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Techmeme: Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 (Counterpoint Research)
Techmeme: A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (Will Knight/Wired)
Techmeme: Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts (Anthropic)
Lessons from Building an OTel Normalizer for GenAI
Monad tutorials timeline
Understanding CORS: What Actually Blocks Your API Requests
London to Calcutta by Bus
Techmeme: Leaked audio: San Francisco and Austin first responders told the NHTSA that Waymo robotaxis are “backsliding” and committing more traffic violations than before (Aarian Marshall
Techmeme: Hyundai unveils Pleos Connect, a next-generation infotainment system with Gleo AI voice assistant, debuting in May on the new Grandeur sedan in South Korea (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney
Techmeme: Musk v. Altman: internal 2017 emails show Musk sought majority voting control over OpenAI co-founders, withheld promised funding, and tried to poach researchers (Wired)
Techmeme: OpenAI says it has signed contracts for 10GW of US AI compute capacity, with 3GW+ added in the past 90 days, hitting a goal it once aimed to reach by 2029 (Dina Bass
Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
Continuing the story of early DOS development
Techmeme: FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a “direct data feed” to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (Frank Konkel/Nextgov/FCW)
GitHub - cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code: The official code repo of Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
Biology is a Burrito
Techmeme: SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can “read” images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
Techmeme: Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate (Krisztian Sandor
Techmeme: Analysts: TikTok Shop generated $4.9B in US sales during Q1 2026, doubling its volume from the previous year; Q1 consumer spending on the platform rose 46% YoY (Jennifer Williams
GitHub - qumulator/qumulator-sdk: Python client SDK for the Qumulator quantum computing API
Satya Nadella admits Microsoft needs to “win back” Windows 11 fans, improve performance for low RAM PCs
Techmeme: How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)
Mike — open-source legal AI
Creating a Color Palette from an Image — Amanda Hinton
Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos With Historic JFK Flight
Techmeme: Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (New York Times)
Techmeme: Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to 70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security (Wall Street Journal)
Claude.ai Down Again?
claude.ai and API unavailable
Techmeme: Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China (Bloomberg)
Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures
Techmeme: Sources: SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation (Financial Times)
Techmeme: Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to ~$90.2B, vs. ~$89.4B est., and operating profit up 756% to ~$38.5B, vs. ~$37.2B est., driven by AI-linked memory demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
a deep dive into multithreading with Python
New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says
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