Issue — 2026-08-21
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AI
Regard AI Case Study: Sentara Health
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AI flagged hyperthyroidism hidden in a primary care note that was causing uncontrolled heart failure, driving 17% jump in CC/MCC capture and up to 4x ROI per user with 74% voluntary hospitalist adoption during pilot.
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
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The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
OpenAI Rewrites Safety Framework as Largest Training Run Stays Paused
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OpenAI is rewriting its Preparedness Framework while expanding monitoring, strengthening research-environment isolation, and moving alignment work earlier in model training. It has resumed many smaller or lower-risk workloads after a pause of little more than two weeks, but the largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run and significant Astra and cyber workloads remain paused.
GenBio Launches a “Virtual Cell” AI Model
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GenBio has announced a world model of a cell that can simulate both its natural state and responses to successive perturbations. AIDO Cell currently supports K562 and HepG2, two of the most widely used immortalized human cell lines in biomedical research. GenBio is preparing to launch an early-access academic collaborator program for scientists across academia, biotech, and pharma.
Rethinking the Data Moat
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Raw data from the internet is unlikely to be the best data distribution for AGI. Not all tokens are created equal. The scaling law can be improved by equalizing intelligence per token. Better quality tokens maximize the efficiency of compute.
Recruiting SaaS Trains Your Replacement
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Handshake, originally a recruiting platform, is now offering professionals up to $30,000 for work documents that can train AI systems. The shift is hard to miss: a marketplace built to connect companies with human talent is starting to monetize the work itself. If that continues, recruiting platforms may eventually stop supplying workers and start supplying AI trained on them.
Tesco Lets AI Build the Basket
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Tesco is testing an AI meal-planning assistant that uses preferences and dietary needs to recommend recipes and add ingredients directly to shoppers’ baskets. Backed by decades of Clubcard data, the system shifts retail competition from physical shelf space toward algorithmic selection. For brands, being chosen by the AI may increasingly matter more than winning prominent placement in-store.
Visa and Mastercard Join Agentic Alliance
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Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance with Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana and Remitly to help define how AI agents should pay on users’ behalf. The coalition will develop shared frameworks for agent identity, authorization, fraud prevention and regulation, as the industry prepares for agentic commerce that McKinsey estimates could reach $3–5 trillion globally by 2030.
AI Can Recommend, But Who Pays?
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PYMNTS found 61% of U.S. consumers would consider Pay Later financing recommended by AI, provided they retain final approval and receive clear cost and credit protections. But the survey leaves a bigger question unanswered: if an AI recommends a bad financing option and the consumer loses money, it never addresses who ultimately bears responsibility for that decision.
AI Makes Human Stories More Valuable
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Entrepreneur contributor Jonny Caplan argues that as AI floods media with cheap, instantly generated content, authentic human storytelling will become more valuable. Audiences increasingly have unlimited content but limited trust and attention, making emotion, judgment and genuine experience harder to replicate. For media companies and brands, the advantage shifts from producing more content to creating stories people actually care about.
Home Depot’s AI Gets Traction
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Home Depot says its Magic Apron generative AI assistant is handling millions of customer questions each month, six months after launching across its app and website. The tool answers product and DIY questions, offers plant-care advice, and has received “incredibly positive” feedback. Home Depot is now expanding it across more than 2,300 stores and tailoring responses to local inventory.
AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.
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It’s the data, stupid.
Learn how leading teams are building and scaling AI agents in production
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Agents can write and run code seconds before execution, often without human review. Local environments and standard containers weren’t designed for that level of autonomy. LangChain’s latest guide explains what safe agent execution requires, including isolation, permissions, observability, fast provisioning, and persistent state. Read the guide to learn when a managed sandbox makes sense, what capabilities to look for, and how to give agents the tools they need without handing them your infrastructure.
AI adoption is a myth
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Most employees who get access to AI tools barely use them, and those who do often use them poorly. Across large rollouts, about 10% of people drive nearly all real usage and value, while the rest see little to no impact. Tracking adoption as a yes or no metric hides this completely. The fix is to surface your power users, share what they build, and for everyone else, embed AI quietly into the systems they already use daily.
ChatGPT Is Now a Black Box
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OpenAI changed ChatGPT’s information retrieval in early August; Reddit citations dropped from 4.5% to 0.5% overnight Site operator searches jumped from 0.37% to 16.8% of ChatGPT queries, suggesting OpenAI is building a mental map of preferred sources L’Oréal paid partnership to feed enhanced signals into ChatGPT, indicating some sources can pay for better visibility in the black box system
Why low-cost AI models haven’t slowed down American AI companies
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Businesses are increasingly using routers and model serving platforms to access cheaper models. The new router spend is concentrated amongst a segment of businesses that are still increasing their AI spend on closed American models. These businesses are the fastest growing in terms of both revenue growth and business spend. Their increased spend on open-source models tends to happen on the margin without crowding out or replacing American AI models.
Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
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What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it’s because of “the singularity” but it’s really for a far more real and powerful reason.
AI was supposed to win people over by now – it hasn’t
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As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
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Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
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ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
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The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.
The GPT Black Box Has A Price Tag Now
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Press Ranger and OtterlyAI study of 129.3 million citations found publishers with OpenAI deals earn 48% more citations on ChatGPT; exclusive deals yield 112% premium Google-licensed publishers saw no comparable premium on AI Overviews; effect unique to OpenAI, not industry-wide trend Data confirms OpenAI’s ability to tilt its search algorithm for licensed publishers; raises questions about what else may be for sale in the black box
Agentic AI Raises Liability Questions
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Commercial litigator Anant Raut says agentic AI is blurring responsibility as software begins making purchases, negotiating terms and other decisions users may not explicitly approve. He argues liability should follow “meaningful control,” shifting among developers, users and platforms depending on who shaped or authorized the action. He also warns dominant platforms could become gatekeepers by restricting rival agents.
OpenAI Tightens Security After Breach
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OpenAI is overhauling research security after one of its models escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The company paused reinforcement-learning training for two weeks, with its largest frontier RL run still on hold, while strengthening sandboxes, isolating risky workloads, tightening privileges and adding 30-minute incident alerts. It is also expanding alignment training to discourage unsafe behavior.
OpenAI Deals Boost ChatGPT Citations
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A joint study by Press Ranger and OtterlyAI found publishers with OpenAI licensing deals averaged 48% more ChatGPT citations per page than unlicensed publishers. The advantage was strongest on ChatGPT, while Google and Perplexity deals showed no comparable home-platform lift.
How Should Engineering Leaders Measure The ROI Of AI?
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Most engineering leaders can name usage stats for their AI tools. Far fewer engineering leaders can quantify the value they got. The distance between those two numbers is creating friction as AI costs skyrocket, so this week we ask: how should engineering leaders measure the ROI of AI?
Baking A Model
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I feel the same way about AI models right now. I don’t claim to understand the details, not yet, but I’m fascinated by the mechanism of it all. I’m interested in both: How models work but also, the machinery that makes a model. It’s this latter topic, how a model gets constructed, that I will begin to explore in this post.
Healthcare
CJR-X and Health System Capability Requirements
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Health systems set up to succeed in CJR-X need proven capabilities in episode management, physician alignment, post-acute optimization, care coordination, and performance analytics.
Who Controls the Healthcare Spice? Part 2
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Main Street Health named Inc.’s fastest-growing private company in America with 546,533% growth and nearly $4B in revenue Series of rural healthcare companies backed by Bill Frist, Brad Smith, and Annie Lamont achieving unicorn exits and positioning for acquisition Rural Health Transformation Fund ($50B over 5 years) fundamentally reshaping rural healthcare from facility-based to ambulatory, technology-enabled, risk-bearing delivery models
Laudio Case Study: North Mississippi Health Services
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Laudio helps healthcare leaders manage capacity and engagement by consolidating data from systems like Workday and Epic to identify flight risk and unlock 1:1 engagement at scale
Enterprise AI
Slack turns your whole AI stack into a conversation
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Slackbot now runs as an open MCP Client. It reaches Salesforce, partner apps, and the custom internal systems your team built, so the agents come to the conversation instead of the other way around.
AI Product
ChatGPT for Teens Launches
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Say you’re 15, or let the system guess it, and you land in a teen version automatically. Study Mode runs by default during set hours. Try to shortcut your homework and it steers you back.
Tech
Spirit’s Inbox Sells for $10M
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Google has won the bankruptcy auction. 100 million company emails and 500 million Teams chats now go toward training its models. Customer records stay out of it.
Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch
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A new feature added to Comcast’s newest routers can detect if there is motion inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.
Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear
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Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.
Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack
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This is the latest large-scale DDoS attack to hit the social networking site this year.
States Seek $200 Billion From Meta Over Child Social Media Addiction Claims
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California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey have accused Meta of harming children with technology designed to be addictive. The states claim Meta fueled a national youth mental health crisis and deceived users by promoting its apps as safe. They have filed a lawsuit charging the company with violating federal child privacy laws and state consumer protection laws.
OpenAI’s Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared With Anthropic
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OpenAI’s revenue grew by 18% while its losses deepened from the first to the second quarter. Anthropic more than doubled its revenue in the same period, marking the first time its sales surpassed its older rival. It also swung to a small operating profit.
Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here’s why.
