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Meta has agreed to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based company that conducts deep research and performs tasks for paying users. Meta will continue to operate and sell Manus' services while integrating it into its suite of social media products. The deal will help Meta cement its position in the product segment of AI agents. It is one of the first times a major US tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots.
Nvidia locked in a purchase price of $23.28 per share for Intel when the companies struck a deal in September. The deal had been under scrutiny by the US Federal Trade Commission, but was then greenlighted on December 18. The purchase of 214 million shares closed on December 26, and Intel shares closed Monday at $36.68, making Nvidia's $5 billion purchase worth $7.58 billion. The deal will involve the companies jointly developing multiple generations of chips for datacenters and PCs.
Chinese researchers have created an artificial robotic skin that can sense pressure and locate input and injuries. The neuromorphic robotic e-skin (NRE-skin) is assembled from a collection of segments that snap together using magnetic interlocks, automatically linking up any necessary wiring. Each segment broadcasts a unique identity code, so it is relatively easy to pop out the damaged segment and replace it with fresh hardware if the system identifies damage.
Biomedical progress has become less productive for the last several years despite staggering advances in basic science. One of the reasons for this is that institutional bureaucracy has become harder to overcome. Increasing the number and efficiency of clinical trials would help create a faster feedback loop and result in better data to inform models and ideas. This could help decrease the cost of bringing new drugs to market and break a trend that has held since the 1950s.
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The primary users of infrastructure software are rapidly shifting from developers to AI agents. AI uses systems very differently from how developers do, and it changes many long-held assumptions about how databases should be used. Many things developers took for granted need rethinking. The focus of engineers is shifting from perfected individual systems to designing foundational capabilities that AI can use at scale, iterate on, and run cheaply.
AI will likely make 24/7 on-call a thing of the past. 24/7 monitoring is a lot simpler than the development process. There are often reference documents that engineers can follow to bring systems back up, and if they fail, there's always a backup and recovery plan in place. On-call jobs have always been more systematic. This post introduces an autonomous monitoring agent that does what an on-call engineer would do, but autonomously, forever.
Labor and capital have traditionally complemented each other. While wealthy people can keep accumulating capital, it becomes less valuable when there aren't enough hands to use all of it, and hands grow more valuable when capital is plentiful. However, this correction mechanism breaks in the world of advanced robotics and AI. A global and highly progressive tax on capital (or at least capital income) may be the only way to prevent inequality from growing extreme.
The immediate AI risk comes from people overestimating AI's capabilities. A lack of reliability and trust is preventing wide adoption. There is a growing AI perception gap between quantitative users and qualitative users. AI leaders aren't even attempting to explain how AI works because it's complicated, and they're also incentivized to oversimplify and overpromise.
Both human and computer expertise grow quickly in the beginning, for a short while, then more slowly, until growth is imperceptible.
AI models excel at isolated React tasks, but don't do as well on multi-step integrations.
Generic design advice is useless for most practical software design problems.
The software engineering field will broadly become more mechanized and more productive.
2026 will see breakthroughs in continual learning and a blockbuster IPO.
The LG Gallery TV is a mini-LED TV with a special screen that reduces glare and minimizes reflections for an art-like viewing experience.
The infrastructure buildout happening right now may be a sign that the AI chip competition may already be over. Nvidia recently requested 16-Hi HBM deliveries from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron by Q4 2026. This infrastructure layer could make AI inference effectively infinite and nearly free at the margin. The rollout of capability is arriving faster than our ability to conceptualize what to do with it.
All of Groq's VCs, employees, founders, and the whole cap table will get paid from the recent acquisition by Nvidia. 85% of the payment will be up front, with the rest coming by the end of 2026. Nvidia will likely weaponize the patents it gained from the acquisition to create a 'scorched-earth zone' around SRAM-based inference. GroqCloud has become a shell of its former self with no IP and no technical leadership.
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is caused by multiple factors. Each individual factor doesn't necessarily guarantee an AD diagnosis in every situation, but it increases the odds of it all else being equal. Preventing AD and reversing or stopping the disease are two separate areas of research. Attempting to modify risk factors of the disease once it has already started is unlikely to lead to a cure. Targeting the underlying dynamics of the disease is a more likely pathway to a treatment.
Max Space's Thunderbird is designed to host four astronauts in an expandable interior structure that can be reconfigured by the crew to support different activities. It can be used for research as well as orbital manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and other materials. The space station can be launched on a medium-lift vehicle such as the Falcon 9 rocket. The Thunderbird space station is set to launch as early as 2029.
