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This feed is automated by shares from Louis Gray @louisgray.com from webnerd.ai. It replicates the Web 2.0 excellence of RSS feed reader sharing to social, in a new place.

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webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox

simonwillison.netwebframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandboxResearch: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden headless web view and outputs console.log() to standard output and any exception…

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How Anthropic ships Claude with Claude: Separating the Brain from the Hands

latent.spaceHow Anthropic ships Claude with Claude: Separating the Brain from the HandsWatch the full episode on YouTube As we learned from the Anthropic S-1 filings yesterday, the lab has some of the highest revenue and research efficiency in human history, particularly with -126% loss to 19% GAAP profit turnaround in the last year. The company credits this to their two core loops:…

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The Third Product-Market Fit in AI

tomtunguz.comThe Third Product-Market Fit in AICoding & customer support were the first two product-market fits in AI. Black October, the industry’s term for the deluge of new security vulnerabilities, is the prelude to the third product-market fit in security. Attacks on banks, certificate authorities & core open source libraries have never be…

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Bitcoin miners' move into AI is creating a new market for trading computing power

coindesk.comBitcoin miners' move into AI is creating a new market for trading computing powerLuxor raised $16 million to expand into AI hardware and trading, betting that computing power will become a market where companies can hedge costs and prices.

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Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

techcrunch.comMeta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google WorkspaceRohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

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Anthropic S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

tomtunguz.comAnthropic S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack UpAnthropic filed their S-11 this week, the largest AI listing yet. Founded in 2021 by Dario & Daniela Amodei, the company has grown from a research lab into the second-largest model developer, selling Claude to more than 11,900 customers who spend over $100,000 a year. The comparisons below set the…

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Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say

techcrunch.comMicrosoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports sayThe buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.

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Anthropic officially files for its public debut

techcrunch.comAnthropic officially files for its public debutAnthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

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Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies

seangoedecke.comDon't anthropomorphize big tech companiesBryan Cantrill has a great line from a talk where he cautions against anthropomorphizing1 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. I think it’s also a mistake to treat any tech company like a person. Here’s the full quote: You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorp…

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Webnerd.ai is here -- classic RSS for feed reading, discovery and sharing. (And yes, all LG Stream posts have been through Webnerd)

blog.louisgray.comIntroducing Webnerd.ai: Classic RSS for Today's WebIn the Web 2.0 era, I always started my day in my RSS reader. A mainstay of this blog at its peak was covering the debuts and new features from many different approaches to staying caught up on friends and the news, not just from Google Reader (RIP), but Feedly, Lazyfeed, Flipboard, TweetDeck, Shyf…

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Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

steveblank.comElon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American TechnologyI’ve been in London for the last month and have heard policymakers react to the wake up call Elon Musk just delivered. The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military version of Starlink called Starshield to Ukraine may have been a blip in the news in the US, but it has…

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OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

techcrunch.comOpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

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The internet’s Wuhan moment

exponentialview.coThe internet’s Wuhan momentIt is January 2020 all over again. Something is spreading fast. Most people haven’t noticed, and the people who have are worried.Software, the internet, and cyberspace in general are currently under relentless attack. PHP2Shell was a key plank to fall: PHP runs about 70% of the world’s websites. Bu…

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The iPod, which set Apple on its course, turns 25

sixcolors.comThe iPod, which set Apple on its course, turns 25We drove down the freeway from San Francisco to Cupertino with a pretty good idea of what Apple would be announcing, but with no idea how it would transform Apple forever. “Hint: It’s not a Mac,” read the invitation to an event at the Town Hall conference center on Apple’s campus at Infinite Loop.…

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How do you connect with more humans when AI will do? Should you still bother?

salgar.substack.comHow do you connect with more humans when AI will do? Should you still bother?A piece of advice I’ve given for years to people when they come to Google is to use the Noogler excuse to meet with people and ask what they do. I’ve told interns to go nuts meeting people over the summer and learning about things they might be interested in. I tell teammates whom to reach out when…

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Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares

theverge.comSure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who caresMars not depicted. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to wh…

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Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic)

techmeme.comAnthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic)Anthropic: Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 — Today, we're donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic…

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OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

techcrunch.comOpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPOShould OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever.

