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PG_LAKE

pg_lake integrates Iceberg and data lake files into Postgres, transforming Postgres into a stand-alone lakehouse system that supports transactions and fast queries on Iceberg tables. It can create and modify Iceberg tables directly from PostgreSQL, and directly work with raw data files in object stores like S3. pg_lake can be set up using Docker for an easy, ready-to-run test environment.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING WITH CSS HIGHLIGHTS API

The CSS Custom Highlight API lets developers style arbitrary text ranges without modifying the DOM structure. Developers just have to define 'Range' objects that point to a specific character position in text nodes, group them by style type, and register them with the browser's highlight registry. The API is supported in all modern browsers. This post provides an example implementation of syntax highlighting using the CSS Highlights API.

WHY AC IS CHEAP, BUT AC REPAIR IS A LUXURY

Huge bursts of productivity concentrated in one industry are great because they create a huge number of new jobs and new opportunities, but this has an interesting spillover effect: the more jobs and opportunities created by the productivity boom, the more wages increase in other industries. These industries still have to compete in the same labor market. As the AI supercycle plays out, some goods and services will become orders of magnitude cheaper, while others will become more expensive - but we'll consume more of them anyway. This effect will even be seen within a single job - some work will see 10x throughput at 10x the quality, while other work, which must be done by humans, will command a wildly high wage.

HOW I USE AI

AI has transformed how some developers work. We are just starting to see what the technology can achieve. We still haven't fully explored what current models can do. There are some concerning possibilities with the future of the technology, but for now, it is still in its 'wondrous' stage.

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ARCHITECTURAL DEBT IS NOT JUST TECHNICAL DEBT

Architectural debt on business and strategy layers can do more damage than architectural debt on technical layers.

HOW BRUSSELS BROKE THE APPLE EXPERIENCE

EU tech regulations have fractured the once-unified, global Apple experience.

DEPLOYING TO AMAZON'S CLOUD IS A PAIN IN THE AWS YOUNGER DEVS WON'T TOLERATE

Younger developers will build on platforms that don't make them prove their worth through suffering.

ON AI SLOP VS OSS SECURITY

What matters in vulnerability reports is who submits them, what their incentives are, and whether they have actually verified their claims.

IN A STUNNING COMEBACK, JARED ISAACMAN IS RENOMINATED TO LEAD NASA

The Senate still needs to vote to confirm Isaacman as NASA administrator before the end of the calendar year, otherwise, he will have to resubmit conflict-of-interest paperwork.

DEEPNOTE

Deepnote is a drop-in replacement for Jupyter that can scale to Deepnote cloud for real-time collaboration, Deepnote agent, and deployable data apps.

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ANTHROPIC PROJECTS $70B IN REVENUE BY 2028

The company projects API revenue of $3.8 billion this year, double OpenAI, and is targeting $20-26 billion in annual recurring revenue for 2026. OpenAI is aiming for $100 billion in revenue by 2027, but expects to lose $115 billion before reaching profitability in 2029, compared to Anthropic, which is projected to be cash flow positive by 2028.

GOOGLE IS PREPARING NANO BANANA 2 FOR THE UPCOMING RELEASE

Google's upcoming GEMPIX2 model (Nano Banana 2) could be available as soon as next week. It is expected to be targeted at creators and professionals who rely on Gemini for image generation and AI-assisted creative workflows. The Nano Banana line has attracted considerable interest and contributed to a noticeable growth in Gemini's user base.

OPENAI'S SORA VIDEO GENERATOR APP FINALLY AVAILABLE ON ANDROID

Sora is now available on Android, making hyperrealistic video generation capabilities available to millions more users. The app quickly became a social media phenomenon when it was first released on iOS. It allows users to create realistic videos with audio and impressive physics. Android users will still need an invite code to actively use Sora's generation features. The launch is limited to select countries, including the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

CHAINING FFMPEG WITH A BROWSER AGENT

100x included ffmpeg into its Chrome extension to make complex media processing a single, serverless, and stateless step in any workflow. It already had a browser agent for automation - ffmpeg became another 'tool call' for the agent. This enabled the agent to deal with complex editing tasks like mixing audio and video and adding text over video. This post gives readers a look at how the integration works.

BEYOND STANDARD LLMS

The largest and most capable open-weight large language models today are autoregressive decoder-style transformers. Some alternatives have popped up in recent years. While some are geared toward better efficiency, others are aimed at improving model performance. This article gives an overview of alternative models that exist, from text diffusion models to the most recent linear attention hybrid architectures.

HOW WE BUILT A CUSTOM VISION LLM TO IMPROVE DOCUMENT PROCESSING AT GRAB

Grab developed a lightweight, specialized Vision LLM from the ground up to address the limitations of traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. Traditional OCR systems struggle with the variety of document templates they have to process and often fall short in understanding South East Asian languages. Grab's model can effectively replace traditional OCR pipelines, opening new possibilities for document processing at scale. This post details how the company built its new model and also provides performance results.

