From Ben Thompson at Stratechery. Since payments weren’t embedded in the original web, advertising has come to be the dominant business model on the internet. AI agents threaten to disrupt that. Maybe micropayments finally could have a role to play? […]
“Google’s doubling-down on what it calls “a world model” – an AI it aims to imbue with a deep understanding of real-world dynamics – and with it a vision for a universal assistant – one powered by Google, and not […]
“With 41 years of programming behind him, Kevin has lived through nearly every big shift in modern software development. Here’s his clear-eyed take on what’s changing with AI, and how we can navigate what’s next…” ~ learn more
Matt Levine covers a new startup offering that allows savers to leverage their retirement accounts 4:1. “There are no margin calls or mark-to-market triggers. If the market falls below a certain level, you aren’t forced to liquidate. The financing is […]
“GPT-4.1 is trained to follow instructions more closely and more literally than its predecessors, which tended to more liberally infer intent from user and system prompts. This also means, however, that GPT-4.1 is highly steerable and responsive to well-specified prompts […]
Ashlee Vance interviews Guillaume Verdon (aka ‘Beff Jezos’). “Extropic has shown early success with “thermodynamic computing.” It’s a form of computing that Verdon says harnesses the underlying properties of nature and probabilities in far better ways than traditional computers and […]
A recent interview covering, “Llama 4, benchmark gaming, open vs source, Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI” and more. ~ learn more
“In a head-to-head Geoguessr match, OpenAI’s o3 model out-scored me—a Master I–ranked human—23,179 to 22,054, correctly identifying all five countries and twice landing within a few hundred metres. Even when I embedded fake GPS coordinates in the image EXIF, the […]
An open letter to “third-party suppliers” from their Chief Information Security Officer. “The modern ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) delivery model is quietly enabling cyber attackers and – as its adoption grows – is creating a substantial vulnerability that is […]
This is billed as an “All-in-One Super Agent, using various tools automatically to serve your everyday tasks.” Here’s a replay of it making a 1-minute South Park episode based on last week’s top news stories. ~ learn more