2026-05-05
Which Five GitHub Patterns Show Up Before a Startup Fundraise?
We have spent six months tracking GitHub engineering activity across thousands of startup organizations. The goal: figure out which public engineering patterns reliably precede private-market fundraising events.
OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year
If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math An executive for ChatGPT maker OpenAI said in court testimony on Tuesday that the AI model developer expects...
OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year
If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math
★ Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice
You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept...
This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every...
This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every single show he did during his USB002 tour (except Mexico City) — it’s four and a half days long....
What if LLMs are mostly crystallized intelligence?
SummaryLLMs are better at developing crystallized intelligence than fluid intelligence. That is: LLM training is good at building crystallized intelligence by learning patterns from training data, and this is sufficient...
Decision theory doesn’t prove that useful strong AIs will doom us all
Bottom-line up frontTraining for optimal behavior doesn't inevitably lead to act-utilitarian world optimizers ("WorldSUM agents"). People will prefer to deploy agents with more virtue-ethicsy / deontological approaches, for 2-3 reasons:...
Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being
Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the world's broken fragments into a harmonious whole.
US to Deploy AI Systems on Classified Networks - China Focuses on Own Domestic AI Stack
The Pentagon is integrating frontier AI from major US firms into classified networks, while China operationalizes its domestic AI stack, highlighting a global shift towards operational AI capability.
D&D sci-fi book trilogy Neon Odyssey raises $3.7 million in hours on Kickstarter
Avantris Entertainment's latest Dungeons & Dragons Kickstarter smashed through its goal, crashed the platform, and seems poised to break records.
Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity
"Because it is possible to create -- creating one's self, willing to be one's self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities -- one has anxiety. One...
Xbox CEO cancels console AI chatbot Copilot on consoles
Asha Sharma confirms that Xbox is ending development for Copilot on Xbox as the brand continues to restructure ahead of Project Helix.
Microsoft ends Copilot AI on Xbox to help 'get the business back on track,' as new CEO simultaneously welcomes AI executives into the fold
Asha Sharma has appointed a number of her former fellows from Microsoft's CoreAI division to leadership positions at Xbox.
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them A LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could...
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them
Psychopathy: The Mechanics
How empathy fails: a process model.This is the fifth article in a series on understanding psychopathy. Previous articles covered the framework, biology, environment, and psychological structure. This article explores the...
No, China hasn't made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it's made it much more expensive for companies to do so
Maybe communism has something going for it.
Fei Design Mode
Directly edit and tweak UI pixels live with AI agents Discussion | Link
Dojin (1980) – Reconstructing a Lost Link Between Early Stealth and Horror
Some news about some fascinating work around a very early and largely lost Japanese home computer game called Dojin from 1980. Sitting between Manbiki Shounen (1979) and Nostromo (1981), Dojin...
Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch
High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage Astera Labs unveiled an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for building rack-scale AI systems on Tuesday, claiming it will work with nearly any accelerator.…
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