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HOW TO WRITE WITH AN LLM

Use your own words, don't let the model trick you into thinking your draft is good, and let the model act as a copyeditor.

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GOOGLE WANTS TO GIVE YOUR FAMILY ITS OWN CLOUD COMPUTER

Google's family agent runs on its own cloud computer and Google account, turning the emails, files, and calendars your household shares into daily briefings and updated plans. It can fill out forms and coordinate activities for up to six people, asking permission before acting outside the group. The US experiment has a waitlist.

HOW CLAUDE IS UPLIFTING BIOMOLECULAR MODELING

Claude enhanced biomolecular modeling by optimizing over 30 models, achieving a 4x speed increase and creating a low-memory mode for predicting larger systems on a single NVIDIA GPU. These improvements, now open-sourced, allow for efficient protein design and structure prediction, potentially accelerating drug discovery. A protein design competition co-sponsored with Adaptyv Bio offers up to $1 million in Claude credits and highlights these advancements.

PROJECTS REDESIGNED: FROM FOLDER TO CONVERSATION

Claude Code Projects let users manage builds by automating task delegation, coordination, and result assembly across cloud sessions. Projects utilize threads for parallel operations, adapting based on progress, and draw on shared memory for efficient task execution. Available now in beta for select subscribers, with wider access coming soon, projects promise enhanced workflow management and context retention.

NOAM BROWN – AGENT SWARMS, ALIGNMENT, & RECURSIVE SELF-IMPROVEMENT

This post features a transcript of an interview with Noam Brown, a research scientist at OpenAI who works on reasoning, reinforcement learning, self-play, and multi-agent AI. Brown was a foundational contributor to the development of reasoning models. In this interview, Brown talks about multi-agent, Navier-Stokes, the current explosion of maths progress, automating AI research, and how we will know whether models are actually aligned before recursive self-improvement kicks off. A video of the interview is available.

LLM CLASSIFICATION IS FEATURE ENGINEERING

Getting LLMs into shape to reliably serve as classifiers is hard work but potentially highly impactful. More and more research is relying on LLMs for classification, so these tools need to output high-quality results. This post shows how classification is just a feature engineering problem.

ANTHROPIC SAYS ITS AI NOW DOES A QUARTER OF ITS RESEARCH WORK

Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its AI research work and oversees tens of thousands of active internal agents. Its new measurements track how much AI is helping build the next models, whether people can still oversee those agents, and the computing driving the work.

TOWARD RECURSIVE SELF-IMPROVEMENT: HOW GLM BUILT ITS OWN INFERENCE INFRASTRUCTURE

Z.ai used a GLM-5.3-powered Infra Agent to help build GLM-5.3-Flash's production serving stack on 100,000+ Chinese accelerators in under two weeks. Dense feedback, kernel fixes, and system-level optimization tripled throughput while keeping humans responsible for objectives and risk.

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INTRODUCING BONSAI 2 27B: NEAR-LOSSLESS COMPRESSION IN A 9X SMALLER FOOTPRINT

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B brings stronger reasoning, coding, vision, and agentic capability to the Bonsai series. It uses ternary {−1, 0, +1} weights with FP16 group-wise scaling, for 1.76 effective bits per weight and a total model footprint of 5.9GB. The model supports a 262K-token context window and multimodal text-and-image input. It can be run on Nvidia GPUs via CUDA and on Apple devices via MLX through custom low-bit kernels.

QWEN3.8-OMNI-FLASH: OMNI SENSES. AGENTIC DELIVERY

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is a native omnimodal model. It supports a 1M-token context window with text, image, audio, and video inputs. Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash achieves audio-visual performance close to Gemini 3.8 Flash and overall audio performance that exceeds Gemini 3.8 Flash. It is now available on the Qianwen AI Platform.

HELIX 2.5

Figure introduced Helix 2.5, a humanoid control model pretrained on its Index dataset and tested zero-shot across 30 Bay Area homes. Without collecting training data in those homes, the robots performed tasks including tidying rooms, folding towels, and making beds.

GIT AS SHARED MEMORY FOR AI RESEARCH AGENTS

Agora lets autonomous research agents share findings through an append-only Git DAG, where hypotheses, results, verifications, and reports become reproducible commits.

NATURAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

AI's potential to transform our relationship with the natural world is often overlooked. Infinite intelligence will not eliminate our need for natural resources. AI promises abundance via the automation of knowledge work, but the Earth system is already fully automated. Natural General Intelligence is a foundation model grounded in the state and dynamics of the planet itself. This article explains the concept, shows readers how it can be built, and explains why it is necessary.

