Weekly Best
1.
When did Google get so weird?
(sancho.bearblog.dev)
2.
Gemini 4 Argon
(blog.google)
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Pi 1.0
(earendil.com)
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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
(colo.to)
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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
(github.com)
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Sonnet 5.5
(anthropic.com)
9.
Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
(derekthompson.org)
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America.gov
(america.gov)
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Dots: Always-on agents
(openai.com)
12.
Pirating the Pirates
(mubi.com)
14.
You said no MCP
(earendil.com)
15.
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
(calnewport.com)
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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
(authorsguild.org)
17.
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
(github.com)
18.
Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
(blog.cloudflare.com)
19.
I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
(themomoftheyear.substack.com)
20.
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
(spectrum.ieee.org)
21.
Ember-1
(fireworks.ai)
22.
Coding is not solved
(blog.alexewerlof.com)
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Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
(frogandtoad.ai)
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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
(blog.gitbutler.com)
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Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
(nytimes.com)
29.
Windows 11½
(definitelynotwindows.com)
30.
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
(theguardian.com)