Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok parent company ByteDance, has become Asia's richest person with a $105.5 billion net worth, surpassing Gautam Adani. His wealth surge of $12 billion this month was driven by new company valuations and ByteDance's AI investments, which leverage data from its social media platforms to train advanced models. The AI boom is reshaping billionaire rankings globally, with entrepreneurs like Michael Dell and Larry Page also dramatically increasing their wealth through AI-related ventures.
Crypto markets await a Senate vote on the CLARITY Act, with Bitcoin potentially targeting $88,000–$90,000 if passed or falling to $73,000 if rejected, while Ethereum and other tokens could benefit from clearer regulation. The procedural vote carries 50% odds of passage but only 20% odds of full enactment by year-end, creating high-stakes volatility for traders.
Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) combines a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder that grows temporal depth with each token, traversing tL_D decoder blocks after t tokens while maintaining fixed per-token computation. The architecture integrates global key–value memory, layerwise sliding-window attention caches, and continuous latent computation across prompts and responses, with co-design considerations for hardware efficiency and reinforcement learning scaling.
Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) combines a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder that grows temporal depth with each token, traversing tL_D decoder blocks after t tokens while maintaining fixed per-token computation. The architecture integrates global encoder memory with layerwise sliding-window attention caches in the decoder, enabling co-design with hardware and RL algorithms through shared state transitions across pretraining, fine-tuning, and sampling.
Zara Zhang, a Harvard psychology major who learned to code one year ago, shares her philosophy that coding is a storytelling medium accessible to non-technical people. She demonstrates five viral projects built with Claude, emphasizing practical approaches like modifying existing tools rather than building from scratch, and argues that coding is becoming a skill anyone with an idea can learn.