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Today in brief.
One person ships an 8-minute Seedance film
Min Choi flags a full 8+ minute short made end-to-end with BytePlus + Seedance 2.5: lighting, VFX, spectacle clips up to about 30 seconds, finished by one storyteller.
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🤖 AI
Real-SWE grades models on private enterprise code
Specific ships Real-SWE: coding benchmarks on private enterprise repos instead of public LeetCode-style suites. Kept as the day's one coding slot, not the lead.
💼 Business
a16z: private AI value and a steeper power law
a16z charts trillions stuck in private markets (75th-percentile tech IPO at $3.5B, top names 12-500x past that) and argues AI capital compounds lab advantage harder than prior tech cycles.
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🔬 Science
A $4,000 Chinese robot dog you can actually buy
Ars spends $4,000 on a consumer robot dog from China and reports what works in the real world, while Waymo keeps showing up as the "robots already on the street" receipt.
Apple Neural Engine reverse-engineered end to end
A deep reverse-engineering writeup maps Apple's Neural Engine retrospectively, turning a sealed NPU into inspectable microarchitecture notes.
🏛️ Policy
Pace the frontier: labs float evaluator access
Dario's essay asks the industry to slow capability jumps and commits Anthropic to permanent third-party evaluators with employee-level access; Sam and Demis publicly back the direction.
🤖 AI
Agnes-3.0-Flash and AuK-Flash hit Hugging Face
Local runners get two fresh multimodal/open drops: Agnes-3.0-Flash 33B (AA score 36) and Tencent AuK-Flash, with a Qwen3.8 GGUF layout update on the side.
🔬 Science
US runs 43% of world datacenter power
Hard geography numbers: the US takes 43% of global datacenter power (China 13%), with 6% of US electricity going to datacenters versus 0.8% in China.
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