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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

A FRUSTRATED ZUCKERBERG MAKES HIS BIGGEST AI BET AS META NEARS $14
BILLION STAKE IN SCALE AI, HIRES FOUNDER WANG (6 MINUTE READ) [5]

Meta is finalizing a deal to invest $14 billion into Scale AI, a
company that helps AI startups prepare data to train cutting-edge AI
models. Meta is one of Scale AI's biggest customers. The social media
giant appears to be taking a similar strategy as other tech companies
like Google and Microsoft which are taking large stakes in prominent
leaders in AI rather than buying them outright - Meta is currently on
trial for antitrust claims and it doesn't want to further upset
regulators by acquiring Scale AI. It will take a 49% stake in Scale
AI, and Scale AI's CEO will help lead a new AI research lab within
Meta.

OPENAI RELEASES O3-PRO, A SOUPED-UP VERSION OF ITS O3 AI REASONING
MODEL (3 MINUTE READ) [6]

OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an advanced reasoning model, to ChatGPT
Pro and Team users, as well as on OpenAI's developer API. Enterprise
and Edu users will get access to the model next week. o3-pro is priced
at $20 per million input tokens and $80 per million output tokens on
the API. The model has access to tools and can search the web, analyze
files, reason about visual inputs, use Python, personalize its
responses using memory, and more. It can not generate images or use
Canvas and its responses typically take longer than o1-pro to
complete.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

IBM NOW DESCRIBING ITS FIRST ERROR-RESISTANT QUANTUM COMPUTE SYSTEM
(8 MINUTE READ) [7]

IBM has released plans for a quantum compute system that can perform
100 million operations without errors on a collection of 200 logical
qubits. The hardware, which will be called Starling, will be available
for use in 2029. While the system will be able to handle some
problems, it will not be enough to perform the complex algorithms
needed to do things like break encryptions - that would require
waiting for IBM's Blue Jay, a system with 2,000 logical qubits the
company expects to build by 2033.

SNAP TO LAUNCH SMALLER, LIGHTER AUGMENTED REALITY SPECS SMARTGLASSES
IN 2026 (2 MINUTE READ) [8]

Snap plans to release a sixth generation of its augmented reality
glasses in 2026. The next-generation glasses will be called Specs and
use AR technology to let people see and interact with digital imagery
overlaid over the physical world. It will run on Snap OS. Developers
will be able to incorporate Google's Gemini AI models and OpenAI's GPT
family of AI models into programs they develop for the smart glasses.
The most recent version of Snap's augmented reality glass was released
in September 2024 to developers who had to pay $99 a month for a full
year under a leasing model.

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ANDROID 16 IS HERE (15 MINUTE READ) [10]

Android 16 is now available on most supported Pixel devices. This
release will be the only release in 2025 to include planned
app-impacting behavior changes. There is another planned release for
Q4 that will include new developer APIs, feature updates,
optimizations, and bug fixes. The Android team plans to release
updates quarterly. This post details some of the changes in Android
16, including changes to improve the consistency and visual appearance
of apps, Android apps that adapt to any screen and window size,
consistent progress notifications, and custom AGSL graphical effects.

PAWS-ON-MCP (GITHUB REPO) [11]

Paws-on-MCP is a comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
that implements the latest specification. It demonstrates
production-ready adherence to the MCP 2025-03-26 specification.
Paws-on-MCP features HackerNews and GitHub API integrations with
AI-powered analysis through advanced MCP sampling.

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MISCELLANEOUS

REFLECTIONS FROM SAM ALTMAN (8 MINUTE READ) [12]

OpenAI started almost nine years ago with the goal of building the
most impactful technology in human history: artificial general
intelligence (AGI). The launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, kicked
off the current AI revolution. Over the past two years, the company
had to build almost from scratch around this new technology, which was
a difficult and messy process. Sam Altman considers these years to be
the most rewarding, fun, best, interesting, exhausting, stressful, and unpleasant years of his life so far. He is confident that OpenAI now
knows how to build AGI and believes that the first AI agents will join
the workforce this year and materially change the output of companies.


GOOGLE OFFERS BUYOUTS TO EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE COMPANY, INCLUDING
SEARCH (5 MINUTE READ) [13]

Google has offered buyouts to employees across several of its
divisions in an effort to reduce headcount. The 'voluntary exit
program' applies to US-based employees. The buyout announcement comes
along with a demand for employees to return to the office - workers
who live within 50 miles of an office will be expected to assume a
hybrid work schedule. Google has done multiple buyout offers in a few
units this year.

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QUICK LINKS

NEWS SITES ARE GETTING CRUSHED BY GOOGLE'S NEW AI TOOLS (5 MINUTE
READ) [14]

Traffic for publishers is plummeting as chatbots are replacing Google searches.

PARTIAL KEYFRAMES (9 MINUTE READ) [15]

It's possible to write CSS keyframe animations without specifying
either a starting or ending point - this trick unlocks a capability
within keyframe animations that makes them dynamic and composable.

OPENAI ANNOUNCES 80% PRICE DROP FOR O3, ITS MOST POWERFUL REASONING
MODEL (4 MINUTE READ) [16]

OpenAI has slashed prices on o3 by 80% for both input and output
tokens, making the model more accessible for developers seeking
advanced reasoning capabilities.

HOW AI SAVED MY COMPANY FROM A 2-YEAR LITIGATION NIGHTMARE (23 MINUTE
READ) [17]

Contracts are language, and large language models are exceptionally
good at reviewing and creating them.

APPLE RETREATS (29 MINUTE READ) [18]

Apple appears to be retreating to safety and focusing on its core competencies.

GOD IS HUNGRY FOR CONTEXT: FIRST THOUGHTS ON O3 PRO (4 MINUTE READ)
[19]

OpenAI's o3-pro is very smart, but it needs a lot of context in order
to work well.

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