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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
OPENCLAW, OPENAI, AND =
THE FUTURE (3 MINUTE READ) [5]=20
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger is=
joining OpenAI to work on
bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will mov=
e to a foundation and
stay open and independent. While Steinberger sees t=
he potential in
OpenClaw becoming a huge company, he doesn't find the pro=
spect
appealing and would rather change the world with OpenAI.=20
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TOK'S CHINESE PARENT HAS AN APP TO REPLACE HOLLYWOOD (7 MINUTE
READ) [6] =
CapCut users will soon have access to Seedance 2.0, ByteDance's
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users o=
n the Chinese version of CapCut, Jianying. It can generate
coherent story=
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currently only generate video=
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ics raising privacy and copyright
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SCIE=
NCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
TINY, 45 BASE LONG RNA CAN MAKE COPIES OF=
ITSELF (8 MINUTE READ) [7]=20
One of the key steps in the origin of li=
fe is the emergence of an RNA
molecule that could replicate itself. RNA c=
an carry genetic
information and also fold into three-dimensional structu=
res that act
as catalysts. This suggests that early life was protein-free=
, with RNA
handling heredity and catalyzing a simple metabolism. A team o=
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scientists has discovered a 45-base-long piece of RNA that can make
c=
opies of itself, adding to our knowledge of the conditions in which
life =
emerged.=20
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ARD 2028
DEADLINE (6 MINUTE READ) [8]=20
Fusion energy startup Helion=
has hit a key milestone: plasma inside
its Polaris prototype reactor has=
reached 150 million degrees Celsius.
The company's ultimate goal is to p=
roduce plasmas that hit 200 degrees
Celsius. Its reactor design is differ=
ent from its competitors,
requiring plasmas about twice as hot to functio=
n as intended. Helion
plans to extract energy using the fusion reaction's=
magnetic field
rather than from heat. The company is contracted to sell =
electricity
to Microsoft starting in 2028, but this will be through a lar=
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commercial reactor called Orion, which is currently being built.=20
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ON COGNITIVE=
DEBT (6 MINUTE READ) [9]=20
Cognitive debt is the idea that AI-generat=
ed codebases are at risk of
falling into a state where nobody knows how t=
hey work, leaving them
inextensible, unobservable, and hard to debug. Thi=
s is already
happening in AI-driven codebases. However, when controlling =
for the
size and scope of a project, cognitive debt tends to be at least =
as
bad, if not worse, in pre-AI code bases than in AI code bases. This
=
fact is obscured because a lot of traditional engineering work is
either =
managing crippling cognitive debt or avoiding it at enormous
cost. The be=
st AI users are already pretty good at avoiding cognitive
debt, and they'=
re only going to get better at it.=20
BIAS TOWARD ACTION (17 MINUTE REA=
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Bias toward action is defaulting to the smallest responsible=
step
that produces real feedback while pre-committing to guardrails. It=
helps companies learn faster while making sure that being wrong
doesn'=
t kill them. It's about optimizing for learning speed while
investing in =
foundations that make you faster. Fast teams use a lot of
information, bu=
t they don't wait for perfect information. Their tight
feedback loops all=
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(9 MINUT=
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Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban sma=
rt glasses
later this year. Its 'Name Tag' feature will let wearers ident=
ify
people and get information about them via the company's AI assistant.=
The company considered adding facial recognition to the first version
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of the glasses in 2021, but pulled back over technical challenges and
eth=
ical concerns. Meta plans to first release Name Tag to attendees at
a con=
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public. =
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Companies that don=
't rebuild how they work from first principles will
get outshipped by tea=
ms half their size six months from now.
Engineering teams need to throw o=
ut the playbook and write a new one
for the age of AI. This post discusse=
s one startup's new playbook,
which puts agents first as the primary user=
s who do the work. The
engineer's role in the framework is to make sure t=
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OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger is j= oining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to=
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CapCut users will soon have access to S= eedance 2.0, ByteDance's latest AI video generation model. The model is alr= eady available to users on the Chinese version of CapCut, Jianying. It can = generate coherent story lines, create realistic voice-overs and background = sounds, and generate complex character actions. Seedance 2.0 can currently = only generate videos of up to 15 seconds. It generated some controversy on = launch, with critics raising privacy and copyright concerns.
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One of the key steps in the origin of l= ife is the emergence of an RNA molecule that could replicate itself. RNA ca=
n carry genetic information and also fold into three-dimensional structures=
that act as catalysts. This suggests that early life was protein-free, wit=
h RNA handling heredity and catalyzing a simple metabolism. A team of scien= tists has discovered a 45-base-long piece of RNA that can make copies of it= self, adding to our knowledge of the conditions in which life emerged.
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on plans to extract energy using the fusion reaction's magnetic field rathe=
r than from heat. The company is contracted to sell electricity to Microsof=
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Cognitive debt is the idea that AI-gene= rated codebases are at risk of falling into a state where nobody knows how = they work, leaving them inextensible, unobservable, and hard to debug. This=
is already happening in AI-driven codebases. However, when controlling for=
the size and scope of a project, cognitive debt tends to be at least as ba=
d, if not worse, in pre-AI code bases than in AI code bases. This fact is o= bscured because a lot of traditional engineering work is either managing cr= ippling cognitive debt or avoiding it at enormous cost. The best AI users a=
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g wrong doesn't kill them. It's about optimizing for learning speed while i= nvesting in foundations that make you faster. Fast teams use a lot of infor= mation, but they don't wait for perfect information. Their tight feedback l= oops allow them to learn quickly.
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wearers identify people and get information about them via the company's A=
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nd ethical concerns. Meta plans to first release Name Tag to attendees at a=
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