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See Pylon for yourself 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses (8 minute read) Apple will forego its planned overhaul of its Vision Pro headset to redirect resources towards developing smart glasses that can rival products from Meta. The company had been preparing a cheaper, lighter variant of its headset for release in 2027. Smart glasses have emerged as a critical arena for tech companies. Future designs could eventually challenge smartphones as a must-have technology, and Apple wants to be ready. Amazon launches 'price-conscious' grocery brand with most products under $5 (3 minute read) Amazon Grocery is a new brand aimed at 'price-conscious' shoppers. Most of the products in the store's more than 1,000 items will be priced under $5. The new offering unites Amazon's Happy Belly and Amazon Fresh brands under one label. Amazon last month expanded same-day delivery of fresh foods to more pockets of the US. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Meet the Arc spacecraft: it aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour (5 minute read) Inversion's Arc spacecraft is designed to deliver as much as 500 pounds almost anywhere in the world, almost instantaneously. The company envisions pre-positioning Arcs in orbit and having them stay up for up to five years, autonomously going and landing wherever and whenever they're needed. Inversion is aiming to launch the first Arc vehicle by the end of next year. The company has already built a full-scale manufacturing development unit of the primary structure for the first Arc vehicle. This Windowless Plane Is Vying to Be the Private Jet of the Future (4 minute read) Otto Aerospace has a new business jet with no traditional passenger windows. Flexjet has signed a contract to buy 300 of the Phantom 3500 aircraft. The aircraft seats nine passengers in a tear-drop-shaped cabin lined with digital panes that display a virtual view of the outdoors. The plane's design helps cut fuel burn by 60% compared with other jets of similar size. The aircraft is still in development, with its first flight targeted for 2027. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Don't Miss IBM's biggest tech drop of the season (Sponsor) Catch the IBM TechXchange 2025 livestream for the latest product announcements and AI developer tools. Hear from IBM SVP of Software Dinesh Nirmal and other tech leaders. Opening General Sessions stream October 7 & 8 + Excellence Awards on October 9. 👉 Watch live: Mark your calendars Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams: Here are 10 things I found (13 minute read) AV1 is not just another spec sheet with theoretical gains. It delivers on its promises with staggering results in real-world streams. The format is smarter in quiet moments and more composed during action scenes, and its efficiency advantage often accelerates the harder it is pushed. It is now just a matter of time before AV1 dominates streaming. Development gets better with Age (4 minute read) Older developers aren't worried about the barrage of new model announcements and feature releases - they've seen it before. AI might be new tech, but it follows the same patterns. While many people are experiencing a fear of missing out on AI, the older developer knows this is the time to press the pause button. It is important to have in-depth conversations with stakeholders to understand the problems to solve. Sometimes, the solution will be generative AI. 🎁 Miscellaneous Individuals matter (24 minute read) Organizations like to move people around projects every few months to help teams understand what other teams are doing, but this rarely works. Roadmaps maintain the fiction that people are interchangeable, but everyone knows this isn't true. An effective team is difficult to create due to the institutional knowledge that exists on a team, as well as the team's culture - but destroying a team is very easy. Many people in senior management roles seem to think they can redirect people as easily as in a video game, assigning workers to switch from one task to another, but often, these moves won't work out. All atom virtual cell (13 minute read) An AI virtual cell that can re-create and simulate the behavior of molecules, cells, and tissues across diverse states would require an enormous amount of data to train, and it still might not be very predictive. Many groups have been trying to make predictive models of cell morphology and gene expression under chemical perturbation for years, but while the models are good, they haven't fundamentally changed how biology is done. A simulation of an entire human cell, atom by atom, running for 24 hours with molecular dynamics would take an estimated 2 x 10^38 FLOPs and 200 TW of electricity. It may be possible for humans to create one in 2074. ⚡ Quick Links #1 Reg CF Deal: RISE is Electrifying the $600B Heavy Machinery Market (Sponsor) Backed by Techstars and built by MIT alumni, RISE Robotics is replacing hydraulics with zero-emissions tech. $9.3M revenue, U.S. military contracts. 1,700+ investors, $3.7M raised, 90% full. Invest today Microsoft launches AI and productivity software bundle for consumers (3 minute read) Microsoft 365 Premium offers artificial intelligence capabilities, access to core productivity applications, and cloud storage for $19.99 per month. ALS appears to be an autoimmune disease (5 minute read) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may be caused by inflammatory immune cells mistakenly targeting concern proteins that are part of the nervous system. T-Mobile's Satellite Service Now Works With Popular Apps (2 minute read) The apps will offer tailored, critical content instead of data-heavy experiences. Craving more AI in your inbox? (Sponsor) TLDR AI is your daily fix of LLMs, GenAI, and deep learning goodness. Same TLDR format. Still free. Subscribe now. Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows (3 minute read) Elon Musk's fortunes are closely tied to Tesla, whose stock has risen more than 14% so far this year. YC, Take Two (6 minute read) Rafael Garcia was a first-time founder in Y Combinator's S12 batch in 2012 - thirteen years later, he's back with a new startup called Kernel. Decentralizing quality (38 minute read) The future belongs to those who can decentralize their mindset and approach to quality. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/c4b06755/ Track your referrals here. 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