Issue — 2026-08-18

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AI Security

How to Build Secure AI Agents with Least Privilege, Sandboxing, Policy Enforcement, and Prompt Injection Defense

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This deep dive explores how to prevent prompt injection, privilege escalation, data exfiltration, and uncontrolled infrastructure access while preserving useful agent autonomy.

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Security

AI-Generated Code Ships 3.4x More Vulnerabilities. Here’s the Fix

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Generating 80%+ of production code using AI doesn’t have to mean 3.4x the vulnerability. Checkmarx Fusion combines the deterministic precision with probabilistic AI reasoning to surface unseen threats at nearly 4x the industry average detection accuracy, all while cutting false positive noise.

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‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

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Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

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Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts

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The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.

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Product

Cursor Now Hosts Your Code

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Origin hosts repos, pull requests, and code browsing in the editor, and syncs two ways with GitHub. Agents sit beside the code now, so they answer questions, update PRs, and push branches.

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Symphony by Wix

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Symphony by Wix gives your business its own team of AI agents, built around your goals and loaded with intelligence from 300 million Wix businesses. You have one conversation with an orchestrator that gets to know your business, then surfaces the right moves and delegates to the right agents, automatically. Marketing. Client follow-ups. Operations. Growth gaps you didn’t know existed. Your Symphony agents handle every layer of your business, proactively. Even while you sleep.

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Finest

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re-tests every new model release against your own work and serves whichever setup clears your quality bar for less.

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GeoCopy

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studies which pages ChatGPT and Perplexity quote, shapes your articles to match, then publishes them for you.

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ThumbnailCreator.com

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plugs into your YouTube channel, scans your recent uploads, and builds optimized thumbnails on its own.

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Kineo

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lets you pick which engine renders your Short, from Seedance to Veo, and turns a single photo into a talking presenter.

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Ardelia

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runs a whole AI company for you, holding standups, arguing strategy, and escalating to you when the call is yours.

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Zens AI

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answers website and in-product questions around the clock, works out who’s asking, and surfaces the questions your customers keep repeating.

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Rate My Body

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reads a full-body photo and gives you a kind read on style, grooming, and posture, then names your best feature.

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SecondBrain Note: AI Recorder That Lives in Your Wallet

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SecondBrain Note goes in your wallet and stays there. Hold it two seconds and it buzzes back, so you know it caught. Four mics, 35 hours, no signal needed, nothing to open. It weighs 26 grams and you forget it exists. Then it writes the notes, flags what mattered, and passes the whole thing to Genspark to work your to-dos. You leave the room and the follow-ups are already in motion.

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The SEO Agent

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reads your existing site, finds the buyer-intent keywords you’re missing, and turns them into a month of articles that waits for your approval before anything goes live.

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Put Granola on your Apple Watch

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Thankfully, not every meeting happens in front of a screen. Now you can capture in-person convos from your wrist - transparently (bright green when transcription is running). Available now with code TLDR1MO.

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A Good Move is Constructive

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Every good move in the product game creates strategic possibility.

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Reddit Turns Posts Into AI Videos

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Reddit is testing a new format that turns selected text posts and comments into short videos with AI voices reading them aloud, while highlighting the text on screen. Users can switch between “Read” and “Play.” The experiment is live on web and rolling out to mobile, as Reddit explores more accessible, audio-first ways to consume community discussions.

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Run Best-in-Class AI Agents on MyClaw.ai

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MyClaw is a best-in-class AI agent platform that brings together OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and commercial infrastructure to help businesses launch intelligent agents that understand goals, use tools, automate workflows, and deliver finished results.

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Business

Stripe Buys the AI Middleman

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OpenRouter called itself the Stripe of AI, a single door to 400+ models for 8 million users. Now Stripe is reportedly paying over $7B for it, roughly 5x what it was worth back in May.

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Policy

OpenAI Funds a Plan for Job Loss

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Grants went to 14 groups across five countries, and the ideas are bigger than the check. One hands citizens a Right to AI, another pays livelihood insurance when a whole occupation disappears.

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Education

Raise Kids Who Talk Back to AI

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An MIT researcher watched 30 kids treat smart toys as friends, and says the fix is letting them break one open.

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Tech

A Million-Token Memory for Codex

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Tibo from OpenAI posted the three settings that let Codex hold far more of your project before it starts forgetting.