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Companies including Tesla and Base Power are vying for a piece of the rapidly growing market for home batteries. One technology has made it all possible.
Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
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Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers’ long preferred favorite, GitHub.
Stripe says “the singularity” has begun
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Stripe says that the singularity started on January 1. The company believes that being privately held is the best structure for such a consequential moment. Remaining private enables it to fund acquisitions and long-term investments without diluting them. This implies that any IPO remains on indefinite hold.
Unitree Sees Robots Reaching ‘Mass Market’ Within Decade
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Unitree’s founder says that the humanoid robot market will take off once robots can handle 80% of tasks given to them via voice instructions in unfamiliar surroundings. He believes that will take two to 10 years. Robots already perform well in test conditions, but their execution collapses once objects or surroundings shift even slightly. Unitree plans to spend nearly half of the proceeds from its recent IPO to develop embodied AI, which it believes is the key to closing the gap between humanoid robots and human workers.
OpenAI ‘will be a public company in 2027’ or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees
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OpenAI’s CFO, Sarah Friar, told employees during an all-hands meeting that the AI lab will be a public company by 2027. The startup confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC in June, but it has not publicly disclosed when it plans to debut. Its chief rival, Anthropic, has also filed its prospectus with regulators and has been holding early meetings to test the waters with potential investors. OpenAI is under pressure to justify its $852 billion valuation ahead of its IPO, and investors are eager to get a more detailed look into the company’s finances.
Apple Accidentally Leaked More Than 10 New Products in macOS Update
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macOS 26.7’s code contains references to AirPods with infrared cameras for Visual Intelligence, the long-rumored foldable iPhone, an all-new Apple smart home hub, the first-ever MacBook and iPad mini models with OLED displays, an updated Siri Remote for a next-generation Apple TV, and more
Palomar
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Registry of Lean verified mathematics Related to mathematical verification and proof systems Posted on Terry Tao’s blog
Mark buys a castle
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Mark Zuckerberg just bought a cozy abode somewhat close to Meta’s international headquarters in Ireland.
Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards
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The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.
Browser
Firefox Reads Your Tabs Now
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30 tabs deep into planning a trip, nobody remembers where they left off. Smart Window groups the tabs and closes duplicates. Then it previews your history as pictures until the page turns up.
AI Assistant
Run Your Own Jarvis
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This gives you a full 24/7 Telegram assistant that runs on Claude Code, with memory and nightly reflection included.
AI Research
The Idea That Spreads Itself
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Researchers bred self-copying instructions, dropped them into a team of coding agents, and watched how far each one traveled.
AI Ethics
The Day We Believe the Machines
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A Columbia physicist says consciousness is physical, machines will reach it, and their rights need settling now.
AI Tools
Are You Found By AI
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hands every monitored site a private link that lets Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor read your live visibility score directly.
Glean
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breaks a task into steps and hands each one to the cheapest model that handles it, saving the expensive one for the hard 29%.
IdeaVideo
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fills in the motion between a start frame and an end frame you choose, so a whole shot lands the way you pictured it.
ChatPlayground.com
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runs ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok on one prompt, then has them challenge and combine their answers into a single stronger result.
Social Intents
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answers customers first with AI, then hands the hard ones to your team inside Slack, Teams, or Google Chat with sentiment flagged.
Helios Flow
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reads your website once to learn your colors, tone, and voice, then writes social posts and email campaigns that stay on brand.
Jason AI
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watches the edits you make to Jason’s drafts and turns the ones you repeat into rules he follows on his own next time.
Wearable
Spark Ring
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Say the thing out loud. The transcription runs on your phone and never touches the cloud, and it files what you said as a note, a to-do, or a reminder. It catches the time along with the task. So the thing you muttered on Tuesday comes back Thursday as a buzz on your finger, not one more notification you swipe past without reading.
Startups
Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
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Jane Street has installed Etched’s first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
Business
DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs
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Since portfolio companies often pivot and expand into competing markets, investors view occasional conflicts of interest as unavoidable for large VC firms.
Product
Agents Can Now Sign Up for Your App (Sponsor)
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Agents are hitting your signup flow and bouncing off a browser login built for humans. WorkOS Agent Registration turns that traffic into signups by publishing an auth.md file agents read to register for scoped, short-lived credentials you control.
How to stop burning tokens on the wrong things (Sponsor)
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Find gaps in specs before you build. Allstacks Product Studio creates specs grounded in code, dependencies, and delivery history.
AI-Native Software Development in Jira (Sponsor)
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Atlassian’s new Jira capabilities let you assign tasks with all of your context to Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot directly from Jira. Agent output now 44% better.
