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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
NVIDIA TAPS AI CLOUD PROVIDERS TO EXPAND COMPUTE ACCESS FOR STARTUPS
(2 MINUTE READ) [4]
Nvidia has started a partnership program that offers firms access to
critical computing infrastructure through the company's network of AI
cloud service providers. Members of the program will share both
product and cloud revenue with Nvidia. AI firms are increasingly
entering into revenue and equity-sharing agreements with chip makers
to circumvent liquidity issues. Nvidia plans to raise at least $20
billion in debt for general corporate purposes.
AMAZON HAS DEPLOYED ENOUGH SATELLITES TO LAUNCH LEO SERVICE LATER
THIS YEAR (3 MINUTE READ) [5]
Amazon Leo now has enough satellites in orbit to begin serving
customers. The constellation now has more than 390 satellites. Amazon
began offering an enterprise preview for select businesses last year.
Its commercial service will likely initially be limited to users in
certain geographic regions.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
THE QUEST TO MAKE HUMANOID ROBOTS SAFE ENOUGH FOR HUMANS (6 MINUTE
READ) [6]
One of the biggest challenges for robot makers is ensuring that they
don't hurt humans. The machines are getting bigger and heavier, which
increases their potential for damage. The International Organization
for Standardization is expected to publish a standard for humanoid
robot safety by mid-2028, but robot makers are already coming up with
their own solutions. This article looks at some of those solutions.
THE AI SUPERFORECASTERS ARE HERE (30 MINUTE READ) [7]
An AI superforecaster is an AI modified to be good at forecasting.
This usually involves a scaffold that handholds the agent through a
long research process. There are now several companies that claim to
have AI superforecasters with incredible performance and results. They
appear to be making crazy profits on prediction markets and beating
the stock market by some comfortable amount.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
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AGENTIC AUTONOMY LEVELS (19 MINUTE READ) [9]
Low autonomy limits risk and increases reversibility. Higher autonomy
is better for explicit activities, as well as for fleets of parallel
agents refactoring massive codebases. The edge of the frontier is the
manager agent that delegates to helpers while continuously verifying
their output, and only returning with the decisions that must be made
by a human. This setup can be used to run hundreds or thousands of
agents.
A FIELD GUIDE TO FABLE: FINDING YOUR UNKNOWNS (16 MINUTE READ) [10]
Users need to spend more time defining unknowns to prevent
long-horizon tasks from coming back wrong. Claude can be used to help
define these unknowns through explainers, brainstorms, interviews,
prototypes, and references. Doing this is a cheap way to fix problems
before they get expensive. This post shows readers how to use Claude
to help find their unknowns.
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MISCELLANEOUS
THREADS, META'S ‘TWITTER KILLER,' FINDS ITS PEOPLE (9 MINUTE READ)
[11]
Threads now has 500 million monthly users. The app has become
especially popular in Asia. Threads is now targeting one billion
users. The app started showing ads in January - reaching its user goal
could lead to revenue of at least $30 billion a year.
AI HAS TORCHED THE MARKET FOR JUNIOR PROGRAMMERS (8 MINUTE READ) [12]
The job market for computer programmers is quickly falling. However,
the market for jobs where the work product is judgment about what code
should exist is growing. AI is only eating a very specific kind of
programming job. The jobs disappearing are the ones where the work
product is code written to spec.
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BETTER MODELS: WORSE TOOLS (14 MINUTE READ) [15]
If the newest models get better at solving the task while getting
worse at faithfully emitting an alternative tool schema, then the
harness needs stronger guarantees somewhere.
WORDPRESS DROPS TO 41.5% MARKET SHARE, BUT THREE DATASETS TELL
DIFFERENT STORIES ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON (15 MINUTE READ) [16]
WordPress now powers 41.5% of the web, down from a peak of 43.6% in
early 2025.
AGENTIC LOOPS (20 MINUTE READ) [17]
A look at various strategies to run agentic loops.
APPLE PLANS FIVE NEW IPHONES THROUGH 2027, EYES CHINESE-MADE CHIPS
AMID FOLDABLE PUSH (2 MINUTE READ) [18]
Apple has instructed suppliers to prepare to produce about 10 million
foldable iPhones this year.
DOES A URL IN A PROMPT STEER AN LLM'S OUTPUT TOWARD ITS CONTENT? (22
MINUTE READ) [19]
When a URL and its content make it into the training data, the bare
URL works as a key into the weights
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