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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. Today, we cover: Military strikes take down cloud services for the first time. Drone attacks in Bahrain and the UAE took AWS datacenters partially or fully offline … Read More “AWS region knocked offline by drone attack in historic first” »
In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime’s state media was flooding the zone with video after video of what was happening on the ground: Explosions over Tehran. Smoke billowing in the sky. … Read More “How Iran out-shitposted the White House” »
Sorry to bother you on Saturday. Thought this was important to share. The first thing you learn about a loom is that it’s easy to break. The shuttle runs along a track that warps with humidity. The heddles hang from cords that fray. The reed is a row of thin metal strips, bent by hand, … Read More “AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It” »
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. Facebook uses GPT, Claude, and Llama to write its own kernels:…LLM-driven infrastructure optimization at the hyperscale…Facebook researchers have published details on KernelEvolve, a software system which uses AI to … Read More “AI kernels; decentralized training; and universal representations” »
Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. “Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?” Normally, that kind of out-of-the-blue text from a friend wouldn’t faze me. This time, my eyes bugged. The unprompted … Read More “My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative” »
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ case against prediction market Kalshi appears to have hit a snag. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has won a temporary restraining order preventing the state from pursuing its criminal case against Kalshi (whose CEO Tarek Mansour is pictured above). “Arizona’s decision to weaponize state criminal law … Read More “Kalshi wins temporary pause in Arizona criminal case” »
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” »
