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Funding, Incentives, and Governance
In my first blog post I focused on the most important thing: our values. Now I turn to the next-most-important issue for our mission: funding. Here’s how we’ve gathered the necessary resources to get…
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Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking leaves no land untouched. In 2013 the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 27 million victims worldwide trafficked for forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. A 201…
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Themes are GPL, too
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are compl…
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How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis
An unprecedented congressional mandate threatens the Postal Service's ability to continue to provide good jobs and universal service.
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Getting Real
The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
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Non-Glamorous Gains: The Pennsylvania Land Tax Experiment
Since 1913, Pennsylvania has allowed cities to tax land at a higher rate than buildings. This decision has led to some unique success stories: cities that have weathered post-industrial decline and revitalized their urban cores.
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Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
Hidden features, reduced discoverability, cognitive overhead from dual environments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low information density. Too bad.
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How has social mobility in the U.S. changed in recent decades?
Historic data suggests that the likelihood of outearning your parents has declined over recent decades - so is the American Dream becoming a nightmare?
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Joint statement from Google and Apple
Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and clou…
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LLM inference prices have fallen rapidly but unequally across tasks
Epoch AI is a research institute investigating key trends and questions that will shape the trajectory and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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Claude Fable 5
Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
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Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.
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Claude Opus 4.6
We're upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model.
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Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
Findings and actions from Project Strobe—a root-and-branch review of third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data and of our philosophy around …
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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Signal Foundation
Long before we knew that it would be called Signal, we knew what we wanted it to be. Instead of teaching the rest of the world cryptography, we wanted to see if we could develop cryptography that worked for the rest of the world. At the time, the industry consensus was largely that encryption and...
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Sequoia backs Zed
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
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37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (2009)
CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. Founder Jason Fried informed his employees about the new deal at a recent company-wide meeting. The…
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Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report [pdf]
We use data to tell stories of business-related trends we focus on. We hope others take the ideas, build on them & make them better.
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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement to bring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters to Sora for fan-inspired short videos. The agreement emphasizes responsible AI in entertainment and includes Disney’s company-wide use of ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API.
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Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
MIT researchers have analyzed the causes of many cost overruns on new nuclear power plants in the U.S., which have soared in the past 50 years. The findings may help designers of new plants build in resilience to prevent such added costs.
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SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a pension, or even health insurance. Their difficult lives are made immeasurably harder when they do the work they have been hired to do, but their employers refuse to pay, pay for some hours but not…
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Dash developer's response to Apple's response
Dash provides instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets, code snippets, and cheat sheets. Features MCP support for AI integration with Claude and other AI agents.
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Reddit reveals their traffic numbers, compares to Alexa/Compete etc
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.