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OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/openai-updates-its-agents-sdk…

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents | TechCrunch
OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.

1 Possible Cowboys 2026 Draft Move Could Help Dallas Build Super Bowl Team https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/1-possible-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-draft-move-could-help-build-super-bowl-team

“A country might justify that position if it used the proceeds to build something (anything!) like world-class public services, extraordinary infrastructure, or a society so well-functioning that the trade-off had a visible return. Ireland did… None of this. It extracted from others and failed to build anything for itself. That is the uniquely disgraceful aspect of the Irish model; not the extraction alone, but the total nothingnessthat followed it. The nothingness we live in.”
This is…

Mind the Gap
Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

White House Tries to Build Coalition on Iran to Address Energy Crisis (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/white-house-tries-to-build-coalition-on-iran-to-address-energy-crisis-803e2f32
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p62#a260315p62

@… Hopefully you’ve read the official communication on https://www.11ty.dev/blog/build-awesome/

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 
— an inflection point in the race to develop ever more powerful forms of artificial intelligence
— developers have been scouring the United States for places to build the giant computing clusters needed to scale up the technology.
Located nine miles northeast of the city of Scranton, and home to about 7,500 people,
Archbald PA is facing plans to build five data center complexes across six sites, making it one of the most …

Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
DeSmog investigation reveals how developers persuaded local officials to weaken limits on giant AI projects.

I've a better idea.
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
Davey advocates what the Western consensus deplored in Iran.
Double standards
UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dz1k0rr4o…

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey
Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to start work on a "fully independent British nuclear deterrent".

This is why a Mayor has to just fucking build it, rather than holding endless public outreach (and scarring city employees in the process, who are then less likely to take bold action because they're scared of getting yelled at).
It's also why when people are like, "but you can't blame people for climate change, that's Big Oil propaganda!", it's ultimately both. Oil companies have the deep pockets, but individuals have the passion to fight for their dumb p…

Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD (@mbonsma.bsky.social)
Awesome new paper by @ashtonindc.bsky.social unpacking ideas about "what—and who—our streets are for" that are behind car supremacy. By analyzing what people say at public meetings, this paper makes the case that individuals are upholding car supremacy and stymieing efforts to build safe streets.

One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum

Arthur Freyman will speak on 'Build a Better Loop: A Guide to Platform Engineering' as part of our DevOpsDay LA track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/build-better-loop-guide-platform-engi…

«Vite 8.0 — Rust-basierter Bundler Rolldown ist der neue Standard:
An die Stelle von esbuild und Rollup tritt der neue Bundler Rolldown. Mit Rust-Basis ermöglicht dieser deutlich schnellere Builds.»
In anderen Worten, Rust als Programmiersprache wird/ist Populär wenn auch "nur" im Hintergrund. Das macht einiges schneller bei der Kompelierung vom Code.
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Vite 8.0: Rust-basierter Bundler Rolldown ist der neue Standard
An die Stelle von esbuild und Rollup tritt der neue Bundler Rolldown. Mit Rust-Basis ermöglicht dieser deutlich schnellere Builds.

Stories of AI "accelerating" work describe problems as though they were solutions. "This PM had an LLM generate their product strategy." "This designer shipped a prototype with a backend running in Google Sheets." "This engineer no longer reads the code they release."
Releasing things is not an unalloyed good. "Build to learn" only works if you can learn something - and overwhelming your org's ability to absorb information is NOT th…

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn
We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

Was bereits früh prophezeit wurde:
Da kannst mit KI keine #Fachexperten ersetzen.
Manager dagegen schon eher. 🤪
https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-…

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
Meta is working to build an AI version of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which he will use to interact with employees, according to a report from the Financial Times.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/116052332060770274
Now that the poll is done, thinking if something like this make sense?

