What's genuinely new
in AI, health, and software.
Chosen for what's genuinely new, high-impact or interesting — not how many people are posting about it. Browse by theme, find the right tool for a job, or skim the latest.
Latest finds
See everything →Genie 3
DeepMind's new world model turns a sentence into a place you can walk through — and the breakthrough isn't the picture, it's the persistence.
Atlas plays football
Boston Dynamics' humanoid is learning to play football, and the interesting part is what happens when it gets knocked off balance.
Drawing through a BCI
A Neuralink trial participant is drawing on screen using only decoded intent — a real step up from moving a cursor.
The Bitter Lesson, ten years on
A 2026 re-read of Rich Sutton's famous essay, with a decade of scaling results to mark its homework.
Glucose to LLM dashboard
A small open tool that lets you interrogate your continuous-glucose data in plain English — niche, and quietly clever.
Granola
A meeting-notes app that finishes your notes instead of replacing them — a small design choice that turns out to matter.
nanoVLM
A complete vision-language model in about 750 lines — small enough to read in an afternoon, and that's exactly the point.
Ollama
Run a capable open model on your own laptop with a single command. The friction it removes is the whole product.
Explore by theme
All themes →Scaling laws, timelines, recursive self-improvement, the takeoff debate.
Models that take actions, not just answer — tool use, long-horizon tasks, agent swarms.
Aging biology, GLP-1, diagnostics, and ML moving into the clinic.
BCIs and neural decoding — reading signal straight from the brain.
Open weights, local inference, and running real models on your own machine.
Humanoids, manipulation, sim-to-real — the hardware catching up to the models.
Picks — best tool for the job
Browse all picks →Claude Code
paidBest agentic coding tool right now — holds long multi-step tasks, edits across files, and runs its own checks before handing back.
Ollama
ossBest one-command local model runner — pull a model, start chatting.
MacWhisper
paidBest desktop transcription — Whisper quality, fully local, nothing leaves the machine.