2026-09-18
Context is King: Long Live Context Engineering
Better models require less prompt engineering per task, but they also unlock higher-value results that sophisticated prompting can reach
Why the Next Billion Dollar Longevity Opportunity May Not Be a Product
Longevity has no shortage of products, science, capital or consumer interest. The bottleneck is translation: getting promising science validated, understood by clinicians, implemented responsibly and ultimately to patients.
The Majority of Americans Are Now Terrified of AI
Fears of apocalypse are running high. The post The Majority of Americans Are Now Terrified of AI appeared first on Futurism.
The History of Concrete, a new documentary film by John...
The History of Concrete, a new documentary film by John Wilson, who one review called “the Werner Herzog of the mundane”. This looks great!
What Iran and Ukraine Both Proved: A Middling Power Can Fight Forever and Gain Nothing
Iran and Russia have both demonstrated that a mediocre power can absorb enormous punishment without surrendering, and that doing so buys almost nothing strategically. If limited conventional war is therefore...
Magic: The Gathering Artist Officially Responds to Artist Allegations of
Wizards says Volkan Baga was instructed to reference Liiga Smilshkalne’s Breach the Multiverse in his artwork for a new Jace card.
404 Media x The Intercept Live: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
404 Media and The Intercept talk about how private companies empower government surveillance, and how AI is used in warfare.
My Reflections Towards the Path to Greatness
Recently, I've been contemplating what the best path to achieving greatness really is, especially after seeing people succeed in so many different ways. Greatness is not necessarily the path towards...
Mega Darkula Demo Stalks onto Genesis/Mega Drive
Darkula is an arcade-style platform game that is, according to its developer, Locomalito, in the style of an “arcade game from 1983,” drawing influence from “classic arcade games like Mappy,...
Gatekeepers unbundled
A reflection on gatekeepers, from our households, through Silicon Valley to open source, startup selection, and the rise of AI agents.
Premium: The Hater's Guide To AI Debt (Part 1)
The year is 2026, and you are a hyperscaler CEO. You zip up your Patagonia vest, type UPDATE ME ON CALENDOR TOODAY into ChatGPT, and see that you have a...
This Doctor Runs a $2.3 Billion Health Startup. He Says This Is Why Walmart and IBM Couldn’t Crack Healthcare.
Doctor-CEO Oliver Kharraz explained why healthcare keeps humbling corporate giants.
Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian cleft of our own making...
Lanterns Forced Another HBO Show to Change Its Plot, and It Was for the Best
HBO's Lanterns told Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe it couldn't use the character, so it got the Flash instead
Behind the Blog: Eating the Internet
This week, we discuss just doing it, machines that eat the internet, and an eavesdropping watch.
Brain Control Your Appliance, Sort Of
We aren’t sure we subscribe to [Upside Down Labs] description that their Neuro PlayGround Lite (NPG Lite) actually constitutes brain control in the science fiction sense. However, the package can...
Howseen AI
Track how AI recommends your brand, and get cited Discussion | Link
Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode
Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years
Fina Business
The flexible $20/mo QuickBooks alternative for founders Discussion | Link
Trump’s $24 Billion F-35 Stealth Fighter Sale to Saudi Arabia Won’t Solve the Houthi Problem
Reagan's AWACS package looked inflated in 1981 and nobody explained why. Nine years later, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, American forces flew into Saudi air bases that were already turn-key ready...
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