TLDR 2025-04-04

Digital ad spend attracted a record $1.1TN in 2024. But most placements still miss the mark – they interrupt, frustrate, and fail to deliver value.

RAD Intel Backed by Adobe and Fidelity, their proprietary AI helps brands like MGM, Hasbro, and Skechers cut through the noise by analyzing what audiences actually care about—and crafting messages that land.

The result? Up to 3.5x better ROI.

RAD is still pre-IPO, and the share price is $0.55.

The price changes April 10, so get in before "too late" becomes the headline.

Amazon is testing a new AI shopping agent with a subset of users. The 'Buy for Me' feature displays products from other websites and allows users to request to purchase the products without ever leaving the Amazon Shopping app. Amazon's AI shopping agent visits the site and purchases items, filling out users' details automatically. The agent is powered by Amazon's Nova AI models. Amazon says that the feature uses encryption to securely insert users' billing information on third-party sites and that it can't see what users are ordering from outside of its platform.

SpaceX test-fired a 'flight-proven' Super Heavy booster for the first time on Thursday, paving the way for the rocket to fly again soon. A successful reflight of a Super Heavy booster is an important milestone for the Starship program. SpaceX has recovered three Super Heavy boosters in four attempts. A video of the static fire test is available in the article.

Commonwealth Fusion recently installed the first component of its tokamak, the cryostat base. Construction is expected to wrap up about a year from now, after which there will be about a year of commissioning the hardware. Fusion experiments are planned for 2027. The company is on track to see plasma well in advance of ITER, a big tokamak that is expected to produce more energy than required to run it.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams boarded Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 5 last year. The mission had faced multiple delays before the launch. Starliner lost four thrusters as it flew up toward the International Space Station, requiring Wilmore to take control of the vehicle. Its approach to the space station was risky, but it wasn't safe to come home either. This article contains an interview with Wilmore and Williams where they talk about the experience.

Hatchet is a platform for running background tasks. It distributes functions between sets of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure. Hatchet has built-in support for chaining complex tasks together into workflows, alerting on failures, making tasks more durable, and viewing tasks on a real-time web dashboard.

AI coding assistants, when properly guided, can dramatically enhance development productivity. It is necessary to apply traditional software engineering best practices to this new technology. Developers can harness the power of AI while maintaining code quality and architectural integrity by providing well-structured requirements, implementing appropriate guardrails, and using file-based keyframing. Time-tested practices developed through hard-earned human experience are more valuable than ever in the age of AI-assisted development.

Anthropic and OpenAI are trying to capture the education market to convert students into users before they graduate and enter the workforce. Both companies rolled out education services within 24 hours of each other. Claude for Education is a specialized version of Claude designed for college students that has a 'learning mode' which guides reasoning rather than provide answers. ChatGPT Plus is free for US and Canadian college students through May.

The impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will exceed that of the Industrial Revolution. This site presents a scenario of the future informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience, and previous forecasting successes. It tries to be as concrete and qualitative as possible. Looking into the future enables researchers to notice important questions or connections that previously hadn't been considered or appreciated before.

Vector sets are a data type similar to Sorted Sets that allows developers to add and remove elements from vectors the Redis way.

It is unclear whether ByteDance or the Chinese government have been involved in discussions on the sale.

Devin 2.0 allows users to delegate to multiple agents in parallel.

This repository contains a suite of specialized MCP servers that implement AWS best practices directly to development workflows.

The deal involves TSMC sharing some of its chipmaking practices with Intel employees and training them.