Apple is recommitting to its core business model of selling hardware
and services. It knows its homegrown AI technology lags behind
competitors


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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

THE SUDDEN FALL OF OPENAI'S MOST HYPED PRODUCT SINCE CHATGPT (14
MINUTE READ) [5]

Sora was hyped as AI's next consumer-friendly frontier, and even
Disney signed onto the vision. OpenAI then suddenly killed the
project, with many Disney executives learning about the decision less
than an hour before it was announced. OpenAI needed to free up more
computing resources, and Sora was using far too much. The product
wasn't profitable, and every user drew down a finite resource. CEO Sam
Altman says the move was a difficult but necessary sacrifice toward
the company's larger goals.

APPLE PIVOTS ITS AI STRATEGY TO APP STORE, SEARCH-LIKE PLATFORM
APPROACH (13 MINUTE READ) [6]

Apple is recommitting to its core business model of selling hardware
and services. It knows its homegrown AI technology lags behind
competitors, so it is focusing on its core strengths. Historically,
Apple's software has been about driving product sales rather than
generating revenue in their own right. It plans to embed just enough
AI in its OSes to keep users from defecting, while opening Siri and
Apple Intelligence to third-party services. This approach leverages
its hardware, makes its products more customizable, and keeps the
company in control of its ecosystem.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

INSIDE THE STEALTHY STARTUP THAT PITCHED BRAINLESS HUMAN CLONES (29
MINUTE READ) [7]

A Californian startup called R3 has raised funds to create
non-sentient monkey 'organ sacks' as an alternative to animal testing.
The startup's founder reportedly secretly pitched a vision where the
startup creates 'brainless clones' to serve as backups for human
bodies. This could be in the form of a baby version of a person with
enough brain structure to be alive in case they ever need a new kidney
or liver, or it may even be possible to one day transplant a brain
into a younger clone to gain a second lifespan. The company has denied
that it ever made the pitch, saying that any allegations of intent or conspiracy to create human clones or humans with brain damage are
categorically false.

VULNERABILITY RESEARCH IS COOKED (16 MINUTE READ) [8]

Coding agents will soon drastically alter both the practice and the
economics of exploit development. A substantial amount of the
high-impact vulnerability research will just be pointing an agent at a
source three and telling it to find zero days. This will profoundly
alter information security and the Internet itself.

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ENGINEERING FOR AGENTS THAT NEVER SLEEP (2 MINUTE READ) [12]

Most of the signals that trigger engineering work are already machine-readable. The current bottleneck is where a human reads that
signal, interprets it, and then types a prompt telling the agent what
the signal already said. Give agents comprehensive unit tests so they
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MISCELLANEOUS

TO LURE TOP AI TALENT, STARTUPS ARE TURNING TO COLD HARD CASH (6
MINUTE READ) [13]

High-growth AI startups are flush with venture capital. Combined with
a wildly competitive talent market, this has caused increasingly
creative incentive structures and more cash-heavy offers. Startups are
focusing on hiring the best as they need to stay lean and small. This
is creating a split economy in the tech industry where the top 5% to
10% of candidates are getting all of the offers and the rest are
struggling.

SEEING LIKE A SPREADSHEET (28 MINUTE READ) [14]

AI will see much further than the spreadsheet ever could. It will
allow businesses to accomplish incredible things, and make possible coordinations of labor and capital more ambitious than anything we can
imagine today. However, as corporations become dominated by AI
systems, the most human elements of organizations may be devalued or
discarded entirely. Great organizations are great because of something irreducible about the collection and organization of particular people
toward particular ends.

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VEBLEN & JEVON WALK INTO A DATA CENTER (3 MINUTE READ) [17]

Jevon's Paradox states that the cheaper a product becomes, the more
it is consumed, and Veblen goods are those whose demand increases with
price - it is unknown which way the AI industry will go.

META TESTING PAID INSTAGRAM SERVICE THAT LETS USERS SECRETLY VIEW
STORIES (1 MINUTE READ) [18]

Instagram Plus is being tested in select markets, including the
Philippines, Japan, and Mexico, with the plans costing the equivalent
of $2 USD per month.

COST TO IMPLEMENT VS COST TO VERIFY (11 MINUTE READ) [19]

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YOUR TICKET IS A PROMPT (2 MINUTE READ) [22]

Tickets are now handled by agents, and they only have the words on
the ticket, and no other context.

APPLE STEPS UP CRACKDOWN ON VIBE CODING APPS, PULLS `ANYTHING' FROM
THE APP STORE (3 MINUTE READ) [23]

Apple is not okay with apps that can change their own behavior by
generating and running code outside of App Store review.

AI AGENTS COULD MAKE FREE SOFTWARE MATTER AGAIN (30 MINUTE READ) [24]


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