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APPLE CAN CREATE SMALLER ON-DEVICE AI MODELS FROM GOOGLE'S GEMINI (2
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Apple has complete access to Google's Gemini model in its own data
centers. The company is able to edit the model as needed to make sure
it responds to queries the way it wants, and also use the answers and
reasoning information from the model to train smaller, cheaper models.
The distillation process will enable Apple to create models that can
run on its devices without the need to connect to the internet. Apple
is still working on its own AI models, distinct from the Gemini
models.
META AND YOUTUBE LOSE LANDMARK SOCIAL-MEDIA ADDICTION TRIAL (8 MINUTE
READ) [10]
Meta and YouTube have been found negligent for operating a product
that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those dangers. The companies have been ordered to pay $3 million to the plaintiff of the
trial, with the jury saying that they should pay another $3 million in
punitive damages. Both companies plan to appeal the verdict. More than
3,000 similar lawsuits against Meta, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok are
pending in California courts.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
WORLD'S FIRST ANTIMATTER DELIVERY BY TRUCK SIGNALS A 'NEW ERA' IN
PHYSICS (5 MINUTE READ) [11]
CERN scientists transported antiprotons on a 10-kilometer drive
around the campus in a truck. Moving antimatter particles is a major
challenge, as when antimatter comes into contact with matter, it
annihilates and disappears in a flash of energetic particles. The
scientists have found a way to trap antiprotons inside a special ion
trap. This will allow them to be transferred to other, quieter
facilities where they can be studied with greater precision.
WE GOT AN AUDIENCE WITH THE “LUNAR VICEROY” TO TALK HOW NASA WILL
BUILD A MOON BASE (6 MINUTE READ) [12]
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman jokingly referred to Carlos
Garcia-Galan, the space agency's new Moon base manager, as the 'Lunar
Viceroy' during the Ignition event on Tuesday. Garcia-Galan is a
long-time NASA employee who has been largely anonymous in the past. He
plans to focus on the most relevant things to the critical path and on
removing choke points that are slowing the organization down. He says
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HOW ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE THINKS (15 MINUTE READ) [14]
Claude was trained on data, and it developed its own strategies, so
the people who built it didn't really know how it worked. Anthropic
built a set of tools to trace the actual computational steps the model
takes to produce an answer. Its team traced Claude's internal
computations across tasks over the course of multiple research papers
published in 2025. This article reviews these papers to see what the
Claude researchers found.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERVIEWS FOR THE AGE OF AI (8 MINUTE READ) [15]
AI probably won't be able to replace engineers within the next few
decades. Businesses currently still need great engineers. AI may
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people pay for reliable services. This guide shows how to hire great
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MISCELLANEOUS
GOOGLE BUMPS UP Q DAY DEADLINE TO 2029, FAR SOONER THAN PREVIOUSLY
THOUGHT (5 MINUTE READ) [16]
Q Day is the point at which existing quantum computers can break
public-key cryptography algorithms. Everyone should prepare by
adopting post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. Google is now
giving itself until 2029 to prepare for the event. The beta version of
Android 17 will add support for developers to have PQC keys for
signing their apps and verifying other software signatures.
NOTES FROM THE SAAS FUNERAL (5 MINUTE READ) [17]
The moat around SaaS has weakened. However, a reduction of margins is
not the same as being dead. Companies are unlikely to be able to
prompt their way to a full functional HR system, accounts payable
platform, or enterprise CRM anytime soon. Software businesses are
living systems that require maintenance, verification, security,
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NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOUR CAREER (12 MINUTE READ) [20]
The only person responsible for growing your career is you.
GOOGLE'S TURBOQUANT AI-COMPRESSION ALGORITHM CAN REDUCE LLM MEMORY
USAGE BY 6X (4 MINUTE READ) [21]
TurboQuant is a compression algorithm that reduces the memory
footprint of large language models while boosting speed and
maintaining accuracy.
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META CUTTING SEVERAL HUNDRED JOBS ACROSS REALITY LABS, FACEBOOK, AND
OTHER DEPARTMENTS (3 MINUTE READ) [23]
Some of the impacted employees are being offered new roles within
Meta.
FIGMA'S NEXT-GENERATION DATA CACHING PLATFORM (23 MINUTE READ) [24]
FigCache is a stateless, RESP-wire-protocol proxy service that has
helped Figma's caching layer achieve six nines of uptime since its
rollout.
ELON MUSK TEASES NEW TESLA SUV: 'WAY COOLER THAN A MINIVAN' (2 MINUTE
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The CyberSUV will be a direct competitor in the highly profitable
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