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Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has a pointed diagnosis for the tech industry: its most powerful leaders are bad readers. Not bad engineers, not bad fundraisers — bad readers. In her upcoming book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, Lepore argues that Silicon Valley'
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A hedge fund that just sold half its portfolio is doubling down on chips. That's the headline, but the real story is what it signals about where serious AI money is flowing — and why developers and founders across Asia should be paying close attention. The embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness
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Airbnb just confirmed what a lot of engineering leaders have been quietly saying for months: AI isn't just a product feature — it's changing how fast product features get built. The company revealed that AI is helping it ship features faster while simultaneously testing a new AI-powered search exper
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Amazon is building a data center in Pecos County, Texas, with an on-site power plant permitted to release 33 million tons of CO₂ per year — potentially making it the single largest source of climate pollution in the United States. The planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate signa
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A frontier AI model getting too capable to ship safely — that's not a sci-fi plot anymore. OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns after internal evaluations revealed the model had crossed what the company calls a "critical cybersecurity threshold." For developers and fo
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A donut-shaped speaker with moving parts, built from premium metal, designed by the man who gave us the iPhone — and priced somewhere between $300 and $400. That's the picture emerging around OpenAI's first hardware device, and it's already raising more questions than it answers. OpenAI's new AI sma
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OpenAI just pulled a significant lever. Starting this week, ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users — removing one of the most friction-heavy barriers that kept casual users from going deeper with the platform. For developers and founders across Asia who've been building on or around ChatG
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Serial entrepreneurs rarely get to write second acts inside the companies they helped shape — but Elias Torres just did. Klaviyo's acquisition of Agency, Torres' three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup, is one of the more poetic deals in recent memory: a founder who helped define conversa
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Six features built simultaneously, zero collisions. That's the benchmark Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg used to introduce Muse Code — a terminal-based AI coding agent that just entered public beta and is already drawing comparisons to OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code. Meta launches Muse Code,
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A year ago, the gap between closed frontier models and their open-weight counterparts felt insurmountable. Today, that gap is closing faster than most researchers predicted — and open-weight AI models are catching up to the front of the pack on benchmark after benchmark. But as capability parity app
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353,000 developers signed up to learn how to build production-grade AI agents using nothing but natural language. Not a university curriculum. Not a paid bootcamp. A free, five-day intensive that moved faster than most semester-long courses — and the demand for it tells you everything about where so
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Palantir just posted $1 billion in quarterly profit — and its CEO used the shareholder letter to call out AI frontier labs as the new capitalist villains of our era. After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls the very industry fueling his company's growth "Marxist," accusing large language m