Mark Zuckerberg recently released a wide-ranging essay that outlined a
new course of action to spread the wealth and opportunity from
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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

MARK ZUCKERBERG LAYS OUT NEW AI VISION IN 6,500-WORD ESSAY (6 MINUTE
READ) [4]

Mark Zuckerberg recently released a wide-ranging essay that outlined
a new course of action to spread the wealth and opportunity from AI to
users around the world, and to residents of the communities that host
the data centers powering it. Zuckerberg's plans include releasing
more open-weight models and establishing a $1 billion fund to invest
in the communities where Meta hosts data centers. He believes that
Meta's approach to developing powerful AI and distributing it as
widely as possible is the least likely path to disastrous outcomes for humanity. The commitment marks a significant development in the debate
around whether advanced AI is too dangerous to create on an
open-source basis.

GOOGLE'S CLASSIC SEARCH BUTTON IS GONE IN A NEW AI-FIRST HOMEPAGE (3
MINUTE READ) [5]

Google is testing a version of its homepage where the search button
is replaced with an AI Mode button. The new interface allows users to
ask about files and use the Brainstorm function without having to log
in. Logged-in users are also able to generate images. Ask about files
allows users to attach a file before submitting a question, and
Brainstorm helps users explore ideas.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

DYNA-2 PROVES SCALING LAWS FOR ROBOTICS: 1 MILLION HOURS OF HUMAN
VIDEO UNLOCKS ZERO-SHOT DEXTERITY (4 MINUTE READ) [6]

Dyna-2 is a world-action model (WAM) pre-trained on over one million
hours of human video data. Its existence proves that scaling human
video data predictably improves zero-shot performance on unseen robot
hardware. Dyna-2 achieved an 87% pass rate in real-world zero-shot
deployments at customer sites, vastly outperforming the 46% pass rate
of its VLA predecessor, Dyna-1. The model uses a new one-step video
generation distillation pipeline that drops inference latency by two
orders of magnitude for downstream planning.

LEARNING MORE ABOUT CLAUDE'S MATHEMATICAL CAPABILITIES (7 MINUTE
READ) [7]

Claude was recently challenged with one of the most famous unsolved
problems in mathematics: the Riemann hypothesis. While Claude didn't
succeed, it unexpectedly made strides on a related problem. It
improved on a longstanding lower bound for the fraction of zeros of
the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the Riemann hypothesis. The
result shows that AI models like Claude can extend the impact and
reach of mathematicians' ideas in new and sometimes surprising ways.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

NO, LOCAL MODELS WILL NOT WIN (7 MINUTE READ) [8]

Local models are never going to be as powerful as datacenter models.
All of the current frontier models are far too big to run on anything
but a full GPU cluster. Smaller models are getting more intelligent,
but datacenter models will always be the strongest available. When
given a choice, people are going to pick the strongest available model
in their price range, the one that frustrates them least, which is
always going to be the bigger, more powerful one.

WHAT'S THE BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR CODING AGENTS? (57 MINUTE
READ) [9]

Anyone who wants to make a strong claim about which language or
classes of languages are particularly good with LLMs would need to run
quite a few different evaluations. Failures with languages are
generally something idiosyncratic, where it's not always obvious how
much the issue generalizes across tasks or setups. There's no way to
look at the score on one or even several evaluations and draw a
conclusion about programming in general. At this point, it would be a
mistake to draw a strong conclusion about any particular language.

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MISCELLANEOUS

SEE HOW A TESLA-SPACEX MERGER GIVES MUSK A SHORTCUT TO HIS $1
TRILLION PAYDAY (6 MINUTE READ) [10]

The conditions for Elon Musk to receive his $1 trillion pay package
at Tesla could easily be achieved if the company were acquired. There
is a clause in the agreement that declares half the targets as good as accomplished if Tesla is acquired or otherwise taken over. This leaves
only market-value targets to determine how many shares Musk gets. Musk
has considerable say over any offer SpaceX makes for Tesla. Even a stratospheric bid would keep Musk in firm control of the combined
company.

NVIDIA LINES UP $500 BILLION IN FINANCING AS CEO JENSEN HUANG TELLS
CNBC HIS CHIPS ARE `INVESTABLE ASSET' (4 MINUTE READ) [11]

Nvidia has partnered with six large asset managers on a $500 billion
financing push designed to treat compute infrastructure much like
commercial real estate, toll roads, or other assets to borrow against.
The effort will mobilize third-party capital for hyperscalers,
frontier AI labs, and enterprises to build out data centers and
acquire Nvidia hardware. It will help Nvidia's customers secure
financing without tapping their own balance sheets. Nvidia believes
lenders can reliably underwrite compute as a revenue-generating asset
with an extended life as its hardware is broadly adopted and
transferable across customers.

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EVERYTHING I LEARNED SHIPPING DEVICE BOUND SESSION CREDENTIALS (14
MINUTE READ) [13]

Device Bound Session Credentials bind sessions to a private key a
browser generates in hardware and cannot export.

FOLLOWING EPIC LOSS, GOOGLE HAS STARTED HOSTING RIVAL APP STORES IN
THE PLAY STORE (3 MINUTE READ) [14]

Aptoide, a game-focused store that has been available as a sideloaded
client since the early days of Android, is the first third-party app
store to arrive in Google Play.

INTRODUCING MUSE GLIMMER (4 MINUTE READ) [15]

Muse Glimmer is a 30B open weights model optimized for end-to-end
agentic task completion, reliable tool use, and multi-step reasoning.

APPLE IS WORKING ON A WAY TO AUTHENTICATE THAT A PHOTO CAME FROM AN
IPHONE CAMERA (5 MINUTE READ) [16]

Apple Reference Image is designed to authenticate the source of
photos using unique data tied to the iPhone camera hardware that
captured them.

A RESEARCHER BOUGHT NOREPLY.NET. COMPANIES STARTED SENDING HIM
SECRETS (5 MINUTE READ) [17]

Cory Solovewicz created an accidental honeypot when he purchased
noreply[.]us and noreply[.]net in 2020 and 2024, respectively.

COMPUTE IS REVENUE. REVENUE IS COLLATERAL (18 MINUTE READ) [18]

Nvidia is attempting to turn a handful of bespoke transactions into a financial production line.

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