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Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our business amid significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds. After a comprehensive…
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
Starting on November 16, 2026, conversations in Discoverable Servers will be easier to find for people searching the web. Admins can choose which channels are surfaced on the web. Private servers, DMs, and GDMs are not included.
From cold emails to credit marketplaces, sellers promise cheaper access to leading models. We followed those offers to understand what buyers are actually getting.
We introduce "observed exposure," combining LLM capability with real Claude usage data, and share early evidence on employment effects.
OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.
Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride.
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...
Waymo is officially heading to Canada! We’re laying the groundwork for our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Toronto, investing in local facilities and jobs, with the goal of welcoming our first riders in 2028.
Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday.\nI have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joined in 2022, and the company I wanted to work for is no longer the same company.\nThis past year, while I was doing my best to make…
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
TypeSafe's Jev is a genuine breakthrough – snap judgments with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. My bet is OpenAI is already figuring out how to copy it, and then embed it inside its own models where Jev can't follow.
Acquisition will bring Fin’s customer agent platform to companies of all sizes, accelerating time-to-value and expanding Salesforce’s ability to deliver
An interactive world map where every country is resized by how many IPv4 addresses it holds instead of its land area. Flip between real land and IPv4 land, zoom in, and compare countries.
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.
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My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I've watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I've watched the show…
Today, as we officially begin our journey as a Google company, that belief feels real in a much deeper way.
Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Ookla, a global leader in network intelligence, competitive benchmarking and customer experience analytics.
The economy is crashing because Wall Street spent trillions shorting Japan's currency and now they're being squeezed.
Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs Frontier labs
Update: this post generated some interesting discussion on Hacker News. Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Stripe, with a mountain of…
rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects.
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .
Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It’s annoying, but thankfully I’ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impe…
From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.