Git gurus: suppose I have a complex repository structure containing multiple levels of submodules.
We get frequent support tickets on github from users who failed to update one or more submodules when pulling the latest changes from the parent repo and get build issues or just don't incorporate the bug fix they're trying to test.
Is there a good way to fix/detect this in the build system? Like recursively follow .gitmodules and complain if the commit the parent wants isn&…

Got the book by @… , but I have some competition for getting to it

I know you'll be shocked to hear that the guy commissioned to build a Gold Trump statue got stiffed on the bill.
☑️ Gold Trump statue dispute stalls Ohio sculptor's Elon Musk project
#trump

Don't get this mixed up:
👍 No kings!
👎 No kinks!
Fuck this autocratic fascists and build a free and colorful kinky world!

from my link log —
A preview of Coalton 0.2, a statically-typed Lisp.
https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260312-coalton0p2/
saved 2026-03-14 https:/…

Reid Hoffman and Lever for Change award $9M to CalMatters to scale its Digital Democracy tools, which give access to legislative data and use AI for analysis (Lever for Change)
https://leverforchange.org/article/press-release/trust-in-americ…

The Trust in American Institutions Challenge Awards $9 Million to CalMatters to Build Trust in U.S. Institutions - Lever for Change
Chicago, IL, April 14, 2026 – Reid Hoffman and Lever for Change have awarded $9 million to CalMatters through The Trust in American Institutions Challenge, an open call…

@… While you might have built a lot of software from source because the repo is and has always been small, you probably did not build glibc as that would likely require a full rebuild of almost everything and Slackware was never setup like Gentoo or LFS to make that easy. The base/core packages and updates to them would have come via Slackware (even if you manually fetch…

"Construction executives have held multiple meetings over the last month with the White House and Congress to discuss how immigration busts on job sites and in communities are scaring away employees, making it more expensive to build homes in a market desperate for new supply. "
Paging Stephen Miller – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/14/paging-stephen-miller/

Rust is cute. :3
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/a33907a7a5381473eec8bcfa0c56e05a856a911c/library/core/src/marker.rs#L688

rust/library/core/src/marker.rs at a33907a7a5381473eec8bcfa0c56e05a856a911c · rust-lang/rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. - rust-lang/rust

As an anarchist, in the face of current political realities, I sometimes console myself* with the thought that:
1. If humanity has the potential to build an anarchist society, it will prevail for a much longer period of history than the current terminally-unstable configurations.
2. If not, extinction, and my opponents will still be just a blip in the span of history.
*This may or may not be a consoling thought for you.
#anarchy

DHS Wants to Build a System to Surveil Americans’ Travel Records
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/dhs-wants-to-build-a-system-to-surveil-americans-travel-records/

DHS wants to build a system to surveil Americans’ travel records
Previously unreported documents show the agency has asked companies for input. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.

At this point today I'm willing to light anything on fire with the word "Plex" on it. I've never had a server fight me so goddammed hard. It's taken 10x more effort to rebuild the Plex server than it did to build the Jellyfin server. However, that part of the Great Migration is done and I only have two more servers to move over to Debian.
#homelab

'... let's face it, "fuck it, I'm out" seems to be the mantra of web application packaging these days. Our deployment and build setups have gotten so complicated that I doubt anyone really has a decent understanding of what is going on, really.'
Note, this is a state of affairs from 10 years ago... I suspect it has only gotten worse since 🫣

In case we need another reason to ditch cars and build walkable cities, robust cycling infrastructure, and ubiquitous (and free) public transportation.

Was at a startup conference recently where one company said that they don't build cars - they build smart devices.
I agreed to the person next to me that in the end ..
* it's still a car that should bring me from A to B
* we don't like driving
* we can't afford having a driver so that we can enjoy the entertainment system
* we prefer to be on a bike anyways

#UK #Journalism still exists. Important work,

Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/scanner-raises-22-million-for-ai-powere…

Kernel 7.0.0 breaks with my config. Great. Something to troubleshoot tonight!

