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A hand-picked shelf of articles I keep coming back to. They dig into the interesting corners of the tech world: where AI is heading and how to actually use it, plus the craft of software development, the way real systems are designed, and what it takes to build things that ship and last.

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JUN 1, 2026Industry

Microsoft and Google take on Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding

Microsoft and Google push deep into AI coding, turning agentic software development into a four-way fight with Anthropic and OpenAI.

MAY 23, 2026Space

SpaceX launches its biggest, beefed-up Starship yet

SpaceX flies the first Starship V3, deploying mock satellites and testing the vehicle NASA is counting on to land astronauts on the Moon.

MAY 6, 2026Enterprise

OpenAI and Anthropic enter a new phase of the enterprise AI race

The frontier labs move past raw models into services and managed agents, opening a new front in the enterprise AI race.

APR 29, 2026Robotics

Inside Figure's factory: humanoid robots, one per hour

Inside Figure's BotQ plant, where humanoids now roll off the line at one per hour and learn whole-body control that transfers straight from simulation.

APR 21, 2026AI

10 things that matter in AI right now

MIT Technology Review's running guide to the ideas, research and shifts defining artificial intelligence right now.

MAR 19, 2026NVIDIA

NVIDIA GTC 2026: what's next in AI

NVIDIA's GTC 2026 keynote: the Vera Rubin platform, physical-AI robotics, agentic stacks and a million GPUs running in the cloud.

FEB 11, 2026Science

'An AlphaFold 4': DeepMind's new drug-discovery AI

DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs reveals a drug-discovery model so capable that scientists are calling it 'an AlphaFold 4'.

FEB 4, 2026Autonomy

Waymo expands to 20+ cities, including Tokyo and London

Alphabet's Waymo scales its robotaxi service toward a million weekly rides and its first cities in Europe and Asia.

JAN 12, 2026Code

Generative coding: when AI writes the software

AI that writes, tests and debugs code has become one of the technology's first real, everyday business use cases.

JAN 12, 2026Energy

Hyperscale AI data centers

The gigawatt-scale supercomputers training frontier models, and the energy, water and grid strain that follow them.

JAN 12, 2026AI Safety

Mechanistic interpretability: seeing inside AI models

New 'microscope' techniques from Anthropic, OpenAI and DeepMind are starting to reveal how language models actually think.

DEC 23, 2025Quantum

Next-level quantum computers will almost be useful

Error-corrected neutral-atom machines arriving in 2026 are the first quantum computers edging toward genuine usefulness.

DEC 4, 2025Robotics

How AI and humanoids will reshape robotics in 2026

An IEEE survey of engineers on how AI and humanoid robots will reshape the robotics industry over the year ahead.

MAR 18, 2025NVIDIA

Blackwell Ultra and NVIDIA's age of AI reasoning

NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra pushes AI 'factories' toward real-time reasoning at huge scale and far less energy per token.

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