Massive w for Anthropic. Medium term all these companies live or die on recruiting. Whatever the cost turns out to be, you can’t get a bigger recruiting boost than this.

Almost nobody is thinking about this clearly. I haven't seen *any* discourse that understands the difference between total bottom-line cost and marginal cost, either. But my guess would be that's a very important dynamic for every big provider right now!

I've been holding off on upgrading to macOS 26. Finally biting the bullet... how much am I going to regret this?

OpenAI’s biggest product discovery might have been the latent market for dating a hungry ghost in a jar.

Certainly a lot of handwaving, but it's easy to imagine the coding model improvement trend line colliding with the run it on an ASIC trend line and really changing what software is.

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

The really funny thing is, AGI has been precisely defined, by OpenAI and Microsoft. It's just nothing like what you'd expect: "an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits."

@kellen.bsky.social can you explain the decision to leave the filler words in this quote? Is it NYT house style to do that? Because the paper certainly runs a lot of quotes where those are cleaned up. So why not here?

I looked it up and appears this is about 45% of PHB's '25-26 budget. How on earth could that much money go unspent and go unnoticed??

Interesting paper, especially in that the headline results and analysis are pointed in very different directions. Thanks @heyyjudes.bsky.social @alextamkin.bsky.social

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

That’s Blexas, baby

Pretty interesting post. I thought it sounded kind of dangerous, so I looked at the author’s about page and his main hobby is… BASE jumping. Letting an agent buy a car for you is tame by comparison.

Fascinating and very much not conventional wisdom. I genuinely don't know if I think it's right. On one hand, we already have pretty good open models. On the other, the best proprietary models will probably continue to be a year or so ahead, and that might be worth a lot.

oh, no shit??

Yeah, this ain't it

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Letterboxd might just be the best site on the internet

This is bluesky coded as hell. And I'm in it. What the fuck.

1) Incredible reporting, incredible scoop. 2) Somebody had been quietly getting these pics for months and probably burned their ability to keep doing so to bring us this story.

I read this headline and thought, that’ll be @wyden.senate.gov, but I wonder who the other two are. And sure enough!

Yeah, I don't think so. In my own analytics data, last 28 days we saw about 53% iOS 26 and 41% iOS 18.

I'm listening to this and it's pretty acrimonious... text summaries don't do it justice.

Oh come on, man

The old year is dying and the new year struggles to be born: in this interregnum, festive phenomena of the most varied kind come to pass.

Whoaaaaa. Will be really interesting to see what this means for Snow Liquid Glass next year.

call that unshittification

I've seen enough. Congratulations, Mayor-elect Katie Wilson!

Does anyone know if it’s good for DOJ’s case when the judge starts by reading a complete Carl Sandburg poem?

Whether we get NG on the streets of Portland comes down to a Trump appointed judge who didn't say much in this hearing.

lmao www.opb.org/article/2025...

This seems like the crux of Oregon's argument. If events on the ground here in Portland fly as a "rebellion," then the president can federalize any Nat'l Guard at more or less any time.

“War ravaged” Portland earlier today. Less than a mile from the ICE facility you’re seeing pictures of.

Inside you are two wolves

They're saying they dropped per prompt energy use by 33x in the last year. To me that's more important than the current energy usage. The industry is getting better at serving these models efficiently and it's happening fast.

Come on, the Streisand Effect is NOT supposed to be a marketing manual!

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Moving across the point where the sheet goes from glass to opaque in Stocks in b4 Looks ready to me, ship it!

Well I certainly agree that these years were not credible.

I’m really liking the Preview and Games icons in the latest iOS beta

I saw this and started thinking about Neuromancer for the first time in a long time. Some parts translate so easily to 2025 reality.

hell yeah

This rules!! I just want to say, we did this last Nov in Portland and it WORKED. A bunch of acceptable candidates and one dude who really sucks is a scenario where ranked choice can really help.

Strange to feel… hope?

The iOS 26 contact card is really challenging my understanding of how layering is supposed to work in the new design system.

This is so so sad

Yeah, but *which* patterns?

Interesting paper. But I'm surprised to see this in the Time article about it. They clearly state they required gpt-4o in their experimental design section!

No exaggeration to say if this land sells, it's the end of the American West as we know it.