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Jeff Dean's Recursive Bet — August 6, 2026
Jeff Dean out of Google after 27 years, co-founding Discovery Loop to automate the research cycle itself. Anthropic announces custom silicon with a 50% inference cost target, the same day. Same ambition, different levers. We go through what recursive self-improvement actually means, why inference cost is the ceiling on every autonomous agent today, what Meta's Muse Code does differently in its 24-hour beta, a real-time multimodal model from ByteDance, Cloudflare's open-source agent environment, and a passkey flaw breaking Apple's Private Relay on iOS.
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