widespread as open models become more capable. With closed models, inference engineering is only done by the AI engineers who build the model, but anyone can tinker with open models. This post discusses what inference engineering is and some interesting approaches to inference engineering worth knowing about.

PROJECT MARIO

Google decided to restructure itself in 2015, spinning out chunks of its operation as semi-independent bets and creating a holding company called Alphabet to preside over them. DeepMind used the opportunity to regain its independence. It planned to create a new DeepMind with a board comprising three people from DeepMind, three people from Alphabet, and three independent members. The ensuing governance talks were dubbed by DeepMind's leaders as 'Project Mario'.

MEET THE STARTUP THAT USED AI AND OPENCLAW TO AUTOMATE ITS OWN DEVELOPERS

JustPaid, a California-based startup, used a combination of OpenClaw and Claude Code to create a team of seven AI agents to grind out code 24/7. The agents have built 10 major features in a month, each of which would have taken a team of human developers a month or more to build. JustPaid plans to eventually replace all its employees with AI. The company currently has nine employees - its latest human hire was trained almost entirely by the AI agent engineers.

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ORACLE LAYS OFF WORKERS AMID HEAVY AI INVESTMENT

NORTH KOREAN HACKERS BLAMED FOR HIJACKING POPULAR AXIOS OPEN SOURCE PROJECT TO SPREAD MALWARE

Malicious versions of popular open source software development tool, Axios, were published on Monday, putting millions of developers at risk of being compromised.

THE SUBPRIME TECHNICAL DEBT CRISIS

Businesses are using AI under the assumption that the technology will eventually improve to the point that it will easily solve all of the technical debt currently accruing, but this might not be true.

YOU CAN FINALLY CHANGE THE GOOFY GMAIL ADDRESS YOU CHOSE YEARS AGO

Gmail users can now create new account names without losing access to their old addresses.

GOOGLE READIES SCREENLESS FITBIT BAND TO RIVAL GROWING WHOOP CRAZE

The band will integrate with an AI-powered personal health coach inside the newly redesigned Fitbit app.

OPENAI CLOSES SILICON VALLEY'S LARGEST-EVER FUNDING ROUND

OpenAI has raised $122 billion in a round that values the company at $852 billion.

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THE SUDDEN FALL OF OPENAI'S MOST HYPED PRODUCT SINCE CHATGPT

Sora was hyped as AI's next consumer-friendly frontier, and even Disney signed onto the vision. OpenAI then suddenly killed the project, with many Disney executives learning about the decision less than an hour before it was announced. OpenAI needed to free up more computing resources, and Sora was using far too much. The product wasn't profitable, and every user drew down a finite resource. CEO Sam Altman says the move was a difficult but necessary sacrifice toward the company's larger goals.

APPLE PIVOTS ITS AI STRATEGY TO APP STORE, SEARCH-LIKE PLATFORM APPROACH

Apple is recommitting to its core business model of selling hardware and services. It knows its homegrown AI technology lags behind competitors, so it is focusing on its core strengths. Historically, Apple's software has been about driving product sales rather than generating revenue in their own right. It plans to embed just enough AI in its OSes to keep users from defecting, while opening Siri and Apple Intelligence to third-party services. This approach leverages its hardware, makes its products more customizable, and keeps the company in control of its ecosystem.

INSIDE THE STEALTHY STARTUP THAT PITCHED BRAINLESS HUMAN CLONES

A Californian startup called R3 has raised funds to create non-sentient monkey 'organ sacks' as an alternative to animal testing. The startup's founder reportedly secretly pitched a vision where the startup creates 'brainless clones' to serve as backups for human bodies. This could be in the form of a baby version of a person with enough brain structure to be alive in case they ever need a new kidney or liver, or it may even be possible to one day transplant a brain into a younger clone to gain a second lifespan. The company has denied that it ever made the pitch, saying that any allegations of intent or conspiracy to create human clones or humans with brain damage are categorically false.

VULNERABILITY RESEARCH IS COOKED

Coding agents will soon drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development. A substantial amount of the high-impact vulnerability research will just be pointing an agent at a source three and telling it to find zero days. This will profoundly alter information security and the Internet itself.

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