Mike, in his piece, Can we have the day off?: If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week. So can I just take Friday […]
Robert Hart, in his piece This AI Startup Will Clean Your Home for Free to Train Future Robots on The Verge: AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch — because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch — is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, […]
Tom Ley, in his piece There’s No Hiding From The Spurs: Oklahoma City lost 22 combined games in the regular season and playoffs, and eight of those came at the hands of the Spurs. The Thunder are so good that people were practically throwing parades for the Nuggets and Pacers last season just for taking […]
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac: Star City premieres this Friday, May 29 with its first two episodes, followed by weekly releases through July 10. The new series follows the alt-history events of For All Mankind, but from the Soviets’ perspective. And the first reviews indicate it’s a very different kind of show. I didn’t watch For […]
Simon Willison, in his piece, I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit: Companies spending $200+/month/user will get you there a whole lot faster—and as noted above, as a power-user I’m at ~$1,000/month in API costs per vendor already. Coding agents really did change everything. These are tools which burn vastly more tokens, but […]
Jake Orlowitz, in his piece Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia: The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses. The Wikimedia Endowment, a separate fund, sits on $169.4 million in net assets, up $25 million in a single year. […]