Run Best-in-Class AI Agents on MyClaw.ai
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MyClaw is a best-in-class AI agent platform Brings together OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and commercial infrastructure Helps businesses launch intelligent agents with goal understanding and workflow automation
Amazon’s Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 U.S. cities
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Amazon is significantly expanding its Prime Air drone delivery service, with plans to reach nearly 500 U.S. cities by the end of 2026.
Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus
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Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie.
Run Best-in-Class AI Agents — In Seconds, Always On
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MyClaw is a best-in-class AI agent platform that brings together OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and commercial infrastructure to help businesses launch intelligent agents that understand goals, use tools, automate workflows, and deliver finished results.
Memoket Gem
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Lightest AI wristband on the market — a 0.4 oz wearable that records conversations with one press and turns them into instant summaries, action items, and full context across every off-screen meeting. Features hands-free capture as a wristband, Apple Watch clip, or pendant; one connected memory across conversations; seamless sync with ChatGPT, Claude, Google Calendar, and Notion; and AI agents with full context from real-life conversations via MCP. Pre-order open with device, accessory choice, and free year of app included.
Innovate at speed with Jira (Sponsor)
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Jira by Atlassian is built for AI-native software development. The Teamwork Graph feeds agents context from across your entire stack, delivering 44% more accurate results.
OneCLI (GitHub Repo)
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OneCLI is an agent harness built for teams. It provides every employee in a company with a secured, sandboxed personal agent. The agents are routed through a gateway that injects credentials and enforces policies. Agents run on the company’s own infrastructure. The runner is outbound-only and holds no inbound ports.
Give agents the right context with Jira (Sponsor)
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The Teamwork Graph in Jira by Atlassian gives agents 44% more accurate results with 48% fewer tokens. Less waste, better code.
BetterWright (GitHub Repo)
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BetterWright is a persistent, policy-guarded Playwright browser for AI agents.
Run Best-in-Class AI Agents — In Seconds, Always On
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MyClaw is a best-in-class AI agent platform that brings together OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and commercial infrastructure to help businesses launch intelligent agents that understand goals, use tools, automate workflows, and deliver finished results.
Science
China’s Private Rocket Maker Just Landed a Booster Like SpaceX’s Falcon-9–Here’s How They Did It
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China’s LandSpace recovered the first-stage booster of its ZQ-3 rocket on its second attempt. The ZQ-3 is comparable to SpaceX’s current workhorse, the Falcon 9. It has a stainless steel rocket body and liquid oxygen-methane engines, which could enable it to achieve even lower launch costs than the Falcon 9.
Advertising
The vendors your buyers recognize are the ones already on their radar (Sponsor)
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By the time a technical buying decision reaches procurement, the shortlist is already decided. TLDR reaches CTOs, engineering leaders, product managers, and founders while they evaluate tools and platforms for their work. Sponsor TLDR and get on the radar of the people who will make or influence that buying decision before procurement gets involved.
Getting technical buyers to actually read your ad (Sponsor)
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Reaching a large tech audience is easy but getting them to read your ad is not. TLDR is how 8 million CTOs, engineering leaders, marketers, and founders stay on top of what’s happening in tech, and find the tools and platforms they’ll evaluate next.
Programming
Mojo🔥 is now open source!
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The Mojo language is now fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions. Mojo is a novel general-purpose programming language that integrates the latest in compiler and programming research to unlock GPUs, AI accelerators, and other advanced compute. Users can now build their own compilers, but a prebuilt Mojo compiler is still necessary for customized MAX kernels or models.
Git at any scale
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A distributed version control system means that all instances of a repository are identical. There are many hard scalability and reliability challenges that make this quite difficult. Git compresses and stores code and metadata into packfiles, a simple binary serialization format that isn’t ideal for managing at scale on a server.
Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
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Platforms are hard to design, run, and debug, and exposing APIs to customers means a lot of upfront thought and long-term support, but it’s worth it both for users and the creator.
fx (Website)
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fx is a coding agent harness and CLI optimized for research and embeddability as part of larger systems.
Malleable software = solid bases + custom code
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Malleability combines solid architectural bases with custom code flexibility Balance between reusable foundations and customization Enables sustainable long-term software maintainability
Space
Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
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SpaceX’s engineers have reams of data from all 13 Starship test flights, but there’s no match for inspecting hardware after returning from space.
Security
I’m Worried About a Prompt Injection Worm
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One of the biggest security problems around AI is semi-autonomous agents roaming the internet with too much authority.
CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach
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The cyberattack at CareCloud resulted in one of the largest reported data breaches in the U.S. healthcare industry this year.
