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Apple is cutting more than two hundred jobs across its Vision Pro and Siri software teams, a signal of shifting priorities inside Cupertino. The company appears to be redirecting resources toward smart glasses and next-generation artificial intelligence, suggesting the spatial computing bet is being quietly recalibrated.
On a very different scale, a developer has brought a fruit fly to life inside a web browser — and not just any simulation. The project uses real connectome data from the FlyWire research initiative, mapping over one thousand two hundred seventy-five neurons to drive the fly's behavior. It's a remarkable example of neuroscience meeting creative software development.
And over on Hacker News, a fascinating thread has emerged around how Anthropic's own employees actually use Claude in their daily work. One engineer described running two lead agents that monitor each other, delegating across eight to ten simultaneous projects with dozens of sub-agents. It raises real questions about how AI-native workflows are evolving even inside the companies building these tools.
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