TLDR 2025-07-22
Pixel 10 leaks 📱, Tesla diners 🍔, DeepMind's IMO gold 🥇
Elon Musk gives key update on plans for Tesla Diner outside of LA (3 minute read)
Tesla's Supercharger Diner in Los Angeles is now open to the public. Anyone, not just Tesla owners, can stop by to experience the Diner and movie theater. The location features 80 Superchargers, two movie screens, and a full-service 24/7 diner that serves a wide variety of locally sourced food. Elon Musk says that the company plans to establish these types of experiences in major cities around the world, as well as at Supercharger sites on long-distance routes.
Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad (4 minute read)
A team from Google Gemini achieved a gold medal result on this year's International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), achieving the exact same score as OpenAI: 35/42. OpenAI claims its model had not been optimized for IMO questions. Google's model was trained with a curated corpus of high-quality solutions to mathematics problems and general hints and tips on how to approach IMO problems. Neither team used tools or internet access to help solve problems.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work (11 minute read)
AI hasn't yet led to new discoveries in physics, but it's becoming a powerful tool across the field. It is helping researchers to design experiments and find nontrivial patterns in complex data. AI has already been used to design novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists. There is huge potential for language models to be useful in helping automate the construction of hypotheses.
China starts building world's biggest hydropower dam (3 minute read)
China has started building a hydropower megadam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River. The dam has drawn criticism from India, Bangladesh, Tibetan groups, and environmentalists - the Yarlung Tsangpo is in Tibetan territory, and it flows through India and Bangladesh. Damming it could affect millions of people downstream. The project will create five cascade hydropower stations that will produce an estimated 300 million megawatts of electricity annually.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
AI Automation Essentials: Combining Agent-Driven AI With Deterministic Process Models (Sponsor)
This
guide from Camunda covers agentic orchestration 101 and other must-knows:
- An 11-step lifecycle from requirement analysis through post-deployment support
- Security and governance checklist
- Adoption playbooks and industry use cases
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A Friendly Introduction to SVG (17 minute read)
SVGs can be intimidating, but they can do so many cool things. This post talks about the most important SVG fundamentals, shows readers why SVGs are so cool, and shares a few tricks they can try straight away. No prior experience with SVG is needed for this post, but it does assume readers are familiar with web development fundamentals like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The post covers basic shapes, scalable SVGs, presentational attributes, and more.
Pogocache (GitHub Repo)
Pogocache is a fast caching software focused on low latency and CPU efficiency. It is optimized to scale to many cores, giving developers the best single-threaded and multithreaded performance. Pogocache minimizes server load, energy usage, and overall cost to operate by using the fewest CPU cycles per request. It supports Memcache, Valkey/Redis, HTTP, and Postgres wire protocols, allowing for the use of system tools and numerous client libraries.
The Robots That Are Taking Over Your Food Delivery (10 minute read)
Billions of dollars in investment and years of research have gone into fixing food delivery. Restaurants in the US receive around 4 billion food-delivery orders a year through apps alone. Robotics companies have received $3.5 billion in investment since 2019 to make food delivery better, faster, and cheaper. This article looks at some of the tech transforming food delivery now and in the future.
SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (7 minute read)
Stargate, the $500 billion effort aimed at supercharging the US' artificial intelligence ambitions, is struggling to get off the ground and has sharply scaled back its near-term plans. The newly formed company charged with making the project a reality has yet to complete a single deal for a data center. The project is now setting a more modest goal of building a small data center by the end of the year.
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