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sBTC: a more secure Bitcoin bridge

In the next couple weeks, Stacks will release sBTC, a non-custodial 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset that operates as an open-network, decentralized 2-way peg solution to bring Bitcoin into Stacks with as little counterparty risk as possible. This has been a vision for years, and you’ve probably heard something about it... See more

“I think there's a whole class of people who are allergic to code...they don't even want to know it exists...and Val Town is not the product for those people. The product for those people is Claude Artifacts or Github Spark.”

I tuned my inputs to listen more to channels from the real world, including the nature channel, the friend channel, the love channel, the curiosity channel, the literature channel, and the travel channel. I smelled a lot of roses and marveled at amazing vistas near and far. I even let myself get bored from time to time. I reduced my clock speed to

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In the latest piece in his series Also True for Humans , about managing AIs like you'd manage people, Michael explores the inner workings of AI agents—the next generation of assistive AI technology—and what they need to succeed. He goes in-depth on the reason and act (ReAct) pattern, one of the first attempts to give large language models the tools... See more

Google's multimodal capabilities are second to none. It was already the best at understanding images and video. Gemini 2.0 doesn't just understand images and video; it can reason about them in real time—no more waiting for a response.

You can try Gemini 2.0 in AI Studio and Deep Research in Gemini Advanced.

Design to code is about automating beautiful visual designs into clean code that matches the designed look. It takes a collaborative approach between designers and developers to get it right, which ultimately turns days of work into minutes. But how did we get here, and where is it going?

An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.

I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:

First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See more

Google unveiled Willow , a quantum computing chip that can complete calculations in minutes that would take supercomputers billions of years.