My conversation with @ymatias (Head of Google Research) about how AI is accelerating the magic cycle of scientific progress, improving the lives of real people around the world, and us entering the golden age of research.
This chat left me feeling genuinely inspired : )
Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet.
It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions.
For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.
Coinbase’s CEO lays off a ton of employees and says:
“Non-technical teams are now pushing code to production with AI”
less than 24 hours later:
coinbase’s trading engine goes down and somehow even the status page breaks too
I know many of you have been long awaiting this monumental upcoming @opencode feature. I'm so happy to announce that:
Yes, when you go bonk on the logo it will respond with delicacy and suppleness to the current theme.
Nigeria is ranked #1 in global USDT and USDC ownership.
Not the US. Not the UK. Not Singapore.
Nigeria.
59% of Nigerian crypto users hold USDT. 48% hold USDC. More than any other country surveyed. India is third. Brazil close behind.
The reason is obvious once you see it: in countries where local currency loses 20–40% of value annually, stablecoins aren't a crypto product. They're a savings account. A dollar-denominated store of value that doesn't require a US bank account.
Here's what the data doesn't show: most of those stablecoin holders can't use their USDT to buy anything.
No merchant acceptance. No subscription billing. No automatic payment. No way to pay a supplier. They hold the dollars. They can't spend the dollars. They convert back to fiat every time they need to transact.
The gap between stablecoin adoption and stablecoin utility is most visible not in San Francisco or Singapore. It's in Lagos, Jakarta, São Paulo.
$308B in circulation. The people who need stablecoin commerce most have the fewest tools to access it.
That's not a distribution problem. That's an infrastructure problem. The rails exist everywhere. The billing layer doesn't exist anywhere.
That's who we're building for.
🚨SOMEONE REINVENTED HOW TEXT RENDERS ON THE WEB AND ITS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
the goated dev behind react, reasonML, and midjourney’s frontend, just dropped Pretext. a tiny typescript library that measures and lays out text 500x faster than the DOM.
he trained models against real browser rendering for weeks until the output matched safari, chrome, and firefox exactly.
the demos are insane!! hundreds of thousands of text boxes at 120fps. magazine layouts and chat bubbles that actually wrap right.
engineers from Vercel, Remix, Figma, and shadcn all cosigned. this is the kind of open source that makes you want to be a better dev.
here are some cool demos in the past 24hrs👇
opencode 1.3.0 will no longer autoload the claude max plugin
we did our best to convince anthropic to support developer choice but they sent lawyers
it's your right to access services however you wish but it is also their right to block whoever they want
we can't maintain an official plugin so it's been removed from github and marked deprecated on npm
appreciate our partners at openai, github and gitlab who are going the other direction and supporting developer freedom