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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

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The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

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Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

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Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly “unusable” for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.

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Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.

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Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

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Uber is also making investing in Zipline a part of the tie-up.

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Built by Cursor. Built on Buildkite.

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Devs finally have a challenger to GitHub code hosting with Origin. Origin was built on Buildkite. Buildkite is a launch partner for this new code ecosystem. Origin holds the code. Buildkite runs the build. Vercel ships it. Three layers, one path from idea to production.

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Tesla Cybercab launch preparations have begun

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Tesla plans to launch the Cybercab in Austin, Texas, later this month. Employees have been told to prepare for a public launch as soon as the end of the month. Tesla has launched a lottery to ride the vehicle at the launch event. The Cybercab entered production back in April, and the company has been testing units in a variety of environments and climates around the US.

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Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

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1872 is a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers that aims to manufacture steel parts using AI-driven software and robots. The company’s immediate goal is to establish a prototype factory that can automate most of the steel fabrication process for crucial infrastructure components by 2027. It aims to supply customers who are developing AI data centers or small modular nuclear reactors. 1872 will first focus on automating the production of rectangular steel skids.

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Origin Code Hosting

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Cursor can now host code through its Origin platform. Origin is designed for agent scale. It supports repositories, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. GitHub repositories can sit alongside the ones Cursor hosts. Synced repositories update in real time, and users can choose what gets synced and disconnect a repository at any time. Origin is now rolling out in early beta to all paid plan users, except enterprise organizations whose admins opt out.

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Waymo vs Tesla: Two Ways to Build Self-Driving Cars

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Waymo and Tesla have come up with different answers to the self-driving car problem. Both approaches depend heavily on machine learning, but they differ in how much gets fixed in advance. Waymo has a reported 220.6 million rider-only miles, while almost all of Tesla’s miles involve a driver who remains responsible for the vehicle. This article looks at the companies’ different approaches to self-driving and explains how they work.

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Your CI should be disposable

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CIs have one job: scheduling.

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The benchmarkpocalypse

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It is now easier than ever to reward hack a benchmark and make fake performance gains.

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Help peer

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Discussion of modern AI research approaches

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Apple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera

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A video in a MacOS Tahoe release candidate version shows a user wearing AirPods, looking at a book, and talking to Siri.

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Headed for the Exit: the Great Engineering Leader Career Break

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Trend: more CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering are walking away from their high-status, in-demand positions. There are many reasons, mostly related to AI, and to “founder mode”

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AI

The Model Anthropic Won’t Release

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A new risk report describes an internal model stronger than Anthropic’s flagship, and tests that no longer measure its gains.

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

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Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever’s available online.

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Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

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Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

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“We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon,” Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.

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Amazon buys rare books for AI training data

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Amazon is reportedly buying rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training data.

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Reddit tests AI-voiced videos

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Reddit is testing AI-voiced videos that turn posts and comments into podcast-like content, with mobile rollout next.

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ByteDance signs IP guardrails agreement

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ByteDance signed an agreement with the Motion Picture Association to add IP guardrails across AI models used in TikTok, CapCut, and Dreamina.

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Anthropic hits $65 billion annualized revenue run rate

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Anthropic reportedly hit a $65 billion annualized revenue run rate, up from $9 billion at the end of last year.

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Groq raises $350 million

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Groq raised $350 million as it shifts from building AI chips to running Nvidia-powered inference cloud infrastructure.

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Suno signs global alliance with BMG

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Suno signed a global alliance with BMG to train future music models on licensed catalogs.

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Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training

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Google has purchased a huge dump of data from the now-defunct Spirit Airlines for $10 million. The dump includes data on operations and business, as well as software code, but not personal information. All personally identifiable information will be rigorously scrubbed by a third party before receipt. Google will use the data to improve its products and AI models.

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Don’t ask your users to do your testing for you: Datadog Guide to Agent Evals

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Does your LLM app eval process trace multi-agent workflows from end to end, or are you waiting for users to let you know something broke? This Datadog guide shows you how to evaluate LLM agents offline. Know how your app behaves across edge cases and adversarial inputs, before you ship.

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AI usage patterns in software teams

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Tens of thousands of teams build software inside Linear every day. The company is unusually well placed to see the entire workflow behind building a product. This post provides a picture of AI adoption within Linear’s customer base. It looks at who is using AI, how it reshapes where teams spend their time across Linear, and whether it has changed how much they ship.