CODE EXECUTION WITH MCP: BUILDING MORE EFFICIENT AGENTS

Code execution can enable agents to interact with MCP servers more efficiently. When too many servers are connected, tool definitions and results can consume excessive tokens, reducing agent efficiency. Many of the problems with MCP feel novel, but they have known solutions from software engineering. Code execution applies established patterns to agents, letting them use familiar programming constructs to interact with MCP servers more efficiently.

RUN ANY LLM WITH A SINGLE API: INTRODUCING ANY-LLM V1.0

any-llm is an interface that can use any model, cloud or local, without requiring a rewrite of the stack every time. It makes it easy for developers to use any large language model without being locked into a single provider. any-llm decouples project logic from model provider with a stable and consistent API surface.

PROFILING WITH CURSOR 2.0: THE MISSING LAYER IN AI CODE GENERATION

Profiling is the best way to separate code that looks good from code that is actually good. The Pyroscope Performance Profiler is a Cursor extension that takes profiling data and paints it right on the code. It allows developers to look at multiple solutions generated by different agents and pick the best based on real numbers. Performance comparisons across deployments, trend analysis, and incident inspection can all be done inside the editor without going to a separate UI.

EXPLORING A SPACE-BASED, SCALABLE AI INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM DESIGN

Google will launch two satellites carrying its AI chips, called TPUs, in 2027, in hopes that in the mid-2030s space-based data centers will become more cost efficient since solar panels are up to 8x effective in orbit. Project Suncatcher envisions a constellation connected by optical inter-satellite links to power distributed ML tasks, like AI inference.

AMAZON SENDS PERPLEXITY A CEASE AND DESIST OVER ITS AI AGENTS SHOPPING FOR YOU

Amazon has demanded that Perplexity stop its agentic web browser from buying products on behalf of humans. It claims that the Comet browser degrades the shopping and customer service experience that Amazon provides. Amazon has accused Perplexity of violating its terms of service and committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when an AI is shopping for a user. Perplexity responded by accusing Amazon of bullying and using litigation to stifle innovation.

THE COMPANY QUIETLY FUNNELING PAYWALLED ARTICLES TO AI DEVELOPERS

At the heart of AI web scraping is Common Crawl, a small nonprofit that supplies, and is funded by, major AI labs with internet data while flagrantly disregarding paywalls and removal requests. The organization has gathered millions of articles from The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publishers (many of them now suing AI companies), but has avoided compliance by making its search tool return "no captures" for domains that actually contain thousands of articles.

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GEMINI'S RETENTION DATA IS OUT, AND IT LOOKS BETTER THAN EVEN CHATGPT!

Three-month retention is consistently over 90%.

CODING AGENTS ARE OUTLIERS

The success of coding agents has created unrealistic expectations for AI agents in other domains.

SHOPIFY SAYS AI TRAFFIC IS UP 7X SINCE JANUARY, AI-DRIVEN ORDERS ARE UP 11X

Shopify is working with Perplexity and Microsoft to add other in-chat shopping experiences after the success of its integration with ChatGPT.

CODEMAPS: UNDERSTAND CODE, BEFORE YOU VIBE IT

Cognition launched Windsurf Codemaps, which creates AI-annotated structured maps of codebases to address the onboarding costs of learning a new codebase or maintaining unfamiliar legacy code.

COMMITMENTS ON MODEL DEPRECATION AND PRESERVATION

Anthropic will preserve weights of all publicly released Claude models for the company's lifetime and conduct exit interviews with models before retirement, documenting their preferences about future development.

CRYPTOS TUMBLE, NEARING OCTOBER CRASH LOWS

Bitcoin fell below $106,000 with altcoins declining harder, fully reversing the bounce from the October 10 crash. The selloff liquidated over $1 billion in leveraged positions across digital assets, while crypto stocks fell, led by Circle (-7%), Gemini (-6%), Coinbase (-4%), and Strategy (-3%). FundStrat's Tom Lee maintains his bullish year-end targets of $200,000 for bitcoin and $7,000 for ether, stating "fundamentals are leading prices in crypto, so eventually we consolidate and then we rally into year-end."

NOVEMBER THE NEW OCTOBER FOR US CRYPTO ETFS

Four crypto ETFs launched this week using a procedural shortcut requiring "no delaying amendment" language in S-1 filings that automatically become effective after 20 days unless the SEC issues a stay, which circumvents problems caused by the government shutdown. Fidelity and Canary Capital filed updated S-1s on Thursday for spot Solana and XRP ETFs, respectively, which could launch as early as November 13 if the SEC doesn't intervene. Some filings, like XRP, haven't received SEC feedback, unlike the reviewed Solana, HBAR, and Litecoin applications, potentially prompting the agency to halt automatic approval.

