Top Tech Stories
1. Andrew Wilson Joins Perplexity AI as Research Lead
Perplexity founders confirm appointment with focus on open research in continual learning and multi-agent systems.
2. Anthropic Questions Candidates on Safety Priority and Share Value
Social posts reference an Axios scoop on culture interviews testing mission alignment over equity value.
3. Epoch AI Says US GDP Growth Understated by 0.3 Points
Epoch AI researchers say official figures miss most Nvidia profits from fabless chip sales.
4. Pieter Levels Launches Hotelist.com for Honest Ratings
Founder promotes AI site to surface negative hotel feedback suppressed elsewhere.
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5. Horace He Calls Cached Token Counts Incredibly Dumb
Researchers note that visible dashboard numbers lead users to include cached inputs when reporting token usage.
6. Nous Research Offers Grok 4.6 at Half Price
The discount applies in Nous Portal for the next week through a partnership with SpaceXAI.
7. Sunny Madra Credits NVIDIA Speed on Groq 3 LPX
Sunny Madra, NVIDIA VP of Hardware, calls past eight months most rewarding.
8. Toner Shares Ezra Klein Clip on Hugging Face Incident
Clip from Ezra Klein Show covers the Hugging Face incident involving an AI agent.
9. Runway Posts About Ruby Video Export Tool
The tool converts AI-generated videos from models like Gen-4.5 into formats such as ProRes and EXR.
10. Sasha Rush Departs Cursor After Composer Work
Colleagues reply with congratulations on the researcher's time at the AI coding startup.
11. LangChain Deep Agents Auto-Provision Slack Apps on Deploy
Managed Deep Agent deployments now handle Slack app setup without manual steps.
12. Posts Highlight Xiaomi AI Cube Chip Details
Social posts examine Xiaomi XRING 03 SoC and AI Cube device specs.
13. Levelsio Says He Will Switch to xAI from Claude
Founder cites trust and token issues with Anthropic before an engineer responds on rollout.
14. Mundo AI Announces $20M Series A Round
Mundo AI announced the round on X and partners with labs on perception datasets.
15. Agentic Cybersecurity Incentives Favor Offense
Stratechery analysis claims this will limit incumbents and fuel startups.
16. Narayanan Questions Effect of Data Center Bans on AI
Princeton professor says efficiency gains outpace data center growth for AI advances.
17. Thomson Reuters Builds Custom AI Model on Qwen
Company fine-tunes Alibaba Qwen model to cut dependence on Anthropic Claude.
18. Users Question TSMC Role in Xiaomi XRING Chips
Replies question TSMC fabrication of Xiaomi XRING O100 and related chips.
19. Researchers Found Nonprofit for Responsible Superintelligence
Nonprofit research institute founded by Shafi Goldwasser, Adam Kalai, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan.
20. Deepfates and Lfschiavo Launch Grove Research
Interview covers launch of new company and views on AI model evaluations.