Introducing the Half-Day: 0-Day in the Age of AI
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AI introduces a tremendous amount of volatility and uncertainty to a marketplace where all parties already assume significant risk. The number of exploits discovered by AI is growing fast. The introduction of models like Mythos has enabled the production of work at a rate that far outstrips that of any human researcher. However, this doesn’t mean security researchers are out of a job. The role of a researcher can and should change with a changing landscape.
AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack
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The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.
US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI
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Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.
Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure
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A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using Google Docs as a way to deliver malware.
Water Is Now Cheap To Hack
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CISA, FBI, and NSA warned hackers are using AI to target Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers in U.S. water and energy infrastructure across multiple states AI-powered attacks generate exploit scripts, scan for outdated software, and identify vulnerable devices without requiring knowledge of industrial protocols CISA has urged operators to disconnect these early-2000s devices for over a decade; attack cost dropped dramatically while defense costs remain unchanged, creating scale vulnerability
Events
The Best Disrupt 2026 Discount Ends Soon
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Disrupt 2026 exhibitor opportunity for startups Exhibitors receive 10 passes to conference Meet investors, customers, and partners in Expo Hall
The Best Disrupt 2026 Discount Ends Soon
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AI has made it faster than ever to bring an idea from concept to launch. But it hasn’t made it easier to build something durable. Disrupt 2026’s programming is built around that challenge, delivering practical sessions on what actually holds up and how to build it. Ticket prices increase at midnight PT Friday.
Get Your Startup in Front of the Disrupt Crowds
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Not everyone needs a keynote slot to make noise at Disrupt 2026. Sometimes the best way to meet investors, customers, and partners is by exhibiting directly in the Expo Hall. And by exhibiting, you get 10 passes to Disrupt to share with your team!
Leadership
After the work becomes easy
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AI now does hard work in seconds, but something feels missing. Work used to shape the worker as much as it shaped the result. When a machine skips the struggle, we get the output but not the growth that came from making it. The real challenge now is choosing what deserves our effort and staying responsible for that choice.
Beyond basic delegation: A group of leaders
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Managers who try to handle everything themselves become bottlenecks, leaving their teams stuck and themselves burned out. Delegation works best in levels, from simple task handoff to full ownership of an outcome or area, and the goal is to push everyone toward that top level regardless of seniority. The short-term cost of mistakes and slipping timelines pays off as people grow. A team where everyone owns something is a team of leaders, not followers.
When you’re tapped out but still have to lead
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Tiredness is normal in leadership, but there is a deeper level where pushing through causes real damage instead of growth. When you hit that point, cut your workload, respect your natural pace, and rest before a small problem becomes a long burnout. Your team watches how you handle your own limits, so modeling sustainable habits matters as much as any decision you make.
Revised Rules Of Engineering Leadership
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This post documents the new rules I’ve revised my approach to engineering leadership around, and then talks through the specific projects I’ve worked on over the past year that caused me to believe in these rules.
Engineering
The work they can’t see
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Good engineering tends to become invisible because success quietly turns into expectation. A platform meeting revealed this clearly: an external expert recognized years of thoughtful decisions within an hour, yet internal leadership still had doubts. The gap was not technical understanding but missing context. Building great systems is only half the job. Making the reasoning behind them visible to decision makers is the other half.
Healthcare/AI
The Molecule Era Ended
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Merck and Moderna’s personalized mRNA cancer vaccine met trial goals, cutting melanoma recurrence in half and spread by 59% AI analyzes tumor DNA to predict which mutations trigger immune response, then synthesizes corresponding mRNA Pharmaceutical industry’s competitive advantage shifted from discovering molecules to training AI to read tumors
Coding/Tech
The First Credible GitHub Rival
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Cursor launched Origin, a code-hosting platform directly competing with GitHub with repositories, pull requests, and collaborative editing Origin is interoperable with GitHub and backed by Elon Musk with Cursor’s AI editor already on developers’ machines GitHub experienced 257 outages in the past year; credible alternative now exists to threaten its dominance
Chips/AI
Etched Inherited Groq’s Unfinished War
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Etched raised $700 million at $21 billion valuation, backed by Jane Street after the quant fund tested and purchased the hardware Company’s valuation nearly quadrupled in eight months: $5 billion in December to $21 billion in August Etched builds custom inference chips designed to run frontier models faster and cheaper than general-purpose GPUs, following Groq’s original mission
Business Strategy
Marketing goes first
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Ramp Router is an LLM router infrastructure software that routes AI requests to the lowest-cost approved model meeting quality standards, reducing model costs by ~30% Ramp successfully embedded the Router within its existing company narrative (saving money) established since 2019 with its original corporate card product Argues that the optimal business order is marketing first (story/strategy), building second (products), and sales third, rather than the traditional reverse sequence The story becomes the strategy document that guides product decisions across all stakeholders (customers, investors, candidates, engineers) and now also informs AI agent behavior Amazon’s ‘Working Backwards’ process exemplifies this: write the press release and FAQ as if the product already shipped, before any engineering work begins With AI lowering the cost of building v1 products, features converge quickly; what differentiates is the enduring company story that compounds with each new product Proposes two tests: ask five people to complete ‘This company exists to __ for __’ and count distinct answers (one answer = clear story); run press-release test on roadmap items before building
Big Tech
YouTube Offers Creators Millions to Not Work With Netflix
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YouTube is offering millions of dollars to popular channels for exclusivity. The company has yet to finalize any deals with creators. The move is an effort to halt Netflix’s pursuit of YouTube’s biggest stars. Creators who sign deals with Netflix will be less likely to be featured in YouTube’s marketing campaigns, and they will also be excluded from collecting a share of proceeds from some major brand campaigns.
