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What context engineering actually engineers
Weaviate maps the field with six core capabilities. The real thread running through all of them is deciding, at each step, what information gets into the model, what state stays outside, and who executes next.
08-27 · 11 min read
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🎧№ 1215
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AI Makes Execution and Average Answers Cheap—Taste Now Sets the Ceiling. How Do You Improve Your Taste?
As AI makes "getting it done" easier than ever, the truly scarce skills are recognizing quality, rejecting default outputs, tolerating rework, and pushing through to a higher standard.
▶ Play08-27 · 18 min read
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How a 24/7 agent team takes shape: SpaceXAI engineer Lauren Tan builds engineering judgment into the system
Behind a night that auto-merged 20 PRs lie more than 600 refactoring PRs. Lauren Tan shows how architecture, CI, verification skills, and tiered delegation come together to form a team of agents that keeps working.
08-27 · 16 min read
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Research analysis
🎧№ 1213
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Apple team publishes distillation scaling laws: making AI models smaller is no longer a matter of luck
The paper puts teacher quality, student size, training data, and teacher cost on one budget map: stronger teachers are not always better, and distillation is not always more compute-efficient than training the student directly.
▶ Play08-27 · 14 min read
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Research analysis
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OpenAI's first inference chip delivers: why Jalapeño boosts both speed and efficiency
Three public models, four sets of easily misread multipliers, and a full-stack approach that designs chip, memory, network, and software backward from the model workload.
08-27 · 12 min read
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Tool tutorial
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PRACTICE
Hands-on conversational AI testing: Build a QA system in eight steps
Start with a wrong answer marked correct, a dangerous reply that slips through, and a fake API success. Then follow a single account recovery case study to walk through eight steps covering behavior contracts, state, evidence, recovery, regression, and release gates.
08-26 · 28 min read
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🎧№ 1210
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How one high school is using red, yellow, and green lights to guide smarter AI use in class
A U.S. high school has built a classroom AI policy that combines teacher training, assignment permissions, student judgment exercises, and human review. This article breaks down how it works, and offers a three-color assignment card, classroom exercises, a teacher checklist, and a pilot plan for schools.
▶ Play08-25 · 14 min read
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Deep dive
№ 1209
DEEP DIVE
Codex lead Tibo, the “God of Resets”: Codex is only a transitional form—the real race is expanding from individual models to entire systems
Codex lead Tibo lays out a roadmap that matters more than model upgrades: fold Skills, memory, sub-agents, tools, and compute management back into the system, and let the same AI actively adapt to each person.
08-25 · 13 min read
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Deep dive
№ 1208
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Anthropic's guide to an AI-native software development lifecycle
Writing code is no longer the main bottleneck. Requirements, testing, review, and operations are what slow delivery down now. Anthropic's approach leans on structured artifacts to keep agents moving in sequence, with the system validating first and humans stepping in only at the critical gates.
08-25 · 14 min read
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№ 1207
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Anthropic FDE Interview Guide: Why the Company Is Spending Big on a New Class of On-Site Engineers
This isn't a hire for someone who can write clever prompts. It's a search for people who can get model capabilities, customer workflows, and safety boundaries all the way into production systems.
08-24 · 20 min read
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Research explainer
🎧№ 1206
RESEARCH
Why most CEOs' AI efforts are just 'fake progress': The seven decisions that determine real enterprise AI transformation
Most companies run plenty of AI pilots, but they never change an end-to-end business process, and they never turn a one-off win into a capability they can reuse next time. The dividing line is whether the company ends up with its own data, its own ways of working, and its own record of what it has learned.
▶ Play08-23 · 18 min read
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№ 1205
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AliExpress uses spy-tech-style tricks to track shoppers
A Bluetooth headphone glitch reveals how the site runs inaudible audio, harvests device details, and builds a fingerprint in the background.
08-23 · 5 min read
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Deep dive
№ 1204
DEEP DIVE
A High-Value 40-Minute Interview with a16z Infrastructure Investing Lead Martin Casado: AI Is the First Technology Where $10 Reliably Produces a Return
Capital used to turn into engineers and a two-year wait. With AI, $10 more directly becomes training, tokens, usage, or targeted capabilities. Profit still isn't guaranteed, but the dynamics are rewriting private markets, model competition, marketing, and product value.
08-22 · 22 min read
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Research analysis
№ 1203
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ChatGPT Search’s underlying retrieval just changed: ChatGPT is now doing large-scale, targeted site scraping that upends GEO strategy
A single answer is no longer just a broad sweep of the web. ChatGPT may now discover candidate sources first, then lock onto specific sites to dig deeper. As the retrieval order shifts, GEO expands from page-level ranking into a three-layer contest: domain inclusion, page matching, and citation conversion.
08-22 · 11 min read
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AI Industry
🎧№ 1202
DEEP DIVE
AI is no longer just a software story: 17 charts on how capital, work, and compute are shifting tracks
From thematic ETFs and data-center wages to ride-hail fees and Agent tokens, the real change is that AI is entering physical resource allocation.
▶ Play08-22 · 14 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1201
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The new era of global expansion: the rise of borderless founders. Nearly half of a16z's app investments in the past two years came from international founders.
Companies no longer need to cram talent, R&D, capital, and customers into a single country. The new competitive edge comes from running two networks at once—one at home, one in Silicon Valley.
▶ Play08-22 · 14 min read
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Deep dive
🎧№ 1200
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Claude Code for startups: 15 companies, 5 rules, and a roll-out checklist
Anthropic looks back at 15 high-growth startups. Open the case files to see how agentic coding moved into prototyping, R&D, validation, rebuilds, and productization.
▶ Play08-21 · 18 min read
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Product launch
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Anthropic launches Claude Academy, turning its internal AI training into a public learning platform
Claude Academy opens up Anthropic's internal playbook: four core habits from day one, continuous practice on the job, and a risk-based approach to verification and accountability.
08-21 · 12 min read
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