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Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
Two Amazon engineers swapped Claude Sonnet 4.6 for a decision model in one of the world's biggest internal ticketing systems.
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Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (time per Intelligence Index task & time to first answer token), context window & more.
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Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, our new models for the hardest technical challenges. Fable 5.2 sets a new bar in coding, finance, and the sciences.
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Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system
The new system will enable participating financial service providers to clear and settle payments in real time, providing a made-in-Canada platform for future innovation and prosperity.
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Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget
The world's richest company is suddenly rationing compute for its own builders.
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I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
The AI bubble is a speculative concept that the AI industry is extremely over-valued. If true, the value of most companies involved in AI (several of whom are worth well over a trillion dollars) will collapse, devastating the entire economy. If you check any online discussion about the financial situation …
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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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Statement from Nvidia board of directors
The NVIDIA Board is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of ...
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The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group
In 2023 after the ChatGPT release, it was clear to me that research needed to be more organized to succeed than was typical within Microsoft Research . The amount of support and focus which other research groups were applying was great enough that even with a clever idea pursued by one person it was likely to arrive…
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Running a law firm on Free software
I started running decoded.legal - a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law - on Free software, both client and server side, around five years ago. I have used Free software in my personal life for a lot longer than that.
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The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
The S&P 500 fell 4.4% on 5 Nov 2026, its worst day since April 2025, and is 6% below its 6 Oct record. Charted day by day against 1987, 2008, Covid and other falls since 1950.
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I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West
Everyone thinks China's robot factories are automated. They aren't. The robots are Chinese; the robots that make robots will be Western.
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Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming
Google has acquired Crusoe’s southeast Wyoming data center site after Crusoe completed site selection, approvals, and power strategy for the campus.
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$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
The Nasdaq wiped out roughly $2.5 trillion in market cap on Thursday, officially pushing the index into correction territory.
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Pangram Image 1.0
Introducing Pangram Image 1.0, our AI image and video detector.
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I wish tech companies knew more about me
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Everything is an AI scam now
Whenever you watch a video on YouTube now, you will likely get an advert for a scammy product. In the past few weeks I've seen:
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
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Conductor is joining Meta
We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. Writing most of your code with agents (let alone a team of coding agents) felt crazy back then. You trusted us to come along for the ride, and we cannot thank you enough!
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OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
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Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one
🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag.
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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack
He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide
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Anthropic's growth just flattened
Look at the monthly numbers...
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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
Wait, that's not him.
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China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
China’s First Frontier AI Export Controls: MOFCOM Announcement No. 48 Key Takeaways On October 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MO…
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Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed in a recent podcast discussion that it's "terrible" for everyday people to own DRAM that data centres can use.
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Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Join us to explore the ups and downs over twenty years spent running a small bootstrapped UK SaaS business.
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Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
Among the personalities honoured by the President of the Czech Republic on the occasion of the national holiday on 28 October this year are two graduates of Brno University of Technology. Tomáš Mikolov, a renowned expert in artificial intelligence, and Filip Maleňák, creator of the Záchranka mobile app, received state…
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Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Search was 49.7% of Alphabet's revenue in Q3 2026, down from 62% in early 2019, as Google Cloud grew much faster. Every quarter since 2018, from Alphabet's earnings releases.
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DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Together, DoorDash and Instacart would help stores of every size reach more customers with the kinds of innovative technology that the biggest online retailers and grocers build for themselves.