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DeepSeek has unveiled its V4 Flash and V4 Pro series, which the startup claims have top-tier performance in coding benchmarks and big advancements in reasoning and agentic tasks. The company says its Hybrid Attention Architecture technique helped improve the ability of AI platforms to remember queries across long conversations. The service capacity for the V4 Pro series is extremely limited due to a computing crunch. However, the pricing for the model is expected to drop significantly after Huawei launches its Ascend 950-powered computing clusters in the second half of this year.
GPT-5.5 is now rolling out to OpenAI's paid subscribers. OpenAI claims the model excels at analyzing data, writing and debugging code, operating software, researching online, and creating documents and spreadsheets. It doesn't cross OpenAI's 'Critical' cybersecurity risk threshold, so it doesn't bring unprecedented new pathways to severe harm, but it does meet the criteria for OpenAI's 'High' risk classification, which means the model could amplify existing pathways to severe harm.
Medra is a company that runs physical AI scientists governed by software that lets them operate lab instruments the way a trained human would. The company has opened a 38,000 square foot warehouse in San Francisco to automate biotech tasks for customers. Medra currently has five customers scheduled to run experiments across its robot army. Customers own their experimental data, but Medra retains the process knowledge.
Utah-based startup Paterna Biosciences claims it has successfully grown functional human sperm in a dish. The startup says it has even used these engineered cells to create visibly healthy-looking embryos. Paterna's team extracted sperm-making stem cells, placed them in a lab dish, and used computer models to calculate the exact chemical signals the cells needed to thrive. The procedure aims to recreate a healthy environment in the lab, then use the cultured mature sperm for fertilization.
Companies are turning token usage into a benchmark for productivity and a competitive measure of who is most AI native. This is causing workers to maximize their prompts, coding sessions, and the number of agents working in parallel to climb internal rankings. This 'tokenmaxxing' behavior is burning massive amounts of tokens for little to no outcome, causing outages due to AI overuse, and producing throwaway, wasteful work. The metric can be easily gamed, and the outcome is just a massive AI bill.
There have been reports over the past month that Claude's responses have worsened for some users. Anthropic traced these reports to three separate changes that affected Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. The API was not impacted. Anthropic resolved these issues on April 20. This post explains what Anthropic found, what the company fixed, and what it will do differently from now to ensure similar issues will be much less likely to happen again.
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Microsoft is offering long-tenured employees voluntary buyouts. The voluntary retirement program is part of a broader shift by the company to alter its performance system and how it awards bonuses and stock options. It is only being offered to a small percentage of long-serving employees in the US. To be eligible, employees must be at a senior director level or below, and their years of employment and age must add up to at least 70.
Meta plans to lay off around 8,000 employees beginning on May 20. The company says the job reductions are necessary to improve efficiency as it focuses its efforts on generative AI. Meta's annual report in January indicated that it had a global workforce of 78,865 employees as of December 31. Job cuts are picking up across the tech sector due to the AI boom.
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Coding is fundamentally a structured type of problem-solving, so when models get better at coding, they get better at solving all other kinds of problems too.
Elon Musk is asking for more than $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, for Sam Altman to be removed from OpenAI's board, and to unravel the shift OpenAI recently made to operate as a for-profit company.
UI isn't dying, because humans will still use software, but soon, 80% of interaction with software will be through agents, which changes not only what needs to be built, but how that is built.
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Google's new TPUs provide Google and its customers with a faster and more efficient AI platform. The TPU 8t was designed to reduce training time for frontier models from months to weeks. The TPU 8i is designed to be more efficient when running multiple specialized agents. It can also run in large pods of 1,152 chips. The TPUs will power Google's Gemini-based models, but they are also designed with third-party developers in mind, with both TPUs supporting popular frameworks that developers are already using.
Tesla plans to spend roughly $3 billion on building a research chip factory in Texas. The research facility will be built on Tesla's existing Giga Texas campus. It will be capable of outputting just a few thousand wafers per month, but it is more of a testing ground for new technologies and processes than a mass manufacturing facility. Tesla plans to leverage Intel's most advanced production process, 14A, which should be mature and ready by the time Tesla's plan scales up.
Xpeng, a Chinese automaker, is pouring serious resources into making manned electric aircraft a commercial reality. It has a prototype aircraft that can take off, hover, and land, all controlled by a single joystick. The prototype is part of a system with two parts: a six-wheeled, three-axle ground vehicle that serves as transport and charging station, and a detachable two-seat eVTOL aircraft that sits in the back and deploys autonomously. The entire package is priced around $300,000 USD. Xpeng is targeting customer deliveries toward the end of 2026.
Ace is a robotic system developed by Sony AI that can beat elite players at table tennis. It has an eight-jointed arm on a movable base and multiple cameras that can view the entire court from different angles. The cameras track the position and spin of the ball, allowing Ace to make split-second changes to its trajectory. Ace displays a mastery of spin and can handle difficult shots. It still loses against professionals, but its abilities are still a milestone in robotics - table tennis is one of the toughest tests of how far the technology has advanced.
