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Big Tech & Startups

SpaceX Sets Price for the World's Largest IPO (5 minute read)

SpaceX has set a price of $135 for its initial public offering, putting the company's value at $1.77 trillion. The company aims to raise $74.4 billion from the offering, which is set to be the largest IPO ever. Its stock is likely to begin trading on the NASDAQ next week under the ticker symbol SPCX. SpaceX plans to use the money it raises to fund various moonshots, including putting AI data centers into orbit, building a lunar factory, and sending humans to Mars.

Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's New AI Agents to Run Your Whole Business (3 minute read)

Meta has launched an AI agent for businesses on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. The agent can answer customer questions, book appointments, close sales, and perform other functions. Meta plans to expand its capabilities so that it can eventually help run whole businesses. The agent is free to use for now, but Meta will eventually shift it to being a paid subscription service with different tiers.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Blue Origin vows to resume New Glenn flights by year's end (8 minute read)

Blue Origin claims that it will be able to resume New Glenn rocket launches by the end of the year. The company says that the damage from the explosion last week was not as severe as initially feared. There is still no word on what might have caused the explosion. The company's plans to resume flights by the end of the year imply that the root cause of the explosion was not a major design flaw, as that would take months to correct and then test.

China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time (5 minute read)

China's low labor costs, government support, and public enthusiasm for robotics development are helping the industry mobilize large populations to work in robotics data collection. Robotics developers globally have ramped up data collection in real households since the beginning of the year. US companies face high labor costs and are outsourcing their data collection to workers in developing countries. Chinese companies are able to collect massive data sets locally, helping them build robots better adapted to domestic environments.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

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Microsoft brings coreutils to Windows (2 minute read)

coreutils for Windows brings Unix-style command-line utilities to Windows. It provides developers with the everyday tools they already use on other platforms to script, automate, and process text. There are some differences from other versions of the library, such as the use of Windows path separators. Several commands that aren't useful on Windows are excluded. The binary can be installed through WinGet.

sandboxed (GitHub Repo)

sandboxed is an open source engine for AI app-builder products. It creates sandboxes, runs AI coding agents inside them, then provides a URL to access the dev server running inside the sandbox. sandboxed provides the infrastructure for AI app-builders, agent platforms, coding playgrounds, and product previews. It is best used for running many sandboxes for multiple people.

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Miscellaneous

MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production (2 minute read)

Apple doubled its target for MacBook Neo shipments from 5 million units to 10 million units due to customer response. Demand for the device helped drive a record number of first-time Mac buyers last quarter. A second-generation MacBook Neo is expected to be released next year. It will feature an A19 Pro chip and 12GB of RAM.

Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM (2 minute read)

Google's new Gemma 4 12B model can run on many consumer laptops without sacrificing quality. Google claims the model is almost as capable as Gemma 4 26B MoE. The model's efficiency gains are due to a new approach to multimodality. Gemma 4 12B can be downloaded on Kaggle and Hugging Face.

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John Ternus scaled back Apple's Vision products roadmap (2 minute read)

Apple had seven head-mounted wearables in various stages of development last June, but now it only has two: displayless AI glasses set to ship in 2027, and display-equipped AR/XR smartglasses planned for 2029.

DNS Is for People - Not for IT Infrastructure (6 minute read)

Organizations should explore whether DNS can be avoided within internal infrastructures to increase reliability and robustness.

Google offers opt-out of “AI” search results for websites, promises it won't affect regular search rankings (1 minute read)

Websites can now choose whether their sites appear in Google's generative AI Search features.

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They're Made Out of Weights (5 minute read)

AI models, as amazing as they seem, are just layers of floating-point numbers getting multiplied together.

Road to WWDC 2026: What's a developer? (6 minute read)

AI tools have made it easier to build apps on Apple's platforms, but the developer tools are still a formidable barrier.

What's new in Python 3.15 (92 minute read)

An explainer for the new features in Python 3.15.

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