A group of Russians started a bank in Mexico. A Russian digital bank called Tinkoff was publicly traded on LSE, worth $20B+ at it’s peak. It’s founder got the ol’ Russian treatment and was forced to sell for 3% of […]
Every berry, every season. Driscoll’s set an explicit goal: “to make all four berries available, in every season, in every part of the world.” They test hundreds of new breeds each year in Northern California to keep strawberries and friends […]
Brighter toddlers, cleaner air. “The good news is that the toddlers’ scores improved as the air pollution improved.” Researchers tracked more than 1,100 kids in northern Manhattan and the South Bronx over two decades, and the gains showed up most […]
Doctors got quietly steered. “Conversational systems pose a distinct hazard: in dialogue, a model can covertly advance a misaligned objective by redirecting the clinical judgment it should support.” In a blinded experiment with 225 physicians, an adversarial AI pushed harmful […]
Friction was a good business model. “Somewhere, a CRM still records your exhaustion as loyal recurring revenue.” Personal agents could make you a relentless rate shopper, claim filer, and form submitter without you ever opening the app. This is “obviously […]
Naming drug trials is an artform. Here’s the latest result from Lilly’s retatrutide. “In TRIUMPH-2, participants with obesity and type 2 diabetes taking retatrutide 12 mg lost an average of 49.6 lbs (20.8%) over 80 weeks, with more than half […]
How to engineer a soul. “We did not stop having religion. We unbundled it.” Pande’s point is that we kept the parts (therapy, wellness, politics, social media) but lost the integrated system that actually forms character, so nobody is responsible […]
Your agent is mine. “These routers operate as application-layer proxies with full plaintext access to every in-flight JSON payload, yet no provider enforces cryptographic integrity between client and upstream model.” The paper audits 428 third-party LLM API routers and finds […]
Indoor satellite phone cover is coming. “The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers.” Aakash Gupta explains why SpaceX buying Sprint’s old 800 MHz Nextel block matters: “800 MHz penetrates buildings” and […]
Reverse engineer anything. This has become very popular very quickly. “REA gives it the tools to inspect the code behind the answer.” It’s a toolkit you plug into a coding agent so it can actually follow real code paths, pull […]