Data-first home robot company Sunday Robotics has announced a Series B raise. The company's unique approach claims zero robot data, with a focus on real-world data only. It uses exact duplicates of tools mounted on robot arms to collect all of its robot data while data collectors wear a hat that captures wide field-of-view RGB camera images. The company has developed a glove that allows it to create a distributed network of operators to collect high-quality, diverse data at a massive scale.
Factory-manufactured homes can, in certain cases, yield substantial cost savings over conventional construction. A single-wide manufactured home is probably around 40% to 50% cheaper than an equivalent site-built home. However, these savings quickly disappear with larger and more complex homes. This doesn't mean the industrialization of home building is a doomed enterprise, but it does show how it is an enormously complex problem.
You've built the perfect fine-tuned model - but running it on generic cloud infrastructure, you're going to hit performance bottlenecks. The culprit? Standard infra that wasn't designed for proprietary architectures.
The Perplexity API platform replaces model providers, search layers, and embeddings. It allows developers to swap between the latest frontier models and configure curated presets, tool access, step limits, and token budgets, all from one endpoint. Developers have direct access to the same index that powers Perplexity to call real-time information with citations within apps and agents. They will also have access to the same execution environment that Perplexity uses internally as a standalone service.
Shopify's Liquid is an open-source Ruby template engine somewhat inspired by Django. Its developer found dozens of new performance micro-optimizations using a variant of Andrej Karpathy's Autoresearch, a system that runs hundreds of semi-autonomous experiments to find new effective training techniques. Implementing the optimizations resulted in a 53% improvement on benchmarks, an impressive improvement for a code base that's been tweaked with hundreds of contributors over 20 years. The experiment shows how effective the Autoresearch pattern can be.
The market instability in February was a preview of what it feels like when the increasing ability of AI starts to interact with markets, jobs, and governments all at once. While feelings of uncertainty will likely spread further, uncertainty is not the same as helplessness. The choices that individuals and organizations make now matter because there is still time to influence the direction the technology develops. Every organization trying to figure out a good way to use AI right now is setting a precedent for everyone else.
A huge amount of modern work is already hollow. People sit in meetings that don't matter, produce things that won't last, and perform a version of productivity that everyone silently pretends is real. Most mass layoffs aren't really due to some AI revolution, but because those jobs were already obsolete. AI is bringing in an era where the constraints of work that told us what to do, who to be, and how to spend our days are dissolving. It will take us some time to learn how to deal with this freedom.
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This post describes a vibe coding system that uses types as specifications, which forces compilers to reject code until they can produce a valid proof that the output satisfies the specification.
Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone will have an iPad-like layout when opened. It will be able to run apps side-by-side for the first time. The interior foldable display will be roughly the size of an iPad mini. The external screen will be about the size of the display on a small iPhone. Apple is developing new iOS app layouts so developers can adapt their software to the new interface.
Elon Musk has revealed a new joint project between Tesla and xAI called 'Macrohard' or 'Digital Optimus' aimed at creating a system capable of emulating the functions of software companies. The project pairs xAI's Grok with a Tesla-developed AI agent that processes real-time computer screen video and keyboard and mouse actions. The system will run on Tesla's in-house AI4 chip paired with xAI's Nvidia-based server hardware. xAI applied for a trademark for 'Macrohard' in August 2025.
Anduril is acquiring ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space intelligence firm that operates a network of sensors that monitor the movements of satellites above Earth. The acquisition will more than double Anduril's staff dedicated to space projects. Anduril is best known for developing autonomous weapons such as cruise missiles, jet-powered missile interceptors, and underwater drones. The purchase of ExoAnalytic will accelerate Anduril's work on supporting national security space customers.
AI-based tools can now help scientists design original antibodies on computers. Antibodies are among the most versatile tools in biology. Before AI, scientists searching for a useful antibody would have to screen billions of candidates in laboratory assays to identify just a handful with a high affinity for a target. Now, suitable binders can be found after just tens of attempts rather than billions. This post shows readers the modern computational process for designing antibodies from scratch.