LIQUID: TRADE ANYWHERE

Liquid is a non-custodial perp DEX aggregator that combines Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Ostium into a unified mobile-first platform offering trading, yield vaults (~7% APY), risk management, and analytics with push notifications for liquidation warnings. The platform facilitated over $500 million in trading volume since launching weeks ago, taking a small additional fee on top of trades while providing institutional-grade infrastructure to retail users through automated risk management and real-time market analysis. Liquid integrates point-based reward systems for tracking participation across projects from one interface.

THE EXPANDING STABLECOIN ECOSYSTEM

Stablewatch released an updated Stablecoin Ecosystem Map, categorizing the rapidly growing market into crypto-backed, T-bill-backed, non-USD, and tokenized bank deposit stablecoins. The visual highlights the diversity of issuers from Aave's GHO and Frax's frxUSD to Circle's USDC, PayPal's PYUSD, and Hyperliquid's USDH, as well as emerging entrants like Western Union's USDPT and MegaETH's USD.ai.

BITCOIN'S SILENT IPO

Bitcoin's weak price action despite wildly successful ETFs, institutional adoption, and friendly regulation mirrors traditional IPO dynamics where early investors methodically cash out. Meta's 2012 IPO at $38/share raising $16 billion exemplifies this pattern. Shares fell 30% over the following year as early investors distributed positions without cratering the price, creating a "sideways grind that drives everyone crazy." Onchain data shows old bitcoin moving as ETFs and institutional bids finally provide liquidity that didn't exist in 2015-2019, when selling $100 million or $1 billion would crater prices, with the distribution process typically taking 6-18 months in traditional markets and possibly longer in crypto.

MATURATION OF THE CRYPTO INDUSTRY

Blockchain infrastructure achieved 100x throughput growth over five years, with transaction costs dropping from $24 to cents on L2s, while Solana and Hyperliquid captured 53% of total onchain revenue as the market crossed $4 trillion with 40-60 million active users. Stablecoin supply reached $300 billion with USDe emerging as the third-largest, while RWAs grew 208% to $30 billion and perp DEXs crossed $1 trillion volume, capturing 13% market share, alongside ETPs holding $175 billion, representing 10% of all ETH and BTC. Non-financial sectors saw DePIN projects grow 12x with 100x revenue increase across 13 million active devices, while the x402 protocol enabled AI agent payments projected to reach $30 trillion in autonomous transaction value by 2030, with AI crypto tokens exceeding $800 million market cap.

PERP DEX VOLUMES HIT RECORD $1.2T AMID INCENTIVES AND LIQUIDATIONS

Perpetual futures DEXs recorded a historic $1.2 trillion in trading volume in October, nearly double September's total, driven by incentive programs and the October 10 liquidation event. Platforms like Lighter, Aster, EdgeX, Pacifica, and ApeX all hit new highs, while Lighter captured a 27% market share, overtaking Hyperliquid, which fell to 10% from 33% just a month earlier.

CRYPTO MARKET BLEED TIED TO US LIQUIDITY CRUNCH

The recent crypto market downturn is occurring because of the US government shutdown, which has lasted 35 days and frozen Treasury spending. The Treasury General Account (TGA), the government's operational fund at the Fed, has ballooned to $1 trillion from $700B, effectively withholding $300B from the economy. This “dam effect” drained banking reserves from $3.2T to $2.8T, tightening liquidity and stressing the repo market. Relief could arrive soon. However, the Fed plans to end quantitative tightening (QT) on December 1, redirecting $40B/month into bank reserves and money markets via Treasury bill rollovers. Once the shutdown ends and QT halts, liquidity should flow back into risk assets, with Bitcoin and Ethereum, historically the most liquidity-sensitive, likely to rebound first.

ANIMOCA BRANDS FILES FOR NASDAQ LISTING

Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based investor and development shop, is exploring a stock market listing via reverse merger.

STREAM FINANCE EXPERIENCING DEPEG

Yield curation protocol Stream Finance is experiencing a depeg, with an estimated 30%-50% loss from over-leveraged positions and a mass sell event.

BITCOIN NEARS $100K AS ETHER TURNS NEGATIVE FOR 2025

Bitcoin fell to a daily low of $100,050, while ETH dropped below $3,300, erasing its year-to-date gains and marking a 31% decline from its August all-time high of $4,946.

HUT 8 ENTERS TOP 10 PUBLIC BITCOIN HOLDERS WITH 13,696 BTC

Hut 8 has grown its Bitcoin reserves by over 50% year-over-year, now holding 13,696 BTC ($1.6B) as of Q3 2025 and placing it among the top 10 public Bitcoin holders and the third-largest Bitcoin miner behind MARA and Riot.

LEAKER REVEALS IPHONE 18 COLOR OPTIONS. THINK PURPLE, RED, AND THAT'S THAT ME ESPRESSO.

A Chinese leaker claims the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will come in three colors—coffee, purple, and wine red—continuing Apple's recent trend of omitting a standard black option. While the iPhone 17 Pro's lack of black drew criticism, Apple may have avoided it due to the scratch-prone anodized aluminum finish. These new color rumors remain unconfirmed ahead of next year's launch.