Weekly#697

  • AI Training Startup Mercor Discusses $20 Billion Valuation
  • OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work tool
  • OpenAI to Retire ChatGPT Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch
  • OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations
  • SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history
  • Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels
  • China Successfully Launches Reusable Rocket (WSJ)
  • Microsoft to retire the OWA Light client in Exchange Server
  • Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs
  • The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement
  • Apple says it will spend $30 billion to design US-made Broadcom chips
  • China’s DeepSeek developing its own AI chip
  • Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World In places with unreliable networks and no data-center infrastructure, smaller is better
  • Anthropic’s Reflection: AI gets its screen-time moment
  • Career advice in the age of AI…”…The most important skills will be the ones related to problem selection and resource allocation…evaluate whether the company is working on the most ambitious form of their problem, and then whether they actually have a shot at solving it. To choose a role, think about whether the role will allow you to work directly on the frontier of whatever problem the company is solving.”
  • 10 Claude Code Steering Mechanisms That Stop Agents From Ignoring Instructions