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Daily Tech Newsletter - 2025-11-24
AI Model Development and Open Source Initiatives
Multiple reports highlight increasing availability of open-source AI models, with significant activity in both the US and China. US labs, including AI2, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Stanford University, are actively releasing models, although they tend to be smaller and have varying license restrictions. Nvidia is an open leader in the U.S. after Llama 4, and OpenAI is a new and important entrant. Chinese AI companies are employing coordinated strategies focusing on social media presence, Western partnerships, and competitive API pricing. Noteworthy model releases mentioned include MiniMax-M2, Moonshot.ai's Kimi-K2-Thinking, Olmo-3-32B-Think, and Granite-4.0-h-1b. Separately, reverse engineering of 200 funded AI startups reveals that 73% rely on third-party APIs like OpenAI and Claude, highlighting a gap between marketing claims and actual infrastructure.
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- https://www.interconnects.ai/p/latest-open-artifacts-16-whos-building
- https://pub.towardsai.net/i-reverse-engineered-200-ai-startups-73-are-lying-a8610acab0d3
AI-Powered Protein Design
Stanford University has developed Evo, a "genomic language model" that generates functional proteins from bacterial genome sequences. Unlike previous AI efforts focused on protein structure. Evo operates on nucleic acid sequences, demonstrating the capability to predict functional proteins and generating entirely novel ones. Evo can accurately complete gene sequences and generate novel antitoxins for bacterial toxins and functional CRISPR inhibitors, some with no known similarity to existing proteins. This has generated a dataset of 120 billion base pairs of AI-generated DNA for research purposes.
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The Impact of AI on Code Review and Software Engineering
AI is increasingly integrated into coding, as indicated by Google and Microsoft. However, issues like quality, integration, and security arise, resulting in developers addressing the "70% problem" of AI-generated code. Trust in AI-generated code declined recently . A significant challenge is that code review has become a bottleneck because AI boosts code volume while engineers don't have enough evolved review patterns.
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AI Use in Immigration Courts and Due Process Concerns
Immigration Judge John P. Burns is using AI to generate audio recordings of court decisions, a practice permitted by the EOIR. Concerns arise because of this AI use without disclosure or checks, combined with the judge's low asylum approval rate and controversial appointment history. Experts express concern about potential due process issues and diminished accountability stemming from this "automation of adjudication."
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Schema Validation for Data and LLMs
TosiJS-Schema is a TypeScript/JavaScript library designed for generating JSON Schema and efficient data validation offering significant performance gains over Zod, especially with large datasets, using methods that achieve O(1) validation. It supports "fast" (sampled) and "strict" validation paths, making it also "LLM-Native".
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The Evolving Landscape of Engineering Management
Industry shifts continue to alter the responsibilities of engineering management. Constant core management skills like Execution, Team, Ownership, and Alignment remain highly important.
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Linus Torvalds on AI and GPUs
Linus Torvalds discusses the effects of AI on Linux kernel development and Open Source, as well as the changing role of Linux due to new hardware.
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