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Vishal Shah, a longtime executive who once led Meta's metaverse experiment, has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and Meta's apps.
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Internal bureaucracy has slowed AWS down at a time when it needs to be nimble. The company's AI efforts have been lackluster, and its services are becoming less attractive to startups. AWS remains committed to its longtime playbook, and it retains considerable strengths and customer loyalty, but it may be losing its edge by chasing rivals. The cloud market has become more fiercely contested over the past couple of years, creating competitive pressure that AWS didn't have before.
Nvidia is reportedly developing an internal robotaxi project. The project will follow a single-stage end-to-end technology route in which one neural network is trained and reinforced through simulation-generated world models. Nvidia plans to invest $3 billion and launch operations in the US. It began developing autonomous driving software in 2015, but it has yet to release a high-level driving system for mass market vehicles.
Aligned Data Centers is installing a 31-megawatt/62-megawatt-hour battery in a new data center in the Pacific Northwest. Having a battery will allow the data center to pull less power from the grid when demand is high, allowing it to come online more quickly. Research has found that today's grid could handle quite a lot more data centers if facilities could dial back their consumption for a couple of hours at a time during moments of maximum demand. Aligned's commitment to paying for the battery itself could serve as a model of socially responsible AI-infrastructure development.
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Surgeons do the actual work. However, their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, and admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they're good at. AI coding tools enable developers to spend all of their time doing the things that matter. There are a lot of secondary tasks that AI agents are now good enough to help out with.
The Swift SDK for Android enables developers to port their Swift packages to Android. Over 25% of packages in the Swift Package Index are already built for Android. The SDK is now in preview release. It is bundled with the Windows installer or downloadable separately for use on Linux or macOS.
Eric Zhang, a software engineer, researcher, and designer, recently left Modal, where he had worked since 2022, to work at Thinking Machines. Zhang joined Modal when it was still tiny and needed to grow a lot. The company recently raised at a $1 billion valuation. In this post, Zhang reflects on the time he spent at the company and details how it grew to a team of 70 people.
Elon Musk overruled members of his key senior staff, with some of them leaving the company, when he decided to choose the Robotaxi over producing a low-budget EV. If Tesla could pull off its promise of the Robotaxi, it would mean outsized profits for Tesla and its investors. The value of having the Robotaxi far outstripped the value of the Model 2 in stock price. Musk uses Tesla's stock to invest in his other businesses - if he had chosen not to go forward with the Robotaxi, and Tesla's stock price collapsed, his entire empire would have gone down.
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Wildfires clear out dense underbrush that chokes out new growth, return nutrients to soil, and create the conditions for the next generation of forest to thrive, making them essential to ecosystem health.
React Grab can access elements on web pages and pass them on to AI assistants to change.
The iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and the long-rumored foldable iPhone will likely be the first models to support full 5G satellite internet, even though there is currently no service that delivers full 5G satellite internet directly to a smartphone.
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Creating the mechanical equivalent of the human hand is a challenge that has stumped researchers for years.
Always rank lists so that you do the important things first.
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Anthropic now has access to up to a million of Google's custom-designed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) thanks to a new deal worth tens of billions of dollars. The deal is expected to bring well over a gigawatt of AI compute capacity online in 2026. Anthropic spreads its workloads across vendors, letting it fine-tune for price, performance, and power constraints. Google's TPUs offer Anthropic strong price-performance and efficiency.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is launching a 'review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value' due to multiple offers for both the entire company and Warner Bros. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Paramount, and Comcast are reportedly interested in buying WBD as a whole or acquiring pieces of the company. WBD already announced plans to split its cable TV and streaming businesses next year.
Intentional price-fixing through collusion has long been illegal. Sellers are increasingly relying on algorithms that repeatedly adjust prices in response to new data about the state of the market. It is much harder to ensure these algorithms set fair prices as there is no explicit collusion. Algorithms can collude tacitly even when not programmed to do so. One way to fix this problem is to ban all pricing algorithms except the no-swap-regret algorithms that game theorists favor. There are methods for checking if an algorithm has a no-swap-regret property without looking at its code, so there are practical ways of enforcing this idea.
Wonder Studios, an AI creative studio backed by OpenAI and DeepMind executives, has raised $12 million in seed funding to expand its production. The funding will be used to double the company's engineering team and accelerate a push into intellectual-property ownership and original content production. The round was led by European venture capital firm Atomico. Wonder Studios plans to release a number of commercial and original productions next year.