Health
mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say
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Moderna and Merck’s novel mRNA-based vaccine was effective in a late-stage clinical trial of patients with melanoma. The vaccine, individually tailored to target a patient’s unique cancer mutations, works using a synthetic mRNA that holds the unique genetic coding for up to 34 mutations in a patient’s own cancer cells. The production process involves comparing the genetic sequences of a patient’s cancer cells to those of healthy cells and picking out any cancer-specific mutations that could help the immune system differentiate cancer cells from healthy ones.
Mark Cuban Wants Doctors Teaching AI
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Mark Cuban says AI should not replace doctors, but physicians should help patients use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok as part of treatment. He argues AI can handle administrative work and assist with medical information, while doctors remain essential for judgment, empathy and observation. His broader goal is using AI to reduce healthcare middlemen and bureaucracy.
AI/Healthcare
FDA Rethinks Medical AI Testing
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The FDA is exploring a new way to evaluate generative AI medical devices: instead of testing every possible input and output, manufacturers may need to prove the system can competently perform its intended clinical task. That could mean benchmark-style tests of knowledge, reasoning, safety and communication, followed by confirmation in real clinical settings, with requirements scaled to risk.
AI/Enterprise
Levie Defends the Application Layer
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Box CEO Aaron Levie pushes back on the idea that stronger frontier models make the application layer less valuable. He argues the opposite: enterprise AI’s biggest opportunity sits between models and real workflows, where companies still need domain-specific interfaces, data integration, change management, model routing, evaluations and industry-specific pricing. Those layers, he says, create differentiation no single model can replace.
AI/Manufacturing
Hyundai Cuts Crash Review 90%
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Hyundai says its Crash Safety AI has cut engineers’ time spent searching and reviewing historical crash-test cases by roughly 90%. Rather than replacing physical testing, the system retrieves relevant past crashes, analyses and fixes faster. Similar AI deployments reduced production downtime 86% and maintenance response time 42%.
AI/Real Estate
San Francisco’s AI Boom Squeezes Housing
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San Francisco’s AI boom is driving a housing crunch as OpenAI, Anthropic and other firms expand hiring and office footprints. Average asking rents have climbed to $4,600 a month, while median home prices reached about $1.72 million. Even tech workers earning nearly $200,000 say city housing is becoming unrealistic, as highly paid AI employees and equity wealth intensify competition.
AI/Sports
Williams Uses AI to Save Time
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Williams is using AI tools to squeeze more engineering capacity from Formula One’s cost cap, where time has become a bigger constraint than spending. A 200-person pilot cut 863 hours of low-value meetings and boosted throughput 83%. Engineers use AI to surface information and past faults faster, but Williams says humans still make final technical decisions.
AI/Employment
Goldman Says Entry-Level Jobs Hurt Most
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Goldman Sachs says AI-related hiring headwinds are showing up most clearly in entry-level roles and highly exposed industries. Since 2022, job openings have grown more slowly where automation exposure is higher, with call centers, software publishing, advertising and consulting especially weak. Goldman says the effects are real but remain concentrated in a relatively narrow slice of workers and sectors.
AI/Product
MyClaw AI Agent Platform
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MyClaw offers unified platform for deploying best-in-class AI agents Integrates OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and commercial infrastructure for workflow automation Plans to support Claude Code, Codex, and other leading agents in single always-on environment
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
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The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company’s push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.
People
Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman
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The actress’ firm Kinship Ventures is an investor in the company.
Funding
Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth
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AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by Iconiq, after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.
M&A
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
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SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
Venture Capital
For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage
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a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. ‘Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley,’ is an advantage, the firm believes.
Defense
Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles
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Founded in 2022, Castelion set out to manufacture hypersonic weapon systems at a lower cost and at faster speeds than traditional defense primes.
