TLDR 2025-06-03

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Elon Musk was paid $0 last year for his role as Tesla's chief executive. He has not been paid for several years amid a legal battle over a stock award in 2018. A court has twice thrown out his pay package despite two votes of support from shareholders. The company is now exploring a new compensation package for Musk. This article looks at three possible approaches to paying Musk.

Meta is betting that automation is the future of ads. It plans to enable brands to fully create and target ads from scratch with AI by the end of next year. The company also plans to enable advertisers to personalize ads using AI. For example, companies will be able to generate variations of existing ads that fit users' current locations.

Clinical trials for a universal artificial blood are underway in Japan. The artificial blood is usable for all blood types and can be stored for up to two years. It is a potential solution to critical shortages in blood supplies for emergency and chronic health care worldwide. The scientists are seeking clinical approval and practical rollout of the universal artificial blood by 2030.

Blue Origin's twelfth New Shepard passenger flight blasted off on Saturday carrying an international crew of four men and two women. The crew rocketed to the edge of space, an altitude of nearly 65 miles, before descending in the West Texas desert 10 minutes after liftoff. Blue Origin has now launched 68 passengers, four of whom have flown twice. It is estimated that a seat aboard New Shepard costs upwards of $500,000.

Delve ran 4 placements across 2 TLDR newsletters and brought in 66 leads, with a meaningful chunk from enterprise. The result: $1M in attributed pipeline and a 52x ROI.

The case study breaks down their strategy, results, and example ads.

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Large language models can write a lot of the tedious code you'll ever need to write and reduce the number of things you need to Google. While there are many objections to using the technology, it is undeniable that AI can speed up many workflows, even if it makes mistakes sometimes. Developers have always been responsible for what's in their code - AI doesn't change that. They still have to check code for mistakes and to understand how it all works.

This post takes a look at what makes Cursor's prompting so effective. It breaks down the system prompt, the two user prompts, and the tool calling prompts. The prompts from the post were obtained by setting a custom API endpoint in Cursor and reading the payloads. They reveal how Cursor's capabilities aren't magic, they're just the result of incredibly thoughtful and detailed prompt engineering.

Google reportedly plans to launch the Pixel 10 series at a Made by Google event on August 13. The handsets will arrive in stores a week later on August 20. Google is expected to launch four Pixel 10 phones: a regular model, Pro, Pro XL, and Pro Fold. The company will likely announce the Pixel Watch 4 at the same event.

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Studies across hundreds of businesses and nonprofits switching to four-day-week pilot programs show that working one day less every week with no reduction in pay results in reduced burnout, better mental health, and improvements in physical health. Organizations saw excellent results in performance metrics such as revenue, absenteeism, and resignations - less than 10% decided to discontinue the four-day week. Companies appear to be able to maintain 100% of their performance despite 20% less time at the workplace. The most common productivity hack used by companies was to cut down on meetings.

The average earnings growth for Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft from 2010 was 17% - it was around 7% for the rest of the S&P 500.

Learning how to type fast can make you a better developer - faster at writing code, better at documentation, and less frustrated when typing out large amounts of text.

This thread contains resources and advice for learning robotics.

The rebooted version of Digg will give people who create content and manage online communities a bigger stake in the platform's success.

What killed Stack Overflow was its community and governance - AI merely exposed the extent to which the community had already lost its spark.

This post contains a transcript of an interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky where he discusses AI and Airbnb, his relationship with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive, the difference between a product manager and a program manager, and much more.