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>10x More Efficient Pretraining (15 minute read)

Without large amounts of compute, small labs can only compete through algorithmic efficiency. Magic's pretraining recipe is now more than 10 times more compute-efficient than that of leading open-weight base models. The startup believes that pretraining, agentic RL, and long-context are sufficient for building superhuman coding agents and automating AI research and development. This post discusses its pretraining and long-context work.

Aug 27 | Blog

The Agentic Survival Guide: How Security and Marketing Leaders Can Learn to Trust AI Agents

AI agent traffic grew 7,851% in 2025. Security and marketing teams are both flying blind, and the fix runs through visibility, identity, and governance, in that order.

Google Mapped a Fruit Fly's Brain. Now It's Playing Doom and Super Mario 64 (3 minute read)

Google's fly connectome contains over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections, providing scientists with a fundamental resource for studying how the brain works.

Sep 09 | Hardware

Xiaomi 18 Fold beats Apple's iPhone Fold to market by a day, packing a telephoto lens Apple reportedly skips (3 minute read)

Xiaomi's 18 Fold launched in China a full 24 hours ahead of Apple's rumored iPhone Fold, packing a wide-style, passport-sized chassis with a 5.38-inch outer OLED and 7.58-inch inner display, both hitting 4,000 nits peak brightness with a 1-120Hz LTPO refresh rate and, notably, an RGB sub-pixel structure that's a first for any foldable. Xiaomi prioritized battery over thinness, fitting a 6,000mAh cell (with 67W wired charging) into a 5.02mm-unfolded body that's still slightly thicker than Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8.

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Xiaomi 18 Fold beats Apple's iPhone Fold to market by a day, packing a telephoto lens Apple reportedly skips (3 minute read)

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