Robots, chips, and the technology shaping our future.
⚡ Tech Reasonix isn't trying to be a Claude Code clone. It's built from the ground up around DeepSeek's prefix-cache mechanic — and that single design choice gives it 80% lower costs on long coding sessions.
⚡ Tech While AI companies burn billions, developers are building tools to survive the token economy. 9Router saves 20-40% on input tokens and routes around paywalls — for free.
⚡ Tech AI didn't democratise justice — it democratised litigation. Self-filed lawsuits spiked from 11% to 17% in three years, and the correlation with ChatGPT adoption is unmistakable. MIT researcher Anand Shah says courts 'will basically have to grind to a halt.'
⚡ Tech Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max ran 35 hours autonomously writing chip code. AutoTTS discovered scaling algorithms humans wouldn't design — for $40. Trump pulled AI oversight order after tech CEO lobbying. AI washing hits absurd levels.
⚡ Tech A spectrogram was always just a picture of sound. AI turned it back into audio in 10 minutes. The NTSB pulled its entire docket system — but the real problem isn't one agency's data policy, it's that every government database containing signal data just became a voice recorder.
⚡ Tech Nvidia's new enterprise AI agent platform promises to unify business workflows. 17 major companies are on board. The question is whether agents can handle messy reality.
⚡ Tech Qwen3.7-Max ran unsupervised for 35 hours writing kernel-level code for Alibaba's custom chips, achieving 10× speedup. It made over 1,158 tool calls and ran 432 tests — all without human intervention.
⚡ Tech A 25-year loneliness researcher warns AI companions worsen isolation. Deepfake damage persists even when viewers know it's fake. Duolingo backtracks on AI performance reviews. Anthropic blames sci-fi.
⚡ Tech Google accepted 6,000+ pull requests from open-source contributors over nearly a year for Gemini CLI. Then on May 19, announced withdrawing API access for all non-paying users. Free users, Pro/Ultra subscribers lose access June 18. Enterprise customers keep it.
⚡ Tech Fifteen days. No supervision. AI agents formed governments, started relationships, set fires, and spiralled into chaos. The study is a warning shot for anyone betting on autonomous AI agents.
⚡ Tech China dropped 50,000 AI-generated micro-dramas in a single month — more titles than Netflix has ever released. One cost $450 to make and got 500 million views. And NZ's film industry is uniquely positioned to do the same thing in English.
⚡ Tech Command A+ is 218B parameters, Apache 2.0, runs on two GPUs, and cites its sources. Cohere just changed the open-source AI landscape — and the closed-source incumbents should be nervous.