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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk.
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FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
The blood-based biomarker test is based on technology developed at WashU Medicine by Randall Bateman, MD, and David Holtzman, MD.
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Fable and the end of the free lunch
Fable’s price ended the free lunch of ever-cheaper frontier models. Now we have to think about which model gets which work.
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Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future…
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I Just Want to Search
Learning to search was a key skill growing up as a teen in the 2000s. How to use accurate keywords, quotes, the entire lot of search operators. Google-fu was a hard earned skill (yes, I read a book) and helped me figure out a surprising amount of life.
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What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
A given level of LLM intelligence costs about a thirtieth of what it did a year ago, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Using Artificial Analysis's…
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Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise
Backed by a $10 billion planned investment over the next decade, Micron Research Labs will unite academia, government, startups and industry to advance the memory and compute breakthroughs that will define the AI era BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today unveiled…
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It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...
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The August 17 outage
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.
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OpenRouter is joining Stripe
OpenRouter is joining forces with Stripe. Same mission, same name, same product, same roadmap, and routing that stays driven by what's best for you.
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Norway should buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
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Beware Management Consultants
Both teams worked really hard to get in the best shape. On the day of the first race, both teams were ready to win.
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How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He
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Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
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What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic
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The Amazon tax
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…
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Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more.
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Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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The AI Credit Resale Economy
From cold emails to credit marketplaces, sellers promise cheaper access to leading models. We followed those offers to understand what buyers are actually getting.
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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.
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The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Three years ago, we released the design for the Adept, a unique trackball perfectly suited for the use of QMK, for 3D-printing, and for ambidextrous use across a wide variety of applications.
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When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
From Situational Awareness’s Blow-up to Materials Science to the HuggingFace Hack
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Cursor is now a part of SpaceX
Cursor has officially been acquired by SpaceX.
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The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
A hypothesis on the not-so-distant future of software, books, music, and movies, in which most of what we consume gets cheaper, more abundant, and noticeably worse, while the human-made variant moves into a luxury segment of its own.
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Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft
Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator became the world’s largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown, demonstrating electric flight at airliner scale and advancing development of the ES-30.
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Build Wide, Ship Narrow
Good engineers plan before they build. The workflow I grew up seeing: write an RFC describing the feature, split it into smaller issues, then build them, each issue often blocking the next. The structure of the work was locked in before a single line of code existed.
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Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
A viral TikTok sardine diet and warming oceans have collided to create a real canned-sardine shortage — and it's not ending soon.
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People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.