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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 123, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, which Artemis photo did you make your wallpaper, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Sam Altman and Satoshi Nakamoto … Read More “The Audacity is a new show making fun of tech brosThe new show making fun of tech bros” »
Same input. Same prompt. Different output. That’s the reality of testing AI agents that write code, and most teams are shipping without solving it. Nick Nisi from WorkOS tackled this by building eval systems for two AI tools: The post covers how to test against real project structures, score output that’s different every time, and … Read More “How Meta Turned Debugging Into a Product” »
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Statsig – The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Stop switching between different tools, and have them all in one place. • Sonar – … Read More “Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee” »
“Every frontier model we evaluated lost money over the season and many experienced ruin,” the authors of the paper concluded, with the AI “systematically underperforming humans” in this scenario. AI Model Mean ROI Best try Worst try Mean final bankroll Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 –11.0% –0.2% –18.8% £89,035 OpenAI GPT-5.4 –13.6% –4.1% –31.6% £86,365 Google … Read More “AI models are terrible at betting on soccer—especially xAI Grok” »
If you have spent the last week inexplicably emotional about a space mission, you are not alone and you are not being dramatic. Something real is happening to you. Something your nervous system recognized before your brain caught up to it, and it is worth understanding why, because the reason is actually about a lot … Read More “Artemis II Is Competency Porn and We Are Starving For 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. Google paper suggests that LLMs simulate multiple personalities to answer questions:…The smarter we make language models, the more they tend towards building and manipulating rich, multi-agent world models…When thinking … Read More “LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench” »
Earlier this year, a relatively unknown startup from Finland made a startling announcement: It had finally solved solid-state batteries. Not only that, but Donut Lab, a spinoff of Verge Motorcycles, said that its solid-state battery — long considered the “Holy Grail of batteries” for their high-density, durable, fast-charging abilities — would go into production later … Read More “Is the ‘Holy Grail of batteries’ finally ready to bless us with its presence?” »
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that … Read More “Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M” »
But none of those bore the sophistication or cultural insight of the videos currently being shared by Explosive Media. In one video, the group depicts Trump ordering the strikes on Iran after reviewing an “Epstein File” while standing alongside Satan and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In another, Iranian missiles bearing the names of everyone … Read More “Pro-Iran Explosive Media trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego cartoons” »
If your cache only speeds up a few endpoints, your cache strategy is too narrow. That model doesn’t scale. It creates stale data, extra complexity, and more load on your database than you think. Modern systems treat cache differently. It’s seen as a real-time data layer that’s structured, queryable, and always in sync with source … Read More “How Datadog Redefined Data Replication” »
