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This Latent Space article discusses emerging AI infrastructure companies valued at $1 billion or more (decacorns), with a focus on Fireworks AI and the broader landscape of companies building foundati
A manager describes shifting their leadership approach by providing agents (team members) with decision-making criteria rather than directly answering their questions, enabling them to develop problem
latent space pod is still very underrated, especially on the applied side of things glad that they have kept it very high signal one of the few pods i listen to while working out and I always find mys
PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE
Reachy Mini, a robotic system, can now operate with fully local processing capabilities, enabling on-device inference without requiring cloud connectivity. This advancement allows the robot to run AI
Perplexity published a blog article detailing methods to improve the CPU performance of Unigram tokenizers, addressing computational efficiency in natural language processing. The article explores opt
Vercel announced a redesign of its Deployments List interface to improve visibility and management of project deployments. The update likely enhances the user interface for viewing deployment history,
Replit has been named to @Redpoint's 2026 InfraRed 100. A list of the companies building what AI runs on. Grateful to be in it, alongside alumni like Stripe, Snowflake, and HashiCorp. To every builder
Delta Weight Sync (DWS) is a technique for efficiently distributing and synchronizing large language models with trillions of parameters across distributed systems using Hugging Face's TRL (Transforme
The best research labs are building what comes after static models. Congrats to @trajectorylabs on the launch! Excited to have them training on the AI Native Cloud as they push the frontier on Continu
We're hosting an event on June 16th in San Francisco. Compile is a one-day event that brings together engineers, researchers, designers, and builders of all kinds to discuss the future of software. ht
btw this will be the 3 year anniversary of the Rise of the AI Engineer blogpost. the industry keeps growing and growing, kinda scary to realize i may never top it. AIE EU, AIE MIA and AIE SG reached 8
Firecrawl, a web scraping and data extraction tool, has been integrated into the Vercel Marketplace, enabling developers to easily incorporate its capabilities into their Vercel-hosted projects. This
Fireworks is coming to Tech Week, and we're doing it across multiple cities. Boston is up first. We're co-hosting a Founder Skybar Social with @fin_ai and @TrustVanta. Follow along via #BOSTechWeek In
This post discusses the importance of data connectors for AI systems, emphasizing that integrating access to common productivity tools like Gmail and Google Calendar is often underestimated in terms o
Hackathon 🤝 Music Industry. Introducing the Musicathon by @Musixmatch Pro 💻 Built with support from partners including Replit, @ElevenLabs, @SongstatsApp, @ai_lalal, and @Cyanite_ai. 📆 June 15–21 📍 Fu
This post discusses how fundamental data structures in early Unix—specifically three key structs from John Lions' Unix source code commentary—served as the conceptual foundation for the evolution of p
- image or video editing? write scripts - finances, tax work, etc? put in PDFs, write scripts, output HTML - medical advice? put in PDFs + data, output HTML - filling out paperwork? write scripts - cr
Introducing Screendrop - a screenshot tool for everyone Opensource Host your own cloud with R2 + a tiny little hono worker Native Screenshot capture and editor Video recorder, editor and compressor Th
last 4 days to submit talks: https://ai.engineer/cfp this is our first year featuring PREPRINT poster sessions for research papers as well - as @bclavie pointed out we need a separate process for this
Vercel has extended its microfrontends routing capabilities to now support vc alias and branch domains, expanding routing functionality beyond the primary domain. This enhancement allows developers to
new in-depth blog post time: Inside the Transformer: The Life of a Token a deep dive into a modern dense transformer, i cover YaRN (why does pairwise coordinate rotation induce positional information?
PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE
... plus a bonus section of transcript from the Oxide and Friends 2026 predictions episode in January where, bizarrely, we predicted that something like this would happen - listen here: https://oxide-
I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ev
A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize somethin
Vercel has announced that Sandbox persistence is now generally available (GA), a feature that allows developers to maintain state and data across sandbox environments. This capability enables more per
The pressure Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported. The rate of incomi
Vercel's domain management service has added new filtering and sorting capabilities, allowing users to sort domains by price and filter results based on availability. These features enhance the domain
> … [W]e keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that funct
When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. https://simonwillis
California Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, in San Mateo County, CA, USWe took our new folding kayak out in the harbor and saw sea lions and harbor seals chilling on the d
Car, fashion, house: all contemporaries. Architecture was the vanguard of modernism, in part because the materials to instantiate the vision were the most advanced in that field. It always blows my mi
Simon Willison discusses whether coding agents should automatically generate tests alongside the code they produce, addressing a key quality assurance consideration in AI-assisted development. This li
Fun new feature in Datasette 1.0a30 - a 'jump to' menu, also available by the '/' keyboard shortcut, which lets you type to jump to a database, table or canned query. It offers a hook so plugins can e
Globally renowned digital artist behind the iconic Windows 10 wallpaper seen by billions, @gmunk’s psychedelic, atmospheric work spans installations, music videos, title sequences, and immersive film.
Simon Willison reflects on the disconcerting experience of unknowingly reading AI-written emails presented as human-authored, comparing it to deliberate deception. The post raises concerns about authe
Datasette, an open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, released a blog post detailing a new jump menu feature for 2026. The jump menu likely provides improved navigation and quick access to
Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's
Release: datasette 1.0a30 The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable 'Jump to...' menu, described in detail in The extensible 'Jump to' menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on the Datasette blog. You
Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating the fixture database ta
The post references a cost-saving prompt that users can employ, likely in an AI system, to receive money-saving advice or optimization suggestions. This appears to be a tip about leveraging specific p
my main takeaway from the Bun rewrite is that legacy codebases will be incredibly valuable as a source for 'distilling' code into new forms every game should be crossplatform, all legacy software shou
The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clan
this is me cleaning up some leftover services for my old startup @OMMultiverse we have a huge legacy codebase and a community that still uses it but I haven't had any time to actually look into cost s
co-sign. a very handy mental framework for what kinds of learning transformers do well today, and why it runs into limitations. when @ankit2119 and i wrote about the need for adversarial world models
On the <dl> I learned a few new-to-me things about the <dl> element from this article by Ben Meyer: A <dt> can be followed by multiple <dd> You can optionally group the <dt> and <dd> elements in a <di
Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Her, Being John Malkovich, and iconic music videos for Beastie Boys and Björk, Spike Jonze is a boundary dissolving storyteller making machines feel human and humans fee
This article discusses three AI infrastructure startups—Exa, Modal, and TurboPuffer—that have recently achieved unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more). The piece likely covers their funding rou
BREAKING: @eliasxreyes just hit #1 on Unicorne's fastest-growing startups leaderboard with Dial Moments. +343% growth, backed by verified revenue data from TrustMRR (@marclou). Built with @Replit over
Bumblebee started as an internal tool. Making Perplexity products more secure for users starts with protecting the developer systems we use to build them. Read the full blog: https://www.perplexity.ai
This post likely discusses the `--dangerously-skip-git` flag or parameter, probably in the context of a framework or tool (possibly Remix or similar Swyx-related projects), explaining why this dangero
FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group we
Simon Willison shared an article from his blog dated September 2, 2024, discussing Facebook's relationship with CMG (likely a media or publishing organization). The post appears to examine a significa
Kakuna is a codebase hardening suite designed to improve code security and robustness, likely offering tools or frameworks for vulnerability detection, code quality enforcement, and defensive programm
I was VERY suspicious of this 'active listening' story when it first started circulating. Turns out it was a scam, they weren't targeting ads by listening through microphones at all FTC to require Cox
Karaokebench (TM @swyx) is insanely fun and gpt advanced voice does hilarious things beyond singing - which makes it actually an awesome bench. So much randomness. Also, everyone should watch @swyx's
Last month we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative AI cybersecurity initiative. Since then, we and our partners have found more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in
lol ok you can pause and adjust mid goal now https://x.com/openaidevs/status/2057530209470210453?s=46 🥅 /goal has graduated from an experiment—for tasks big and small, Codex gets your work done. Use g
This post from Swyx likely discusses emerging AI infrastructure companies that have recently achieved unicorn status (valued at $1B+), covering new players disrupting the AI stack beyond major cloud p