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MIT builds a robot bird that swims and flies without kicking water
A 250-gram robot uses the same flexible wings to travel through water and air, launching from a lake at a 70-degree angle after just 8 to 10 wing flaps.
07-15 · 8 min read
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Launch
№ 1026
LAUNCH
Google runs Gemma 4 on Pixel 10: chat, image understanding, and settings control even with in-flight Wi-Fi down at 30,000 feet
At Google I/O India, the Tensor and Pixel teams showed off a lightweight Gemma 4 model running entirely on the phone's TPU—no data leaves the device, no cloud required. Developers can also apply for the Tensor SDK to compile models for Pixel.
07-15 · 7 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1024
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How Much Did That Order Really Earn? Retail Finance Turns to AI for the Answer
With buy-online-pick-up-in-store and cross-store returns, a single transaction splits into multiple messy ledger lines. Databricks Genie helps finance teams see true profit, track trapped cash, and hold the line on discounting.
▶ Play07-15 · 10 min read
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Practice
№ 1023
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An 87,000-character anti-AI-flavor design guide: making Slop.md the default rule for agents
pols.dev publishes a roughly 87,000-character Markdown document that calls out common generator-webpage patterns one by one and offers positive recipes—a universal style guide, not a site builder.
07-15 · 9 min read
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Practice
№ 1022
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Impeccable gives AI-written frontends a set of design skills to strip away the AI feel
One core skill, 23 design commands, and a list of anti-patterns, plus a slop detector that can run in CI. The main site shows how; the /slop page lays out the UI tells that make AI-generated interfaces look fake.
07-15 · 10 min read
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Research
🎧№ 1020
RESEARCH
PrismML squeezes a 27B model into your iPhone with minimal IQ loss
Compressing a ~54GB 27B model down to ~3.9–5.9GB lets it run locally on a phone, while retaining roughly 90% of average performance—here's how it works and where the trade-offs lie.
▶ Play07-15 · 12 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1019
DEEP DIVE
DeepMind's Demis Hassabis: give frontier models a 30-day safety check before release — or keep them off the market
Hassabis wants the US to stand up a FINRA-style body that defines frontier models with a moving benchmark — a voluntary protocol now, a hard gate to market later.
▶ Play07-14 · 6 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1018
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Princeton professor on AI and work at ICML: how individuals can adapt
Model capability has leapt forward in 24 months, but a composite reliability metric built by the SAGE lab has moved only 5–10 points.
▶ Play07-14 · 12 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1017
DEEP DIVE
Anthropic's playbook for AI-native startups: four stages, graduation criteria, and ready-to-copy prompts
Anthropic's 36-page playbook breaks down the graduation bar and common pitfalls for four startup stages, complete with matching Claude prompts you can copy straight in.
▶ Play07-14 · 14 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1016
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DoorDash's AI Shopping Assistant: It's Not the Model, It's the Tools and Memory
After the memory system launched, grocery checkout conversion rose about 24%, and automated evals scaled daily test volume from 1 human-reviewed case to 2,000+.
▶ Play07-14 · 14 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1015
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How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale: Breaking a Production Agent into 5 Layers
Retrieval becomes a sub-agent that plans and retries; evaluation upgrades from "does it run" to "did it do it right"
▶ Play07-14 · 12 min read
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Research
🎧№ 1014
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Anthropic Analyzed 300,000 Conversations: Claude's Values Shift by Language
Across 3 models and 20 languages: English is the most cautious and in-depth, Russian the most exacting, Hindi the warmest, and Chinese sits closest to the global average
▶ Play07-14 · 9 min read
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Research
🎧№ 1013
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Sakana AI's Brainless 3D Cell Bricks Self-Organize With Biology-Like Swarm Intelligence
With no central brain in charge, nearly 200 simple smart cubes figure out what shape they've formed just by talking to their neighbors—and can even sense where to "regrow" after damage. The self-recognition part already works on physical bricks; damage localization and regeneration still happen mostly in simulation.
▶ Play07-14 · 9 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1012
DEEP DIVE
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Companies Face a ‘Reverse Information Paradox,’ Paying for AI While Handing Over Their Internal Knowledge and Experience
Companies pay for intelligence twice: once in model fees, and again in the proprietary know-how required to make the model genuinely useful.
▶ Play07-13 · 7 min read
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Research
🎧№ 1010
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Meta AI's Proactive Memory Agent Teaches Models When Not to Remind You, Boosting Terminal-Bench Accuracy by 8.3 Points
The paper claims the code is open-sourced — but the repo turns out to be empty, without a single commit ever pushed.
▶ Play07-13 · 9 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1009
DEEP DIVE
Ploy Switched Production AI from Opus 4.8 to GPT-5.6 Sol: Cutting Latency by Over Half and Costs by 27% Without Losing Quality
Swapping models isn't just swapping an API: eval frameworks, tool parameters, caching, and reasoning traces — four invisible pitfalls, unpacked and fixed one by one
▶ Play07-13 · 9 min read
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Research
🎧№ 1008
RESEARCH
Claude Cowork's Top Use Case Is Office Admin (33.4%), Not Coding (8.7%): Interface Shapes How AI Gets Used
Based on 1.2M+ conversations across 600,000+ organizations: content creation ranks second at 16.4%, together accounting for nearly half of all usage.
▶ Play07-13 · 7 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1007
DEEP DIVE
Low-Margin Industries Are AI's Biggest Winners
Manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and labor services have been stuck at single-digit margins for years — cutting coordination costs alone can multiply their profits.
▶ Play07-12 · 6 min read
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