▸ Simon Willison argues Anthropic and OpenAI have stopped chasing 'general AI assistant' and locked in on coding as the killer app.
▸ 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.
▸ 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.
▸ Google's AI Mode answers queries directly with synthesized output, stripping the click-through that funded the open web for two decades.
▸ Bun has merged a major PR rewriting core runtime components from Zig to Rust, marking a decisive language shift for the project.
▸ Mitchell Hashimoto — co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform — says he believes entire companies are now operating under 'AI psychosis,' maki...
▸ Private equity firms now control swaths of US emergency services, healthcare, housing, and increasingly the data centers and managed service providers...
▸ Apple's Notification Summaries, Focus modes, and Priority Notifications now sit between your push payload and the lock screen — and they're making edi...
▸ Valve raised Steam Deck prices across every SKU, with the 1TB OLED jumping from $649 to $849 — a $200 bump.
▸ Nolan Lawson argues AI-assisted coding should make you slower and more deliberate, not faster — the speedup is a trap.
▸ 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...
▸ A new post by Thomas Habets argues that effectively any non-trivial C program triggers undefined behavior somewhere, and the standard gives compilers ...
▸ Intuit is cutting roughly 1,800 underperformers and another 1,200+ in other roles to redirect headcount budget toward AI engineering and infrastructur...
▸ Colorado amended SB051 to exclude open source projects from its age-verification mandate after maintainer backlash.
▸ 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.
▸ arXiv has announced a policy imposing a 1-year submission ban on authors who submit papers containing hallucinated or fabricated references.
▸ Amazon employees report being pressured to increase their usage of internal AI tools, leading many to fabricate busywork just to hit metrics.
▸ After Fisker's 2024 bankruptcy left ~10,000 Ocean EV owners stranded without OTA updates or service, a community of owner-developers reverse-engineere...
▸ Multiple 2025 commencement speakers got booed off-script for AI-cheerleading riffs, with one telling students to 'deal with it.'
▸ An OpenAI reasoning model produced a counterexample that disproves a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, with the proof verified by mathema...