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Style errors double when nobody enforces them. TL;DR: Wire your standards into hooks, skills, and a judge, so the harness blocks violations before a human opens the diff. Common Mistake ❌ You paste your coding standards into AGENTS.md and trust the AI to remember them. Then a human reviewer
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Disclosure: I built and maintain the open-source tool discussed in this article. It is MIT-licensed and free. My coding agent can quote any file in my repo. It can search the web, hit APIs, and refactor a module while I get coffee. Ask it "what was I working on
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Despite being a top device manufacturer, the company's phones aren't common in the States. Robert Way/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Americans looking at a list of the most popular smartphone brands across the globe may be confronted with a
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The convergence of advanced skincare science and consumer electronics is rewriting the rules of personal care. For decades, individuals relied entirely on the passive application of topical formulas, smoothing a cream over the skin surface and hoping the active ingredients would absorb on their own. This approach often led to
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TL;DR China’s National Vulnerability Database has flagged multiple versions of Anthropic’s Claude Code as containing a security “back door” that could send user locations and identifiers to remote servers without consent. Anthropic says the code was an experiment to stop illicit model distillation, and that its policy
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TL;DR US lawmakers introduced a cluster of AI bills in the days around 4 July, pulling in two directions at once. Some would deploy AI for paediatric cancer research, tax-fraud detection, border surveillance, and federal prize challenges. Others would restrain it, with mandatory chatbot safeguards for minors, metadata labelling
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TL;DR OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 release (Sol, Terra, Luna) is winning praise from users in mainland China who reach the blocked service via VPNs, despite costing several times more per token than Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 or DeepSeek V4. Their argument is that per-token pricing is the wrong metric:
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TL;DR A Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults found 69% support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, the policy at the heart of Bernie Sanders’s American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. The shift tracks a labour market where
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TL;DR AI executives insist demand is “almost unlimited”, with Pat Gelsinger naming energy as the only real limiter and Lumentum reporting products sold out five years ahead. Yet chip and data-centre stocks keep lurching, because a ~60% year-to-date rally in the PHLX chip index prices in flawless execution: Samsung
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The most visible race in brain-computer interfaces involves surgery. But one of China’s most valuable neurotech firms is deliberately not competing in it, CNBC reports. BrainCo, based in Hangzhou, builds devices that read the brain from outside the skull. Headbands and caps pick up electrical signals through the scalp,
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TL;DR Amazon has cut more than 57,000 corporate jobs since 2022, about 16% of that workforce, including roughly 16,000 in late January and 14,000 three months before. Laid-off staff have landed in a saturated market where searches that once took four months now stretch to twelve
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TL;DR The assumption that the biggest AI model wins is breaking down, with enterprises now choosing models by task, cost, and control rather than leaderboard rank. Driving it are model bills running to millions a month, the rise of model routing, and specialised task-specific agents, which Gartner expects in
