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Making games with kids is fun!

[Start Screen](https://preview.redd.it/d59wc985ai2h1.png?width=1433&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc4e557bc499159a7d2b0048802204a7a933e39d) Just sharing what came out of a weekend. My son (10) and his cousin (10) love games and asked me if they can "make a game", since they've seen me in the past couple of months, vibecoding different little helpers. I of course explained that it's not a one-shot solution and that they first should sit down, plan the game out and write down what they like the game to be, to look like, to feel, etc. So they did: the assets, the obstacles, the design st...

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Qwen 3.7 Max

Reddit discussion speculating on Qwen 3.7 Max performance and open-weight availability; no official details or benchmarks provided.

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Elon Musk's pay package reveals what SpaceX actually is: a $1 trillion monster built to colonize Mars

Elon Musk’s new pay package at SpaceX, the largest in corporate history, comes with one little catch: He doesn’t get the money until one million people live on Mars. The SpaceX board granted Musk one billion restricted shares of Class B common stock on top of his existing stake of roughly 5 billion shares, worth roughly $700 billion at the expected IPO valuation of $1.75 trillion. The new shares, potentially worth an additional $600 billion or more, only vest if SpaceX hits two conditions: its top market capitalization milestone of $7.5 trillion, and the creation of a permanent human colony...

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The double pill dilemma

Reddit discussion on OpenAI strategy tradeoffs; lacks substantive technical or business detail.

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Musk v. Altman: Much ado about nothing

Today I’m talking with Liz Lopatto, who spent the last month covering the Musk v. Altman trial in all its chaos. You’ll hear her describe the courthouse as a “zoo” and explain that there were protests of one kind or another happening outside every day. Both Elon Musk and Sam Altman are big personalities, and people have a lot of feelings about both of them and the AI industry. And in the end… nothing happened! The jury found that Elon had filed his lawsuit after the statute of limitations had run out. You’ll hear Liz explain exactly what’s going on there. Beyond that, the trial was nominally ...

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Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers

Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company's Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX's IPO filing, we have more details about that deal, including how much Anthropic is paying to Elon Musk's company. In its S-1 filing, SpaceX said that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for access to SpaceX's AI training centers at Colossus I and Colossus II. That's $15 billion annually, or nearly double the $18.7 billion in revenue that SpaceX reported in all of 2025. The a...

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I can’t believe how fast Google vibe coded my first Android app

That’s my own Android app. Bad, yet impressive. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Yesterday, I built my first Android app. Then, I made two more - three in one afternoon. For one, I literally typed 148 words into my web browser and walked away. Ten minutes later, I had an entire new app on my actual Android phone. I did have to prep that phone by enabling a USB debugging mode and plugging it into my PC, but as advertised, Google's AI Studio did literally everything else for me. I typed in words, I hit install, and voilà: an entire working program. I was nearly ready to agree with David, A...

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Tencent Hy 30B/7B/1.8B

Tencent releases Hy-MT2 multilingual translation models (1.8B–30B MoE) supporting 33 languages with 1.25-bit quantization.

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