Computer science is returning to the hands of physicists, mathematicians, and electrical engineers as LLMs automate much of what is currently defined as software engineering. The center of gravity is shifting away from manual code writing and toward deeper theoretical,

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"I don't have a GPU" is officially dead. VS Code now connects directly to Google Colab. → You get a free T4 GPU inside your editor. → Your local files. Their compute.

10 SYSTEM DESIGN Concepts in Plain English:

If 2025 was beginning of agents, 2026 will be around Agent Harnesses. An Agent Harness is the infrastructure that wraps around an AI model to manage long-running tasks. It is not the agent itself. It operates at a higher level than agent frameworks. The harness provides prompt

Kenya has 38 commercial banks and 14 microfinance banks, but about 195 digital credit providers and rising. Now you know where credit is actually being created in the economy.

Google just opensourced Universal Commerce Protocol. AI Agents can now discover products, fill carts, and complete purchases autonomously. Works with Agent2Agent (A2A), Agents Payment Protocol (AP2) and MCP. 100% Opensource.

LLM fine-tuning techniques I'd learn if I were to customize them: Bookmark this. 1. LoRA 2. QLoRA 3. Prefix Tuning 4. Adapter Tuning 5. Instruction Tuning 6. P-Tuning 7. BitFit 8. Soft Prompts 9. RLHF 10. RLAIF 11. DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) 12. GRPO (Group Relative

Standard Bank has officially become the first African bank to connect directly into China's Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). This integration allows African businesses to settle payments with Chinese suppliers directly in yuan (renminbi or RMB), bypassing the need

We are starting to test ads in ChatGPT free and Go (new $8/month option) tiers. Here are our principles. Most importantly, we will not accept money to influence the answer ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations private from advertisers. It is clear to us that a lot

Researchers built a new RAG approach that: - does not need a vector DB. - does not embed data. - involves no chunking. - performs no similarity search. And it hit 98.7% accuracy on a financial benchmark (SOTA). Here's the core problem with RAG that this new approach solves:

🚨 BREAKING: Singapore takes the lead again and publishes its Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI [Bookmark it below]. Other countries should take note: As the document clarifies, the new components of an agent create new sources of risk. "The risks themselves are

Database stuff I’d study if I wanted to understand scaling deeply: Bookmark this. B+ Trees LSM Trees Write-Ahead Logging Two-Phase Commit Three-Phase Commit Read Replicas Leader-Follower Replication Partitioning Query Caching Secondary Indexes Vector Indexes (FAISS, HNSW)

MansaX Special Funds now at > US$1.0 billion AUM

KPMG threatened to drop its auditor Grant Thornton unless the firm lowered its fee to do KPMG’s books. Why? Because KPMG knew Grant Thornton was using AI to do some of the accounting work, and that the service would be cheaper (so, Grant Thornton should pass the savings on).

"Math for Programming: Learn the Math, Write Better Code" by Ronald T. Kneusel nostarch.com/math-programmi… Contents: 1. Computers and Numbers 2. Sets and Abstract Algebra 3. Boolean Algebra 4. Functions and Relations 5. Induction 6. Recurrence and Recursion 7. Number

Stablecoins have the potential to reshape cross-border payments and capital flows. They offer opportunities, but also bring new risks—financial integrity, regulatory oversight, consumer protection, capital flow management, monetary sovereignty, and more. Learn more:

This ATM in Shanghai, China, melts your gold at 1200°C and transfers money straight to your account

🚨 The guy who built Anthropic’s defenses against AI bioterrorism just quit. Mrinank Sharma led Anthropic’s Safeguards Research Team. His job was literally making sure Claude doesn’t help bad actors do bad things. His resignation letter: “The world is in peril. And not just