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Coding agents have upended software engineering. The role is now shifting from building machines to designing and honing them. Engineers now focus less on precise lines of code and more on whether software produces the right outcomes over time. This shift changes what should be evaluated in interviews. This post looks at how Sierra redesigned its engineering interview process from the ground up to reflect this new reality.
Coding agents give developers a lot of their time back, allowing them to have enough time and energy to make their products the way they want to. Agents allow developers to make much better software through more rigorous critical thinking and better alignment in the planning stage. They allow teams to scale in a way that leads to higher-quality software. In a world of fast, cheap software, quality becomes the new differentiator.
SpaceX's mission for years was to get humans to Mars. However, over the last six months, the company's priorities have shifted. SpaceX recently struck a deal with AI startup Cursor that could result in the acquisition of the company for $60 billion. Elon Musk has proposed moonshots, including AI data centers in Earth orbit, moon-based factories, and an AI chip manufacturing plant. The changing goals have resulted in criticism from some investors.
Being the top lab in coding means owning both the compute to train new models and capabilities and the product to recursively inform that process. Cursor and SpaceX combining together can complete that loop. That's why they entered into an agreement to co-develop coding and knowledge agent models together. This is the first deal where two sub-frontier labs plausibly combine into a frontier contender.
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There is a vulnerability in all Firefox-based browsers that allows websites to derive a unique, deterministic, and stable process-lifetime identifier, even in contexts where users expect stronger isolation.
Workspace Agents allows ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers users to design and select from pre-existing agent templates that can perform tasks across third-party apps and data sources.
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Decades of ecommerce assumptions are falling apart for the first time. Instead of building brand relationships and baskets on websites, customers are chatting with an LLM and heading straight to checkout.Rokt's (ungated) whitepaper lays out how AI is changing the 4 steps of checkout. Read it for:A framework for rethinking checkout in light of AIA close look at the economics and psychology of each step of checkoutA step-by-step guide to designing, governing, and monetizing the Transaction MomentBased on data from billions of transactions. Conceptual, strategic, practical.Get your guide
SpaceX claims to have obtained the rights to buy Cursor for $60 billion later this year or pay $10 billion for the work the companies are doing together. SpaceXAI and Cursor are working to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI. Cursor is currently in talks to raise $2 billion in a funding round that includes Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and Thrive Capital. The partnership will help SpaceXAI catch up to competitors like OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude.
OpenAI's new image generation model has thinking capabilities and can search the web, make multiple images from one prompt, and double-check its creations. The model has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text than previous models. It can render fine-grained elements like small text, iconography, UI elements, dense compositions, and subtle stylistic constraints, all at up to 2K resolution. The model is available to ChatGPT and Codex users and via the gpt-image-2 API.
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Blue Origin's newest rocket to investigate a 'mishap' that involved the failed launch of a satellite. The rocket was used to place a satellite from AST SpaceMobile into orbit, but it missed its mark, and the satellite was unable to get as far into orbit as intended. Blue Origin claims the failure was caused by a lack of sufficient thrust in an engine. The investigation findings will determine when New Glenn can be launched again.
Humble is a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup that just emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round. The company's fully electric, cabless freight vehicle, the Humble Hauler, is built for 40-foot and 53-foot shipping containers. It has no driver's cab, allowing the company to fit 360-degree sensor coverage, free up payload capacity, and enable a fundamentally different vehicle geometry. The Hauler can operate dock-to-dock, delivering directly to the destination and unloading rather than dropping a trailer off at a handoff point.
MCPs give coding agents access to information, not understanding. The teams pulling ahead are using a context engine to surface exactly what agents need for every task, so they stay on track without the set up tax or the correction loops. Join live on May 6 (FREE) to see how.
TypeScript 7.0 Beta is built on a completely new foundation, making it about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0. Its Go codebase was methodically ported from TypeScript's implementation rather than rewritten from scratch, so its type-checking logic is structurally identical to TypeScript 6.0. Despite being in beta, TypeScript 7.0 is highly stable, highly compatible, and ready to be used in daily workflows and CI pipelines.
Coding agents don't quite know what great feels like when it comes to visual work like animations. One way to get around this is to create a skill file for each aspect of an interface. Describe the rules of what 'great' feels like in that context and give that to agents so they can follow them. This results in AI that has the taste and knowledge to produce significantly better results.
Meta's new Model Capability Initiative employee-tracking software will track employees' mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes to generate high-quality training data for AI agents. The software will operate in specific work-related apps and websites and also use periodic screenshots to provide context. The tracking will be restricted to employees in the US, as it would be illegal in the EU.
Amazon colluded with rivals to raise prices across the internet. It stopped price matching with competitors so that retailers could raise prices together to increase profits. Amazon has been accused of wielding its influence to pressure vendors into increasing prices or removing products from cheaper platforms. Emails surfaced during a lawsuit on the matter seem to confirm the accusations.
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