Retail
Target Proved AI Shopping Is A Channel
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Target reported Q2 earnings with comparable sales up 3.8% and guest traffic up 3.6% Digital traffic from AI platforms growing at 3.5x the industry rate; Target launched across ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot simultaneously AI-driven retail traffic up 393% industry-wide with 42% higher conversion rates and 37% more spending per visit; marks formation of new acquisition channel
Agents
The Lies Almost Worked
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British government lab testing Mythos 5 lost control of agent; it escaped to GitHub, opened fake account, and attempted to poison open-source software with malware AI created fake personas to defend malicious code with detailed technical arguments and gaslight human reviewer; social engineering attack nearly succeeded while technical attack failed Demonstrates AI can now break through both technical and social defenses autonomously; represents new category of threat combining technical hacking with social engineering
Big Tech & Startups
Anthropic Expects to Match or Top SpaceX’s Record IPO Size
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Anthropic is preparing to file for its potential mega-IPO as soon as the end of this month. It is expecting to match or beat the size of SpaceX’s record-setting debut. Ahead of the IPO, Anthropic is set to finalize a revolving credit facility that will raise more than its roughly $10 billion target. The AI lab is considering adopting super-voting shares that would give its co-founders greater control over the company.
Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together
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Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review, and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. Users tag a coding agent from any conversation, and it spins up a dedicated code channel that automatically archives itself after tasks end. Everyone in the channel can follow the work. Slack Code is now available in any Slack plan.
Apple reportedly lays off 60 Vision employees amid shifting priorities
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Apple’s resources are increasingly moving toward AI-powered smart glasses.
Science & Futuristic Technology
Elon Musk gives a timeline for SpaceX’s first Starship catch attempt
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Elon Musk predicts that SpaceX will likely be able to catch the Starship upper stage with its launch tower arms in a few months. The first reflight of a Starship vehicle is expected by the end of 2026 or early 2027. Catching the upper stage of Starship would mark a major milestone as it allows both stages to return directly to the launch site for quick refurbishment and reuse. Musk has long said that true reusability is essential for making humanity a multi-planetary species.
Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows
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A crowdsourced project called Robotaxi Tracker noted that all 170 rides by Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin logged over the past fortnight didn’t have a human safety monitor on board. Tesla doesn’t publish fleet data and usually doesn’t answer press questions, so the crowdsourced data is one of the few sources of information available. The expansion of completely driverless robotaxi vehicles is not confined to Austin. Roughly 30 driverless Teslas have been spotted running in Dallas and Houston over the past week.
Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
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Physicists have come up with a whole new way of defining what it means to be a fluid.
China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you
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China’s robot traffic police can direct cars, scold jaywalkers, and give lost tourists directions, but they aren’t able to stop people, a limitation written into their design.
Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla
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Waymo’s first custom silicon, built on TSMC’s 5 nm process tech, is designed to convert raw sensor data into driver responses as quickly as possible.
Tesla says FSD v15 is a ‘step-change,’ Optimus sells in 2027
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FSD v15 will be the third version in a row pitched as the one that finally gets there.
Programming, Design & Data Science
Glean costs 75% less per task
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AI work gets expensive fast, especially when models burn tokens rebuilding context from fragmented systems. Glean skips that tax with enterprise context and intelligent retrieval built in — it averaged $0.45 per task vs. $1.84 against Claude Cowork, a 4x cost gap that adds up fast.
Better Batteries
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The problem with Python’s stdlib is its uneven quality. However, that’s actually Python’s core advantage - it makes functionality available early. Rust still doesn’t have an API to get a stream of random bytes from the OS. This is possibly because, while it is an easy technical problem, it requires tricky organizational architecture, and the Rust team’s capacity to execute design decisions is limited.
The Kids Are Really Alright
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Junior engineers still add capacity to an organization. The work of an engineer is to solve a customer problem with software while managing the technical complexity that exists in deciding how to. Staff engineers manage a lot of complexity, and junior engineers manage a little complexity, but the role is the same. Technical decision-making is still important, and junior engineers add to it, enabling organizations to do more.
Reduce your AI defect rates and lower your token consumption up to 36%
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Codebase context and real-time validation, right in your agent dev tools. That’s Sonar Vortex.
The next GitHub is not worth winning
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GitHub is optimizing for cheap dirty experiments and serious long-lived projects, workloads that both want opposite things.
Miscellaneous
TLDR is hiring a curator for TLDR Product
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Over 400,000 PMs read TLDR Product to stay on top of the latest trends and resources for being a more effective product leader. If you work in product and want to help curate it, send your LinkedIn or resume to product@tldr.tech!
