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Simon Willison says the AI labs found PMF — and it's not chatbots

May 28

▸ Simon Willison argues Anthropic and OpenAI have stopped chasing 'general AI assistant' and locked in on coding as the killer app.

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

Qwen3.7-Max: Alibaba's open-weight bet on agent-native models

May 28

▸ Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max ships with native tool-use and multi-step planning baked into the base model, not bolted on via fine-tuning.

AI / ML Open Source clear_take

PostHog opts you into AI training by default. The fine print matters.

May 28

▸ PostHog updated its terms so customer product analytics data is used to train AI models — opted in by default, with a toggle to opt out.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Security / Privacy clear_take

Google's AI Mode breaks the web's oldest deal: traffic for content

May 28

▸ Google's AI Mode answers queries directly with synthesized output, stripping the click-through that funded the open web for two decades.

Politics / Regulation Career / Industry clear_take

Bun Bets on Rust: The Zig-to-Rust Migration Is Now Merged

May 28

▸ Bun has merged a major PR rewriting core runtime components from Zig to Rust, marking a decisive language shift for the project.

Open Source Backend / APIs explainer

HashiCorp Co-Founder: Entire Companies Are Now Under 'AI Psychosis'

May 28

▸ Mitchell Hashimoto — co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform — says he believes entire companies are now operating under 'AI psychosis,' maki...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Private Equity Owns the Pipes Now — And Your On-Call Rotation

May 28

▸ Private equity firms now control swaths of US emergency services, healthcare, housing, and increasingly the data centers and managed service providers...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Career / Industry clear_take

Your push notifications now answer to Apple and Google's ML, not your code

May 28

▸ Apple's Notification Summaries, Focus modes, and Priority Notifications now sit between your push payload and the lock screen — and they're making edi...

Frontend / UI Backend / APIs explainer

Valve hikes Steam Deck prices up to $200 — tariffs hit handheld PCs

May 28

▸ Valve raised Steam Deck prices across every SKU, with the 1TB OLED jumping from $649 to $849 — a $200 bump.

Hardware / Chips Politics / Regulation clear_take

The point of AI coding isn't speed — it's writing code you'd actually merge

May 27

▸ Nolan Lawson argues AI-assisted coding should make you slower and more deliberate, not faster — the speedup is a trap.

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Flipper One is stuck in customs hell — and the team is asking for help

May 27

▸ Flipper Devices says Flipper One — the Linux-based successor to the Flipper Zero — is built and ready, but export and import licensing has stalled shi...

Politics / Regulation Hardware / Chips clear_take

Everything in C is undefined behavior — and the compiler knows it

May 27

▸ A new post by Thomas Habets argues that effectively any non-trivial C program triggers undefined behavior somewhere, and the standard gives compilers ...

Open Source Security / Privacy clear_take

Intuit fires 3,000 to fund AI — the new severance-as-capex playbook

May 27

▸ Intuit is cutting roughly 1,800 underperformers and another 1,200+ in other roles to redirect headcount budget toward AI engineering and infrastructur...

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

Colorado blinks: SB051 age-gate now exempts open source maintainers

May 27

▸ Colorado amended SB051 to exclude open source projects from its age-verification mandate after maintainer backlash.

Politics / Regulation Open Source clear_take

Your M4 Max Burns More Money on LLMs Than OpenRouter Does

May 27

▸ A detailed energy analysis shows that running local LLMs on Apple Silicon can cost more per token in electricity than paying OpenRouter's API prices.

Hardware / Chips AI / ML clear_take

arXiv Will Ban You for a Year If Your Citations Are Hallucinated

May 27

▸ arXiv has announced a policy imposing a 1-year submission ban on authors who submit papers containing hallucinated or fabricated references.

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Amazon Staff Are Inventing Fake Tasks to Hit AI Usage Quotas

May 27

▸ Amazon employees report being pressured to increase their usage of internal AI tools, leading many to fabricate busywork just to hit metrics.

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Fisker Died. Its Owners Open-Sourced the Car.

May 27

▸ After Fisker's 2024 bankruptcy left ~10,000 Ocean EV owners stranded without OTA updates or service, a community of owner-developers reverse-engineere...

Hardware / Chips Open Source Startups / Launches clear_take

The grads booing AI commencement speeches are your next hires

May 27

▸ Multiple 2025 commencement speakers got booed off-script for AI-cheerleading riffs, with one telling students to 'deal with it.'

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

OpenAI's model just killed a discrete geometry conjecture

May 26

▸ An OpenAI reasoning model produced a counterexample that disproves a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, with the proof verified by mathema...

Open Source AI / ML explainer
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