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Use Story copilot to build workflows from natural language in our free Community Edition and upgrade to the new Starter Edition when you need more. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Musk Restructures xAI's Teams After Co-Founders Depart (4 minute read) Elon Musk has restructured xAI following the exit of two of its co-founders earlier this week. xAI will now be organized into four core areas: Grok's chatbot and voice product, Coding, the Imagine video product, and Macrohard. The company plans to launch a new X Chat app and X Money in the coming months. It is currently looking to hire. Apple's Latest Attempt to Launch New Siri Runs Into Snags (9 minute read) Several highly anticipated Siri functions may be pushed back as testing has run into snags in recent weeks. Apple now plans to spread out new capabilities over several versions, so some features will be postponed until iOS 26.5 or iOS 27. One feature especially likely to slip is the expanded ability for Siri to tap into personal data. Another feature running behind schedule is voice-based control of in-app actions. While early support for these features exists, they don't function reliably in all cases. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Scent, In Silico (37 minute read) Tech is starting to turn to AI to probe the possibility of digitizing smell in the hopes of understanding and manipulating this sensory modality. Programming smell may illuminate many mysteries about the sense. It could also have many practical applications, for example, computational smell could help detect gas leaks, reduce reliance on intensive natural ingredients for perfume, or lead to the creation of entirely novel smells. This article takes a look at the state of the research and the future of the industry. China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test (6 minute read) China's space program successfully carried out a flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday. The Long March 10 rocket and Mengzhou spacecraft are core elements of China's lunar architecture. The US and China are racing to accomplish the next human landing on the Moon in a competition for national prestige and lunar resources. The successful test moves Chinese engineers closer to human-rating the Mengzhou crew capsule. A video recapping the test flight is available in the article. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science AI code review with comments you'll actually implement (Sponsor) Unblocked is the only AI code review tool that draws on context from your whole repo, Slack, Jira, docs, PR history, and more. Get high-signal comments based on how your system actually works. "Unblocked has reversed my AI fatigue completely. The level of precision is wild." - Senior developer, Clio Try now for free Coding Agents Meet Distributed Reality (8 minute read) Most future distributed code will be AI-generated. This makes it important whether we ask AI to aim for ordinary imperative code or at frameworks where distributed contracts are part of the language surface. Targets like this help developers focus on the right questions rather than chasing shadows. AI can help build systems that fail less often if given a target that reflects distributed reality. How I Use Claude Code (15 minute read) Never let Claude write code until you have reviewed and approved a written plan. This separation of planning and execution prevents wasted effort, keeps users in control of architectural decisions, and produces significantly better results with minimal token usage. This post describes a workflow that follows this core principle. The workflow is radically different from how most people approach AI tools. 🎁 Miscellaneous Something Big Is Happening (28 minute read) AI works, it improves predictably, and the richest institutions in history are committing trillions to it. It isn't a fad. The next few years will be disorienting in ways most people aren't prepared for. The people who will come out of this best are the ones who start engaging now. Tool Shaped Objects (9 minute read) The story of the AI boom so far is one where the dominant narrative about AI is not what it has built, but the rate at which people are consuming it, the rate at which companies are spending on GPU farms, and the rate at which tools are being expensed. AI is everywhere in consumption and almost nowhere in output. We are spending unprecedented sums to invest in systems, and the primary product of that spending is the experience of spending it. ⚡ Quick Links Wispr Flow: AI that turns speech into flawless text and works in any app (Sponsor) Wispr Flow turns your voice into clean, sendable text. 89% sent with zero edits. 4x faster than typing. Works everywhere you work. Use it for free The AI Vampire (13 minute read) AI can provide a lot of value, and this makes it necessary to consider where that value is captured so that both employees and companies benefit. US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act (5 minute read) SpaceX is regulated by the Railway Labor Act, which exempts employees from the National Labor Relations Act. Is China Cooking Waymo? (22 minute read) Chinese autonomous vehicle firms are way ahead of the American competition in terms of international expansion. TLDR is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI ($200k-$300k, Fully Remote) As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more. What's Wrong With This Idea? (3 minute read) Asking what is wrong with an idea can surface hazards early on. Moats in the Age of AI (9 minute read) The companies with the strongest moats in an AI-commoditized world will be energy and logistics companies, compute companies, and relationship-based companies. The Opening, Midgame, and Endgame in Startups (5 minute read) The opening phase of a startup involves the magic of transforming from a few people into a 'startup', the midgame begins once product-market fit has been reached, and the endgame is the infinite future that is never really reached. 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, create your own role or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! 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