Foldable iPhone's Display S=
izes Leaked (1 minute read)
Apple will likely launch its foldable i=
Phone in the second half of 2026. The device will come with a 7.8-inch inne=
r display and a 5.5-inch outer display. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has an =
8-inch inner screen and a 6.5-inch outer screen. Apple's foldable iPhone wi=
ll feature a 'crease-free' inner display and have two rear cameras, one fro=
nt camera, and a Touch ID power button instead of Face ID.
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OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle=
$30B a year for data center services (2 minute read)
Oracle disclosed in an SEC filing last =
month that it had signed a cloud deal that would generate $30 billion a yea=
r in revenue. The company that signed that deal has been revealed to be Ope=
nAI. Oracle collectively sold $24.5 billion worth of cloud services in its =
fiscal 2025 to all customers combined. OpenAI and Oracle still have to buil=
d the data center, which will be a costly endeavor.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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DeepMind's Quest for Self-I=
mproving Table Tennis Agents (5 minute read)
Google DeepMind recently used table ten=
nis as a testbed for its technology, as the sport requires robots to master=
a confluence of difficult skills - it requires perception and demands exce=
ptionally precise control. This makes table tennis an ideal domain for deve=
loping and evaluating robust learning algorithms that can handle real-time =
interaction, complex physics, high-level reasoning, and the need for adapti=
ve strategies. This article looks at the study and the insights gained from=
it. One important lesson learned from the project is that VLMs can be leve=
raged for explainable robot policy search.
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Genetics Reimagined (4 minu=
te read)
Scientists recently confirmed the healt=
hy births of children through mitochondrial donation. The innovation opens =
new doors for reproductive choice. It offers at-risk families a viable path=
to parenthood without the lingering fear of passing on devastating inherit=
ed conditions. However, it also opens up the possibility of designer geneti=
cs that will be passed down to future generations. Those currently living w=
ith conditions will still face daily challenges, but for the next generatio=
n, the landscape has changed.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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any-agent (GitHub Repo)
any-agent is a Python library that prov=
ides a single interface for evaluating different agent frameworks. It can b=
e used to create and evaluate agents, implement and use custom callbacks, i=
ntegrate Model Context Protocol tools, deploy agents with Agent-to-Agent co=
mmunication, and more. Tutorials on how to get started are available.
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Vibecoding a high performan=
ce system (24 minute read)
This developer recently used agentic co=
ding to build a system to crawl a billion web pages in around 24 hours. Les=
s than 4% of the code was written by hand. The post discusses how AI helped=
code the tool and where it fell short. AI was a huge boost during the deve=
lopment process. Some of the learnings from this project could also apply t=
o building other high-performance systems.
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How Apple's Internal Veto A=
gainst Open-Source AI Sparked a Talent Exodus to Meta (4 minute read)
Apple had a plan to open-source its cor=
e AI models, but its leadership decided against it due to fears of exposing=
performance compromises made for on-device processing, a pivotal decision =
that has ignited a crisis of confidence within the company's AI division. T=
he move has directly triggered an exodus of top talent to rivals like Meta.=
Many engineers are frustrated with the internal conflict between Apple's f=
amous secrecy and the open culture of AI research. There are now serious do=
ubts over the future of Apple Intelligence and the company's ability to com=
pete in the AI arms race.
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Reading QR codes without a =
computer! (9 minute read)
This article provides an interactive ex=
planation of how QR codes work. It covers the anatomy of a QR code, mask pa=
tterns, encoding, reading, and decoding. Readers can enter their own custom=
data to generate a QR code to follow along with the article. The article g=
ives readers all the information they need to decode simple QR codes by han=
d.
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