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