"The median monthly owner costs for U.S. homeowners with a mortgage increased to $2,035 in 2024 from $1,960 (inflation-adjusted) in 2023." www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

getting a lot of replies in the vein of "is this real" so will add a few details that didn't make it into the story: - Musk said he is having "Microhard" painted on the roof of Colossus 2, his new data center in Memphis - xAI execs said the next Grok model after Grok 4 would be Grok 420...

Nvidia has hired talent from Enfabrica, backed by Arm and Cisco, in the latest non-acquisition. from me and @lorak.bsky.social and @kif.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/n...

new: Microsoft says it has committed $4 billion for a second data center here in Wisconsin. it's on top of recent commitments in the UK and with Amsterdam's Nebius Group. i'm here in Wisconsin today to poke around www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/m...

so much for the cut being baked in

cheeky Apple ad

Key chart www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

NEW FROM ME: I wrote about the many, many Tesla drivers who complain that their FSD software fails them at rail crossings. There are dozens of complaints online from drivers, including many videos. Here's our investigation: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

othered again

professor i know always starts his messages to ChatGPT by saying "excuse me"

"The fraction of long-term unemployed people with a college degree has grown from about one-fifth a decade ago to about one-third today, according to government data compiled by Matthew Notowidigdo and Jingzhou Huang of the University of Chicago." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

"Blind workers report persistent problems with Office 365 (including PowerPoint) and Google Workspace. ... Google didn’t respond to requests for a comment." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

in which a New York Times columnist discloses his p(doom) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/t...

I want the exactly how piece of this... www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/m...

"While it's challenging enough that a great deal of news is now paywalled, a more serious challenge is that with the rise of LLMs, many websites now simply block all bots except for a small number of search engines."

overheard in SF: guy: why do you even need battery life that lasts longer than a day? girl: so you can use Find My to find your phone, duh!

1997: Oracle starts directly running the OpenWorld user conference 2022: Oracle rebrands OpenWorld to CloudWorld 2025: Oracle rebrands CloudWorld to AI World

when Apple says it's the most durable iPhone yet you know people are going to be absolutely climbing up 12-foot ladders and slamming these things down onto concrete to do their own research

"The equilibrium now seems to be falling apart, and a full-on recession looks likely." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Microsoft now markets Visual Studio Code as "The open source AI code editor"

"Their founder, Mike, even offered to help us out during the SVB banking crisis, without us even asking." -The Browser Company founders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal, referring to Atlassian's co-founder and CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes browsercompany.substack.com/p/your-tuesd...

"On average, the chatbots spread false claims when prompted with questions about controversial news topics 35 percent of the time, almost double the 18 percent rate of a year ago." www.newsguardtech.com/press/newsgu...

"A lot of software companies and others have just thrown their cash flow away to go build data centers, or do I don't even know what with their money." -Marc Benioff, Salesforce earnings call, September 3, 2025

Dylan Field is currently using Figma's earnings call to give a demo to analysts

HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan says at the company's Inbound conference in San Francisco that the city's best Indian restaurant is Copra

the part that stuck

RIP Knoller www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-kn...

Vimeo pushed back the exit date of its CFO by about seven weeks as it continues its executive search. nothing to see here www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot. apple.news/AkivURY-lRtm...

Nvidia says revenue in the July quarter was up 55.6%. fast growth on a healthy base but nothing like the 265% growth in the January 2024 quarter www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/n...

Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

next thing you know, they're bringing back Beanie Babies www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A woman in Manhattan reported to police that an Amazon delivery man, 5'6'', exposed himself to her. Police did a face recognition search, showed her result, arrested the wrong guy, 6'2''. What did the NYPD not do? Call Amazon. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...

"Roughly $15 billion has been spent on California’s High-Speed Rail boondoggle. The $135 billion projected total cost of the project could buy every San Francisco and LA resident nearly 200 roundtrip flights between the cities." railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.do...

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

head of fixed income says bonds are a good idea www.axios.com/2025/08/26/i...

what are the odds that Trump announces a US government stake in Nvidia

"The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that while boomers spend $25 billion per year on alcohol, Gen Z spends only $3.1 billion." www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

"In a companywide email, Ramaswamy said Wednesday that Databricks’ announcement was 'designed to make headlines' and said its private valuation can’t be fairly compared to that of Snowflake, which went public five years ago next month." www.theinformation.com/briefings/sn...

"We found marked declines in the proportion of individuals reading for pleasure daily in the US, with decreases of 3% per year" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

we've confirmed that Meta plans to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services over four years. it's a material step up for the Google Cloud organization. if you assume it's exactly $10 billion and average it evenly you get $417 million in new revenue, which is about 15% of Q2 cloud revenue

enjoyed this

2018: we at Google don't need multiple cameras on a smartphone, we can do same thing in software with AI 2025: the Google Pixel 10 has an advanced triple rear camera

"Microsoft’s strategy outlines how we aim to enable early adoption of quantum-safe capabilities in our products and services by 2029 and fully transition by 2033—two years ahead of most governments’ transition completion timelines" blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Completely devastating piece from Laura Reiley. "Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

interesting how this guy is so confident of this, at age 22

it says here that after she dies, she wants the company's hold music to be classical music because she likes it. not micromanaging or anything