It's issue #312 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
A year after rattling Silicon Valley with its technology, China’s DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model, calling it the most powerful open-source platform in a challenge to rivals from OpenAI to Anthropic PBC. Read all about it here.
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The world’s most complex machine
By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.
Has India’s $60B Didi Economy Finally Found Its Startup Moment?
House help being organized is not a new phenomenon. Startups tried it in 2014, but barely registered victory. It is now re-emerging with three startups going head to head. How did it get here?
Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry. New tools keep promising to generate interfaces faster, move words to product instantly, or collapse design directly into code. The assumption behind them is clear: that design is the act of producing.
Mozilla used Anthropic’s Mythos to find and fix 271 bugs in Firefox
The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.
The missing piece in quantum computing
A story about Cisco’s breakthrough that might change quantum computing completely.
Intel’s stock has best day since 1987
Shares of Intel have more than doubled this year on optimism that backing from the government will help the company's position in AI.
✨ Product find of the week
Flipbook - An infinite visual browser generated entirely on demand in real time
Every "page" you land on is an image. Click on anything in the image and you will get a new image exploring that thing in more depth. What you see contains no HTML, no code, no specific links or fields. The entire web is just generated pixels on your screen.
📰 In other news
Humanitarian aid turns to AI as crises outpace capacity
Stranger Things writer on why the writers’ room isn’t so different from the design studio
A step-by-step guide to building an AI habit that sticks
Special mentions this week
The 2026 AI Index Report: Stanford University
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