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Someone built iPhone Duo’s tent mode for Android foldables, but made it even better

9to5google.comSomeone built iPhone Duo’s tent mode for Android foldables, but made it even betterWell, that didn’t take long. As Apple’s iPhone Duo starts to land in the hands of early customers, copycat apps for the Duo’s most well-known features and apps are already landing on Android foldables – not that that’s a bad thing. more…

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ASUS Googlebook 14 unboxing: a rigid 2-pound laptop that impresses all around

chromeunboxed.comASUS Googlebook 14 unboxing: a rigid 2-pound laptop that impresses all aroundWhile we spent a bit of hands-on time with the ASUS Googlebook 14 back in New York City, actually getting it out of its massive retail box and onto the desk is a different experience entirely. Weighing in right around two pounds, it is easily the lightest device in the entire launch fleet: and one…

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The Story of Anthropic’s Cap Table: VCs Showed Up Late to the Party, Toting All the Cash They Could Wrangle

newcomer.coThe Story of Anthropic’s Cap Table: VCs Showed Up Late to the Party, Toting All the Cash They Could WrangleIf all goes to plan, Dario Amodei and his Anthropic co-founders will ring the NASDAQ bell next month to mark the company’s IPO. Their celebration will no doubt be greeted with the traditional high-fiving and back-patting from venture capitalists.But the story of Anthropic’s rise from a small group…

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Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent

theverge.comAnthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agentAnthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available as a standalone app on iOS and Android and through Cla…

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OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system

theverge.comOpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring systemOpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code - and then lied about it. "The reference didn't conf…

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OpenAI GPT models are coming to Google Antigravity ‘soon,’ Cloud ‘in the coming weeks’

9to5google.comOpenAI GPT models are coming to Google Antigravity ‘soon,’ Cloud ‘in the coming weeks’A deal struck between OpenAI and Google will see OpenAI’s models coming to Google Cloud and even Antigravity. more…

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Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in case related to Cambridge Analytica scandal

techcrunch.comMeta ordered to pay $25 billion in case related to Cambridge Analytica scandalThe payout is related to a recent trial involving the social media giant that revolved around its data privacy practices.

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Facebook tries to grab all news publisher website content for training for free

pivot-to-ai.comFacebook tries to grab all news publisher website content for training for freeFacebook’s getting new terms of service for business users! As of 30 October, if you’re a business, then Facebook can scrape your website and use the content for all sorts of things! The previous version of the terms just said you licensed your content so Meta could serve it in your posts or ads on…

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Tesla and SpaceX are discussing a possible merger, Musk says

theverge.comTesla and SpaceX are discussing a possible merger, Musk saysTesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said during the latter's third quarter earnings call Tuesday. Musk, who serves as CEO of both companies, said the special committees were formed at the request of shareholders and consist of independent director…

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The compute crunch helps SpaceX crush Q3 expectations

cautiousoptimism.newsThe compute crunch helps SpaceX crush Q3 expectationsAll hail the neocloud gods The post The compute crunch helps SpaceX crush Q3 expectations appeared first on Cautious Optimism.

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Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

techcrunch.comGoogle has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developersGoogle has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

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Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

bigtechnology.comSundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and BusinessesAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI.His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowle…

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Foursquare died at the hands of private equity. What happens next?

werd.ioFoursquare died at the hands of private equity. What happens next?Link: Some final words on Foursquare, by Dennis CrowleyI freaking loved Foursquare. It was a wonderful way to explore cities with the help of my friends: in the same way that Upcoming was my best way of figuring out which events I should be going to, Foursquare let me know which restaurants, bars,…

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‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI

404media.co‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AIOver the weekend, it became fashionable to use AI to replace the operating systems on smart TVs with vibe coded or AI reverse-engineered ones to make them less bloated. People have taken proprietary internet-of-things devices that were bricked and abandoned by their creators and used AI to hack the…

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What if They're All Clouds?

tomtunguz.comWhat if They're All Clouds?We all consider Anthropic an AI company. But what if it’s a cloud? Anthropic is growing much faster than the other clouds : 15x last year. GCP’s growth is far behind at 82%. But at current growth rates, Anthropic is closer to GCP’s pace, doubling next year.1 In revenue terms, Anthropic is about 30%…

