T-Mobile's parent company i=
s making an AI Phone with Perplexity (3 minute read)
Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity are par=
tnering to develop an AI phone that will have Perplexity's AI integrated on=
a system-wide level. Users will be able to interact with the phone's AI as=
sistant even on the lock screen. The phone will offer access to various AI =
providers. It will have some agentic capabilities, but it is unclear yet ho=
w it will execute tasks. The phone will be officially launched in the secon=
d half of this year priced at under a thousand dollars and hit the shelves =
at some point in 2026.
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Amazon-backed AI firm Anthr=
opic valued at $61.5 billion after latest round (3 minute read)
Anthropic has just closed a funding rou=
nd at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation. The $3.5 billion round was led =
by Lightspeed Venture Partners - other investors included Salesforce, Cisco=
, and Fidelity. Anthropic plans to use the funds to advance its development=
of next-generation AI. It plans to expand its compute capacity, deepen its=
research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its=
international expansion in Asia and Europe.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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NASA's upcoming telescope l=
aunch aims to address some existential questions (2 minute read)
NASA plans to launch a telescope this w=
eek to provide insight into how the universe began. The SPHEREx telescope h=
as a very wide field of view. It can detect infrared light and other wavele=
ngths too long to be seen with the naked eye. The mission will image the en=
tire universe four times over two years and create a very large data set ab=
out the visible universe.
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Roche rolls out new DNA 'se=
quencing-by-expansion' approach (3 minute read)
Sequencing-by-expansion is a new propri=
etary method that pulls apart DNA molecules and amplifies the signal of eac=
h individual base, allowing scientists to avoid the time requirements of cy=
cle-based sequencing as well as the comparable difficulties in distinguishi=
ng true signals among the noise. The technology is still in development and=
not yet commercially available, but it could one day be suitable for whole=
genome and exome sequencing as well as parsing RNA. The science behind the=
technology represents a significant breakthrough that addresses the limita=
tions of existing sequencing solutions. It has the potential to revolutioni=
ze the use of sequencing in research and healthcare.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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agents.json (GitHub Repo)
The agents.json Specification is an ope=
n specification that formally describes contracts for API and agent interac=
tions. It is built on OpenAPI, the gold standard for describing how API end=
points work and can be executed. The specification introduces flows and lin=
ks to enable AI agents to take the right sequence of actions.
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Yoke is really cool (14 min=
ute read)
Yoke is a project that takes the idea o=
f Infrastructure as Code to the next level. It allows developers to write i=
nfrastructure definitions in Go or Rust, compile them to WebAssembly, and t=
hen take input and output from Kubernetes manifests that get applied to the=
cluster. Yoke has a feature called Air Traffic Control, which is a Kuberne=
tes operator that lets developers define infrastructure as CustomResourceDe=
finitions - the data in the CustomResource is passed into the Flight you as=
sociate with it, and the Flight generates the manifests that get applied to=
the cluster. Air Traffic Control makes deploying things to clusters easier=
than ever.
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The Kill-or-Be-Killed Fight=
for Crypto's Future (20 minute read)
The call to bring crypto into the mains=
tream through government regulation has opened up a kill-or-be-killed battl=
e among industry players. New laws could be devastating for individual play=
ers depending on what side of new rules they are on. Tether may be an indus=
try leader, but Circle has been calling for greater regulation that would b=
enefit Circle at Tether's expense. This article details the battle between =
Circle and Tether, which has been going on since crypto trading hit the mai=
nstream in 2020.
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Yes, we did shut down Sales=
force a year ago, as we have many SaaS providers (4 minute read)
Klarna shut down around 1,200 SaaS a ye=
ar ago as it had developed an internal tech stack that brought data and kno=
wledge together, resulting in serious productivity gains. The company found=
it was able to use AI to quickly deploy new interfaces and interactions. T=
here was no longer any need for it to continue with a lot of its SaaS as th=
e tech stack allowed it to consolidate its technology and knowledge and rem=
ove the silos. Besides the savings, Klarna gained the unification and stand=
ardization of its knowledge and data.
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Ollama Function Caller (Git=
Hub Repo)
The Ollama function caller is a command=
-line tool for prompting Ollama models locally that supports streaming and =
gives users access to important settings, like context length and temperatu=
re.
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