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Testing Ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 88 posts.
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Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
Our new decision-scoring model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models.
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OpenAI to Acquire Astral
Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
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Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs
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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Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
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Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.
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Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
I’ve taken agency in the treatment of my bone cancer (osteosarcoma in the T5 vertebrae of the upper spine). After I ran out of standard-of-care treatment options and there were no trials available for…
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. Throughout my life, my ...
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Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
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The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake...
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No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.
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De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Top dollar no more? Discover the factors threatening the dominance of the world’s reserve currency and how this is playing out across markets.
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
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Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission
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An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this…
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Warranty Void If Regenerated
Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic.
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Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the...
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Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t
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The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
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Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
What my father taught me.
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We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
We signed a 3 year lease and gave it to an AI
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The AI Industry Is Lying to You
Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5000 to 18,000 words, including
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Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
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The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
Update 2026-04-07 Update: 2026-04-11 Update: 2026-04-17 Let’s kick the developers out! In the ongoing saga of The Document Foundation (TDF), their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners. That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice…