Weekly#705

  • OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
  • OpenAI’s Astra leans into agentic tasks and safety
  • Korea’s Memory Chip Lead Over China Set to Grow
  • Tesla launches steering-wheel-free Cybercab robotaxi in Austin
  • New York City Public Schools banning AI use through middle school starting this year
  • NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
  • OpenClaw 2.0 is here
  • Latency Patterns for Faster AI Applications
  • Apple to Kick Off Ternus Era With Its Biggest-Ever Slate of New Products
  • The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
  • Shopify Introduces Gisting: Compressing LLM System Prompts into Learned Tokens
  • Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
  • Any Human Ever
  • The Silo 18 and 17
  • The quality you should most wish for your children
  • Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale
  • Nvidia aims to broaden its AI dominance with Hugging Face deal…”…Nvidia wants to be more than a really good chip designer — and it’s using its deep pockets to tighten its grip on the software and development tools that power the AI supply chain…”
  • How I Run Two AI Coding Agents on One Codebase
  • ‘Unfinished business’: Travis Kalanick revisits robotaxis with new start-up (FT)
  • The chicken farms that become ‘pathogen sponges’ for superbugs (FT)
  • ‘RAMageddon’ hits consumer electronics as AI drains chip supply (FT)
  • The AI Shift Turning Everyday Investors Into Mini Quant Funds (WSJ)
  • Nvidia is the central bank of AI (The Economist)…”…Last year Nvidia made about 90 such investments, nearly twice as many as two years earlier. This year it has already agreed another 60-odd…”

Weekly#704

  • Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
  • The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical
  • Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
  • Nvidia projects 70% revenue growth in 2028
  • Apple will have a product guy as CEO again
  • Why AI Projects Stall Between Proof of Concept and Production
  • Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers…Meta is using robots and related hardware from several different vendors, including Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB
  • a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI
  • OpenAI notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor
  • A deep dive into Grok Bot
  • Elevating app quality: Reducing memory usage and improving device migration
  • Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
  • OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
  • Meat proxy
  • Gemini Notebook now lets you reference books and turn them into different formats
  • The Hugging Face incident report
  • The local-first agent stack…Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs
  • Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

Weekly#703

  • Tesler’s Law
  • Generation is cheap, attention is expensive
  • Zero Trust for AI Agents
  • Startup Founders Are Working Harder Than Ever to Keep Up With Their AI Agents (WSJ)
  • Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders
  • How Tether’s bitcoin mining plans in Uruguay unraveled
  • Nvidia Customers Notified About AI-Related Price Hikes Above 15%
  • Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.
  • World Robot Conference in Beijing has drawn more than 300 exhibitors (FT)
  • Robots built to move, work and act like humans. It’s a global industry Morgan Stanley estimates could be worth $5 trillion by 2050
  • “…training data for a five-minute robot dance could cost as much as Rmb1mn ($148,000)…” (FT)
  • Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
  • Welcome to the AI crisis in math
  • Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads
  • OpenRouter is Joining Stripe

Weekly#702

  • Anthropic Revenue Surges to Over $11.5 Billion in Second Quarter
  • The race to build a virtual cell
  • Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200 billion 2028 revenue forecast
  • SpaceX Completes $60 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Cursor
  • Data centers in space could be a new frontier for insurers — if they can price the risk
  • Graph Engineering: The Layer After Loop Engineering
  • Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
  • Grok Bot
  • Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
  • Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app
  • “…“We have officially crossed the threshold where a live video call is no longer proof of life,” says David Warburton, director of the threat intelligence arm of security group F5…”
  • Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

Weekly#701

  • AI Is Rewiring South Korea’s Careers, Dating and Culture…Factory workers with $400,000-plus bonuses are supplanting doctors and lawyers
  • Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other on macOS
  • SpaceX 10GW in 2027
  • South Korea, Taiwan top Japan in exports for first time on AI boom
  • Samsung Galaxy Z series foldables are breaking pre-order records in the US and Korea
  • Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
  • How cleaning up space debris could grow to become a big business
  • Scientists unveil new AI-made viruses, link2, paper
  • The secret ingredients powering AI chatbots
  • Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
  • Google’s AI leadership shuffle
  • AI accounts become the new attack surface
  • Nielsen buying DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion
  • “…That fragmentation across thousands of independently managed utilities makes it harder to modernize infrastructure and maintain consistent cybersecurity standards…”
  • How to Design a Distributed Job Scheduler
  • Instacart Builds Blueberry, an AI-Powered Assistant to Help On-Call Engineers Investigate Incidents
  • NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
  • Waymo CEO explains why camera-only self-driving falls short
  • Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Stealth Chip Startup After Crash

Weekly#700

  • Citadel Buys Situational Awareness’s Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI (WSJ)
  • OpenAI said Thursday it is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them
  • AWS net sales increased 37%—its fastest growth in 18 quarters—to a $169 billion annualized revenue run rate
  • Introducing Inkling-Small
  • DeepSeek Is Developing Massive AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia
  • Meta Reports Almost $700 Billion in Future Spending Commitments
  • Gemini Robotics 2
  • Disney Overhauls Streaming Services to Jumpstart Subscriber Growth
  • Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight
  • A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
  • Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
  • “Google announced on Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June. That is more than the number of bugs patched in the previous 23 versions released over the last two years, which totaled 1,036 fixes.”
  • LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop
  • Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs
  • Tesla made its 10 millionth EV
  • AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure
  • AI-Assisted Software Development: Team Profiles and Capabilities for Putting Research into Action