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Anthropic's developer platform now includes a new 'effort' parameter that allows developers to more precisely tune the balance between efficacy and token usage. Claude Code is now available in the desktop Claude apps. Amazon Takes Aim at Starlink With Satellite Beta Promising Gigabit Speeds (3 minute read) Amazon has made a promise that its Leo satellites will offer gigabit satellite internet speeds. The company has opened a preview program to select enterprise customers to beta test its Starlink competitor. Amazon's Leo Ultra satellite dish provides download speeds of up to 1Gbps and upload speeds of up to 400Mbps simultaneously. A wider commercial rollout won't happen until next year. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Blue Origin to Build a "Super Heavy" Rocket to Compete with Starship (4 minute read) Blue Origin plans to make a super-heavy version of its New Glenn system to rival SpaceX's Starship. Named the New Glenn 9x4, it will feature a larger payload fairing and be able to deliver 70 metric tons to Low Earth Orbit, 14 metric tons to Geosynchronous Orbit, and 20 metric tons to the Moon. Blue Origin plans to conduct launches using both the enhanced and super-heavy versions of its New Glenn rocket to improve performance and launch cadence. Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy (12 minute read) Hunter syndrome is an inherited condition that causes progressive damage to the body and brain. The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood dementia, and patients with the disease usually die before the age of 20 in the most severe cases. Medical staff in Manchester have halted the disease in a three-year-old boy by altering his cells using gene therapy. It has only been a year since starting the treatment, but the boy appears to be developing normally. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Reach millions of tech professionals at scale (Sponsor) Over 6 million tech professionals read TLDR including developers, product managers, marketers, designers and executives. Get in front of your target audience with an ad placement just like this one! Learn more about running a test campaign. Really Good Search is Really Hard (24 minute read) Search remains a highly open problem. This post looks at how to design information systems for agents. Agents need to have ready access to information without a human in the loop. Systems that plug AI in require highly configurable behavior and properties that aren't always conventional. How we built the v0 iOS app (16 minute read) Vercel recently released its first mobile app, v0 for iOS. Building a native app was new territory for the company. It built dozens of iterations of the app before its public beta, experimenting with drastically different tech stacks and UI patterns each time. This post provides a technical breakdown of how the app was developed. 🎁 Miscellaneous Execs say OpenAI has first hardware prototypes, plan to reveal device in 2 years or less (3 minute read) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company has finished its first prototypes for hardware devices. The company has yet to reveal any details about what the device is or what it does. OpenAI's hardware plans are being closely watched by rivals. A successful device launch from OpenAI could threaten Apple, which has had trouble rolling out its AI features. Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know (6 minute read) Google is unifying ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop platform codenamed 'Aluminium OS'. Aluminium OS will feature deep integration with Gemini at the core. There is little information on what features Gemini will enable on Android PCs. Gemini already powers an array of on-device AI features on smartphones. The operating system will eventually be extended to detachables, tablets, and mini-PCs. ⚡ Quick Links Vibe Check: Opus 4.5 Is the Coding Model We've Been Waiting For (27 minute read) Opus 4.5 holds the thread across complex flows, course-corrects when needed, and executes like a senior engineer who knows what they're building. No free lunch in vibe coding (6 minute read) As long as absolute control remains a requirement, there's no way around addressing the resulting complexity. The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data (7 minute read) SSDs can suffer from corrupted or lost data if left unpowered for extended periods. Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source + Tick Talk #4 - PT2 Demos! (9 minute read) Pebble owners now have all they need to build, run, and improve the software behind their devices. Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal (2 minute read) JPEG XL is a replacement for JPEG that introduces animation support and also reduces file size without a loss in visual quality. Meta, Google discuss TPU deal as Google targets Nvidia's lead (1 minute read) Meta is reportedly in discussions to spend billions to integrate Google's TPUs into its data centers starting in 2027 and also rent TPU capacity from Google Cloud. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/7c97ce4b/ Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! 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