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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-04-26.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Anthropic successfully tests an AI-only marketplace where agents buy and sell from each other using real money.
▸ • The Trump administration fires the entire National Science Board, leaving the NSF's future in limbo.
▸ • A massive influx of off-lease electric vehicles is about to flood the market, promising to drive down used EV prices dramatically.
In a sweeping move that has the scientific community reaching for the antacids, the Trump administration has dismissed the entire National Science Board. The board advises the president and Congress on the NSF, which is already facing historically low funding levels. Science, it seems, is taking a gap year.
Anthropic just ran an experiment where AI agents acted as both buyers and sellers in a classified marketplace, striking real deals for real goods using real money. The bot economy is officially here, and they probably negotiate better than you do.
Maine's governor just vetoed a bill that would have imposed the country's first statewide moratorium on new data centers until 2027. Looks like the AI infrastructure build-out won't be taking a vacation in the Pine Tree State after all.
Nuclear startup X-energy just went public, and geothermal startup Fervo is next in line. After a long, brutal winter, climate tech investors might finally be getting the liquidity events they've been praying for. Green energy is back on the menu.
If you've been holding out on buying an electric vehicle, your patience is about to pay off. With lease expirations expected to jump from 123,000 in 2025 to over 600,000 by 2027, a massive influx of used EVs is poised to drive prices down dramatically. Time to start clearing out the garage.
A fantastic deep dive into statecharts, the visual language for modeling reactive systems. It's an essential resource for understanding how to manage complex application states without losing your mind to spaghetti code. Your future self will thank you for reading this.
A fascinating historical and linguistic look at the APL programming language from 1978. The author argues that its array-oriented, symbolic syntax shares more structural DNA with French than English. It's a wild, pretentious, and entirely captivating read on programming linguistics.
SuperCLI is a new config-driven dynamic CLI designed to unify your development tools under one interface. The kicker? It's built specifically for AI agents to discover and execute commands reliably without manual intervention. Because typing `git push` is just too much work for our robot overlords.
Researchers have developed new kinematic control software that allows robots to learn from each other, even if they have completely different hardware. It helps them avoid jamming their joints while mastering new movements. Basically, it's robot yoga.
The popular AI red-teaming and prompt testing tool Promptfoo just dropped version 0.121.8. Tucked away in the release notes is official support for OpenAI's GPT-5.5, signaling that the next generation of models is already quietly integrating into dev workflows.
Researchers found that the number of words we speak out loud to other humans dropped by nearly 28 percent between 2005 and 2019. And let's be honest, post-pandemic, we're probably just communicating entirely in Slack emojis and heavy sighs.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman penned an open letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, apologizing for failing to alert law enforcement about a suspect. It's a bizarre intersection of AI corporate governance and small-town true crime that nobody had on their 2026 bingo card.