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Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
Testing Google's highly anticipated Gemini 3.0 through AI Studio's A/B feature using SVG generation as a quality proxy
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Claude Skills
Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude will only access a skill when it's relevant to the task at hand.
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DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
Today, DoorDash announced a new partnership with Waymo to launch an autonomous delivery service in Metro Phoenix and introduce a limited-time $10 Waymo promotion for DashPass members in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
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US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
For the first time since the Henley Passport Index was created 20 years ago, the United States is no longer ranked amongst the world’s Top 10 most powerful passports.
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Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.
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Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
Every millisecond matters when you're in the critical path of API authentication. After two years of fighting serverless limitations, we rebuilt our entire API stack and slashed the end-to-end latency.
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Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
Click fraud protection in one tool: DataCops flags bot clicks, blocks repeat bots at your Cloudflare edge, keeps them out of the conversions 8 ad platforms learn from, and exports Google refund evidence.
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The scariest "user support" email I've received
Hi, it's Takuya. As your app grows in popularity, you occasionally start to attract attacks aimed directly at you—the developer or site owner. Just the other day, I got one that was honestly terrifying, so I'd like to share it. The Email Subject: Cookie consent prevents platform
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Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.
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Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
Can't you just turn it off?
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GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
Since the opening of the residency recruitment season, we’ve heard your feedback on the Cortex Core Clerkship Transcript Normalization feature. As a physician-founded organization born out of our lived experience as applicants and program leaders, we understand the many emotions tied to the start of the season. We…
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No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion…
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The App Store was always authoritarian
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely, selective exemption from tariffs and an end to the spectre of…
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China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains
China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heightens risks to U.S. defense and semiconductor supply chains.
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Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
Long awaited first paper from Meta Superintelligence Labs is not a model layer innovation. What does this mean?
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It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 6, 2025, including OpenAI’s Windows strategy, Sam Altman and boundless ambition, and the future of creation.
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The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe
Apple’s Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. The deeper failure is an industry shipping more software while producing fewer engineers capable of fixing it.
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N8n raises $180M
We just raised $180 million in Series C funding, bringing our total funding to $240 million and our valuation to $2.5 billion. The round is led by Accel, with support from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and T.Capital also
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A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into your company. The first couple of years, students love your program. Positive feedback, extraordinary student outcomes…
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Kurt Got Got
The night we spent without control of our Twitter account.
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Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap
Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?
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Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study
University of Surrey research finds solar is now the lowest cost electricity source in sunniest regions. Discover what this means for the global energy future.
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Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…
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"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore
We are in the middle of the biggest red ocean I have ever seen in software development.
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Apple's Unlawful Evil
Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi: