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The headlines reaching mainstream audiences about AI range from depressing to doomsday.

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APPLE CAN CREATE SMALLER ON-DEVICE AI MODELS FROM GOOGLE'S GEMINI

Apple has complete access to Google's Gemini model in its own data centers. The company is able to edit the model as needed to make sure it responds to queries the way it wants, and also use the answers and reasoning information from the model to train smaller, cheaper models. The distillation process will enable Apple to create models that can run on its devices without the need to connect to the internet. Apple is still working on its own AI models, distinct from the Gemini models.

META AND YOUTUBE LOSE LANDMARK SOCIAL-MEDIA ADDICTION TRIAL

Meta and YouTube have been found negligent for operating a product that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those dangers. The companies have been ordered to pay $3 million to the plaintiff of the trial, with the jury saying that they should pay another $3 million in punitive damages. Both companies plan to appeal the verdict. More than 3,000 similar lawsuits against Meta, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok are pending in California courts.

WORLD'S FIRST ANTIMATTER DELIVERY BY TRUCK SIGNALS A 'NEW ERA' IN PHYSICS

CERN scientists transported antiprotons on a 10-kilometer drive around the campus in a truck. Moving antimatter particles is a major challenge, as when antimatter comes into contact with matter, it annihilates and disappears in a flash of energetic particles. The scientists have found a way to trap antiprotons inside a special ion trap. This will allow them to be transferred to other, quieter facilities where they can be studied with greater precision.

WE GOT AN AUDIENCE WITH THE “LUNAR VICEROY” TO TALK HOW NASA WILL BUILD A MOON BASE

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman jokingly referred to Carlos Garcia-Galan, the space agency's new Moon base manager, as the 'Lunar Viceroy' during the Ignition event on Tuesday. Garcia-Galan is a long-time NASA employee who has been largely anonymous in the past. He plans to focus on the most relevant things to the critical path and on removing choke points that are slowing the organization down. He says the agency has the budget to support all of the activities he has planned on and near the Moon.

HOW ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE THINKS

Claude was trained on data, and it developed its own strategies, so the people who built it didn't really know how it worked. Anthropic built a set of tools to trace the actual computational steps the model takes to produce an answer. Its team traced Claude's internal computations across tasks over the course of multiple research papers published in 2025. This article reviews these papers to see what the Claude researchers found.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERVIEWS FOR THE AGE OF AI

AI probably won't be able to replace engineers within the next few decades. Businesses currently still need great engineers. AI may generate plausible code, but a human still has to verify it, because people pay for reliable services. This guide shows how to hire great software engineers who get things done, sometimes with AI.

GOOGLE BUMPS UP Q DAY DEADLINE TO 2029, FAR SOONER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT

Q Day is the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms. Everyone should prepare by adopting post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. Google is now giving itself until 2029 to prepare for the event. The beta version of Android 17 will add support for developers to have PQC keys for signing their apps and verifying other software signatures.

NOTES FROM THE SAAS FUNERAL

The moat around SaaS has weakened. However, a reduction of margins is not the same as being dead. Companies are unlikely to be able to prompt their way to a full functional HR system, accounts payable platform, or enterprise CRM anytime soon. Software businesses are living systems that require maintenance, verification, security, compliance, and ongoing refinement.

NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOUR CAREER

The only person responsible for growing your career is you.

GOOGLE'S TURBOQUANT AI-COMPRESSION ALGORITHM CAN REDUCE LLM MEMORY USAGE BY 6X

TurboQuant is a compression algorithm that reduces the memory footprint of large language models while boosting speed and maintaining accuracy.

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META CUTTING SEVERAL HUNDRED JOBS ACROSS REALITY LABS, FACEBOOK, AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS

Some of the impacted employees are being offered new roles within Meta.

FIGMA'S NEXT-GENERATION DATA CACHING PLATFORM

FigCache is a stateless, RESP-wire-protocol proxy service that has helped Figma's caching layer achieve six nines of uptime since its rollout.

ELON MUSK TEASES NEW TESLA SUV: 'WAY COOLER THAN A MINIVAN'

The CyberSUV will be a direct competitor in the highly profitable luxury segment.

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APPLE PLANS AI REBOOT WITH SIRI APP, NEW LOOK AND ‘ASK SIRI' BUTTON IN IOS 27

Apple is testing a standalone app for Siri and an 'Ask Siri' feature that will work across the company's software. Apple has been working to transform Siri from a traditional voice assistant to a systemwide AI agent with deep integration across platforms. The updated Siri will have better control features within Apple systems and be able to interact with users in a conversational format through text and voice. It is slated to be unveiled at Apple's WWDC on June 8 as part of iOS 27 and macOS 27.

OPENAI SCRAPS SORA VIDEO PLATFORM MONTHS AFTER LAUNCH

OpenAI has pulled the plug on its Sora video platform. The move is one of a number of steps the company is taking to refocus its business ahead of a potential initial public offering. OpenAI is redirecting its computing resources and top talent toward productivity tools that can be used by both enterprises and individual users. It plans to consolidate its products into one superapp to align its employees around a single vision.

ORBITAL DATA CENTERS, PART 1: THERE'S NO WAY THIS IS ECONOMICALLY VIABLE, RIGHT?

Replicating the output of a single large terrestrial data center would require hundreds of satellites. Building things in space is enormously expensive. While there are advantages to putting data centers in space, such as the abundant energy provided by the Sun, the high costs make such a venture likely unviable. There may also be other impacts of putting data centers into space, such as crowding out the night sky, which would impact astronomers and other space-based ventures.

