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Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work.
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We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Google is introducing new ad formats built with Gemini in Search and expanding the Direct Offers pilot for shoppers.
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DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist 'high end SBC' market (4/8/16 GB…
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Where things stand with the Department of War
A statement from Dario Amodei
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MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.
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Beware Management Consultants
Both teams worked really hard to get in the best shape. On the day of the first race, both teams were ready to win.
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Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, …
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A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
But the Institute is facing ongoing challenges in two related areas: funding, and our talent pipeline.
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
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Oxide raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
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Grok 4.7
SpaceXSI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
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Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27.
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Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
A timeline of founding a company in Germany: €11,800 spent, two companies registered, 203 days to a VAT ID, and a registration nobody mentioned.
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“Your frustration is the product”
The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.
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Security Disclosure
Railway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables and recommends your immediate attention
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Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired MediaWiki’s most influential developer and disbanded the team whose entire job…
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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
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Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built “grumbl”, a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issu…
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Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
Compare Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API to Whisper and SFSpeechRecognizer. Real accuracy benchmarks on 5,559 utterances with raw transcripts for rescoring.
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I wish tech companies knew more about me
I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext
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The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
A factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand, in half the time of a typical Shenzhen quick-turn shop.
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I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
The story of the nice!nano; a wireless Pro Micro-compatible microcontroller board I made in my freshman year of college.
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Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
Garry Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.
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If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Or: How the 2020s broke our brains
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Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
An early update on what we've learned from Project Glasswing.