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Meta had delayed the release of Muse for months due to safety concerns. However, the success of an AI agent created by a startup called Instinct led Mark Zuckerberg to push for a launch due to fear of losing a competitive edge. The launch was successful and has given Meta an early lead with agents. The agent has only had a few safety hiccups, like when it gave out a user's address to a seller on Facebook Marketplace without permission.
Apple is set to unveil new smart home products tomorrow. The centerpiece will be a smart home hub called the HomeView that essentially serves as the Siri command center for an Apple-powered household. There will be a countertop model with a metal base and a wall-mounted version with a flat, square base that sits against the wall beneath the display. The HomeView will only support a limited selection of Apple applications, and there will be no App Store for downloading additional software.
Shenzhen opened access for nighttime deliveries by driverless vehicles in March. Night operations make otherwise idle vehicles and infrastructure productive. It also means quieter roads, reduced pedestrian traffic, and lower congestion. Driverless vehicles eliminate the cost of a human: they don't need night shift wages, they don't get tired, and they don't need to be paid extra for driving in the rain.
Borrowing an idea from one research discipline to solve a problem in another is an age-old scientific trick. However, such clever leaps are rare because researchers don't tend to spend their time researching fields outside of their expertise. AI can easily hop between fields. BootLoops is a harness that can spot and solve problems in seemingly unrelated fields that share the same mathematical structures at massive scale. Researchers recently released 36 preprints produced with BootLoops covering a wide range of topics, including figuring out the age of sunspots, analyzing government health policies, and attempting to decipher a mysterious medieval manuscript.
Not learning to use AI at this point is detrimental to your career. The tastes and desires in the employment market have changed. Teams that aren't working with AI will be replaced with workers who use AI. The job market might look tough, but it's much easier for workers who have been investing in themselves.
GitHub is rebuilding its Git storage architecture from scratch. Early internal testing shows a promising 35x write improvement. The plan involves decoupling writes from reads, offloading maintenance, and letting object storage manage redundancy. The change won't alter developer workflows, review processes, or security controls.
Anthropic entered into a deal worth up to $45 billion earlier this year to lease computing power from SpaceX. The unlikely alliance illustrates the industry's increasingly desperate scramble for compute. Demand is outstripping supply, and prices are rising, causing tech companies to strike deals with rivals. Venture-capital firms are helping startups obtain computing capacity.
Ownership is not the only credible path to prosperity. It's possible to build substantial wealth through a career. A career provides income, training, relationships, credibility, and exposure. In some cases, it can also provide pensions, bonuses, equity, and other benefits. This can be used to build wealth that remains under your ownership and continues to serve you after the salary has been paid.
Frontier labs will likely capture the bulk of revenue from the most demanding work, but there's still plenty of room below the frontier for very large businesses.
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Apple plans to introduce a touch-screen MacBook and a new iPad mini on or around October 27. The launch will include an online video presentation and an in-person component for the press. Apple will also hold an event next week to introduce its first smart home hub with a display, a new HomePod mini, and an updated Apple TV set-top box. It plans to introduce a home ecosystem that will include accessories from LG and Schneider Electric.
SpaceX will pay investment firm Grain Management about $8 billion in cash for US cellular spectrum licenses. The licenses will be for the 800-megahertz band, which is tailored for wireless service from cellphone towers rather than satellites. SpaceX says the new spectrum will help cover places satellite links can't reach. SpaceX still needs some terrestrial infrastructure to use the spectrum for mobile coverage.
Atomic Machines is building AI technology that can discover new ways of designing extremely small devices. It is building an automated manufacturing system that turns computer code into a physical device. The company aims to revamp the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), tiny devices made of both electrical and mechanical components. These devices are traditionally manufactured like computer chips, but this limits the possibilities of the technology to the physical properties of a semiconductor.
Amazon's Leo project is nearing several critical milestones. The company recently manufactured its 1,000th satellite and has reached the point where it can build a handful of satellites every day. The Vulcan's upcoming return-to-flight mission will carry Amazon Leo satellites, and another Vulcan rocket is currently being prepared to launch this year with more Amazon satellites. The company is just weeks away from offering a commercial space broadband service for the first time.
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You can now add panes, commands, and tool call rules to Claude Code with Mods. A mod is a plugin that changes how Claude Code looks and behaves. They can be used to add custom features to Claude Code. Mods run inside Claude Code, so they can do things that hooks, skills, status lines, and MCP servers can't, like redraw Claude Code's own interface, step into a tool call or request, and share data between hooks.
Bootstrap 6 features a major overhaul to the project that modernizes it from the ground up with the Sass module system, support for more native browser APIs and elements, ESM-only JavaScript plugins, and a slew of new CSS standards. Alpha 1 is on npm and jsDelivr right now. Bootstrap 6 requires Chrome and Edge 130, Firefox 132, and Safari 18. Bootstrap 5 remains available and supported.
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Agents are now doing valuable work in software and science. Physical AI is learning how to act in the world, and access and control are becoming more essential. The frontier is now a three-lab race between Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Anthropic leads on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, while Google leads on Arena's ranking of the answers people prefer.
The most important tech companies are much larger than their original markets. They not only expand their market, but make their own markets as well. These companies achieve this by attacking the abstractions their industry is built on. They change what it takes to participate in the industry and create shared infrastructure out of their competitors' businesses. This allows an ecosystem of new companies to form that both win in the market and are dependent on them.
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Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini are being suspended from PERM, the labour certification employers need before sponsoring a worker for permanent residency.
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Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's latest fast and low-cost model. The model is priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens up to 100,000 tokens, after which the price increases 5x. Under 100,000 tokens, Haiku is the same price as GPT-6 Luna and reports higher benchmark scores, but above 100,000 tokens, Luna looks like a much better deal.
OpenAI recently released 372 breakthrough results in the field of mathematics. However, it appears no human has understood any of the proofs yet. Experts reading the proofs say the papers are so horribly written they're impossible to read without AI help. The citations are also often irrelevant and confusing.
Biohub, a nonprofit co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, is working with the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and other funding partners to invest $1.8 billion in building biological data ready for AI models. The investment is aimed at providing data sets that allow researchers to use AI models to find new ways of preventing and treating diseases. The DOE will invest more than $500 million across five years in lab measurement, modeling, and computation to build an AI-ready open data resource; the NIH will coordinate the contribution of relevant datasets, repositories, and knowledge bases; and Biohub will work with the NIH to standardize the datasets for AI model training.
Two independent teams in Vienna and Beijing have simultaneously built the first clocks that keep time by counting the squishing and unsquishing of the atomic nuclei of thorium. The clocks are so precise that they only lose one second once every few million years or so. Nuclear clocks have the ability to search for certain kinds of dark matter. If a particle of dark matter passes through the thorium nuclei, it could register as a wobble in the nuclear clock's otherwise steady tick-tock.
Google and k-ID host 15 developer teams in San Francisco on October 21.✅ New k-ID tooling, revealed that morning, adapts your app to every age automatically✅ Mentors and judges from Google and k-ID on site✅ Free, 18+, bring any stack>> Apply by October 12>> Watch the livestream
Super ICs gain influence by repeatedly doing the unglamorous things. Over time, making the work better, making the story clearer, and making it easier for other people to succeed changes how people behave around you. Authority is a natural side effect of being the person others rely on. Focus on sharpening your craft, turning ideas into stories people can retell, packaging your thinking so it travels without you, and helping your peers hit their goals.
Readers need a compelling reason quickly to continue reading. The reader should be able to read an article from start to finish without clicking links or hovering for tooltips. Avoid presenting articles as a follow-up to a previous article. Drop the formality and write the way you speak in real life. Test articles in mobile view, and use browser testing tools to find low-contrast text to improve visibility.
Super Smash Bros. Melee's decompilation reached 100% on September 7. Within hours, this developer was wearing a Meta Quest and watching Fox and Marth fight in their apartment. The screen recording of the fight passed a hundred thousand views in just a few days. This article details how the developer brought the match into the headset.
Artcraft released a suite of open-source apps over the weekend aimed at recreating the user interface and tools found in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. The developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to create the software. The apps are still in a 'super early alpha' state, but the developer believes that they will be able to produce something as functional as anything Adobe has ever put out. They claim they will be able to reach 99% feature parity within months.
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People are mostly sanguine about the AI present and fearful about the AI future, and national policymakers are committed to a US-China race that the public has no interest in.