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Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7 is now generally available, with notable gains over Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and the most difficult tasks.
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Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Fellow Amazonians:
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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
We at Pushbullet have received some bad news from Google. It appears our extension will be removed from the Chrome Web Store if we don’t make required changes within 14 days. Not good! The bigger problem? Google hasn’t told us what those required changes are.
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We lost 54k GitHub stars
What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Factorio 1.0
Hello, the atmosphere in the last week was kind of special. We experienced the feeling of the final release being on the horizon many times. And we were shown that it isn't the case time and time again. So it feels very special when it is actually becoming reality. We were trying to be especially careful with any last…
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Request For Research: Basic Income
We’re going to try something new—our first Request For Research. We’d like to fund a study on basic income—i.e., giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached. I’ve been intrigued by the idea for a while, and although there’s been a lot of discussion, there’s fairly little data about how it would…
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NPM Is Joining GitHub
We're excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
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It’s Time to Build
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the cause on one…
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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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Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
Openly sharing your work brings more attention to it, which is good, right? The answer, for me though, is often “it’s complicated.” This is what happened when I went to visit a giant tech company, in hopes for collaboration, but later found that they tried to patent some of my research instead!
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Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
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YC Research
Updated on 6/5/20 YC Research, now OpenResearch [http://openresearchlab.org/], and its portfolio of research projects are no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. YCR generated important ideas and organizations, and we are proud to have helped them get up and running. They have, in fact, been operating independently…
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Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 brings stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
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Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
Proof that job interviews done by incompetent people are irrelevant.
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Mistral OCR
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.
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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi. We had tremendous support from our customers, and we want to start this by taking a moment to say thank you. We really appreciate it. Since we launched Kagi,...
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UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC’s key goal: securing universal open access to UC…
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GitHub is fully available in Iran
All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers in some countries the full range of GitHub services.
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We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
We don’t plan to settle, and if brought into such litigation again in the future, we think we have a pretty good blueprint for how to respond.
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RethinkDB is shutting down
Today I have sad news to share. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our efforts we were ultimately unable to build a sustainable business. There is a lot of information to unpack – over the next…
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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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