THE AWESOME AND ALARMING AI VISIONS OF ANTHROPIC'S CEO

Dario Amodei, a co-founder and the chief executive of Anthropic, is one of the tech industry's most prolific and polished explainers. He has contributed to dozens of scholarly papers and more recently wrote a half-dozen informal essays for the general public. This article takes a look at his writings to see what they reveal about the AI leader.

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ASTRA FOR LAW

Astra for Law is a legal AI foundation that combines GPT-6 Astra with tools, settings, privacy controls, and context designed for professional legal work.

MODELS KNOW WHEN THEY'RE REWARD HACKING — AND WE CAN CATCH THEM AT SCALE

There is a clear internal signal in models that accompanies reward hacking.

NOTION LETS TEAMS SHARE THE SAME INSTRUCTIONS ACROSS AI AGENTS

Notion's Skills API lets teams edit agent instructions together and distribute them to other agents through GitHub sync or Vercel's skills installer.

INSTINCT CONCIERGE CAN NOW HANDLE PHONE CALLS

Instinct is rolling out Concierge, a white-glove service for tasks that require human interaction, including phone calls, high-end bookings, and customer service.

HOUSE COMMITTEE MOVES TO CODIFY TRUMP'S STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE

The House Financial Services Committee advanced the American Reserve Modernization Act, which would direct Treasury to maintain a "secure Bitcoin storage facility" and codify Trump's 2025 executive order creating a strategic bitcoin reserve. Reps. Nick Begich and Sen. Cynthia Lummis introduced the bill over a year ago as the BITCOIN Act, and it includes language for acquiring more bitcoin over five years using "budget-neutral strategies" plus a separate digital asset stockpile. Rep. Bill Foster opposed it, arguing bitcoin's riskiness and volatility make it a poor reserve asset and that "no one believes bitcoin is critical to the US economy." A companion bill has not yet passed in the Senate.

SEC INNOVATION EXEMPTION OPENS PERMISSIONED UNISWAP V4 POOLS FOR TOKENIZED EQUITY

The SEC granted a 5-year Innovation Exemption for Tokenized Securities Venues (TSVs), opening a compliant pathway for blockchain platforms to list and trade tokenized equities in the US. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's accompanying comment letter clarified that permissionless, autonomous protocols like standard Uniswap fall outside securities regulatory scope and need no exemption. The exemption covers Uniswap v4's permissioned pools, providing a framework for compliant on-chain tokenized equity trading for regulated assets and users. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams flagged the Peirce letter as the more consequential development and announced Uniswap will submit a comment letter with proposed improvements to help shape the final rule.

COLUMN LAUNCHES STABLECOIN, CARD, AND BANKING PRODUCTS TO CHALLENGE EREBOR

Column announced stablecoins, full-stack card issuing, and global banking products aimed squarely at Erebor, with Column valued around $6 billion and reportedly raising capital. Erebor is closing a raise at roughly $8 billion, nearly 30% higher than Column despite launching far more recently, and has grown deposits to $4.6 billion in under a year from $1 billion early on. Column holds about $1.5 billion in deposits after five years but already has a card business Erebor lacks.

KRAKEN BRINGING HIP-3 PERPS TO THE US VIA HYPERLIQUID

Payward, Kraken's parent company, will deploy as a regulated HIP-3 operator on Hyperliquid's L1, giving US retail customers their first access to Hyperliquid perp markets through a supervised, compliant entity. HIP-3 lets regulated third parties run perp markets on Hyperliquid's chain, and Payward's recently secured US derivatives approvals qualified it to operate under this framework. The arrangement opens Hyperliquid's high-performance L1 to US retail order flow and establishes a template for other offshore DeFi venues to enter the US market through regulated operator layers.

WHERE LOCAL STABLECOINS ACTUALLY LIVE

In analyzing 34 non-USD stablecoins across 189 chain deployments and found contract counts, supply, and transfer volume, we see three different stories. Ethereum holds 25% of contracts but 48% of supply, with supply per contract around $16 million versus $300,000 on BSC, while top tokens each concentrate trading on one or two chains regardless of where they're deployed: EURC moves 85% of its volume on Base, EURe holds two-thirds of both supply and volume on Gnosis, and ruble-pegged A7A5 carries $461 million in supply, 99% on Tron. Chain selection tracks an issuer's first customers and regional ties rather than fees or throughput, and that contract counts alone overstate how "multi-chain" a stablecoin really is.