Matt Gay reunites with special teams coordinator who helped build his confidence as a young kicker https://www.raiders.com/news/matt-gay-reunites-with-special-teams-coordinator-who-helped-build-his-confidence-as-a-youn…

Get ready to elevate your ecommerce game!
Join us on April 30th at the Sylius Meetup in Mannheim, where Sebastian Langer will introduce the Laioutr platform and its powerful #Sylius connector. 🤝 Learn how to build digital experiences that are faster, better, and more efficient.
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“The transformation has been bewildering. It feels like the blink of an eye, though I guess it’s been about three years. The culture has changed immensely in that short time. When I identified with the programmer culture, it was about programming. Now programming is a means to an end ("let’s see how fast we can build a surveillance state!") or simply an unwanted chore to be avoided.”
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Advice if you build websites: Use the W3C HTML *and* CSS validator. Not because I want to tell you that "you're bad if your HTML isn't valid", but because it'll help you find trivial bugs that can make your life hard.
Especially also use the CSS validator. I found 3 issues that made things not work as they should in recent days. I had a bug where it took me a while to figure out why it didn't work til I found some stackoverflow post, and the css validator would…

For around 10 years I've been playing around trying to get GraphViz built for iOS. Admittingly I've not spent huge amounts of time on it but have never quite got it working properly. Have also tried over the last couple of years on and off with various LLMs to see how they would fare also without success.
Had another go this today with Claude Code - and got it working quite nicely! Took a few iterations to get things built properly but have a nice build script and understandab…

How Ayala Took Land Away from Poor Iloilo Fisherfolk to Build a High-End Resort
#ayala

One part of the solution (under-considered IMO) is returning human relationships to OSS: you don’t just submit a PR; you build trust, have a real conversation, then submit a PR.
I don’t know what exactly that looks like in practice; there’s surely not just one answer for everyone. But I know what it •doesn’t• look like: a contribution •starting• with a huge code drop.
4/

Nvidia will spend $26 billion to build open-weight AI models, filings show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/ "The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

Nonviolent Communication for Activists — https://www.brichapman.com/p/nonviolent-communication-for-activism?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Nonviolent Communication for Activists: Speaking the Language of Connection
Activism isn’t just about resistance—it’s about connection. Learn how Nonviolent Communication can help build more sustainable, compassionate movements.

The Rest of the West: Oregon and Washington Build on California Chatbot Law
https://fpf.org/blog/the-rest-of-the-west-oregon-and-washington-build-on-california-chatbot-law/
@…

AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked - Major 'vibe-coding' platform Orchids is easily hacked, researcher finds
The BBC has been shown a significant - and unfixed - cyber-security risk in a popular AI coding platform. Orchids is a so-called "vibe-coding" tool, meaning people without technical skills can use it to build apps and games by typing a text prompt into a chatbot.
🤷

Major 'vibe-coding' platform Orchids is easily hacked, researcher finds
Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.

The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic"
that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone,
give it away, and move on with your life.
I've been feeling this for a while now, and I suspect a lot of folks who have the itch to build feel it too, even if they haven't articulated it.

The Noble Path
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... Every tool is a startup now. Every script is a SaaS product. Every neat little hack you cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon to solve your own

How #Container Images Actually Work: Layers, Configs, Manifests, Indexes, and More
https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-image-from-scratch

Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed in 2026, more than doubling its production capacity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-chipm…

The privately funded large space telescope #Lazuli now has a company (SSTL) that will build the spacecraft bus and a university (UofA) building two of its three instruments: https://www.sstl.co.uk/media-hub/latest-news/2026/sstl-joins-the-eric-and-wendy-schmidt-observatory-system’s-lazuli and https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-build-instruments-new-space-telescope

“ I think most of us would prefer to take the blue pill and go back to eating steak and drinking dead grapes. “
https://brilliantcrank.com/corporations-desperately-want-what-we-all-have-and-what-we-can-build/?ref…

Corporations desperately want what we all have and what we can build.
About a year ago I wrote about companies stripping themselves to the studs—not just cutting costs but searching for their Minimum Viable Humans limit. Exploring what the corporation actually needs people for. Twitter was a very public prototype for this line of thinking, the work involved, and the consequences.