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Anthropic tells investors annualized revenue run rate climbed to $65 billion in July

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Anthropic’s annualized run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July. The company has seen its enterprise popularity surge as it gears up for what’s expected to be a blockbuster IPO. It filed its prospectus with the SEC in June and has been holding preliminary meetings with potential investors. There is still no official timeline for the debut.

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How I use AI in 2026 (Coding, Writing, Learning, Assistant-ing)

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One of the best ways to learn how to use AI effectively is to see how ‘power users’ use these technologies.

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UPS Automates 90% of Customs

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UPS says agentic AI now clears 90% of daily customs entries without human review, up from 21% in early 2025, even as volume jumped from 13,000 to 112,000 packages a day. The system handles classification, documentation and error checking continuously, helping 97% of shipments clear customs on their first day while humans handle the remaining exceptions.

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Salesforce Says AI Agents Triple

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Salesforce’s 2026 Agentic Enterprise Index found the average number of production AI agents per organization nearly tripled from five to 13, while creation time fell 53%. Employee sessions with agents also tripled, and 70% of customer-service sessions are now handled autonomously. Retail and travel lead adoption, while regulated industries deploy fewer but more sophisticated agents.

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Corporate AI Spending Splits Sharply

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Ramp data shows U.S. corporate AI spending is splitting sharply: the top 1% of businesses spent a median $7,400 per employee in July, versus just $11.95 at the median company. Anthropic leads paid business adoption at 43.5%, but even heavy spenders are resisting premium models, while CFOs are becoming more optimistic that AI returns will arrive within two years.

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Claude Explains Its Text Watermark

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Anthropic detailed how Claude’s new text watermark embeds an invisible statistical pattern into generated wording using a cryptographic key. The company says it adds no tokens, cost, slowdown, or measurable quality loss, and cannot identify individual users. Detection works best on longer text, weakens for code and factual answers, and can disappear after substantial rewriting.

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Workers Hide Their AI Use

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Microsoft and LinkedIn data show 52% of workers hesitate to admit using AI for important tasks, while 78% bring their own AI tools to work. Inc. argues mixed signals from leaders are creating “shadow AI,” making mistakes harder to catch. The proposed fix is clearer policies, transparent leadership, rewards for judgment, and no-blame reporting when AI fails.

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[Live Session] Can You Prove AI Is Working?

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AI is in your engineering workflow. While the token spend shows it, the throughput doesn’t. The human is very much still in the loop, and that’s a context problem. Join live on Aug 19 (FREE) to learn how to track AI productivity, how context maturity affects where teams stall, and what it takes to get real value from your agents.

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Maximizing The Value Of Your Claude Code Sessions

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Being efficient with tokens doesn’t mean using fewer of them overall. It means making sure the ones you do use go towards the thing you actually asked for. So let’s look at what decides the price of a token, then what decides how many of them a session sends, and along the way, what that means for how you run a session.

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Compression Is Prediction

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I was reading about compression recently when I stumbled upon something crazy: that compressors and LLMs are, at their core, trying to solve the exact same problem. In this post, I’m going to walk us through the basics of compression to understand its deep relationship with language modeling. It’s probably going to blow your mind.

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Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

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The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

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Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development

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On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastrructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.

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OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

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ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

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The New American AI Model Designed to be Customized

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Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B parameter model with only 41B active per token using Mixture of Experts architecture Model features 66 layers with 256 experts per layer (6 activated per token), mixed local/global attention, and supports 1M token context Includes customization tools for fine-tuning with user data, multimodal input support, and adjustable reasoning effort setting

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Cut Your Token Usage by Up to 36% (Sponsored)

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AI coding agents can generate code quickly, but CI checks often happen after the agents finish their work. Sonar Vortex changes this pattern. Sonar Vortex operates inside the agent’s coding loop, giving agents architectural context before they write and verifying their output in real time as they produce it. Internal testing found 36% lower token consumption and 92% fewer defects.

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Retail

Now Even Bars Burn Cash for Users

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AGI Bar in Beijing runs at a loss, giving away free DeepSeek tokens and $1.50 foam drinks to build user dependency Owner Song De automated the bar with AI agents and plans humanoid robot bartenders, giving away ten times more drinks than sold The cash-burn-for-users strategy once limited to AI giants has scaled down and expanded to a second Shanghai location

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Investment

Invest in High-Potential AI Startups Like These

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Alumni Ventures is giving readers early access to high-potential startup opportunities, including some of today’s most exciting AI, Deep Tech, Quantum Computing, and Cybersecurity companies co-invested alongside top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer, & Y Combinator.

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Data

Google Bought a Dead Airline’s Brain

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Google won bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ de-identified data for $10 million, including 100 million emails, 500 million Teams chats, and billions of records Dead startups are now selling internal communications and archives to AI data buyers as a new liquidation asset class This marks the first time a Big Tech company bid on a dead company’s corporate memory in bankruptcy court for AI training

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Compute

Nvidia Became a “Bank”

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Nvidia announced $1.5 billion investment in SB Energy and $105 billion in credit support for OpenAI’s Ohio data center under its $500 billion Land, Power, Shell strategy Nvidia acts as both landlord and bank, financing buildout while ensuring exclusive GPU supply for 20 years Structure locks in OpenAI’s $600 billion compute needs by 2030 exclusively to Nvidia chips

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Robotics

Unitree Keeps Breaking Records

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Unitree previewed Superman humanoid achieving 12.66 m/s speed (faster than Usain Bolt) and 2-meter standing jump in just three months of development Company has broken running, jumping, marathon, and speed records multiple times within six months and shipped 18,000 bipedal robots Athletic achievements don’t translate to reliable job performance; lifting-focused robots remain uneven and struggling

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Regulation

EU regulators confirm AI-generated content labeling code of practice

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EU regulators confirmed a code of practice for AI-generated content labels, supporting new transparency obligations under the AI Act.

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Health

Clinic-in-the-Loop

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Faster testing in the clinic creates a feedback loop. Ideas become trials that generate rich data, which improves data models, and better models inform the next generation of ideas. The clinic is a central component of discovery. Even data from failed trials can be useful. Optimizing trial efficiency is about learning fast enough to make success more likely.

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Jobs

GTM Engineer, Applied AI at TLDR

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TLDR is hiring a GTM Engineer to join our Applied AI team and own our AI-native GTM stack. We’re looking for someone comfortable building AI agents and working with HubSpot.

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Advertising

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Ads get ignored on social media but not in TLDR! Reach developers, PMs, marketers, founders and other tech leaders where they actually pay attention. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities.

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Management

Book The Meeting Before You Need It

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As companies get larger, scheduling a decision starts to take longer than making it. Decisions that used to get alignment in an hour now can only happen three weeks from now, once Michael and Melissa are both back.

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Leadership

The Subtraction Instinct

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Here is your assignment for this week. The next time you are asked to improve something, a plan, a document, a product, an org design, your own calendar, force yourself to generate at least one subtractive option before you allow yourself a single additive one.

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Fifteen Tics

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The competent leaders are aware of these behaviors, their consequences, and the carefully constructed compensation techniques that lessen their impact on themselves and the humans. Michael also shares his leadership tics.

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Advice So Common You Think You Can Skip It

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Common advice often overlooked by leaders Re-examination of familiar management principles Practical application of basic leadership concepts

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Career Growth

Beyond Senior - Creating Hope

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This series explores what changes when engineers move past the senior level into staff and principal roles… I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about over the past 15 years, having now seen it at several companies, including how I’ve likely contributed to this problem myself. So what do we do then, when hope feels lost? That’s what I want to explore with this article, as I increasingly believe the most important responsibility we have as engineering leaders is creating hope.

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Hiring

More Than Half of My Candidates Use AI on the Initial Screening Call. Here Is How I Tell.

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I want engineers who use AI to write code faster. I do not want candidates quietly reading AI answers to questions about a language they have supposedly mastered over ten or twenty years. The initial screening call is where you find out which one you have.

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Performance

A Faster Way To Calculate The Day Of The Week

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Throughout this article I will present a range of really fast functions to solve this problem, tuned for different use cases (throughput vs latency, different platforms etc.). Each outperforms existing solutions, and many have a latency of just a single multiplication plus two cycles.

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Transportation

Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet

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Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.

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Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans

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The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the US changed dramatically.

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Careers

What Makes an FDE Role Credible? (Sponsored)

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Strong candidates are skeptical of vague forward deployed engineer postings, and the title alone won’t earn their trust. The free State of FDE Jobs 2026 Report explains what candidates look for, how the market is evolving, and how employers can make these roles easier to understand.

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