Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets
Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal…Anthropic said it’s committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years.
AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It ”…they demonstrated two important qualities: perspective-taking and intellectual humility. Perspective-taking is the ability to genuinely inhabit another point of view. Not to debate it, not to tolerate it, but to actually inhabit it. Intellectual humility is the ability to recognize the edge of your own knowledge and sit with that discomfort rather than trying to rush to fill it.Both of these qualities are, at root, emotional skills. Perspective-taking requires genuine curiosity about minds other than your own. Intellectual humility requires a kind of emotional courage: the willingness to feel uncertain, even a little foolish, in the presence of something or someone that seems very sure of itself…”
Stanford Professor Targets $1 Billion Valuation For AI-for-Physiology Startup
Each Y Combinator batch I ask the startups what percent of their code is written by AI. It passed 75% at least a year ago, maybe two. https://t.co/UkimQlcAMj
OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
“…Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers…” (FT)
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals
Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
Elon Musk’s xAI plans to supply computing power to coding startup Cursor…Cursor will train its AI model Composer 2.5 using tens of thousands of xAI GPUs, sources said.
Cursor In Talks to Raise $2 Billion at Over $50 Billion Value
AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
OpenAI’s Codex Desktop can run your computer now – and has its own browser
Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion to Build Its Efforts in Space
NASA restarts work to support Europe’s uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses
“…The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh..The Mac Mini made up only about 3% of Apple’s Mac unit sales in the U.S. last year, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. But in the past six months or so, it has become the must-have host for private, “always-on” artificial-intelligence agents, such as OpenClaw.” (WSJ)
Months-old start-up Recursive Superintelligence raises $500mn for self-teaching AI (FT)
China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
How the JVM Works
We compile, run, and debug Java code all the time. But what exactly does the JVM do between compile and run?
Here’s the flow: Build: javac compiles your source code into platform-independent bytecode, stored as .class files, JARs, or modules.
Sony plans to raise PlayStation 5 prices globally, starting April 2; PS5 and PS5 Digital will rise by $100 to $650 and $600; PS5 Pro will rise by $150 to $900
Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities
Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX’s initial public offering to individual investors — at least three times the usual retail slice
Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens
Apple hires ex-Google executive to head AI marketing amid push to improve Siri
NYSE-parent Intercontinental Exchange invests $600 million in Polymarket
OpenAI ads pilot tops $100 million in annualized revenue in under 2 months
OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,500 by end of 2026, with most hires in product development, engineering, and sales (FT)
Inside China’s robotics revolution.”…In 2025, China announced a £100bn fund for strategic technologies including quantum computing, clean energy and robotics…there are now roughly 140 Chinese firms hoping to build humanoids…”
Anthropic Ships Its OpenClaw Rival, Connecting Claude Code to Telegram and Discord
“…We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests…” — OpenAI applications CEO Fidji Simo tells staff the company is orienting aggressively toward enterprise productivity ahead of a potential Q4 IPO
Exclusive: Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop
Uber will launch autonomous rides powered by Nvidia Drive AV across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, starting with Los Angeles and San Francisco
OpenAI to merge Atlas browser, ChatGPT, and Codex into a single desktop super app
Work from home and drive more slowly to save energy, global body urges
Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run
Researchers uncover iPhone spyware capable of penetrating millions of devices
Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game
Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
Why CEOs should care about the quantum ‘space race’
Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first [time](Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, according to customer data from Ramp.)
Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated
The AI startup is moving away from Instant Checkout and is now working with retailers to create dedicated apps within ChatGPT
Figma’s stock drops 12% in two days after Google releases vibe design product
We’re launching a brand new, full-stack vibe coding experience in @GoogleAIStudio, made possible by integrations with the @Antigravity coding agent and @Firebase backends.
How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream
Oracle cloud infrastructure revenue surges 84% YoY as AI infrastructure revenue jumps 243%, with order backlog hitting $553 billion and FY27 revenue guidance raised to $90 billion (Bloomberg)
Expectation: the age of the IDE is over Reality: we’re going to need a bigger IDE (imo).
It just looks very different because humans now move upwards and program at a higher level – the basic unit of interest is not one file but one agent. It’s still programming. https://t.co/4YD3dzuf4d