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A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava

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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product

The serial entrepreneur is stepping down a little over a year after taking the "24/7 job" of overseeing X.

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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO

Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski's autonomy startup, and even soliciting investment from Uber.

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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.

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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

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Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships

The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.

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Moove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industry

Moove is scaling up the autonomous vehicle fleet management side of its business and plans to someday own, not just manage, Waymo robotaxis.

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How Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DM

Lightspeed partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau stopped by the Equity studio to talk about the strategies behind their growing social media presence and their podcast, Lightwork.

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Why Lightspeed is going all-in on creator-led venture capital

Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s

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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.

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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

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Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

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Zed DeltaDB

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Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

Score: 350 | Comments: 85

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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

Score: 144 | Comments: 78

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Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easi

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Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?

The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silvio Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right, as well as its nearer-term robotaxi project with Uber and Nuro.

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