Apple will add AI search in=
mobile Safari, challenging Google (2 minute read)
Apple plans to shift the focus of mobil=
e Safari's search experience to AI search engines. Searches in Safari fell =
for the first time ever last year due to people increasingly using large la=
nguage model-based solutions. Google and Apple shares dropped after Apple's=
plans were revealed as investors fear that the deal that makes Google the =
default search engine may not last. It is unlikely an AI search engine will=
become the default as the technology still needs to improve, particularly =
when it comes to indexing.
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Stripe Brings Stablecoin Ac=
counts to More Than 100 Countries (2 minute read)
Stripe is launching USDC and USDB accou=
nts in 101 countries. The new stablecoin-funded accounts will help Stripe f=
acilitate cross-border transactions between businesses. The accounts will a=
lso support balances held in British pounds, euros, and US dollars. Stripe =
has also announced a profiles feature to help businesses find each other an=
d verify their identities and a tool to make it easy for developers to embe=
d artificial intelligence agents into their products.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Amazon says new warehouse r=
obot can =E2=80=98feel' items, but won't replace workers (5 minute read)
Amazon's new warehouse robot has a sens=
e of touch, allowing it to handle jobs previously only done by humans. Vulc=
an has an innovative gripper that can manipulate 75% of the one million uni=
que items in inventory at Amazon's Spokane warehouse. Vulcan will not be us=
ed to replace people - Amazon will create new, higher-skilled jobs. The rob=
ot can handle items up to 8 pounds and operate for 20 hours a day.
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Google agrees to fund the d=
evelopment of three new nuclear sites (3 minute read)
Elementl Power has signed an agreement =
with Google to develop three project sites for advanced reactors. Each site=
will generate at least 600 megawatts of power capacity. Google will have t=
he option to buy the power once the sites are up and running. Elementl has =
yet to choose the type of reactor it will use. It plans to choose the react=
or technology that's furthest along in development when it is ready to begi=
n construction.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Figma introduces =E2=80=98v=
ibe-coding' AI software design feature (3 minute read)
Figma Make is an artificial intelligenc=
e feature that automates the process of building websites and applications.=
It will be available starting at $16 per person per month when purchased a=
nnually - there is no free tier. The tool uses Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonne=
t model. It is currently being tested. There is no information on when it w=
ill be released.
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The magic of software; or, =
what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (10 m=
inute read)
Many of today's best practices were dra=
wn from long-established internet companies like Google. However, the probl=
em with copying its current practices on the basis of its success is that m=
ost of those companies found near-invincible business models, and so almost=
any practice developed or selected at random likely would continue to be s=
uccessful to some degree. The practices and cultures that have developed at=
these companies more often reflect optimizations for the benefit of variou=
s decision makers rather than optimizations for actually creating something=
great. The qualities that make a good engineer are often the same ones tha=
t create good engineering organizations - both start with deep understandin=
g as the basis for innovation and recognize that vision and engineering are=
often deeply intertwined and mutually informative rather than linear.
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Know Your Enemy: How Three =
Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup (7 minute read)
Zac Townsend was an Associate Partner a=
t McKinsey. This post talks about the reasons he joined the company, his ti=
me there, the projects he worked on, and the lessons he learned from the ex=
perience. After working there for three years, Townsend learned that it is =
impossible to fix institutions that have gotten too big - there are too man=
y people, too many processes, and too much regulatory overhang. This led hi=
m to create his own company.
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Working with LLMs: A Few Le=
ssons (7 minute read)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are inhere=
ntly probabilistic, which means you have to add evaluation frameworks, huma=
n-in-the-loop processes, and design for graceful failure, using LLMs for pr=
obabilistic guidance rather than deterministic answers. Unlike with traditi=
onal software, there is no way to get better at using AI than using AI - th=
ere is no substitute for trial and error. This makes it hard to predict dev=
elopment and makes building future-proof technology almost impossible. Whil=
e software is inexpensive to distribute once written, LLMs have continued c=
osts.
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ty (GitHub Repo)
ty is an extremely fast Python type che=
cker and language server.
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Stringly Typed (2 minute re=
ad)
Applications are 'stringly typed' when =
type information is available, but systems or functions are called based on=
strings or stringified data.
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