Anthropic is in talks with Samsung on a custom chip and Sam Altman pitches a global AI governance forum, while Zuckerberg tells staff Meta’s agents are lagging his own expectations. Stripe and Cross River wire up agentic-commerce payments, Big Tech’s AI capex forecast climbs to $5.5 trillion, and great apes turn out to share humanity’s rhythm for laughter.

Lucas Ropek · Jul 2

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to develop a custom AI chip, following similar moves by rivals.

Jim Edwards · Jul 2

Altman's op-ed proposes a US-led international forum to set global AI safety and equity standards.

Lucas Ropek · Jul 2

Zuckerberg told Meta staff that AI agent capabilities haven't accelerated as fast as he expected.

John Stewart · Jul 2

Cross River Bank and Stripe built single-use virtual cards to secure AI agent-initiated payments.

Sheryl Estrada · Jun 29

JPMorgan raised its global AI capex forecast to $5.5 trillion through 2030 as hyperscalers keep spending.

Gergely Orosz · Jul 1

Profile of Kent Beck's influence on TDD and Agile, plus his views on AI-era software engineering.

Simon Willison · Jul 2

Relays Geoffrey Litt's argument that developers need codebase fluency to meaningfully guide coding agents.

Emmanuel Hayford · Jul 3

Weekly Rails roundup covering ProxyLogger, MIME type deprecations, and reversible foreign-key migrations.

Scott Alexander · Jul 2

Examines AI forecasting systems now reaching rough parity with top human forecasters in prediction markets.