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. Epoch AI Says US GDP Growth Understated by 0.3 Points
Researchers argue official statistics miss Nvidia profits from fabless chip sales.
3. Anthropic Questions Candidates on Safety Priority and Share Value
Social posts reference an Axios scoop on culture interviews testing mission alignment over equity value.
4. Grok Ports Doom to ESP32-S Microcontroller
Posts from Musk and others claim Grok completed the Doom port rapidly on embedded hardware.
5. Pieter Levels Launches Hotelist.com for Honest Ratings
Founder promotes AI site to surface negative hotel feedback suppressed elsewhere.
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6. Thinking Machines Lab Funds AI Safety Research via Tinker Grants
Engineers at Thinking Machines Lab invite researchers to apply for grants supporting safety work on open-weight models.
7. Sander Dieleman Blog on Continuous Diffusion Language Models
Google DeepMind researcher posts historical perspective on the approach's recent resurgence.
8. Horace He Calls Cached Token Counts Incredibly Dumb
Researchers note that visible dashboard numbers lead users to include cached inputs when reporting token usage.
9. SemiAnalysis Reports Rubin Ultra Memory Cut to 192GB
SemiAnalysis says the chip will use 192GB HBM4, below earlier plans and regular Rubin.
10. Nous Research Offers Grok 4.6 at Half Price
The discount applies in Nous Portal for the next week through a partnership with SpaceXAI.
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11. Sunny Madra Credits NVIDIA Speed on Groq 3 LPX
Sunny Madra, NVIDIA VP of Hardware, calls past eight months most rewarding.
12. Toner Shares Ezra Klein Clip on Hugging Face Incident
Clip from Ezra Klein Show covers the Hugging Face incident involving an AI agent.
13. 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.
14. Sasha Rush Departs Cursor After Composer Work
Colleagues reply with congratulations on the researcher's time at the AI coding startup.
15. AI Supply Chain Bullwhip Effect Hits Hard Disks
Investor Tomasz Tunguz observes the AI hardware supply chain now facing shortages in hard disks.
16. Thomson Reuters Builds Custom AI Model on Qwen
Company fine-tunes Alibaba Qwen model to cut dependence on Anthropic Claude.
17. Levelsio Says He Will Switch to xAI from Claude
Founder cites trust and token issues with Anthropic before an engineer responds on rollout.
18. Mundo AI Announces $20M Series A Round
Mundo AI announced the round on X and partners with labs on perception datasets.
19. LangChain Deep Agents Auto-Provision Slack Apps on Deploy
Managed Deep Agent deployments now handle Slack app setup without manual steps.
20. Posts Highlight Xiaomi AI Cube Chip Details
Social posts examine Xiaomi XRING 03 SoC and AI Cube device specs.