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Apple's new Apple Upgrade leasing program hints at the company's next
era of growth. Due to memory shortages, hardware prices have
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customers to justify spending more than $1,000 on a device, it's
asking whether they can afford roughly a dollar a day, which is a much
easier decision.

OPENAI'S NEXT MAJOR MODEL ASTRA CLAIMS BREAKTHROUGHS ON 10
LONG-STANDING MATH PROBLEMS (3 MINUTE READ) [6]

OpenAI recently gave a sneak peek into its next model, named Astra.
An internal version of the model was able to create breakthroughs on
10 long-standing problems in mathematics and theoretical computer
science. The total number of tokens used to discover all ten solutions
would have cost around $2,000 at GPT-5.6 Sol API rates. Each solution
was formalized in Lean, allowing them to be verified using the
theorem-proving system.

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MONTANA'S PLAN TO BECOME AN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICAL HUB JUST PUSHED
FORWARD (14 MINUTE READ) [7]

Any biotech company with an experimental drug in Montana now has a
clear path to selling it to consumers. Companies can now pay $12,500
to apply to a newly established board for approval, as long as the
drugs have been through preliminary testing. The drugs will be sold
via experimental treatment clinics, the first of which is likely to be
open by the end of the year. Patients must provide fully informed
consent, and each application must be reviewed by a board that
includes a Montana-certified doctor, expert scientists, and an
ethicist.

A TECH FOUNDER WANTED TO START A NEW COUNTRY. AN ACTUAL COUNTRY GOT
IN THE WAY (12 MINUTE READ) [8]

Balaji Srinivasan, a tech founder, said that he believed the US was
descending into anarchy, so he decided to build a new city from
scratch. He started by creating a tech community in Malaysia, setting
up a campus with co-working spaces, a high-end gym, and meals designed
by longevity guru Bryan Johnson. Two years in, his vision is now
colliding with reality. The project has been shut down over licensing
issues. Within hours of the government announcement, Srinivasan signed
an agreement to open a campus in Kazakhstan.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

GH STACK (GITHUB REPO) [9]

GitHub Stacked PRs break large changes into a chain of small,
reviewable pull requests that build on each other. gh stack is a
GitHub CLI extension for managing stacked branches and pull requests.
It automates creating branches, keeping them rebased, setting correct
PR base branches, and navigating between layers. gh stack offers AI
agent integration.

DEVTOOLS MUST BE OPEN SOURCE (8 MINUTE READ) [10]

Before AI, development costs made it rational for complex software to
ship with large configuration files, extension systems, and plug-in
systems. Now, the cost of creating software and making changes has
dropped dramatically. Software that can be personalized doesn't need a
plugin system or config file. Users can just make the changes they
need themselves, with the help of agents if required.

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LARRY ELLISON BET IT ALL ON THE AI BOOM. WILL HE BE THE FACE OF THE
AI BUBBLE? (47 MINUTE READ) [11]

When Trump came into office, he took the guardrails that were
hindering AI development, and Larry Ellison cashed in by signing
several large infrastructure deals. This big bet on AI was built on an astronomical amount of debt in every imaginable form. The hypothesis
was that whoever controlled the most computing power would control the
AI economy. Investors have started questioning whether this level of
spending is sustainable in recent weeks and are concerned about
whether the money being pumped into data centers will ever return the
promised profits.

HIS WEDDING GUESTS WERE ARRIVING--JUST AS HIS $45 BILLION FUND WAS
FALLING APART (17 MINUTE READ) [12]

Leopold Aschenbrenner had planned a multiday celebration for his
wedding, but his fund started unraveling just when guests started to
arrive. The 24-year-old investor had built a $45 billion investment
powerhouse that primarily bought stocks in the AI trade. The firm
borrowed too much money to make these AI bets, leaving it at risk as
they faltered. Citadel then swooped in and purchased the vast majority
of the firm's public stock portfolio at a discount of more than 10% to
the market value of those shares. The firm is left with a portfolio of
stocks and stakes in startups valued at more than $10 billion, but it
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THE RACE TO BUILD AN AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE TO CHEAP AI FROM CHINA (5
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Despite growing calls for the US to develop stronger open-weight
models to compete with China, investors are reluctant to back
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OpenAI recently announced the solution to ten open problems in
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The unicontext is a scenario in which the ways you should act become
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