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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
CURSOR GOES TO WAR FOR AI CODING DOMINANCE (12 MINUTE READ) [9]
Until recently, Cursor seemed nearly unstoppable. Then, Anthropic's
Claude Code crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue within six months
and hit $2.5 billion last month, surpassing Cursor, and OpenAI's Codex
coding agent was downloaded over a million times in its first week.
Perceived momentum can appear or evaporate overnight in the
fast-moving world of AI. In response, Cursor is building a research
powerhouse to outmaneuver Anthropic and OpenAI, and prioritizing
contracts with large enterprises, which can be more stable than
consumer subscriptions.
APPLE ‘ULTRA' PRODUCTS EXPANSION IS UP NEXT AFTER MACBOOK NEO
LAUNCH (6 MINUTE READ) [10]
Apple plans to release several higher-end products, including a
foldable iPhone, new AirPods, and a MacBook Pro with a touch-enabled
OLED display. Other product lines will likely expand to a superpremium
tier, including the iPad and iMac. The approach is typical of CEO Tim
Cook's playbook of taking proven products and stretching them across
multiple price points to capture as much market share as possible. It
wouldn't be surprising if the MacBook Neo eventually expanded into
multiple variants, even a larger-screen model.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
STEM CELL TREATMENTS FOR PARKINSON'S AND HEART FAILURE APPROVED IN
WORLD FIRST (3 MINUTE READ) [11]
Japanese pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Pharma has received a
conditional and time-limited approval for the manufacture and sale of
Amchepry, a Parkinson's disease treatment. The treatment involves
transplanting stem cells developed into the precursors of
dopamine-producing brain cells into a patient's brain. Medical startup
Cuorips has also received approval from Japan's health ministry to
manufacture and sell ReHeart, heart muscle sheets that can help form
new blood vessels and restore heart function. The treatments could be
on the market and rolled out to patients in Japan as early as this
summer.
ASTEROID DEFENSE MISSION SHIFTED THE ORBIT OF MORE THAN ITS TARGET (5
MINUTE READ) [12]
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) operation in September
2022 changed the trajectory of the entire Didymos binary system and
altered its orbit around the Sun. The vending-machine-sized probe
crashed into the smaller asteroid at over 22,000 kilometers per hour, decreasing the along-track velocity of the entire system by roughly
11.7 micrometers per second. Some of the rock and dust created by the
impact gave the asteroids a push roughly equal to the initial impact
of the spacecraft itself, further changing the asteroids' orbits. The
final verification of the DART mission's consequences will come in
late 2026 when the ESA's Hera spacecraft arrives at the Didymos
system.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
CLERK CORE 3 IS OUT (SPONSOR) [13]
The new release includes a visual theme editor, ~50KB bundle
reduction, concurrent React support, and keyless mode so your agents
can scaffold auth without leaving the editor. An upgrade CLI handles
the migration automatically. Less time on auth, more time on product.
Upgrade to Core 3 today [14]
I DON'T KNOW IF MY JOB WILL STILL EXIST IN TEN YEARS (4 MINUTE READ)
[15]
It is unclear if the software engineering industry will survive
another decade. If it does, it will certainly change more than it did
in the last two decades. Software allows for the automation of jobs,
which is why it is such a lucrative profession. There aren't any
genuinely new capabilities that AI agents need in order to automate
software engineering, they just have to get better and more reliable
at doing the things they can already do. It's hard to believe that AI
will cause demand for software engineers to increase rather than
decrease.
THE LINUX KERNEL WILL SOON BE MIT-LICENSED AND COPYLEFT WILL BE DEAD
WITHIN 5 YEARS (2 MINUTE READ) [16]
A disagreement in a project licensed under the GPL resulted in a
developer reimplementing the project with AI from start to finish. The
AI generated a complete clean room implementation with just 1.3% in
common code. This scenario signals the end of copyleft. Companies that
want to use GPL software will likely rather spend a week
reimplementing projects with AI assistance than dealing with the
headaches of licensing.
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MISCELLANEOUS
STABLECOIN FIRMS BET BIG ON AI AGENT PAYMENTS THAT BARELY EXIST (7
MINUTE READ) [17]
Circle and Stripe are racing to build a payments system for a world
where autonomous AI agents transact millions of times a day using
stablecoins. Circle's Arc is a blockchain for stablecoin payments that
allows autonomous agents to hold a balance and spend across networks
with transaction costs of only fractions of a penny. Stripe's Tempo is
a blockchain with a $5 billion valuation designed specifically for
stablecoin payments. While fast and cheap, stablecoin transactions
lack the fraud protection, dispute resolution, and credit extension
that cards bundle into every payment. A potential path forward may be
virtual cards that settle on the back end via stablecoins, which
allows card networks and stablecoin rails to coexist rather than
compete.
FOR OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC, THE COMPETITION IS DEEPLY PERSONAL (8
MINUTE READ) [18]
OpenAI created the fastest-growing consumer app in tech history.
However, Anthropic managed to add thousands of big businesses as
customers in just a few months and expects to see $19 billion in
revenue this year. The recent controversy with the Pentagon has helped Anthropic, and its app has soared to the number one spot on Apple's
App Store. The situation is just the latest round in a long-running
and deeply personal feud between the two companies, whose executives
have differing views on how AI should be created.
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QUICK LINKS
A MODEL OF HOW SIMPLICITY GETS REWARDED (2 MINUTE READ) [19]
You can reward simplicity, you just have to do it indirectly.
BUNDLE OF HUMAN NEURONS HOOKED TO SILICON LEARNS TO STUMBLE THROUGH
DOOM (2 MINUTE READ) [20]
Roughly 200,000 living human neurons grown on a microelectrode array
gradually learned to play Doom in response to feedback, a form of
reinforcement learning.
TESLA OPENS ITS FIRST MEGACHARGER STATION TO SEMI CUSTOMERS IN
CALIFORNIA (3 MINUTE READ) [21]
The Megacharger station at 4265 E Guasti Road in Ontario, California,
is now live and available to Semi fleet customers.
DO AI-ENABLED COMPANIES NEED FEWER PEOPLE? (3 MINUTE READ) [22]
Claims that companies can get by with way fewer people in the age of
AI appear to be true.
GNU AND THE AI REIMPLEMENTATIONS (14 MINUTE READ) [23]
AI reimplementations are a fair process, but developers should at
least put some effort into trying to evolve the work when replicating
it.
THE NEW APPLE FINALLY BEGINS TO EMERGE (3 MINUTE READ) [24]
Apple has added two designers, Steve Lemay and Molly Anderson, to its executive leadership page, which, when combined with the company's
recent MacBook Neo launch, signals a turning point for the company.
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