Thanks to advances in WebAssembly, it is now possible to spin up a web server, a database, and a full WordPress installation within a browser in about 30 seconds. WordPress has now launched a site that does exactly that. Users can launch it to build sites and cross-publish apps to the web, desktop, and iOS. WordPress plans to add features like peer-to-peer sync, version control integration, and cloud publishing.
The JavaScript Temporal object, a full replacement for the Date object, enables date and time management in various scenarios, such as time zone and calendar representation, wall-clock time conversions, arithmetics, and formatting. It has an intricate and powerful API that exposes over 200 utility methods via several classes. Implementing Temporal was a challenge as it was a very large proposal that brought more challenges to JavaScript than any other proposal in the programming language's history. This post takes readers through the journey of how Temporal came to be.
Individual AI is the vector by which most of the world's businesses will first experience the transformative magic of AI. However, productive individuals do not make productive firms. There is a gaping need for institutional intelligence that creates coordination, finds signal, creates objectivity, optimizes for edge, and scales revenue. Organizations need an institutional AI purpose-built for domain-specific problems that individual AIs can leverage as a tool.
Companies are hiring again, but at a lower rate than before. AI is helping teams ship with smaller headcounts. Most organizations aren't laying workers off or restructuring, just hiring less than planned. AI is taking jobs, just invisibly, one unposted job at a time.
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Generative models are useful when the relative cost of encoding the work in a prompt and verifying the output is low, and the process used to complete the work doesn't matter.
Token economics break product feedback loops by introducing a competing optimization target, leading teams to stop asking what developers need and focus on supporting the token narrative.
Meta has acquired the Reddit-esque simulated social network, Moltbook. Moltbook's creator, Matt Schlicht, and his business partner, Ben Parr, will work within Meta Superintelligence Labs. Moltbook was created using OpenClaw, a wrapper for LLM coding agents that lets users prompt them via popular chat apps. OpenClaw's founder was hired by OpenAI in February.
YouTube has become the world's largest media company. It gained more than $60 billion in revenue in 2025. The company is now valued between $500 billion and $560 billion, far above any traditional media competitors. YouTube's scale as a distributor, along with its heavy investment in AI tools, will help it continue its explosive growth.
SpaceX's Starship lunar lander for NASA faces more delays. NASA recently moved the company's June 2027 moon landing deadline to 2028. A major review of Starship's design was postponed until August, leaving little room to meet the current schedule. The biggest challenge facing Starship's development is demonstrating the vehicle's ability to be refueled in orbit, which must be done repeatedly in order to reach the Moon.
Researchers have developed a universal vaccine formula that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria, and even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally, and it provides broad protection in the lungs for several months. It works by mimicking the signals that immune cells use to communicate with each other during an infection. The vaccine has only been tested in mice, but researchers estimate, in the best-case scenario, that it might be available in five to seven years.
Cloudflare's Browser Rendering API renders pages in a headless browser and returns the data in multiple formats, including HTML, Markdown, and structured JSON. It is now available in open beta for both the Workers Free and Paid plans. Users can configure crawl depth, page limits, and wildcard patterns to include or exclude specific URL paths. The crawler honors robots.txt directives.
The smarter and more experienced a human is, the better job they will do. Even small tasks benefit from the general life experience of the person doing the execution. This is why SOTA models will always be better than small, specialized models. The best models keep coming down in price, so enterprises will likely just use general models in the long term instead of tuning less capable models.
ATMs were predicted to increase bank teller unemployment, but they didn't. However, the number of bank tellers started to fall after the birth of the iPhone. When a technology automates what a human does within an existing paradigm, it rarely gets rid of the human, as the definition of the paradigm creates the need for human involvement. The iPhone created a new paradigm that made the tasks that the ATM substituted irrelevant.
Anthropic could lose billions of dollars in revenue this year due to the Department of War's declaration of the company as a supply-chain risk. It has asked a judge to take quick action on its request to block the decision. The declaration has led to more than 100 enterprise customers contacting Anthropic to express doubt about continuing their relationship. A hearing on Anthropic's request had been set for April 3, but the judge moved it up to March 24.
Pact is a multi-agent software engineering framework designed for projects where getting the boundaries right matters more than getting the code written fast.
Quality enhancements that used to be time-consuming have now dropped in cost to the point where there's no excuse not to invest in quality while shipping new features.