As expected, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has significantly rewritten the charter for a federal vaccine advisory panel. The edits give him more power to appoint his like-minded allies as federal advisors, shift the panel’s focus to alleged vaccine injuries and risks, and welcome fringe groups and anti-vaccine organizations to the Centers for … Read More “RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panel’s charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks” »
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a blog post on Friday evening responding to both an apparent attack on his home and an in-depth New Yorker profile raising questions about his trustworthiness. Early Friday morning, someone allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s San Francisco home. No one was hurt in the incident, and a suspect … Read More “Sam Altman responds to ‘incendiary’ New Yorker article after attack on his home” »
If you’ve ever worried about porch pirates stealing packages while you’re away, a video doorbell can offer some peace of mind, letting you keep tabs on deliveries no matter where you are. Google offers some of the best around, and right now, its battery-powered, second-gen Nest Doorbell is available for $129.99 ($50 off) from Amazon … Read More “Google’s latest Nest Doorbells just hit their lowest prices of the year” »
If slow QA processes bottleneck you or your software engineering team and you’re releasing slower because of it — you need to check out QA Wolf. QA Wolf’s AI-native service supports web and mobile apps, delivering 80% automated test coverage in weeks and helping teams ship 5x faster by reducing QA cycles to minutes. QA … Read More “Monolithic vs Microservices vs Serverless” »
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Before we start, I’d like to share updates about data in the two most recent articles: Uber’s AI adoption numbers. The Dev Platform folks at Uber have … Read More “What will the Staff Engineer role look like in 2027 and beyond?” »
NASA’s schedule currently puts the launch of Artemis III in 2027 and Artemis IV in 2028. Kshatriya said he was confident that NASA, working with the European Space Agency and Airbus, which builds the service module, will be able to fix the valve problem in time for Artemis IV. Manufacturing of the Artemis IV service … Read More “Orion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry but will require redesign” »
Part 1 of 6 in the Iron Core series — the 60-year-old infrastructure that flies 4.5 billion people a year. In December 2025, someone at Technogise opened MakeMyTrip’s corporate platform, typed in a destination, and booked me two flights to London. The whole thing took under a minute. A confirmation email landed in my inbox. … Read More “The Problem That Built an Industry // a.s” »
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. The era of math proof automation has arrived:…Numina-Lean-Agent shows how math will never be the same…In the past few years, large-scale AI models have become good at coding and … Read More “Winners and losers in the AI economy; math proof automation; and industrialization of cyber espionage” »
Polymarket bets started popping up in Google News alongside legitimate news articles. But now those results aren’t showing, and Google says they were never supposed to. Spokesperson Ned Adriance told The Verge that “Google News is designed to show sources that create content about current issues, events, and important topics, and we have policies for … Read More “Google says Polymarket bets showing up in News was an ‘error’” »
SiFive, a company founded in 2015 by the UC Berkeley engineers who created an open source chip design, has landed a $400 million oversubscribed round that values the company at $3.65 billion. This deal is interesting for a bunch of reasons. For one, SiFive’s RISC-V open chip design is based on the RISC processor, not … Read More “Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips” »
