Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions’ launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs, some of which cause issues with basic battle mechanics — not great for a game that’s only … Read More “Pokémon Champions is off to a rough start” »
Our 5th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, March 28. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo. Check it out Here Here’s what makes this cohort special: Learn by doing: Build real world AI applications, not just by watching videos. Structured, systematic … Read More “LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer” »
Before we start: all The Pragmatic Summit videos are now available to view. Paid newsletter subscribers also have access to each session with the Q&A session, as well. Update on 11 March: the Uber team shared updated numbers as of March 2026: 84% of devs at Uber are agentic coding users (either using CLI-based agents … Read More “How Uber uses AI for development: inside look” »
Almost as soon as researchers started exploring the capabilities of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, they recognized its potential use in targeted gene editing. But the intervening decades have seen slow progress as people worked to determine how to do so in a way that would be safe for use in humans. It was only a little … Read More “Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too” »
Last night, I was rejected from yet another pitch night. It was just the pre-interview, and the problem wasn’t my product. I already have MRR. I already have users who depend on it every day. The feedback was simply: “What do you even need funding for?” I hear this time and time again when I … Read More “How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack” »
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. To understand the future of the world, stick AI systems in a petri dish:…Evolving LLMs to attack other LLMs…Researchers with Japanese AI startup Sakana have looked at what happens … Read More “Red queen AI; AI regulating AI; o-ring automation” »
The illustration for The New Yorker’s profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces — creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe. Some barely look like Altman. One final face rests … Read More “Generative AI illustration in The New Yorker is generating questions” »
India’s quick commerce market is booming, with demand more than doubling for some players. But the fast-delivery push by Flipkart and Amazon is raising the stakes in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure. Flipkart, one of India’s largest e-commerce players entered quick commerce later than local rivals such as Blinkit, Swiggy, and … Read More “Walmart-owned Flipkart, Amazon are squeezing India’s quick commerce startups” »
Given that Claude is a large language model programmed by its creators, does it even make sense to analyze it for “unconscious patterns” and “emotional conflicts”? Anthropic argues that it does, because Claude “shows many human-like behavioral and psychological tendencies, suggesting that strategies developed for human psychological assessment may be useful for shedding light on … Read More “AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry” »
This week’s system design refresher: LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer – Cohort 5 12 Claude Code Features Every Engineer Should Know (Youtube video) Load Balancer vs API Gateway What is MCP? REST vs gRPC Session-Based vs JWT-Based Authentication A Cheat Sheet on The Most-Used Linux Commands Our 5th cohort of Becoming an … Read More “EP208: Load Balancer vs API Gateway” »