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The Workflow DevKit makes any TypeScript function durable. It allows developers to build apps and AI agents that can suspend, resume, and maintain state with ease. The dev kit is easy to set up as it works with already existing frameworks. It is open source and portable by design.
Amazon has published a detailed postmortem that explains the recent day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services. The root cause was a race condition in DynamoDB's automated DNS management system that left an empty DNS record for the service's regional endpoint. The race condition occurred when one DNS Enactor experienced 'unusually high delays' while the DNS Planner continued generating new plans. AWS has disabled the DynamoDB DNS Planner and DNS Enactor automation worldwide until safeguards are put in place.
If you're competent and you put some amount of effort into demonstrating that competence, you can free yourself from the world of recruiters. If you can generate even half of what you need to live by yourself, you've doubled the amount of time you'll survive without conventional employment. Sales is just looking at someone's problem and giving them a quote for fixing it. Being in control of your work means being able to tell customers they aren't a good fit.
The AI coding tool market is scaling explosively, with all the companies betting on the assumption that models will keep getting better at generating code. The entire market becomes a house of cards if that assumption is wrong. However, whoever solves the architecture problem wins everything. Even modest fundamental improvements would cascade through the entire ecosystem. The question is whether any lab will prioritize the hard path of fixing the foundation over the easy path of building apps.
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You should always use --dangerously-skip-permissions, but do it in a sandbox.
Binance's Changpeng Zhao has been pardoned following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's own crypto company.
Microsoft implemented an across-the-board goal of 30% profit margins in 2023, well above the industry average of 17%-22%.
The gene therapy uses the patient's own stem cells, offering a lasting, donor-free solution to ADA-SCID (known as 'bubble boy' disease).
Project Amplify, designed for everyday movement, uses lightweight robotics to boost running and walking speed.
A study by MIT found that 95% of corporate AI initiatives fail.
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Google has published a paper describing a computational approach that demonstrates a quantum advantage compared to current algorithms. The effort centers around a concept called 'quantum echoes', a series of operations on the hardware qubits that make up the machine. Using the approach, Google researchers completed a task using quantum computing that could have been done on classical hardware, demonstrating quantum utility. Google has several quantum algorithms in the pipeline, so more announcements are expected soon.
Meta is cutting about 600 jobs in its AI division, mainly in teams focused on artificial-intelligence products, infrastructure, and long-term AI research. The TBD lab won't be affected. There will be no changes to the broader Meta Superintelligence Labs structure. Most of the affected employees will have the opportunity to be redeployed to other jobs at Meta.
Arkade is a new upper-layer network protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain that enables more user-friendly payments and extended financial use cases. Many view the protocol as the most important Bitcoin protocol rollout since the Lightning Network back in 2018. Arkade mixes the benefits of the Bitcoin network's inherently decentralized and non-custodial nature with the ease of use and speed of centralized fintech systems. It can be used for a variety of financial use cases, such as lending and trading.
There are no commercial spaceports in the Middle East or Africa. Oman's geography makes it a uniquely suitable location in the region for a spaceport. It is aiming to join the small number of countries that possess the facilities to launch objects into space by 2027. If all goes according to plan, the spaceport will launch everything from small suborbital rockets to superheavy behemoths into space.
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This post contains a collection of personal scripts from a developer. The scripts help streamline the developer's workflow. For example, one script creates shell files, makes them executable, adds some Bash prefixes, and then opens them in an editor, making it quick to create working shell scripts. The scripts span multiple categories, including Clipboard, Internet, Text processing, and Process management.
Engineering managers should still write code because it helps keep their mental model of software development fresh. Staying completely away from code as a manager means letting your knowledge calcify around how things worked the last time you regularly wrote production code. The key is knowing when it is helpful versus when it becomes a bottleneck. It is fine to brush up on an intern's feature after they've moved on, but becoming the only person who can deploy releases is definitely a problem.
Top AI researchers and executives are regularly working 80 to 100 hours a week. They see their work as critical to a seminal moment in history. Many are motivated by the intense competition with rivals and their own curiosity about model possibilities. Some are now multimillionaires, but they don't have time to spend their fortunes.
Big companies and startups are both dysfunctional, just in different ways. Figure out what the relevant trade-offs are and what kind of dysfunction you want to sign up for. It's more important to have a manager who has your back, a team that works well together, and interesting projects. The difference between types of companies is smaller than the differences between companies of the same type.