Apple Plans AI Reboot With Siri App, New Look and 'Ask Siri' Button in iOS 27 (8 minute read)
Apple is testing a standalone app for Siri and an 'Ask Siri' feature that will work across the company's software. Apple has been working to transform Siri from a traditional voice assistant to a systemwide AI agent with deep integration across platforms. The updated Siri will have better control features within Apple systems and be able to interact with users in a conversational format through text and voice. It is slated to be unveiled at Apple's WWDC on June 8 as part of iOS 27 and macOS 27. |
OpenAI Scraps Sora Video Platform Months After Launch (4 minute read)
OpenAI has pulled the plug on its Sora video platform. The move is one of a number of steps the company is taking to refocus its business ahead of a potential initial public offering. OpenAI is redirecting its computing resources and top talent toward productivity tools that can be used by both enterprises and individual users. It plans to consolidate its products into one superapp to align its employees around a single vision. |
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Science & Futuristic Technology |
Orbital data centers, part 1: There's no way this is economically viable, right? (15 minute read)
Replicating the output of a single large terrestrial data center would require hundreds of satellites. Building things in space is enormously expensive. While there are advantages to putting data centers in space, such as the abundant energy provided by the Sun, the high costs make such a venture likely unviable. There may also be other impacts of putting data centers into space, such as crowding out the night sky, which would impact astronomers and other space-based ventures. |
Amazon acquires 'approachable' humanoid maker Fauna Robotics (5 minute read)
Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup that builds 'approachable' humanoid robots. Fauna was founded in 2024 by former Meta and Google engineers. It launched a bipedal robot earlier this year called Sprout and had signed up Disney and Boston Dynamics as early customers. The purchase of Fauna puts Amazon into the increasingly crowded humanoid robot market. |
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Programming, Design & Data Science |
Auto mode for Claude Code (7 minute read)
Auto mode for Claude Code is an alternative to --dangerously-skip-permissions. It allows Claude to make permission decisions autonomously. A separate classifier model reviews conversations before each action runs to see whether actions match intent. It blocks actions that escalate beyond the task scope or seem otherwise unsafe. Auto mode ships with an extensive set of default filters, and users can customize them further with their own rules. |
What we wish we knew about building AI agents (9 minute read)
The capabilities of agents are unquestionably valuable, but sometimes an MCP server is a better fit. A harness is not a moat - context is your advantage. Set up observability and evaluation from day one, as understanding user experience is critical to building a successful agent. It doesn't matter how 'cool' your capabilities are, as solving customer problems is the goal. Building an agent is a product engineering problem that requires talking to users, shipping features they want, and iteration. |
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My Prodigal Brainchild (12 minute read)
Meta has decided to shut down its Metaverse project, which the company reportedly spent $80 billion on. The company's vision of people wearing devices on their faces all the time is unlikely to be realized. People care too much about what they look like, and there is too much social stigma against being recorded without permission. There are already hundreds of millions of people in metaverses that don't require a headset to access. |
Agency (11 minute read)
Agency is the ability to hold the entire development loop in your head and act on it. A high-agency person can move through the whole sequence without waiting for someone else to hand them the next step. Agency is what you call it when one person can cover the full distance. What matters is that the whole thing exists in a user's hands, and that it was driven there quickly by one person's judgment. |
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