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Zac Choi, founder of Big Context & Company and previously of String AI (acquired by a telecom partner), is building tools to make corporate data usable by AI agents rather than human users. He argues most companies' data infrastructure was designed for predictable human queries, not the scale and unpredictability of AI-driven work, leaving businesses unprepared to deploy AI effectively.
According to an Entrepreneur op-ed, the brief period of 'sleep inertia' right after waking is when short-term memory is emptiest and the brain is most receptive to setting its focus for the day. The piece argues that grabbing your phone to scroll social media during this window floods the brain with distraction and negativity, harming mood and attention for hours afterward.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that many business owners chase revenue increases without checking whether that growth actually boosts their personal earnings. The piece cites survey data showing most small-business owners expect revenue gains while over half cite inflation as their top concern, highlighting a gap between top-line growth and true profitability.
Google DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome Atlas, a publicly available database that uses its AlphaGenome AI model to predict the likely effects of every possible single-letter mutation across the human genome, covering both protein-coding and regulatory regions. The tool is free for non-commercial research use starting immediately, with a paid licensing option for commercial users, including DeepMind's own drug-discovery affiliate Isomorphic Labs, expected to follow via Google Cloud.
Meta is rolling out a redesigned insights panel for Threads that uses AI to summarize how individual posts and overall accounts are performing, comparing metrics like views, likes and reposts to a user's recent activity. The update also identifies which interest-based communities are driving engagement on posts and profiles, though link-click data remains absent from the analytics.
A research team reports developing a pretraining method that matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base's performance using roughly 50 times less compute, at an estimated cost of about $0.5 million on GB200 chips. Scaling the same recipe up 10x further, to roughly $4 million, reportedly surpassed all publicly available open base models on perplexity benchmarks.
A hobbyist project lets users hover over tokens generated by a transformer language model to see which earlier tokens most influenced each output, by combining attention weights and value vector magnitudes across all heads and layers into a single opacity value. The demo highlights cases like verbatim copying of addresses or dates, showing the source text lighting up strongly when reproduced.
OpenAI claims its internal AI model, paired with 10,000 concurrent agents, solved the century-old Navier-Stokes equation, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems worth $1 million. However, NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster says he and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge had been developing a nearly identical proof using OpenAI's Codex tool, and he suspects OpenAI may have drawn on their unpublished work without clear confirmation from the company.
Following a €460 million DMA fine over self-preferencing in travel and shopping searches, Google has altered its European search results to comply with EU rules. Instant hotel and flight pricing and availability are being removed, replaced by links to specialized search engines and a carousel ranked purely by Google's algorithm rather than business partnerships.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told MPs the government will draft legislation requiring smartphone makers and app providers to prevent under-18s from taking or sharing nude photos. This follows a three-month deadline given in June to Apple and Google, whose voluntary commitments Nandy said still fall short of addressing the crisis. The law would extend blocking measures beyond device operating systems to individual apps used by children.
Also, Rivian's micromobility spinoff, has pushed back deliveries of its software-controlled TM-B e-bike from spring to summer and now into fall without shipping to any customers. Product manager Saul Leiken posted a lengthy apology on Reddit, blaming supply chain shortages of printed circuit boards and integrated circuits, partly driven by AI-related demand, along with battery-related engineering challenges.
Scientists completed a full map of a male fruit fly's nervous system, detailing its neurons and connections. Programmers have since used this neural map to build simulations that let a virtual version of the fly's brain attempt to play games like Doom and Super Mario 64.