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…”