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Big Tech & Startups

Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models From Google's Gemini (2 minute read)

Apple has complete access to Google's Gemini model in its own data centers. The company is able to edit the model as needed to make sure it responds to queries the way it wants, and also use the answers and reasoning information from the model to train smaller, cheaper models. The distillation process will enable Apple to create models that can run on its devices without the need to connect to the internet. Apple is still working on its own AI models, distinct from the Gemini models.

Meta and YouTube Lose Landmark Social-Media Addiction Trial (8 minute read)

Meta and YouTube have been found negligent for operating a product that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those dangers. The companies have been ordered to pay $3 million to the plaintiff of the trial, with the jury saying that they should pay another $3 million in punitive damages. Both companies plan to appeal the verdict. More than 3,000 similar lawsuits against Meta, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok are pending in California courts.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

World's First Antimatter Delivery by Truck Signals a 'New Era' in Physics (5 minute read)

CERN scientists transported antiprotons on a 10-kilometer drive around the campus in a truck. Moving antimatter particles is a major challenge, as when antimatter comes into contact with matter, it annihilates and disappears in a flash of energetic particles. The scientists have found a way to trap antiprotons inside a special ion trap. This will allow them to be transferred to other, quieter facilities where they can be studied with greater precision.

We got an audience with the “Lunar Viceroy” to talk how NASA will build a Moon base (6 minute read)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman jokingly referred to Carlos Garcia-Galan, the space agency's new Moon base manager, as the 'Lunar Viceroy' during the Ignition event on Tuesday. Garcia-Galan is a long-time NASA employee who has been largely anonymous in the past. He plans to focus on the most relevant things to the critical path and on removing choke points that are slowing the organization down. He says the agency has the budget to support all of the activities he has planned on and near the Moon.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Where does your org fall on AI knowledge management maturity? (Sponsor)

Most teams are stuck in stage one: manually maintaining wikis nobody trusts or reads. Atlassian's new AI Maturity Curve for Knowledge Management charts the path to AI-native systems that keep themselves current and surface contextual answers. Join the webinar on April 16 for a walkthrough of each stage with live demos.

How Anthropic's Claude Thinks (15 minute read)

Claude was trained on data, and it developed its own strategies, so the people who built it didn't really know how it worked. Anthropic built a set of tools to trace the actual computational steps the model takes to produce an answer. Its team traced Claude's internal computations across tasks over the course of multiple research papers published in 2025. This article reviews these papers to see what the Claude researchers found.

Software engineer interviews for the age of AI (8 minute read)

AI probably won't be able to replace engineers within the next few decades. Businesses currently still need great engineers. AI may generate plausible code, but a human still has to verify it, because people pay for reliable services. This guide shows how to hire great software engineers who get things done, sometimes with AI.

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Miscellaneous

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought (5 minute read)

Q Day is the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms. Everyone should prepare by adopting post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. Google is now giving itself until 2029 to prepare for the event. The beta version of Android 17 will add support for developers to have PQC keys for signing their apps and verifying other software signatures.

Notes from the SaaS Funeral (5 minute read)

The moat around SaaS has weakened. However, a reduction of margins is not the same as being dead. Companies are unlikely to be able to prompt their way to a full functional HR system, accounts payable platform, or enterprise CRM anytime soon. Software businesses are living systems that require maintenance, verification, security, compliance, and ongoing refinement.

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Quick Links

Microsoft Build 2026, June 2-3, San Francisco. (#MicrosoftPartner) (Sponsor)

Learn from the teams building the next generation of AI with practical tools and hands-on experiences building alongside Microsoft product & engineering teams. June 2-3, San Francisco. Learn more and register today.

Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career (12 minute read)

The only person responsible for growing your career is you.

Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x (4 minute read)

TurboQuant is a compression algorithm that reduces the memory footprint of large language models while boosting speed and maintaining accuracy.

Responsive Emails, Written in Markdown (Website)

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Meta cutting several hundred jobs across Reality Labs, Facebook, and other departments (3 minute read)

Some of the impacted employees are being offered new roles within Meta.

Figma's next-generation data caching platform (23 minute read)

FigCache is a stateless, RESP-wire-protocol proxy service that has helped Figma's caching layer achieve six nines of uptime since its rollout.

Elon Musk Teases New Tesla SUV: 'Way Cooler Than a Minivan' (2 minute read)

The CyberSUV will be a direct competitor in the highly profitable luxury segment.

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