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DAYJOB: Tax evaluates AI agents across 50 realistic tax environments, testing their ability to navigate messy records, exercise professional judgment, and deliver reliable tax work.
What WWDC 2026 actually revealed about a foldable iPhone, which clues are confirmed or reported, and why Apple’s adaptable software matters to developers.
After 15 years at Google, the creator of JJ joins ERSC as Chief Technology Officer.
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
"This is not a series of coincidences; it is a blatant, industrial-scale quid pro quo."
Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age.
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Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat.
With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic’s contract action team approved the following statement:
Join us to explore the ups and downs over twenty years spent running a small bootstrapped UK SaaS business.
Pollution and steam are seen rising from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Station along the Ohio River, in North Bend, Ohio, on July 23, 2026.
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
While I created my AWS account because I was interested in Amazon S3, that was not in fact immediately available to me: In the early days of AWS, you had to specifically ask for each new service to be enabled for your account. My new AWS account did come with two services enabled by default, though — Amazon Simple…
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.
Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card.
For four months, no frontier model beat Claude Opus in our production evals. GPT-5.6 did. This is what we learned while migrating.
As inflation-weary businesses raise prices to cover credit card interchange fees, the pain isn't universal, says research by Mark L. Egan.
Ten new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, Microsoft 365 integrations, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance.
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A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
See all of the latest features and updates to the OpenAI API.
Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher. We are a Swedish company building products that help people get online, used by millions of people worldwide.
(This post is written mostly by Claude, you can tell that it isn’t in the same voice as my other work, but it has notes of it. All the personal anecdotes are still from my life, and it’s interesting that this is one of my most popular posts of all time. Go figure. Also Interesting: […]
