Jeff Bezos' new startup, Prometheus, intends to create new engineering
tools to improve the design and manufacture of practically any
device


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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

JEFF BEZOS WANTS TO BUILD AN `ARTIFICIAL GENERAL ENGINEER' (4
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Jeff Bezos' new startup, Prometheus, intends to create new
engineering tools to improve the design and manufacture of practically
any device. It aims to improve the efficiency of companies that design
and build computers, automobiles, spacecraft, and other physical
products. The tools it will create will accelerate the invention loop.
The work done at Prometheus could benefit Bezos' other companies.

SPACEX IPO RAISES $75 BILLION IN BIGGEST DEBUT OF ALL TIME (9 MINUTE
READ) [6]

SpaceX raised $75 billion in its IPO. The IPO, the biggest so far,
drew demand more than four times the available shares. SpaceX's shares
will debut on the Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas on Friday. A successful
showing in the public markets could tip the scales and make Elon Musk
a trillionaire.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

HOUSE ROBOTS ARE COMINGÄAND THEY WILL BE DANGEROUSLY CUTE (5 MINUTE
READ) [7]

The Familiar is a soft, furry robot about the size of a dog created
by Familiar Machines & Magic, a company started by Colin Angle, the
creator of the Roomba. It uses AI to communicate and form intimate
bonds with members of the household. The robot is designed to capture
presence, not attention: it has no advertising model,
engagement-driven feed, or incentive structure that rewards maximizing
screen time or interaction time. While the Familiar can connect to the internet, by default, it will not send any data to the cloud and it
will ask permission before accessing anything online.

AFTER NEARLY BREAKING, NASA'S DEEP SPACE NETWORK "WORKED WELL" ON
ARTEMIS II (9 MINUTE READ) [8]

NASA's Deep Space Network couldn't keep up with the routine demands
of its science missions during the Artemis I mission nearly four years
ago. The network reduced or delayed downlinks from several
high-profile science missions. As a result, NASA put in new processes
focused around coordination and scheduling. This produced better
results during Artemis II, which had an even higher data requirement
than the previous mission, but the limitations of the network and high
demand continue to be an issue.

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BUILDING A GOOD VERTICAL AGENT (19 MINUTE READ) [10]

Earlier models needed custom tools and everything spelled out to
work. Today's models can absorb a ton of context and reason over raw
data without choking. Bigger context windows tempt people to throw in
more data, but noise causes accuracy to drop. Increase accuracy by
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HOMEBREW 6.0.0 (17 MINUTE READ) [11]

The most significant changes in Homebrew 6.0.0 are a new tap trust
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MY AI OPINIONS (36 MINUTE READ) [14]

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This post contains his thoughts on AI timelines, AI safety,
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WHY AI HASN'T REPLACED SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, AND WON'T (25 MINUTE READ)
[15]

Writing code was never the bottleneck in software development.
Developers spend surprisingly little time coding, and studies have
found that using agents to write code has led to little impact on
overall productivity. The real bottlenecks are deciding and specifying
what to build, verifying and being accountable for what is delivered,
and the deep human understanding required to carry out both. AI
doesn't make the 'decide' layer thinner - once a decision can be
delegated to AI, it is no longer a source of competitive advantage -
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A GREYSCALE IPHONE SETUP THAT WORKS IN EVERYDAY LIFE (3 MINUTE READ)
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Setting your phone to greyscale can help significantly reduce screen
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HOW TERRY TAO BECAME AN EVANGELIST FOR AI IN MATH (29 MINUTE READ)
[18]

Terrence Tao didn't think AI would replace human mathematicians any
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SOFTWARE IS MADE BETWEEN COMMITS (3 MINUTE READ) [21]

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FIRST DRIVE: THE 2027 RIVIAN R2 ENTIRELY CHANGES THE EV GAME (23
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