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18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadWhy the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash

AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them

Platformer· Casey Newton· 2 min· 10d agoSource →
01QUICK HITS
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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses

Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free.

Zvi Mowshowitz · 2 min
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Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it

The Google Home Speaker is Google’s first smart speaker in years. And it’s pretty! | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The Verge Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act.

The Verge AI · 2 min
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Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.

WIRED AI · 2 min
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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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The Token Budget Problem Nobody Is Talking About (Matan Grinberg, Co-Founder & CEO of Factory)

Listen now | Inside Factory, the $1. 5 billion company helping enterprises like Nvidia, Morgan Stanley, and Adobe automate software development through AI “droids.

The Generalist · 2 min
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03THE TENSION2▸
PERSPECTIVE A
“Off for adventures”
— Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus — Off for adventures

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PERSPECTIVE B
“Autoresearch: The feedback loop behind self-improving agents”
— Latent Space

Introspection co-founder Roland Gavrilescu explains autoresearch, agent “recipes,” self-improving loops, and why humans remain central to the software factory.

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04RESEARCH3▸

★ Must Read🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI

Why the Llama lead left Meta for drug discovery, PEARL's zero-shot OpenBind win, and what becomes possible when co-folding finally crosses the accuracy threshold.

Latent Space· Brandon Anderson· 3 min· 10d agoSource →

Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding

Warp's founder thinks every major software project will soon run on an automated factory. He discusses why and how engineers should prepare for this shift.

Latent Space· Richard MacManus· 3 min· 10d agoSource →

AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Loops, Software Factories & Forward Deployed Engineers

On Tuesday at the AI Engineer World's Fair, there was a lot of talk about loops, agent engineering, and the emergence of software factories. Also a hot topic: open models.

Latent Space· Richard MacManus· 3 min· 10d agoSource →
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Calculating AI by Hand ✍️

AI by Hand — Calculating AI by Hand ✍️

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 10d agoSource →

MiniMax M3 GGUF Quantization: From 852 GB to ~150 GB Without Breaking Accuracy

Benchmarks, token efficiency, and tensor-level analysis of low-bit M3 GGUFs.

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 11d agoSource →

How Big Banks (and their Friends) Fund the Climate Crisis

How fossil-fuel financing, lobbying, greenwashing, and weak regulation keep climate action stuck.

AI Made Simple· Devansh· 2 min· 10d agoSource →
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★ Must ReadHow Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise

Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.

Latent Space· Richard MacManus· 3 min· 10d agolong readSource →
07VOICES3▸
“Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash”
— Casey Newton, Platformer
Read more →
“How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise”
— Richard MacManus, Latent Space
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“Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses”
— Zvi Mowshowitz
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SIGNAL — July 2, 2026 | SIGNAL