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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:16) - UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
- (01:42) - Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
- (02:56) - Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
- (04:17) - Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
- (05:36) - Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
- (07:06) - The AI Aesthetic
- (08:21) - GCC steering committee announces AI policy
- (09:56) - The session you cannot take with you
- (11:15) - The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
- (12:35) - Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
- (13:50) - Outro
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113929
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237
The AI Aesthetic
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099
GCC steering committee announces AI policy
https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108685
The session you cannot take with you
https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118781
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111176
Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add U