Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.
Palantir beat Q2 2026 estimates with $1.94B revenue, up 93% YoY. U.S. government revenue rose 90% to $809M while U.S. commercial jumped 149%. CEO Alex Karp says the growth runway looks like at least 18 more months.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B fits on a single RTX 4090 with Unsloth's Dynamic GGUF quants. Day-zero fine-tuning support makes local agent stacks practical.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max packs 95B active parameters into a 2.4T MoE stack, ranks ahead of Claude Fable 5 on WebDev Arena, and prices at $2/$6 per million tokens. Weights hit Hugging Face next week.
Snapchat will no longer recommend wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight. AI-enhanced posts made with Snapchat's own tools still qualify, with transparency labels.
A practical guide for shops, clinics, and service businesses that live on WhatsApp. Business App vs API, qualify-and-book bots, CRM sync with GHL or HubSpot, reminders, and the compliance basics that keep your number alive.
Researchers used AlphaFold and directed evolution to build CMLase, an enzyme that stripped aging damage from 75-year-old skin tissue down to levels seen in 31-year-old samples. Proof of concept, not a cream yet, but a real applied-AI win in protein engineering.
HeyGen's HyperFrames plus frame.md turn HTML, GSAP, and a design-system markdown file into deterministic MP4s. Here's the agent workflow I'd actually use for launch clips.
IMLE-based generative MPC hits competitive offline RL scores while sampling trajectories over 20x faster than Diffuser. Real robots can replan around people without waiting on denoising.