TLDR 2025-06-24

Mark Zuckerberg has personally reached out to hundreds of researchers, scientists, infrastructure engineers, product stars, and entrepreneurs to try to get them to join a new Superintelligence lab. He is offering them hundreds of millions of dollars and in at least one case discussed buying a startup outright. Despite the financial incentives, some potential candidates have been hesitant to join Meta. It is unclear how successful Zuckerberg's efforts will ultimately be - OpenAI has given counteroffers to people Meta has tried to poach.

Legal filings submitted as part of a trademark dispute reveal details about OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The companies have been vigorously researching in-ear hardware devices. However, io's chief hardware officer said in court that the prototype OpenAI CEO Sam Altman missioned in io's launch video was not an in-ear device nor a wearable device. The design of the prototype has not yet been finalized and the product is at least a year away from being advertised or offered for sale.

This post looks at the state of affairs in aging research. It offers some basic background knowledge for each topic covered. Longevity-focused research hasn't led to anything significant yet, but the field is still very young. Scientific discovery works in strange ways - research from longevity could end up impacting other fields, leading to unexpected returns.

New York plans to build a large nuclear power facility to add at least 1 gigawatt of energy, enough to power about a million homes. The New York Power Authority will find a site in upstate New York and determine the reactor's design. It may pursue the project alone or in partnership with private entities. The US nuclear industry has struggled for more than three decades to do much more than manage existing plants because of safety concerns, huge cost overruns, and a permitting process that moves at a glacial pace. This project could help jump-start a new era of US nuclear reactor construction.

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Pickaxe is a TypeScript library for building fault-tolerant and scalable AI agents. It handles the complexities of durable execution, queuing, and scheduling so that developers can focus on writing core business logic. Pickaxe enables developers to build agents that call tools, other agents, or any other functions they define. A video demo is available.

Python can call Mojo code now. The setup is pretty simple - this post walks through how to set it up and provides some examples of how to use it. Development on the stack is still early, so it's not yet production-ready. Mojo is a lot easier to learn than Rust while still providing a meaningful function speedup.

This post evaluates the state of AI's biggest players, primarily through the lens of the Big Five: Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon. It looks at each company's infrastructure, models, partners, data, distribution, core business, scarcity risk, and more and analyzes its position in the industry. The post also looks at model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic and discusses the elephant in the room: China.

Venture capital and zero-interest-rate policy supplied a ton of money to startups, allowing them to grow even if they were selling customers services at a loss. Today, investor money is going straight into subsidizing the costs of AI products. AI products will likely soon start showing ads to monetize. AI serves its users for now, but in the near future, AI will serve ads.

LogTape is a logging library for JavaScript and TypeScript that provides a simple and flexible logging system.

Apple has updated the Liquid Glass Control Center to be a bit more opaque in the second iOS 26 developer beta - a comparison is available in the article.

Apple is preparing to offer new concessions primarily related to its steering rules ahead of a June 26 deadline, after which the European Commission can impose escalating daily fines of up to 5% of Apple's average global turnover.

Newer, more powerful Chromebooks will soon have image generation, text summarization, and more built into the OS.

The Midjourney suit has the potential to set a precedent around artificial intelligence and how AI companies can operate or train their models - it will have an impact on all creatives.

Sam Altman previously described advertising as a last resort for OpenAI, but his stance has since softened.