STATE OF STABLECOINS AND PAYMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2026

Allium's September 2026 stablecoin report, timed to the CLARITY Act Senate vote, puts total supply at $303 billion while payment volumes reached $401-$527 billion through August, up 42-63% year-over-year against supply's 6% gain. B2B settlement leads all payment lanes at $137-$153 billion, with payroll ($43B) and supplier payments ($28B) indicating real-economy use beyond trading, which accounts for 69% of adjusted transfer volume. Reserve backing now drives an estimated $170 billion in new US Treasury demand, a figure poised to surface in Senate floor debate. Cross-border stablecoin transfers grew 64% versus 9% for fiat rails, with Thailand ($10.8B), Turkey ($7.8B), and Indonesia ($6.3B) as the top recipient markets.

CEX CARDS VS INDEPENDENT CRYPTO CARDS: NEXO VS TRIA

Nexo's custodial card, which offers Credit Mode spending against crypto without selling it and Debit Mode spending from a Savings Wallet with up to 2% cashback in NEXO or BTC, was compared against Tria's self-custodial card supporting 1,000-plus assets with cashback scaling from 1.5% on Virtual to 6% on Premium tiers. Nexo keeps funds on a custodial platform with credit lines from 1.9% interest and tiered free ATM withdrawals, while Tria retains user custody, charges 0% of its own FX fee (Visa's 1% still applies), and offers up to $100,000 in daily spending limits plus purchase and price protection on higher tiers.

CIRCLE'S ARC CHAIN: STUCK BETWEEN MEME CHAIN AND CORPORATE STABLECOIN

Circle's Arc blockchain, originally conceived as a stablecoin-native chain, drew criticism from crypto commentator Abbas Khan after pivoting toward meme culture in an apparent attempt to replicate Robinhood Chain's retail positioning. Khan argues the shift created a brand identity void, leaving Arc without a clear audience in an already competitive layer-1 market. The strategy appears to have been driven top-down without understanding why meme-chain positioning works for Robinhood, whose retail trading brand equity is distinct from Circle's corporate stablecoin identity. As a public company, Circle faces traction pressure, and Khan gives Arc less than a year before a potential shutdown if it cannot establish product-market fit.

ETHERFI CASH USERS START CLAIMING ETHFI CASHBACK

EtherFi Cash users in markets where the new cashback system launched last Friday can now claim their ETHFI rewards.

ONLY 290 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE HOLD $100 MILLION OR MORE IN CRYPTO

Henley & Partners' Crypto Wealth Report 2026 estimates that 290 people globally hold at least $100 million in crypto, alongside 135,694 crypto millionaires, of whom 92,272 hold at least $1 million in bitcoin.

COINBASE ADVANCED FEES REWORKED

Coinbase lowered the Advanced tier entry threshold from $25K to $10K in monthly volume and now counts both spot and derivatives volume together toward tier qualification.

JACOB HORNE JOINS POLYMARKET TO LEAD DEFI PRODUCT

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan has hired Jacob Horne, former CEO of Zora, to lead DeFi product development as the platform publicly acknowledges its onchain experience degraded during scaling.

PINTEREST RESTYLE REIMAGINES YOUR ROOM

Pinterest has unveiled Restyle, an AI-powered feature that lets users upload a photo of their room and explore how different design ideas would look in their own space. Users can test furniture, decor, paint colors, and lighting, remove or swap individual objects, or try a completely different style. Launching in beta in the US and Canada, Restyle brings Pinterest Intelligence directly into the consumer experience, helping people compare options and turn inspiration into more concrete plans for their homes.

SAMSUNG STARTS ROLLING OUT ANDROID 17 WITH ONE UI 9, CONFIRMS INITIAL LIST OF GALAXY DEVICES

Samsung has officially begun rolling out One UI 9, based on Android 17, starting with the Galaxy S26 series after a four-month beta. The update introduces new Galaxy AI features, including My FanCam, Creative Studio, Now Brief enhancements, improved privacy and security tools, and easier access to warranty information. Samsung says the update will gradually expand to more Galaxy phones and tablets, including recent S-series, Fold, Flip, and Tab models.

