Extropic’s 10,000x AI energy breakthrough

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The numbers sound inconceivable: A ten,000x increase in energy efficiency to run AI models. The approach sounds even wilder: thermodynamic chips that use probability as a substitute of processing.

With Extropic now shipping actual hardware to AI labs and promising a ‘0 to 1’ moment for computing, the industry’s growing power crisis might need just found an answer.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• Extropic’s chip claims AI energy breakthrough

• Cursor’s recent coding model, 2.0 platform

• Construct apps using multiple agents in Cursor 2.0

• Character AI blocks minors from conversations

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

EXTROPIC

⚡️ Extropic’s chip claims AI energy breakthrough

The Rundown: Extropic just introduced thermodynamic sampling units (TSU), a brand new chip architecture that handles probability calculations as a substitute of traditional processing, claiming the hardware can run AI models using 10,000x less energy than current GPUs.

The small print:

• As a substitute of working step-by-step like traditional GPUs, Extropic’s chips generate probable solutions directly, trading precision for lower energy use.

• The startup shipped its first development kit to AI labs and weather firms, plus open-source tools for researchers to check the approach.

• Extropic will ship its Z-1 chip next 12 months, designed to run a brand new style of diffusion model that creates images and videos by removing noise over multiple steps.

• Founded by former Google quantum researchers, Extropic believes that energy limits will cap AI progress unless the industry abandons its current chip designs.

Why it matters: Led by Guillaume Verdon (revealed as the favored @BasedBeffJezos on X), Extropic has been teasing a paradigm shift in AI hardware for years — and today looks like a primary major (public) step towards that vision. Whether the tech translates to real-world, production-ready systems at scale might be the trillion-dollar query.

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CURSOR

🚀 Cursor launches recent coding model, 2.0 platform

The Rundown: Cursor just released Composer, the corporate’s first proprietary coding model that nears frontier capabilities with SOTA speed — alongside an overhauled 2.0 platform designed to run multiple AI agents concurrently.

The small print:

• Composer achieves top-level intelligence while generating code roughly 4x faster than rival systems, completing most tasks in under 30 seconds.

• The two.0 platform release lets developers run as much as eight AI assistants independently at the identical time without interference.

• Additional capabilities include integrated web browsing for documentation lookup, a native browser tool for testing, voice commands, and more.

• Composer is Cursor’s first in-house model, marking the startup’s first move away from relying exclusively on third-party AI coding systems.

Why it matters: Cursor is making a daring bet on how software development itself will evolve, designing for a future where engineers spend more time directing in a multi-agent space and reviewing work as a substitute of directly in a code editor — shifting skillsets from pure coding ability to judgment, architecture decisions, and quality control.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Construct apps using multiple agents in Cursor 2.0

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn tips on how to use Cursor 2.0’s recent multi-agent feature to construct web applications faster by having different AI agents work on separate parts of your project concurrently.

Step-by-step:

1. Create a brand new folder named “todo-list-app”, open the Cursor application, click “Open Project”, and choose your folder (or drag-drop it into the Cursor IDE)

2. Click “Agents” button, then “Latest Agent” and prompt: “Create a plan to construct a To-Do app using Next.js as Plan.md. Divide tasks for 2 dev agents working in parallel, and include integration steps and README”

3. Accept Plan.md, then click “Latest Agent” twice – prompt first with “Start Dev 1 tasks from Plan.md” and second with “Start Dev 2 tasks from Plan.md”, review and accept changes from each

4. Ask one agent: “Complete integration from Plan.md, update README with run instructions”, then open terminal and run: npm install, followed by npm run dev

5. Visit http://localhost:3000 to see your complete To-Do app built by multiple AI agents working concurrently

Pro tip: Use the Voice button on the prompt bar to provide instructions hands-free. Just speak your prompt and end with the word “submit” to send it.

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💬 AI image generation meets intelligent conversation

The Rundown: Recraft’s recent Chat Mode combines a chat panel with an infinite canvas, letting you generate and refine skilled design assets through natural conversation—while maintaining full manual control once you need it.

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• Get contextual suggestions, prompt help, and discover capabilities as you’re employed

• Generate brand suites from logos or adapt existing designs in seconds

• Maintain visual consistency with AI that understands your full creative context

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CHARACTER AI

❌ Character AI blocks minors from conversations

The Rundown: Character AI announced it would prohibit anyone under 18 from having open-ended conversations with its AI chatbots starting in late November, coming after legal pressure from lawmakers and families who say the platform led to teen deaths.

The small print:

• Character AI will wrap up chatbot access for minors on Nov. 25, though teens can still use the platform to generate videos and pictures through creative tools.

• The corporate will deploy in-house age detection tech that analyzes user behavior, prompting verification requests when it suspects an underage user.

• Roughly 20M people use the service monthly, with fewer than 10% registered as minors — though the platform didn’t previously check ages during sign-up.

• The overhaul follows the bipartisan GUARD Act proposed Tuesday that will fantastic firms as much as $100,000 for failing to dam minors from AI companions.

Why it matters: Character and OAI have been two of essentially the most criticized firms over chatbot interactions with minors, and each have taken measures over the past week. With legal pressure only growing, age-gating will be the safest solution for everybody, though only time will tell how enforceable it truly is.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🗣️ Mozilla Data Collective – Community-built open speech datasets in 300+ languages*

• ⚙️ Composer – Cursor’s recent fast agentic coding model

• 📣 Pomelli – Google Labs experiment for creating on-brand content with AI

• 🤖 Agent HQ – GitHub’s recent ‘mission control’ for orchestrating AI agents

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📰 The whole lot else in AI today

OpenAI released gpt-oss-safeguard, two open models that permit devs set moderation rules and see how AI explains its decisions when classifying harmful content.

Google upgraded NotebookLM with recent features, including a bigger context window and memory, recent customizable chat personas, and improved response quality.

TikTok introduced Smart Split and AI Outline, recent AI tools to mechanically convert longer videos into short-form clips and generate structured content outlines.

IBM released Granite 4.0 Nano, a family of compact language models starting from 350M to 1.5B parameters designed for on-device use.

Grammarly announced a rebrand to Superhuman, launching a ‘Superhuman Go’ AI agent suite that works across apps to automate tasks like scheduling and research.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Max S. in Las Vegas, NV:

“Currently, I’m using the Wispr app to speak-to-text this message. I really like the way it concurrently fixes my grammar, in addition to compresses my thoughts and puts them into concise, clear sentences. I’ve also recently been introduced to the ChatGPT Atlas browser, and it has been a game-changer in the way in which that I do research and integrate AI into every little thing I’m doing online. Efficiency is vital.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

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• Today’s AI tool guide: Construct apps using multiple agents in Cursor 2.0

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown