TLDR 2026-05-07
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SpaceXAI signs agreement with Anthropic for massive AI supercomputer access (3 minute read)
SpaceX has agreed to provide Anthropic access to its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The plant has more than 300 megawatts of power and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs - Anthropic has access to all of the compute. Anthropic is doubling Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, and Team plans, removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code and Max plans, and substantially raising its API limits for Opus models.
Google Search AI Mode Gets 'Expert Advice' From Reddit and Social Media (2 minute read)
Google is adding an extra section into its search results labeled 'Expert Advice' or 'Community Perspectives' (depending on the query and response) that will include snippets of wisdom with references to the source. It is also adding a 'Further Exploration' section to AI results and making links easier to see in AI responses. Hovering a link on the desktop version of Google Search will now show a preview of the website. The improvements in link visibility and helpfulness are aimed at helping users connect directly with sources and creators.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket (5 minute read)
SpaceX conducted 165 launches with the Falcon 9 rocket last year. It plans up to around 145 Falcon launches this year. SpaceX is transitioning its sites to launch Starships. The Falcon 9 will still remain operational at least as long as the International Space Station, which is unlikely to retire before 2032. SpaceX will put Starship to work as soon as possible to launch upgraded Starlink Internet satellites.
Humanoid Robots to Drive Next Leg of China Export Dominance (3 minute read)
China's early lead in humanoid robots will help power its next phase of global manufacturing and export dominance. The nation's share of global manufacturing is estimated to expand to 16.5% by 2030 from 15% today. Chinese tech parks, factories, and universities are already deploying humanoid robots, and government procurement is kicking in, paving the way for broader adoption. American firms like Tesla have invested heavily into the humanoid robot race, but Chinese firms have been quicker to roll out models using the local market as a testing ground.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
Salvatore Sanfilippo submitted a PR adding a new data type - arrays - to Redis. (1 minute read)
Redis has been missing a real indexed data structure for situations where the index and the spatial relationship of elements are semantic. Arrays handle index-first requirements natively, and usually with much better memory and CPU usage than the workarounds. They also often provide much better space, time, and usability at the same time. This article links to an interactive playground for trying out the new commands in the recently submitted PR for Arrays in Redis.
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Design from the inside (5 minute read)
Engineers at high-growth startups can build so fast and independently that trying to map out the product area is a lost cause. Architects design buildings from the outside using floor plans and schematics to paint a perfect picture of reality. Engineers have to design from the inside out and make small changes to product surfaces that incrementally reveal improvements. This means creating tight links between design environments and the real product, collapsing feedback loops, and shipping.
Anthropic's CEO Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year (3 minute read)
Anthropic has reached a growth rate that could make it 80 times as big this year. The company's annual revenue run rate surpassed $30 billion last month. Anthropic's overwhelming rate of growth has increased the company's need for computing power. It has signed a series of deals with industry giants to obtain the required computing power.
Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem (7 minute read)
Open weights models allow anyone to run the model on their own hardware. This allows model use to be private, flexible, and low-cost. Many companies will run open weight models at significantly less cost than the cost of frontier models per token, and the performance gap isn't that big. However, the increasing costs of training mean that more and more models are being released under tighter license conditions. The competitive open weights ecosystem may soon be at an end, and this has enormous implications for the wider economy.
SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits (3 minute read)
Shareholders will be prohibited from bringing class actions against SpaceX, its directors, officers, controlling shareholders, or bankers tied to the IPO, and Musk will have the power to elect, remove, or fill any vacancy on the board of directors.
The Patient Capital of Recognizing People (9 minute read)
The reward for being early on a person is invisible, but the returns for doing it are absurd.
The Wrapper and the Code (12 minute read)
Apple denied approval of Replit's updates as its app previewed generated apps inside the iOS client, which meant that the reviewed Replit binary effectively contained an unbounded number of unreviewed apps.
Most Widely Deployed and Used Database Engine (2 minute read)
SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined.
Brain optimizes for bits per ATP (3 minute read)
Consuming energy and producing ATP is hard, so brains try to maximize information retrieval and computing using the least amount of energy possible.
Google's Prompt API (7 minute read)
Google's Prompt API is a web standard that requires users to agree with Google's 'prohibited use policy' to use the only model available to it.
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