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TikTok's new app, PineDrama, offers access to microdramas, bite-sized TV shows that can be watched in a series of one-minute episodes. It features a variety of genres, including thriller, romance, and family. The microdrama industry is projected to bring in $26 billion in annual revenue by 2030. PineDrama will compete with existing microdrama platforms like ReelShort and DramaBox.

OpenAI is on track to unveil its first hardware product in the second half of 2026. Jony Ive's 'io' team at OpenAI recently hired Janum Trivedi, who previously worked on SpringBoard at Apple. Trivedi also built Split View, Multitasking Drag & Drop, iPad Pointer Gestures, and more for iPadOS 15.

Matic's robots have cleaned over 50 million square feet across real homes since launch. The company was designed from the ground up to iterate quickly. It shipped early, observed behavior, learned from real homes, and refined constantly. This article tells the story of Matic's founders and how they built the company.

NASA rolled out the Artemis II rocket to its launch pad over the weekend. The Artemis II mission will set several notable spaceflight records. The astronauts will travel further from the Earth than any human in history, flying to the far side of the Moon and back. The mission is on track for liftoff as soon as next month.

Connect your AI agents to apps and data more securely, give users control over the actions AI agents can perform and the data they can access, and enable human confirmation for critical agent actions.

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Claude Code 2.0 has a flexible and robust harness with an evolved UX and fewer bugs. The RLHF Anthropic did on Opus 4.5 completely changed the equation. Users no longer need to review code or instruct the model at the level of files or functions: they can just test behaviors instead. Claude Code can be used by developers who never plan on learning how to code and just care about outputs.

Interesting software development jobs aren't likely to disappear. The jobs that are dependent on the fundamentals of software aren't going to stop being dependent on the fundamentals of software. More LLM usage will mean more stress on the tools and applications that rely on the fundamentals of software. The most conservative way to build a career as a software developer is to be practical and effective at problem-solving and to better understand over time how the tools you use work so that you can make better decisions.

The New York Stock Exchange is building a new digital trading platform using blockchain technology to allow for around-the-clock trading of tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds. The platform will launch later this year, pending regulatory approval. It will allow for new types of investor accessibility and create new opportunities for retail to participate in stablecoin-funded markets. The digital infrastructure will allow trades to be funded and settled in real-time without the current one-day delay.

Nearly $12 billion was traded on Kalshi and Polymarket in December, up more than 400% from a year earlier. The rise of prediction markets has created new risks and raised fears about the spread of gambling. There are also concerns about market manipulation and insider trading. Proponents of prediction markets claim that the platforms are fundamentally different from gambling and that they offer a valuable new source of information by allowing people to bet on world events.

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AI isn't competent enough yet to program in COBOL, and keeping code compliant remains a tough challenge.

No amount of brilliant UX, go-to-market strategy, or engineering can make customers adopt a product whose core AI task doesn't solve their job to be done.

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says Meta was crowding out the ecosystem and that recent studio shutdowns and layoffs will be a good thing for the long-term health of the VR industry.

AI agents are massive slop machines if you turn off your brain and let go immediately.

The change will reduce the chance of customers getting counterfeits from Amazon when buying from a reliable seller.

A recent change removes the blue background around sponsored results.