Scientific Agent Skills: 135 Open-Source AI Research Tools
K-Dense has renamed its open-source repository to Scientific Agent Skills and launched K-Dense BYOK, a desktop co-scientist supporting 40+ models and local-to-cloud scaling via Modal.
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Mortgage Rates Hit 8-Month High at 6.62% — May 2026
Average 30-year fixed mortgage rates hit 6.62% on May 15, 2026, matching levels last seen in August 2025, driven by a 4.59% Treasury yield, 3.8% inflation, and a bond sell-off following the Trump-Xi summit.
Samsung Exynos 2700 Drops FOPLP to Cut Costs
Reports suggest Samsung will remove Fan-Out Panel Level Packaging from the Exynos 2700, trading thermal efficiency for lower production costs and more predictable yield rates on its 2nm chip.
How AI Layoffs Can Trigger an Economic Spiral
A source-grounded explainer on how AI-driven displacement creates a self-reinforcing demand contraction — and what policy interventions are being proposed as circuit-breakers.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro Price Leak: What It Costs OEMs
Reports suggest Qualcomm's 2026 flagship chip could cost OEMs up to $290, a sharp rise driven by TSMC N3P process economics, with a broader product tier strategy intended to protect mid-range Android makers.
US PPI Surges 1.4% in April 2026, Fastest Since 2022
April 2026 US PPI jumped 1.4% month-over-month and 6.0% annually, driven by a 15.6% gasoline spike and rising freight costs, complicating the Fed's rate path.
TanStack npm Supply Chain Attack: How It Happened
A May 2026 supply chain attack on TanStack npm packages used pull_request_target abuse, GitHub Actions cache poisoning, and OIDC token hijacking to publish malicious packages with valid SLSA provenance.
Bun Rewrites 1M Lines of Zig to Rust in 6 Days
An agentic rewrite of the Bun JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust in six days raises hard questions about test coverage as a safety net, unsafe block density, and the maintainability of code no human wrote.
April 2026 Jobs Report Analysis: Fed Policy and AI Shifts
Analysis of the April 2026 U.S. labor market data showing 115,000 jobs added, steady unemployment at 4.3%, and the structural impact of AI on white-collar hiring.