We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa

If you care about biotech and drug development watch this interview with Matt Gline, the CEO of Roivant, a biotech firm that is now worth $24 billion. He talks about why he thinks predictions about AI from people like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are overly optimistic. “If Dario is right and I'm wrong, and he cures every disease in five years, man, are we all the winners from that outcome,” Gline said. “I think if you work in this industry, it is very hard not to be skeptical of any of those claims. Because, and I've said this in other settings recently too, biotech is a wood chipper that like is built to like ingest souls and shred them. It's just like such a hard business that like someone comes and they're like, oh, but I've built a computer and I'm going to push a button and all of that goes away and it just works. Like that is probably not the way that's going to go.”

The most capable AI model in the world is still limited by the context you give it. In enterprise software, that context is scattered across repositories, merge requests, issues, pipelines, security findings, and decisions accumulated over years. Without it, agents guess, repeat work, and make mistakes. That’s why we’re building GitLab Orbit, a context graph for the entire software lifecycle. The early results are compelling: up to 45x fewer retries and 4.5x fewer tokens for agentic workflows. More than 3,500 organizations have already used Orbit during beta. GA coming later this month, try it free while in beta. This is one of the most important architectural investments we’re making. Better context improves accuracy, reduces cost, and helps agents reason about how a change affects the broader system. The future of AI isn’t just smarter models. It’s smarter systems around them. about.gitlab.com/blog/transc…

Ideally something that runs on my laptop and can handle connecting to a whole bunch of different servers.

What if Spotlight actually understood the meaning inside your files? DigUp is an open-source macOS menu bar app powered by EmbeddingGemma 2 that brings 100% local, multimodal semantic search to your Mac. Instead of searching for file names, you can use natural language to: 📸 Find specific scenes in your photos ⏳ Jump to the exact timestamp in audio or video 💻 Search through your codebase by intent Everything runs locally in a single vector space.

Unpopular take, but whatever: If you've granted pro rata rights, honor your pro rata rights. If you don't intend to honor them, don't offer them in the first place. I really empathize with the founder. Tough position to be in but increasingly a common one many of my founders have faced too. It’s usually the least helpful investor that fights the hardest for pro rata they haven’t earned. But ultimately, this situation happens when founders are trying to preserve their own dilution in the face of a new investor coming in and these days those new parties want more and more. But read it this way: an early investor took a chance on you when you were nothing. And now, to preserve ownership targets of new investors and protect yourself, you're disadvantaging someone who has been with you longer. Those rights are designed to protect ownership for existing investors even though we all know we have to wave some portion of our pro rata eventually. Next time just don’t offer pro rata. But you did. So you should honor it.