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GOOGLE MAKES GEMINI 4 ARGON BROADLY AVAILABLE WITH LIMITED-TIME LOW
API PRICING OF 2/10 PER 1M TOKEN (17 MINUTE READ) [8]
Google's flagship Gemini 4 Argon multimodal language AI model is now
broadly available. Developers and enterprises now have a powerful new
option for software engineering, financial analysis, legal work,
cybersecurity, and scientific research. API prices have been
discounted substantially for a limited time. Argon is available
through the paid Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Antigravity, eligible
Gemini Enterprise subscriptions, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra
subscribers through the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
APPLE INTRODUCES HOMEVIEW, A $299 TABLET FOR THE HOME (5 MINUTE READ)
[9]
Apple's new HomeView device is a seven-inch tablet that starts at
$299. It can recognize up to six members of a household and change its
content based on who is using it. There is a countertop version and a
version that can be mounted on a wall. The HomeView will be available
for purchase starting on November 13.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
SPACEX PLAN TO LAUNCH 456 STARSHIPS A YEAR IN TEXAS UNDER REVIEW (3
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SpaceX plans to perform as many as 456 launches and 912 landings at
its Texas facility each year. The company's CEO, Elon Musk, has been
open about the company's intent to launch Starship as rapidly as
possible in the future. He has claimed that, in less than a decade,
SpaceX will be able to launch Starship more than once every hour.
SpaceX recently announced plans to invest as much as $100 billion to
build a massive launch site in southern Louisiana to support rapid
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SCIENCE CORPORATION IMPLANTS ITS VISION-RESTORING CHIP IN ITS FIRST
STARGARDT DISEASE PATIENT (5 MINUTE READ) [11]
Science Corporation's vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, is commercially
available in Europe for patients who have lost their sight to an
advanced form of age-related macular degeneration, but the company
believes its approach can be applied to multiple diseases. It recently implanted the chip in a patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited
eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. The company's work
with PRIMA is part of a broader pursuit of a novel brain-computer
interface. It envisions a future where BCIs expand into a wide range
of medical technology applications rather than just being used to
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REDESIGNING SOURCE CONTROL AT ANTHROPIC (23 MINUTE READ) [14]
Anthropic was being bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built
for human scale, so it built an in-house version control system called
Scion to support its next stage of growth, and fully migrated its
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all in that same time period. Anthropic averaged about 2,500 code
changes merged per day in May. It now merges over 30,000 per day, and
the rate of growth isn't expected to slow down anytime soon.
HOW TO BE MORE AMBITIOUS: A TUTORIAL FOR HUMANS WITH MODELS (8 MINUTE
READ) [15]
There are four types of ambition. Speed gets the same work done in
less time. Altitude involves going up in abstraction and considering
the outcome rather than the individual task. Depth considers a task
the way a field-leading expert would, going one level deeper and
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MISCELLANEOUS
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OpenAI discovered a hidden recording device in one of its offices
recently. It was traced to Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi Arabian
national who joined the company's product team in July 2025 as an
engineer. He was arrested by the FBI. The device was built to evade
detection and used advanced encryption. It could monitor audio and had
a way to transfer data without being noticed.
WERE WE BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS ALL ALONG? (3 MINUTE READ) [17]
Blue-collar workers typically do the hands-on labor of making or
fixing stuff. Software developers have tried to separate themselves
from this category, but they also make or fix stuff, just in bits
rather than atoms. Just like electricians or carpenters, software
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ARE HARNESSES WORTH THE COST? (25 MINUTE READ) [19]
A behavioral harness is not an automatic win for every model on every
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CLAUDE, DON'T TOUCH MY LUMP (18 MINUTE READ) [20]
We only live half of our existence in the present - the other half we
spend in tomorrow, or tomorrow's tomorrow.
BUMBLE AGREES TO A $1.3B ACQUISITION DEAL AS ONLINE DATING FACES A
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AI Studio users will soon be able to send apps to a personal library
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