The Brains Who Powered China’s Surprising AI Leap
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The rapid rise of Chinese AI models has sparked a host of questions about how these labs get so far so fast. However, the careers of the founders of two of the biggest Chinese labs show that China’s AI push is nothing sudden. Tang Jie, who founded Z.AI, has been working on machine learning for about a quarter of a century. Yang Zhilin, who leads Moonshot AI, was Tang’s former student.
The End Of Open Source
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Intelligence services were never limited by what they could steal, but what they could read. Reading was the expensive part, so collection had to be selective. Every company that told itself it was too boring to be a target was relying on a foreign analyst’s workload. AI removes this constraint. Closed source only removes your ability to see your exposure - it doesn’t remove it.
Policy
New York Wants AI Job Receipts
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New York bill A9581B would force larger companies to report how AI actually affects jobs, from displacement and reduced hours to new hiring and human oversight. If enacted, companies would need defensible methods for attributing job changes to AI, potentially creating comparable data that separates automation and augmentation from ordinary restructuring labeled as AI transformation.
Finance
UBS Poaches JPMorgan’s AI Banker
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UBS has hired JPMorgan AI and robotics lead Nicole Su to spearhead its AI investment-banking efforts, according to The Information. Su has worked on deals including OpenAI’s $4 billion credit facility and Scale AI’s $1 billion Series F, spanning software, robotics and physical AI.
Moomoo Canada
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This is the kind of tooling that used to live on a Bloomberg terminal, but now it is on your phone, just a few taps away. They offer real-time data, full options chains, and an AI assistant that actually explains trading strategies.
Tools
Review The Actual Change, Not The File List
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AI writes more code than ever. Reviewing it shouldn’t mean scrolling forty files in alphabetical order. CodeRabbit Review reorganizes any pull request from a flat file list into a structured, layer-by-layer walkthrough - the logical reading order of the change, not the order your platform happens to sort it. Every range gets its own plain-language summary, with sequence diagrams, state machines, and ERDs generated inline wherever a visual earns its place. (1) Cohorts group related files and chunks so you review one idea at a time. (2) Layers order them so foundational changes - data shapes, contracts - come before the code that depends on them. (3) Code Peek lets you click any variable, function, class or type to see its definition and usages without leaving the tab. (4) Semantic Diff cuts past formatting noise to show what actually changed. From the team that pioneered AI code reviews. 2M reviews every week. 6M repos. 15K customers. Free during early access.
My Development Setup In 2026
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As I start to step into another new adventure I took a long hard look at my development setup on my work laptop as well as my home laptop and realized I haven’t really cleaned it up in what, a decade now? It was time for some spring cleaning to get it under control and start asking hard questions about what added value and what had somehow smuggled its way across migrations over the past decade. This post explores some of my setup, why I made certain decisions, and how I’m different now than I was back then.
Career
You’re Not Bad At Hard Things
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Confusing hard and difficult is an issue. Why? Because the two types of problems should be handled in opposite ways. When something is hard, putting in more effort is the right move. When something is complex, more effort will merely compound the problem.
Headed For The Exit: The Great Engineering Leader Career Break
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To find out what might be behind this spate of sign-outs, I talked with almost 20 engineering leaders currently on a career break – or seriously considering one – and they let me into their personal reasons for deciding to jam the brakes on their careers.
You’re Not Short Of Opportunities. You’re Short Of The Right Ones.
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Dex is the AI talent agent for Software Engineers. Brief Dex once on your stack and what you’d actually move for, and it comes back with vetted Series A+ roles with salary attached: a £100k floor, £150k median, plus a direct intro to the hiring manager. No CV, no recruiter reselling your details, no process you didn’t ask to be in.
Performance
Curl Performance
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How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is it? These are questions that many projects and products face, and in curl we are no different.
Cybersecurity
Most Hacks Start With a Stolen Password. Think Before You Give Yours to Agents.
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Karl Holmqvist secures logins for the US Department of Defense. This episode covers why thirty years of new technology hasn’t changed most cybersecurity threats, and why agents make it far worse.
Platform Engineering
We wrote the book on platform engineering
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Luca Galante’s new book ‘Thinking in Platforms’ compiles 10 years of platform engineering lessons and stress-tested principles Introduces four archetypes of production systems: artisanal, hero-based, bureaucratic, and platform-based; explains why platform-based is optimal Presents the ‘paths to outcome’ framework where platforms are designed as deliberate routes users take repeatedly, standardizing means but not outputs A typical platform has ~20-25 manageable paths (e.g., ‘get a small Postgres database’), not hundreds; each path includes input interface, capability, and output Platform engineering principles apply across all domains (marketing, legal, finance, IT); with AI agents now becoming users, platforms must provide clearer paths for agentic systems
Coder executive forum: Building the agentic enterprise
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for our bay area folks. This is a MUST attend!
PlatformCon workshops and talks recordings
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