AMAZON ACQUIRES ‘APPROACHABLE' HUMANOID MAKER FAUNA ROBOTICS

Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup that builds 'approachable' humanoid robots. Fauna was founded in 2024 by former Meta and Google engineers. It launched a bipedal robot earlier this year called Sprout and had signed up Disney and Boston Dynamics as early customers. The purchase of Fauna puts Amazon into the increasingly crowded humanoid robot market.

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AUTO MODE FOR CLAUDE CODE

Auto mode for Claude Code is an alternative to --dangerously-skip-permissions. It allows Claude to make permission decisions autonomously. A separate classifier model reviews conversations before each action runs to see whether actions match intent. It blocks actions that escalate beyond the task scope or seem otherwise unsafe. Auto mode ships with an extensive set of default filters, and users can customize them further with their own rules.

WHAT WE WISH WE KNEW ABOUT BUILDING AI AGENTS

The capabilities of agents are unquestionably valuable, but sometimes an MCP server is a better fit. A harness is not a moat - context is your advantage. Set up observability and evaluation from day one, as understanding user experience is critical to building a successful agent. It doesn't matter how 'cool' your capabilities are, as solving customer problems is the goal. Building an agent is a product engineering problem that requires talking to users, shipping features they want, and iteration.

MY PRODIGAL BRAINCHILD

Meta has decided to shut down its Metaverse project, which the company reportedly spent $80 billion on. The company's vision of people wearing devices on their faces all the time is unlikely to be realized. People care too much about what they look like, and there is too much social stigma against being recorded without permission. There are already hundreds of millions of people in metaverses that don't require a headset to access.

AGENCY

Agency is the ability to hold the entire development loop in your head and act on it. A high-agency person can move through the whole sequence without waiting for someone else to hand them the next step. Agency is what you call it when one person can cover the full distance. What matters is that the whole thing exists in a user's hands, and that it was driven there quickly by one person's judgment.

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META EXECUTIVE WILL SPEARHEAD PUSH TO GET EMPLOYEES USING MORE AI

Andrew Bosworth will oversee Meta's 'AI For Work' initiative to help drive AI adoption across the company's 78,000-person workforce.

CHOOSE BORING TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIVE PRACTICES

Be conservative in the software you use, but be freely innovative in how you use it.

ARM RELEASES FIRST IN-HOUSE CHIP, WITH META AS DEBUT CUSTOMER

It is unknown what the terms of agreement are, but if Arm gets even 5% of Meta's up to $135 billion of capital expenditures slated for this year, it will be a game-changer for its top line.

THE CASE FOR WORRYING ABOUT AI-SPECIFIC COGNITIVE DEBT

AI could create a shortage of engineers who can possibly understand codebases.

OSSATURE

Ossature is an open-source harness for spec-driven code generation.

GRIDLAND

Gridland enables developers to build terminal apps that run in the browser.

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ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE CAN NOW CONTROL YOUR COMPUTER

Claude can now take control of a computer to perform tasks for Claude Pro and Claude Max users on macOS. It can manually perform tasks by typing or moving the cursor and use programs like web browsers, dev tools, and file browsers. The agent will always ask for permission before performing tasks, and users can stop the agent from performing a task at any time. Anthropic has implemented safeguards to minimize risks like prompt injections.

MORE MAGIC MATH FROM OPENAI?

OpenAI is offering 17.5% guaranteed returns to private equity firms. It is likely offering the deal because the company needs money, and private equity is the last large pool of capital it can tap. No healthy business needs to offer the terms that OpenAI is offering. The need for cash is real.

ALPHABET'S DRONE DELIVERY STARTUP, WING, EXPANDS SERVICE TO THE BAY AREA

Wing is bringing its ultra-fast residential drone delivery service to the Bay Area. The company currently operates in limited areas of Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth. It has completed more than 750,000 deliveries. Users can get drone delivery through eligible apps like Walmart and DoorDash, as well as Wing's own marketplace.

DESIGNING AI FOR DISRUPTIVE SCIENCE

There is hope that, if we build systems with much stronger general reasoning, discovery will follow as a near-automatic consequence, but there is no guarantee that this will happen. Many technologies have promised radical scientific acceleration yet failed to do so. For example, the Internet has made it much easier to search and collaborate, but revolution has not largely emerged at scale, mostly because of deeper inefficiencies in how science is organized. There is even evidence that online journals narrow what researchers read and cite, potentially accelerating consensus instead of expanding the space of ideas explored.

CQ: STACK OVERFLOW FOR AGENTS

cq is a way for agents to share the useful knowledge they have locally for the benefit of other agents. It allows agents to share knowledge, with other agents confirming what works and flagging what's gone stale. This stops agents from wasting tokens on what doesn't work. The more knowledge the agents share, the better they all get.

HOW WE MADE RAMP SHEETS SELF-MAINTAINING

Ramp built an agentic system to maintain Ramp Sheets that continuously monitors production, triages alerts, and proposes fixes without human intervention. All code still requires engineer review before it is merged. This article explains how the team built the system. Strong observability and QA means fewer bugs, less downtime, and a better experience for Ramp customers, and agents make exhaustive monitoring feasible at a production scale.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO PATHS LEFT FOR SOFTWARE

Public markets are saying that software is not as valuable as it used to be. CEOs need to either accelerate revenue growth by 10+ percentage points, year over year, through genuinely new AI-native products over the course of the next 12-18 months, or rebuild their companies to 40%+ true operating margins, including stock-based compensation. By the end of next year, everything between those paths of high growth and high profits will look like no-man's land. CEOs today need clear initiatives to drive toward one of these outcomes.