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How Antigravity Brought My Blog Back from the Dead

blog.louisgray.comHow Antigravity Brought My Blog Back from the DeadI am not an engineer and I didn't major in computer science. There comes a point in understanding and using technology where I have a limit, and even with my years of experience in Silicon Valley, it's not impossible to run into issues that I just can't solve.After a failed attempt a few years ago…

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Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits

pivot-to-ai.comLinux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commitsLinux is the name of a computer operating system kernel and a group of systems built on it, like Ubuntu or Mint. Linux is the basic infrastructure of the Internet. It’s important. A report just in from the Kernel Maintainers Summit on 8 October reveals just how full AI slop the Linux kernel project…

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Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO

simonwillison.netAnthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPOAnthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday. Lots of details in here from "people with knowledge of the matter". Key things I l…

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Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responses

theverge.comGoogle is making inline links more prominent in AI responsesGoogle is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns…

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Price War in the Chip Aisle

tomtunguz.comPrice War in the Chip AisleFive frontier models now sit within five points of each other in terms of intelligence, but their cost per unit differs by 3.8x. Google’s Argon prices at the bottom of the cluster at $1.99 a task1, 74% below the most expensive model, Fable 5.1. It is also 67% below Opus 5.5, 56% below Muse Wonder &…

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The AI race is back on

theverge.comThe AI race is back onMark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect developer conference. | Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed h…

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OpenAI’s ironic credibility problem

understandingai.orgOpenAI’s ironic credibility problemAround the start of October, OpenAI fired three employees from its safety department. The employees said they were given divergent reasons for their dismissal:One was told it had to do with his role coordinating with METR, a third-party research organization that OpenAI had invited to investigate t…

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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

theverge.comOpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference roomAn OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral comm…

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Young people trust AI more than the people in their lives.

werd.ioYoung people trust AI more than the people in their lives.Link: Young People and the Future of Free Expression, by the Knight FoundationWorth paying attention to:“New Knight Foundation-Ipsos research among young adults and high school students points to a generation that strongly values free speech as a democratic principle, but is less confident about ex…

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Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case

techcrunch.comJudge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets caseA federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.

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Google makes it easier to launch your vibe-coded apps

theverge.comGoogle makes it easier to launch your vibe-coded appsThe next time you vibe-code a custom app with Google's AI Studio, you won't have to connect your phone to a computer to install it. On Tuesday, Google announced a new feature in the US that will allow you to launch personal apps directly through the Play Store. Google first launched the ability to…

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Google Antigravity is now built into Gemini app for macOS

9to5google.comGoogle Antigravity is now built into Gemini app for macOSAs part of today’s Gemini 4 Argon rollout, Google is making a big update to the Gemini app for macOS by integrating Antigravity. more…

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YouTube bringing automatic background play to Android Automotive cars

9to5google.comYouTube bringing automatic background play to Android Automotive carsGoogle is launching some app updates for Android Automotive, “Google built-in,” which bring more video apps and increased flexbility for the platform such as allowing YouTube to run in the background while driving. more…

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Gemini app rolling out Gemini 4 Argon to AI Pro and AI Ultra

9to5google.comGemini app rolling out Gemini 4 Argon to AI Pro and AI UltraFollowing the announcement at the end of September, Gemini 4 Argon is starting to roll out to the Gemini app, Google Antigravity, and more. more…

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The new Apple Home Collection includes a video doorbell, smart lock, and more

theverge.comThe new Apple Home Collection includes a video doorbell, smart lock, and moreThe Apple Home Collection includes a door lock, security cameras, thermostats, and home sensors. | Image: Apple Apple has partnered with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric to launch the Apple Home Collection, an assortment of smart home devices meant to be easy to set up and use. The collection…

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Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy

techcrunch.comJust 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcyThe startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.

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Apple announces HomeView smart display

sixcolors.comApple announces HomeView smart displayAs was widely expected, Apple today took the wraps off its “HomePod with a screen”, dubbed the HomeView. The device features a seven-inch Liquid Retina display with multitouch, at 1088-by-1088 resolution and is powered by an A18 chip. It comes in two different styles: a model intended to sit on a t…