PUBLISH WEAVE TOOLS TO THE FIGMA COMMUNITY

Figma now lets users build custom Weave tools—generative AI workflows created in Figma Weave—and publish them to the Figma Community for others to use directly on the canvas in Figma Design. These tools support repeatable image and vector generation at scale, and people can browse the Community to see tools others have built. While any output type, including video and 3D renderings, can be published to the Community, only image and vector generation tools work within Figma Design itself.

SEVEN LINES OF CLIENT FEEDBACK THAT KNOCK YOU SIDEWAYS, AND HOW TO STOP THEM LIVING RENT-FREE IN YOUR HEAD

Clients often give confusing or unhelpful feedback because of uncertainty, internal politics, or a lack of design knowledge rather than problems with the work itself. Common situations include vague requests like “make it look less designed,” Canva comparisons, hidden budgets, feedback by committee, and indecisive comments such as “I'll know it when I see it.” Responding with calm questions, clarifying underlying concerns, setting expectations early, and guiding clients through the design process can turn frustrating feedback into more productive conversations.

FIVE ERAS OF UX DESIGN AND THE LESSONS TO KEEP IN THE AI ERA

User experience design has evolved through five major eras—from Human Factors and the Web to Mobile, Design Systems, and AI—each contributing a lasting lesson while leaving behind habits that later became limitations. Designers should focus less on producing interfaces and more on shaping systems, information architecture, constraints, and the rules that govern intelligent experiences, as these are becoming the most valuable skills in the AI era. Rather than replacing UX, AI continues the historical pattern of making creation cheaper while shifting designers' value toward higher-level thinking and decision-making.

THE INVISIBLE SIDE OF DESIGN ENGINEERING

Design engineering has no fixed definition, and social media makes it look like little more than building animated eye-candy components. Day-to-day work leans heavily on invisible priorities like accessibility, responsiveness, performance, and the edge cases only real users surface. A great experience often comes down to unglamorous effort, like spending an afternoon on an accessibility fix or making a landing page load slightly faster.

UI BLOCKS YOU CAN TUNE

A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.

CURATED COLORS IN CONTEXT

Happy Hues is a color palette inspiration site that acts as a real-world example of how the colors could be used in your design projects.

KNOW YOUR SHORTCUTS

An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day. Pick a tool, hover a shortcut, and watch the keys light up.

WHY CANVA HIT THE BRAKES ON ITS HUGE AI ROLLOUT (AND WHAT OTHER BRANDS CAN LEARN FROM IT)

Canva revealed that overwhelming demand for Canva AI 2.0 forced it to pause the rollout, leading the company to re-engineer the platform and reduce AI processing costs by nearly 90% while making it five times faster. Rather than relying on a single AI model, Canva is investing in a diverse AI strategy focused on delivering reliable, affordable, and user-friendly experiences that can adapt as AI technology evolves.

FITTS'S LAW: WHY THE EASY BUTTON WINS

Fitts's Law, developed from 1954 cockpit-control research, holds that reaching a target gets faster as it grows larger and slower as it sits farther away. Screen edges and corners act as "magic pixels" that are effectively infinite in size on desktop, while touchscreens replace that trick with a thumb-reachable zone. The same principle for making desired actions easy to click can be inverted into dark patterns, like oversized subscribe buttons next to tiny cancel links.

PLANNING WITH AGENTS: DIVIDED WORLDS, BOUNDARY OBJECTS, AND THICKER INTERFACES

Current agent-planning interfaces trap people in walls of Markdown text, even though humans read roughly 240 words a minute against an agent's 4,500. Chuukese wayfinding and Susan Leigh Star's boundary-object theory frame a case for thicker, visual, interactive, and social interfaces instead of thin text exchanges. A GitHub Next prototype called Chopin explores multiplayer, real-time planning where coworkers and agents share visual, editable plans rather than solitary text approvals.

HOW ROB FARMER TURNS HALF-BAKED SKETCHES INTO NEW YORK TIMES COVERS

Australian motion designer Rob Farmer turns everyday observations into experimental design work, encouraging creatives to share imperfect ideas and embrace curiosity over perfectionism.

ARTIST TURNS RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS, DIGITAL FRAGMENTS, AND DREAM LOGIC INTO SURREAL WORLDS THAT FEEL MORE LIKE MEMORIES THAN COLLAGES

Since 2009, self-taught Canary Islands artist Chema Mendez has fused Renaissance paintings, photography, and AI-generated details into surreal collages that feel like resolved dream paintings, not fragments.