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Claude Code dominated the CLI coding product experience this year. This guide shows readers the thought processes and simple things to keep in mind to get the most out of Claude Code. Learning how things work in Claude Code directly transfers to other tools, both in terms of personal usage and production-grade engineering. The post will help users keep up with coding agents in general.
Kubernetes is often described as a container orchestration tool, but that mental model isn't always the most useful way to think about what's happening. It is more like a platform where developers declare the desired state of their infrastructure and let the system continuously work to match that intent. In that way, Kubernetes is more like a runtime for declarative infrastructure with a type system. Thinking this way results in very practical approaches to operating clusters.
2026 will hopefully be full of surprises and developments that give us hope for healthier and more fulfilling work and lives. The AI hype cycle will die down, allowing the most meaningful innovations to become clear. This post takes a look at what we should expect in the coming year and beyond, and what the implications of that will be.
Tech-driven efficiency improvements tend to lead to massive growth because there are more use cases for the resources than previously contemplated. AI is going to lead to a lot more knowledge work by making it cheaper, as that allows people to take on tasks previously unimaginable. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things that we don't even do today. AI will enable work that previously wouldn't have been considered, as it would have been too expensive or impractical.
Both an escape from the commoditization of memory and the 'foundry-ization' of memory will happen within the next two years.
Miguel Carranza is the founder of RevenueCat, a service that helps developers grow and manage in-app purchases.
You increase your luck by making yourself more visible to the world.
Continuous Claude is a framework that saves state to a ledger, wipes context, and resumes fresh.
Trust becomes harder to earn when work becomes cheap.
A look at what camera sensors see and what photo processing actually does.
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Google is gradually rolling out the option to change a Gmail address to a new one (up to three times) with an altered username. Users' original email address will still receive emails and work for sign-in. Users will be unable to change or delete their email within 12 months of each change. The support page detailing the update is currently only in Hindi.
OpenAI has quietly rolled out a new feature that tweaks ChatGPT's layout to match the UI of the task it is supposed to execute. The new 'formatting box' mini editor toolbar pops up when users highlight text inside ChatGPT's newer rich-text areas. It shows drafts as formatted documents so users can edit them as they would in any document editor. A screenshot of the feature is available in the article.
Perseverance arrived on Mars nearly five years ago. At the time, NASA had planned a mission to retrieve samples collected by the rover as soon as 2026, but now, no such mission is set to launch until the 2030s. Perseverance appears to be in good condition and should be able to operate for many years to come. The rover will continue filling sample tubes in the expectation that they will eventually come back to Earth.
The URL Pattern API defines a syntax that is used to create URL pattern matchers. Patterns are specified using the URLPattern interface with a pattern syntax based on the syntax from the path-to-regexp library. They can contain capturing groups that extract parts of the matched URL. The API works across all of the latest devices and browser versions.
Ruby 4.0 introduces Ruby Box and ZJIT and adds many improvements. Ruby Box is a feature that provides separations about definitions. Definitions loaded in a box are isolated in the box. ZJIT is a new just-in-time compiler developed to raise the performance ceiling and encourage more outside contributions. It is faster than the interpreter, but not yet as fast as YJIT.
Amazon is using its subsidiaries to experiment with shopping agents as it continues to contemplate how to deal with them. While the company may be willing to let agents access its catalog, it likely wants to protect more valuable data, such as reviews, from its competitors. Its homegrown AI tools have improved since they first launched. Amazon is now testing an agent that can purchase products from other sites directly in its e-commerce app.
Waymo vehicles become stranded if a human doesn't close the door behind them at the end of a ride. Riders and passerbys are unreliable, so Waymo summons help through an app called Honk, paying workers $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door. Last weekend's power outage in San Francisco resulted in a severe gridlock throughout the city, causing a flurry of requests for tow-truck companies to retrieve Waymo vehicles. These are examples of how, as automation advances, it can create new work for humans to fix errors.
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This post takes a look at what would happen if software were no longer constrained by the intelligence and time budget of the people who develop it.
Agents need to understand the full context before they can meaningfully record why a decision was made.
There were plenty of elements left behind during HTML's 32 years of evolution.
A complete guide to Claude Code features.
Use software skills to get in the door as an engineer, and then weasel into a science position.
The Wave 13 release adds multi-agent sessions, Git worktrees, and a layout that lets users monitor agents side by side.
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Nvidia has signed a licensing deal with Groq for its AI-inferencing technology. Groq, founded in 2016, makes chips and software to run AI models. Its language processing unit chips are built for inference, the process that AI models use to generate content. The company's chips can be produced and deployed faster and use less power than GPUs.