A year ago, Mercedes-Benz did the prudent thing and paused its EQ lineup of electric vehicles in the US. With customer demand drying up for luxury EVs, and federal incentives getting axed by vengeful Republicans, Mercedes put its first-generation EVs on ice. But then, in January, Mercedes quietly reintroduced the EQS brand in the US, … Read More “The Mercedes EQS returns with massive range and charging gains” »
If you spot a Lucid Gravity SUV blinged-out with sensors — and a self-driving system developed by Nuro — driving around San Francisco, chances are that’s an Uber employee taking a ride. Select Uber employees can now request a ride in a Lucid robotaxi through the Uber app, the latest phase of testing ahead of … Read More “Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco” »
Today’s issue of The Pulse focuses on a single event because it’s a significant one with major potential ripple effects. On Tuesday, Cloudflare shocked the dev world by announcing that they have rewritten Next.js in just one week, with a single developer who used only $1,100 in tokens: Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht on X There … Read More “Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source” »
Last week, Oppo announced that it would unveil the Find X9 Ultra and Find X9s Pro on April 21 in China, while confirming that the Find X9 Ultra will also be launched in international markets. Now, Oppo has confirmed that the Find X9s Pro will also make its global debut on April 21 at an … Read More “Oppo Find X9s Pro's global debut, design, colors, and memory options officially confirmed” »
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Sleep&Arrive is a new app for public transit commuters that tries to wake you based on your location rather than a fixed time. The app can alert you as your stop gets close via an alarm on your phone and headphones, or through vibration patterns on your Wear OS … Read More “This new Android app could be a lifesaver for sleepy commuters” »
It looks like we’ll be able to pick a style of Apple smart glasses that suits our tastes. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported Sunday that Apple is testing at least four frame styles to rival those of smart-glasses maker Meta. The company is also reportedly working on a new camera setup for its first foray into … Read More “Apple Reportedly Testing AI Glasses in Several Frame Styles” »
If you were working a retail job at a movie rental store in the early ’90s, there’s a decent chance you couldn’t wait to clock out for the day and escape from the daily grind with a mindless video game. Here in the 2020s, on the other hand, at least one mindless video game is … Read More “Retro Rewind re-creates the glorious drudgery of working a ’90s video store” »
Agents can generate code. Getting it right for your system, team conventions, and past decisions is the hard part. You end up babysitting the agent and watch the token costs climb. More MCPs, rules, and bigger context windows give agents access to information, but not understanding. The teams pulling ahead have a context engine to … Read More “How LinkedIn Feed Uses LLMs to Serve 1.3 Billion Users” »
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. A shorter issue than usual as I was attending the 2026 Bilderberg conference this week. AI can reverse engineer software that contains thousands of lines of code:…MirrorCode demonstrates some … Read More “Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment” »
Tecno showcased the Pova 8 at MWC in Barcelona in early March, but the phone still isn’t official. However, it has now been spotted in a TUV listing. This reveals the fact that it has a 7,750 mAh battery, much larger than its predecessor‘s 6,000 mAh cell. Tecno launched the Spark 50 5G in late … Read More “Tecno Spark 50 Pro and Pova 8 battery capacities revealed” »
