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Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
I hope the media will look into this
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U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams
The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc. , a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as “ pig butchering .” In January 2025, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Funnull was…
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We're Joining OpenAI
Alex is the ultimate tool for iOS and Swift app development, empowering developers with AI for Xcode to streamline workflows, tackle complex coding challenges, and boost productivity. Discover what makes it an essential asset for modern app creation.
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I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
Last Updated: June 17, 2026What impact is AI having on the job market? Everyone has an opinion, but…
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Startup Equity 101
Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a...
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China is the manufacturing superpower
The US is the world’s sole military superpower. It spends more on its military than the ten next highest spending countries combined. China is now the world’s sole manufacturing superpower. Its production exceeds that of the nine next largest manufacturers combined. This column uses the recently released 2023 update…
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A new AI winter is coming?
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.
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Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars
the AI talent wars challenge the shared trust and mission that aligned founders, employees, and investors
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Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
Companies are saying that the economy and AI are causing the large amount of tech layoffs, but Vanessa Wingårdh looked at the H-1B visa data and noticed that the companies are lying. She argues that...
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A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024)
These are the two most-streamed children's shows. Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps Cocomelon's engagement-hacking approach.
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Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration
We, people and civil society organisations from Europe and around the world, call on the European Commission to act now to break up the powerful Big Tech
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Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.
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Monotype font licencing shake-down
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
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The value of institutional memory
In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an …
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Project Vend: Phase Two
How Claude turned around its failing vending machine business
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Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.
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Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021
An analysis of Product Hunt, 2014 - 2021
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The National Design Studio is a scam
Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services.
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Attention is a luxury good
Luxury goods are special: they are scarce and expensive, and they earn us status with some folks because it shows that we paid more than we needed to. Luxury isn’t about quality, suitability …
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GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
Since the opening of the residency recruitment season, we’ve heard your feedback on the Cortex Core Clerkship Transcript Normalization feature. As a physician-founded organization born out of our lived experience as applicants and program leaders, we understand the many emotions tied to the start of the season. We…
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AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm...
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Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness
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Google Antigravity
Every advancement in model intelligence for coding has encouraged us to rethink how development should be done. The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)…
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Three Observations
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
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An investigation into egg prices
'More hens, less income!' So said the United Egg Producers' economist Donald Bell in 1994. The industry has gotten more consolidated ever since. And avian flu is just the latest excuse to hike prices.
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Development speed is not a bottleneck
Big part of discussion around vibe coding revolves around pace of development while it was never a key constraint in succeeding with a product.
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Building AI products in the probabilistic era
AI turns products from deterministic functions into probabilistic systems. That requires expanding old playbooks (SLOs, funnels, siloed finance), and reasoning in terms of trajectories, Minimum Viable Intelligence thresholds, and data as company operating system.