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Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation
Why automation lags even as models get better
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Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
How Chinas strategic focus on 3D printing and patent incentives since 2020 created a "minefield".
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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
U.S. pharma companies should pay rather more of their corporate income tax in the U.S.—and start producing more of their best drugs in the U.S. as well.
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Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.
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Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy
Kodak clarifies it is not closing or filing bankruptcy; plans debt repayment and pension fund transaction for a stronger balance sheet in 2025.
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NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.
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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
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Open Banking and Payments Competition
Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily.
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A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it
In this day and age of cybersecurity professionals crying out for roles, we're still seeing companies complain that there is a skills shortage and a lack of talent. A quick scan through your LinkedIn feed will show this is absolute nonsense: there is a mass of experienced, capable talent out there l
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Gartner's grift is about to unravel
swyx recognizes $IT as a visionary short in the DX Tips Magic Quadrant of Boomer Relics That No Longer Make Sense
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Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company
The biggest hurdle is not AI capability, but founder pain tolerance.
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context—a 5x increase that lets you process entire codebases, synthesize extensive document sets, and build agents that maintain coherence across hundreds of tool calls.
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The value of institutional memory
In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an …
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Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer
Coding Tools Are Just One Front in AI’s Supply Chain Wars
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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead.
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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
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How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development
How Boom Supersonic uses software to accelerate hardware development
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GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble
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Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Let's properly analyze an AI article for once
Recently the CEO of Github wrote a blog post called Developers reinvented . It was reposted with various clickbait headings like GitHub CEO...
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Our European search index goes live
We’ve started delivering independent search results from our European-based index. This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair internet we believe in.
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The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
I’ve been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread …
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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.
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Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5
It was a busy week in the AI world.
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Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
Learn what triggers Germany’s exit tax for business owners, how it’s calculated, and why growing a profitable company can make leaving Germany costly.
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AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.