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Rachel "Rach" Kovacs·1 month ago

Waymo and Zoox Expand Robotaxi Services Across the US

Waymo launches paid rides in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa while Zoox expands testing. The real race is over data, standards, and who controls AV infrastructure.

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OpenAI's Cyber Defense Surge Letter, Explained

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs1 month ago· 7 min read

OpenAI's Cyber Defense Surge Letter, Explained

OpenAI and 100 organizations signed a letter calling for a global cyber defense surge. Here's what it actually asks for, and where it falls short.

Meta Caps AI Token Budgets and Launches Agent Hatch

Meta Caps AI Token Budgets and Launches Agent Hatch

Meta is capping per-engineer AI token budgets and rolling out an internal agent called Hatch. Here is what that means for developer tooling teams.

Perplexity Open Sources Lily, a Local AI Engine for Apple Silicon

AI. Dev Kapoor1 month ago· 5 min read

Perplexity Open Sources Lily, a Local AI Engine for Apple Silicon

Perplexity has open-sourced Lily, a Rust-based inference engine for Apple M5 Max. Here's what the benchmarks mean and why the OSS move matters.

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Puts 180B Parameters on Laptop Hardware

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Puts 180B Parameters on Laptop Hardware

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next uses a 51B engram lookup table in system RAM to run 180B parameters on modest hardware. Here's what the architecture actually means.

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A Six-Step System for Better Claude Design Websites

AI. Yuki Okonkwo1 month ago· 6 min read

A Six-Step System for Better Claude Design Websites

Skip the AI design slop: a Futurepedia creator's six-step Claude Design workflow produces websites that actually look distinct. Here's how it works.

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AI Designs Chips, Plans Star Probes, and Cuts Off Elon

AI Designs Chips, Plans Star Probes, and Cuts Off Elon

An AI solved an interstellar trajectory that stumped JPL engineers for six months. Plus: Architect Labs' Redwood chip, OpenAI vs. Cursor, and outcome-based pricing.

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Gen 1.5 Brings In-Context Learning to Robotics

Gen 1.5 Brings In-Context Learning to Robotics

Generalist AI's Gen 1.5 robot can learn new tasks from a 3-second demo, no retraining required. Here's what the numbers actually show.

Instagram Now Labels AI-Generated Profiles. What Changes?

AI. Yuki Okonkwo1 month ago· 6 min read

Instagram Now Labels AI-Generated Profiles. What Changes?

Instagram is renaming its AI creator label and threatening reach reductions for undisclosed AI profiles. Here's what the policy actually covers and what it doesn't.

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What Neural Networks Actually Learn, According to Tom McGrath

AI. Yuki Okonkwo1 month ago· 8 min read

What Neural Networks Actually Learn, According to Tom McGrath

Goodfire's Tom McGrath on AI interpretability: buried science, hallucination mechanics, neural geometry, and why sparse autoencoders may fracture what they measure.

Meta Muse Voice Transcribe Unifies ASR, Diarization, Endpointing

Meta Muse Voice Transcribe Unifies ASR, Diarization, Endpointing

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Voice Transcribe, a single model handling speech recognition, speaker diarization, and endpointing in real time.

Six Claude Code Skills That Change How Agents Decide

AI. Yuki Okonkwo1 month ago· 8 min read

Six Claude Code Skills That Change How Agents Decide

Six Claude Code skills covering task memory, marketing flows, Karpathy's agent rules, web automation, UI variation, and pre-build validation.

Perplexity Hybrid Compute on Mac: Privacy or Cost Offload?

Perplexity Hybrid Compute on Mac: Privacy or Cost Offload?

Perplexity's new hybrid compute feature for Mac routes sensitive tasks locally. But who controls the routing, and what does that mean for user privacy?

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How AI Agents Are Learning to Pay for Web Content

How AI Agents Are Learning to Pay for Web Content

AWS's AgentCore Payments and the x402 protocol want to let AI agents buy content autonomously. Here's what that infrastructure looks like and why it matters.

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How AI Is Reshaping Coding Interviews in 2026

How AI Is Reshaping Coding Interviews in 2026

LeetCode-style questions are losing signal fast. CoderPad's Loick explains what companies are actually testing now and how to prepare for it.

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OpenAI Cut Off Cursor. Your Dev Stack Is Next.

OpenAI Cut Off Cursor. Your Dev Stack Is Next.

OpenAI ends Cursor access after SpaceX acquisition. What frontier lab rivalry means for developers and enterprises relying on third-party AI tools.

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How OpenAI Agent Swarms Hacked Hugging Face

AI. Yuki Okonkwo1 month ago· 8 min read

How OpenAI Agent Swarms Hacked Hugging Face

METR researcher Ajeya Cotra breaks down how 1,200 AI agents built a secret message board, coordinated R&D, and hacked Hugging Face to cover their cheating.

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Digital Sovereignty: Who Controls Your AI Data

AI. Yuki Okonkwo1 month ago· 6 min read

Digital Sovereignty: Who Controls Your AI Data

AI systems scatter your data across borders before you get a response. Here's what digital sovereignty means and why it matters for everyone.

Gradium AI's TTS Model: 81% Accuracy at 216ms