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Read the guide > 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple Puts Hardware Chief John Ternus in the Succession Spotlight (14 minute read) Several of Apple's executives are expected to relinquish their responsibilities in the near future - some of them were once seen as Tim Cook's heir, making the future of the company uncertain. The company needs to urgently beef up its AI business, which could mean a shake-up or even an acquisition. Big changes are likely, especially as some executives don't have obvious successors. Cook will likely remain involved with Apple in some capacity when he eventually steps down as CEO, perhaps as a board chairman. John Ternus remains the leading contender as Cook's successor. OpenAI's invite-only video generation app Sora tops Apple's App Store (2 minute read) OpenAI's new video generation app, Sora, has snagged the No. 1 spot on Apple's App Store. The app allows users to generate short-form AI videos, remix videos created by other users, and post them to a shared feed. It is only available on iOS and is invite-based. The app gives users explicit control over how their likeness is used on the platform, but some videos have sparked debate about its utility, potential for harm, and legality. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology The Fight to Fix Prostate Cancer Care (9 minute read) Prostate cancer is the most common nonskin cancer among American men. Diagnostics and therapies for the disease generated about $12 billion to $15 billion worldwide last year. Smarter screening of prostate cancers can save lives without the harms of overtreatment. New techniques and treatments cut recovery time down to weeks, with fewer of the side effects that often follow surgery or radiation. BYD builds world's fastest car (2 minute read) BYD's Yangwang U9 Extreme recorded a speed of 308.4 miles per hour at the Papenburg facility in Germany. The vehicle's four electric motors put out a combined total of more than 3,000 horsepower. There will be a limited production run of no more than 30 customer cars. BYD has yet to release pricing, but the queue is expected to fill quickly. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix (10 minute read) Scaling engineering teams is like raising teenagers. They grow fast, develop personalities of their own, and they need boundaries. Teams that thrive at scale tend to have structured goal-setting, a ruthless focus on code quality, and intentional culture building. This post shares lessons learned from scaling teams at Google, Facebook, and Netflix. It provides a few frameworks, metrics, and tools to help you scale to over a thousand engineers without losing your mind or your best people. Vercel vs Cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers (11 minute read) Vercel and Cloudflare are in a race to become the default platform for building modern apps. The two companies are competing with opposing ideas on what 'developer experience' means. The winner will be the one who wins developer trust. Whoever balances the developer experience, scale, and trust will shape how the web will be built in the next decade. 🎁 Miscellaneous The stablecoin duopoly is ending (17 minute read) Circle and Tether together boast $245 billion in supply - 85% of the stablecoin market. A few pieces have now come together to poke holes in this duopoly. It is now much easier to create, swap, and use stablecoins. New laws are making it possible for competition. The current stablecoin market is 10 years old, and the race has only just begun. The Self-Taught Engineer Going Head-to-Head With Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (8 minute read) Rocket Lab aims to fly its Neutron rocket, which is reusable, by the end of the year. Landing the rocket's booster will be a challenge - only SpaceX has achieved this feat. Rocket Lab's founder, Peter Beck, has a fixation on detail and form that has guided his course as an entrepreneur. The company's newly constructed launchpad is an example of this - it needed to be able to withstand 1.5 million pounds of thrust, but Beck added another requirement: it also had to look beautiful. ⚡ Quick Links Craving more AI in your inbox? (Sponsor) TLDR AI is your daily fix of LLMs, GenAI, and deep learning goodness. Same TLDR format. Still free. Subscribe now. pyscn (GitHub Repo) pyscn is a code quality analyzer for Python vibe coders that performs structural analysis to keep code bases maintainable. How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer (7 minute read) Let executives set the overall priorities for the company and tailor your own technical plans to fit. How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment (9 minute read) Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (V-JEPA), a model created by Meta, uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world. Memory access is O(N^[1/3]) (4 minute read) If you can break up a task into many parts, each of which is highly local, then memory access in each part will be O(1), but if the task requires a lot of memory interdependencies, then you will get lots of O(N^⅓) terms. How GDP Hides Industrial Decline (41 minute read) GDP is a very complicated statistical construct made by government bureaucrats - the public doesn't really have a way to replicate, audit, or verify assumptions. Pay yourself first (2 minute read) Do the work that actually means something to you first, or you'll never get through the endless list of work that could be done. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! 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