AI assistant Poke is now available on iMessage via the Apple Messages for Business platform. Poke can send emails, set reminders, generate images, and more, from within the Apple Messages app. It is compatible with third-party services and products like the Oura Smart Ring, Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, GitHub, and Navan. Poke will conduct light actions, process manual prompts, and do background tasks for free, but any intensive requests will require payment, which can be negotiated.

Anthropic claims that AI systems will soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention. This is seen by some AI insiders as a potential marker of danger and enormous societal upheaval. Anthropic has previously been criticized for using its policy work to slow down the AI advances of competitors. Its warnings about the dangerous potential of its own tools are seen by some as a marketing ploy.

Amazon's new Proteus robot can be directed by workers using plain language thanks to an AI upgrade. Workers just tell it what needs to be done, and it figures out the priority, route, and timing. The robot looks like a heavy-duty Roomba. It can move heavy carts and cover long distances within fulfillment centers. The new system is being piloted in Amazon's labs, with deployment starting in Europe in the first half of 2027.

A robot doing a dance move may seem cool, but it doesn't really say anything about how useful that robot is. One of the biggest challenges in robotics is developing robots that can generalize their skills across many different conditions and environments. Robotics demonstrations are typically in controlled environments, making it hard to tell whether capabilities can be replicated elsewhere. A real assessment of robotic capabilities requires conducting quantitative, large-scale evaluations in the real world.

Producing code is now much cheaper and easier. Engineers need to switch from building and focus more on sculpting the output of LLM-generated code. Instead of priding themselves on the code they create, they should instead pride themselves on the code they remove or prevent from entering systems.

Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review CLI tool that reads git gives, sends challenged files to a configurable LLM via an agent with tool-use capabilities, and generates structured review comments with line-level precision. It can read full file contents, search code bases, inspect other files for context, and produce deep reviews. Open Code Review's core philosophy is to combine deterministic engineering with an agent, letting each handle what it does best.

Hardware is the real means of production in the AI race. Machine labor is far more scalable and cost-effective than human labor. The demand for machine labor will likely be truly infinite. The limiting factor will be the hardware to support it. This post discusses the few dozen companies that have a monopoly on the future of semiconductor manufacturing.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was the sole presenter outside of product demos at the company's Build annual developer conference keynote, showing how he has shifted into a much more hands-on role at the company over the last year. This article features an interview with Nadella conducted shortly after the conclusion of the keynote where he discusses the company's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI and capex, the software business, GitHub Copilot, and more.

All team members of VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, are joining Cloudflare.

Google has transformed from a search engine that sends traffic to websites into an answer engine that removes the reason to visit one.

Enterprises looking to replicate Anthropic's 80% milestone need to shift from a 'developer assistant' mindset to an 'automated factory' architecture.

S&P Dow Jones Indices will not shorten its 12-month seasoning period for newly public companies or waive profitability and public-flowed requirements based on a company's size.

AI agents performing tasks on behalf of humans are shifting the balance between bot vs human traffic.

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There's no evidence that Meta is secretly identifying people users are looking at, but the apparatus for doing exactly that is present, assembled, and functional on the device.