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Lovable raises $400M Series C
Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT.
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TSMC Risk
If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.
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How employment is changing at Anthropic
How has AI restructured work and employment at Anthropic? As a company at the frontier of AI adoption, Anthropic could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy.
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The AI Industry Is Lying to You
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The death of the brick and mortar toy store
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why more and more local stores are going defunct. A …
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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
I am the Computer Troubleshooter. I offer computer repair, data recovery and information technology services to the public of Santa Rosa, California and it's surrounding areas.
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My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
Just yesterday morning, my brand-new MINI Countryman auto-installed software update 03/2026.54. How exciting! The release notes promised groundbreaking chang...
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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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Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
The UK new car market grew by 24.0% to reach 149,247 registrations last month, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The increase reflects...
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Where is the AI jobs crisis?
If AI were triggering a jobs crisis, we would expect job openings to collapse and unemployment to climb, yet the opposite is happening. Subscribe for daily updates.
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Claude Corps
Claude Corps is a national fellowship for early-career people passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.
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M5Stack Launches PaperMono
M5Stack today launches PaperMono, a compact ESP32-S3-based E-Ink development terminal designed for low-power information display, interaction, and connected IoT projects. PaperMono is now available through the M5Stack Store. Product Value Featuring a 3.97-inch 4-level grayscale E-Ink display, touch input, integrated…
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Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
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AI, Tools and Transformation
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t
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No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons . Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War…
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Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
The DRUGS Act (‘Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act, H.R. 6352 & S.3399) is legislation that would rob you and millions of Americans of daily medications that keep them healthy and alive. Worse yet, the legislation is backed by Big Pharma front groups.
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Launching the Claude Partner Network
We’re launching the Claude Partner Network, a program for partner organizations helping enterprises adopt Claude.
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The most important product decision is what you don't build
Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.
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How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employ…
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The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
The engineer who says no all the time is a real archetype among senior and staff engineers. Their role is to slow things down, to block the development of…
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How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in
In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the hands of a single player. We concluded with a question: if open…
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Margin Call
Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.
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Surprising economics of load-balanced systems
I have a system with c servers, each of which can only handle a single concurrent request, and has no internal queuing. The servers sit behind a load balancer, which contains an infinite queue. An unlimited number of clients offer c * 0.8 requests per second to the load balancer on average. In other words, we increase…
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OpenAI to Acquire Astral
Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents
Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
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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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Code is cheap now, but software isn't
The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
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Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Psiphon, a software company that helps internet users under oppressive regimes evade online censorship, plans to leave Canada if the lawful-access bill passes.