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In today's hyper-connected market, an enterprise's most valuable asset — mission-critical data — often remains trapped in legacy silos. For years, leadership teams have navigated a data pipeline dilem

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called 'interaction models.' The idea behind interaction models, according t

Learning on the Shop floor Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack: River does not respond to direct messages. She politely

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors — Fewer

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would a

Release: datasette-referrer-policy 0.1 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is that the C

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram — Meta Plat

Toyota's Woven City is a $10 billion 'living laboratory' where the company tests futuristic mobility technologies with real residents , located at a former factory site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefec

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue — John Wall has spen

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~2.5B with 2M+ paying users and 300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists — The music AI

We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire — The finer details o

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as 4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about 40B — Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $4 billion in its initial pub

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised 6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; 4.5B comes from limited partners — Peter T

Meta is planning to pump billions more into AI investments this year, despite noting that millions of users have seemingly started to abandon its platforms. In an earning call on Wednesday, Meta repor

It's a common misconception that we can't tell who is using LLM and who is not. I'm sure we didn't catch 100% of LLM-assisted PRs over the past few months, but the kind of mistakes humans make are fun

Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. Eng

Generative models are often deployed to make decisions on behalf of users, such as vision-language models (VLMs) identifying which person in a room is a doctor to help visually impaired individuals. Y

Organizations are shifting away from broad digital transformation efforts and instead targeting high-impact bottlenecks where AI and automation can deliver immediate results. These targeted changes ar

Bloomberg: Sources: China suspends issuing new Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after over 100 of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis disrupted traffic in Wuhan last month — China has suspended issuing ne

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced that more than 50 Google-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are generally available or in preview, with more on the way. Why it matters: To move beyond

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that 8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while 20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M — For three y

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we're lik

Bloomberg: Sources: Polymarket has discussed lifting the prohibition on US-based customers with the CFTC, as it seeks to bring its main exchange back to the US — Polymarket is taking steps to try to b

Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more

microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 b

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more — Microsoft

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices I just encountered this feature via a 'try this out now' prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked! This is Google's imp

Recent research found that participants exposed to infrasound reported increased irritation, unease, and elevated stress levels regardless of other conditions. While infrasound appears to be one contr

Google Cloud Next ‘26 took place this week in Las Vegas, and the energy was incredible as we welcomed over 32,000 leaders, developers, and partners to explore the Agentic Era with us. Across three key

Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. is engaged in discussions with investors over another massive funding round that would more than double its valuation to 25 billion,

I don’t need to tell you that AI is everywhere. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are using AI to help them with notetaking. AI-based tools are trawling through patient rec

Jenna Russell / New York Times: Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Jan

Aroon Deep / The Hindu: Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers — India is now part of a

GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals 27B or 400K+ per worker — Tens of thousan

LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse, which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entirely in the browser, us

To act at the speed of business, AI agents must operate in fast and trusted reasoning loops. They need to “think” by reasoning across both your historical context and your live operational reality. On

In the early days of generative AI, building safe and reliable business tools took massive engineering effort and a high tolerance for trial and error. We helped solve that with Vertex AI, our trusted

The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastruct

Succeeding in the agentic era requires a transformation in your data strategy: moving from human-scale to agent-first workloads, evolving from reactive intelligence to proactive action, and shifting f

From vibe-coded and large-scale apps to AI models and agents, Cloud Run delivers on-demand compute with zero overhead and pay-per-use pricing for all of your workloads. Last year, the number of extern

Yueqi Yang / The Information: Sources: Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the US, offering perpetual futures, putting it in competition with exchanges like Coinbase — Prediction market Kalshi pla

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable —

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models — Google is in talk

Agentic Engineering Patterns > Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a lot of work done in a single shot. First, some background. I send out a free Substack newsletter around once a