Leading Her Way
This podcast is your weekly dose of real talk, raw vulnerability, and unapologetic strategy for women ready to lead, disrupt, and build lives that actually excite them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/leading-her-…

Helion has just announced they got D-T fusion working in their reactor; this is pretty big; they're not claiming break even yet - but Helion is one of the odder (non-tokamak) designs which is much further along than most others, but weird enough that no one is too sure if they'll get it to work - the next important thing is to see if they get their direct energy recovery to work;

How we conducted and measured D-T fusion
Helion’s first D‑T fusion campaign marks a major step forward in our mission to build practical fusion power plants.

buildcache lua plugins are a superpower. i keep finding ad-hoc ways to use them. I’ve probably saved at least a day’s worth of build time with each plugin i wrote
https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/

Ik heb onlangs linux mint op een oude macbook air geïnstalleerd, maar nu is er een kernel update en krijg ik deze foutmelding bij het installeren. Zijn er meer mensen die dit hebben gezien? En heb je een oplossing gevonden?
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warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel
The kernel was built by: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0
You are using: gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0
CFG80211 API …

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

So, spent most of the day getting Handbrake compiled with the `svt-av1-psyex` and `svt-av1-essential` forks of the SvtAv1 encoder. However, I did win that battle and both are now available in the `sisyphus-client` containers. Definitely a pain in the ass, but it's nice to have options depending on what you want to use. Also updated the documentation to make sure I don't forget which is which.
I still need to implement some pipelines to build these, but holy crap the Handbrak…

Five intriguing developments from first week of 2026 NFL free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/five-intriguing-developments-from-first-week-of-2026-nfl-free-agency

"The governor’s proposed 2026–27 budget includes no funding for existing affordable housing. Federal housing programs face deep uncertainty. Locally, San Francisco is staring down a structural deficit... In this context, proposals to eliminate transfer taxes and weaken development impact fees...are deliberate choices that would lock in housing scarcity for years to come."

You Can’t Build Abundance by Defunding Housing
Why cutting housing revenue in a moment of scarcity guarantees failure

Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/ja…

Looks like they covered all the buzzwords in their solution. And so much complexity which can (and will) go wrong 🙄
New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges - Slashdot https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/3

EKPC cannot build Big Hill Line through Berea College Forest, judge rules https://www.theedgebereaky.com/ekpc-cannot-build-big-hill-line-through-berea-college-forest-judge-rules/

EKPC cannot build Big Hill Line through Berea College Forest, judge rules
Victory for College bucks state trends in eminent domain

Build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid
A new federal government with big promises for “nation-building” projects has the potential to deliver a climate-safe and affordable future for all of us. If we fight for it.
A publicly owned, east-west electricity grid that connects renewable energy projects is the type of ambitious project we need. It would provide affordable, secure and renewable power to people from coast to coast.

Build a 100% renewable East-West Electricity Grid - Leadnow

What would it look like to center community, human communication, and trust-building as the •starting point• of OSS contribution?
I don’t entirely know, but I know that there are examples we can build on. And I know that the alternative is grim.
/end

Palo Alto Networks Founder Agrees to Buy California Bank for AI Revamp
He wants to use it to build AI tools for financial institutions
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/palo-alto-networks-founder-agrees-to-buy-californ…

This build has a fix for CVE-2026-2441 (Use after free in CSS), which has a known exploit in the wild.

Raiders coach Klint Kubiak elevates Rob Leonard and hires Andrew Janocko as coordinators https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-coach-klint-kubiak-elevates-rob-leonard-and-hires-andrew-janocko-as-coordinators…

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/california-approves-verizon-frontier-merger/

California approves Verizon-Frontier merger, requires DEI commitments
Verizon must deploy fiber to 75,000 locations, build new wireless sites and offer $20 broadband to low-income households.

Ok well that was a much longer battle than I expected between having to drill out the standoffs and the NIC renaming itself after all the PCIe shuffling.
Thermals are improved, although not as much as I had hoped.
Previously - idling in the low 70Cs, pushing into the 90s during a single build job, running several at once railed it at 99C and it went into thermal throttling and took forever.
Now - idling in the low 60s and pushing to low 70s during a single build job.
…

Corporate To Coach
Pamella Pritchard is a former Corporate professional turned certified Life and Business Coach and Mentor, here to guide you as you build a profitable, soul-led coaching business without chasing trends or burning out...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralian…

This was easily the worst chromium release in my ~3 years of maintenance. They just broke _everything_, and then turned around an immediately did another release 2 days later (after delaying CVEs by a day). I *just* uploaded packages to the security buildds, and there's already a new release. With no CVEs of course, but maybe there will be some CVEs tomorrow?
Note that it takes half a day just to build the damned thing.

Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on "weak-to-strong supervision", where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-alignment-researchers

Automated Alignment Researchers: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

This build has a fix for CVE-2026-2441 (Use after free in CSS), which has a known exploit in the wild.
Note: Vivaldi 7.8.3925.66 also has that fix.

from my link log —
Merkle trees and build systems with OSTree and ninja.
https://lwn.net/Articles/821367/
saved 2020-06-11 https://dotat.at/:/R8DC9.htm…

"According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees using his voice, image, mannerisms, and public statements, 'so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.'"
Perfect. No notes.
https://www.

quick and easy way to build a website for your r package: #rstats #package

Build websites for R packages
Generate an attractive and useful website from a source package. pkgdown converts your documentation, vignettes, README, and more to HTML making it easy to share information about your package online.

How sportsbooks build the Super Bowl betting slate: 'Every year, we find a couple new ones' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7019995/2026/02/04/how-sportsbook-build-super-bowl-bets/

@…
Checking out SwiftGodot here! It’s cool! The tutorial has us copying the dylib manually from SwiftPM’s .build folder into the Godot project. Does this mean that we’d need to copy it every time we update the Swift code? Is there some build config step I’m missing?

Anthropic hired Google’s
book-scanning chief to
cut up and digitize hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-pr…

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

@… @…
It might seem strange but this build has a fix for CVE-2026-2441 (Use after free in CSS), which has a known exploit in the wild. 🤷
@…

"how's everyone's chromium build looking? Mine finished and I'm testing* it now."
* farting around on mastodon

Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/elon-musk-xai-permit-for-mississippi-plant-de…

Elon Musk's xAI wins permit to build power plant in Mississippi despite pollution concerns
Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers.

Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more US fabs to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four more fabs (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b715b003-1d10-46d4-a02d-1c5969d0dbf8

Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/hermeus-raises-350m-to-bui…

Hermeus raises $350M to build unmanned hypersonic fighters | TechCrunch
The defense aviation startup is coming off two successful flight demonstrations, and with the next one, it's aiming to go supersonic.

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now playing out in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

Inertia, cofounded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/twil

Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV | TechCrunch
Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, a key part of its power plant design.

Microsoft moves Build from Seattle back to San Francisco, scheduled for June 2-3, instead of May, and invites 2,500 developers, down from the usual ~3K to ~5K (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/888004/microsoft-build-2026-san-francisco-june

Microsoft’s big developer conference returns to San Francisco in June
Microsoft is moving its Build developer conference. The event will now take place in a smaller venue in San Francisco, as Microsoft draws in AI developers.

TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M users (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tiktok-build-second-bi…

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/mississippi-regulators-to-…

Elon Musk's xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day
The NAACP has accused Mississippi regulators of rushing a meeting to approve xAI plans for a massive, methane-burning power plant in Southaven.

A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technology/china-russia-us-ai-weapons.html

The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.

Croatian-founded Daytona, which aims to build infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads, raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/02/06/daytona-raises-24m-series-a-to-build-agent-native…

Anthropic raised a $30B Series G from GIC, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others at a $380B post-money valuation (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-…

Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other infrastructure to help businesses build and deploy AI agents at scale (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-launches-claude-managed-agents/

Anthropic’s New Product Aims to Handle the Hard Part of Building AI Agents
Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.

Mistral plans to spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden in partnership with EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 and its first investment outside France (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/e

Exclusive: Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Raising $100 Million to Build ‘World Models’
Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing world models—which process images, video, and audio to approximate the physics of real-world

Nvidia plans to invest $2B in Amsterdam-based Nebius as part of a partnership to build AI data centers and deploy 5GW of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-11/nvidia-…

xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk tells staff that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/elon-musk-lunar-factory.html

xAI will be organized into four core areas: Grok's chatbot and voice products, Coding, Imagine, and Macrohard, which will build digital agents to run companies (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Musk says they are a joint xAI-Tesla project (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-macrohard-project-tesla-ai-ag…

XAI's Macrohard project stalls as Tesla ramps up a similar AI agent effort
The xAI effort has aimed to build an AI white-collar worker. Tesla appears to be stepping in to fill the gap.