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The Anthropic hive mind.

The Anthropic hive mind. “Anthropic is unusually impenetrable as a company. Employees there all know they just need to keep their mouths shut and heads down and they’ll be billionaires and beyond, so they have lots of incentive to do […]

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Automate the entire company.

Automate the entire company. “One of our goals for the year is to automate the entire company. If we all go on vacation at the end of the year, the company should, in many ways, keep running without us.” A […]

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People want AI to do things.

People want AI to do things. “The pattern across all 3,000 skills is clear. People don’t want to talk with AI. They want AI to do things for them.” Someone scraped 3,000+ OpenClaw “skills” and treated it like a revealed-preferences […]

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Sequencing is a commodity.

Sequencing is a commodity. “Sequencing has become a commodity, like a bag of flour or a gallon of gas — everyone likes cheaper commodities.” A San Diego startup called Element claims its new VITARI device can deliver a whole genome […]

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Lab test resellers are go to court.

Lab test resellers are go to court. Function says Superpower ran a “sweeping campaign of deception” by marketing “100+ biomarkers” even though some are “algorithmically derived” rather than directly measured. Two preventative-health rivals, both outsourcing diagnostics to Quest, are now […]

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No humans allowed to review.

No humans allowed to review. “Code must not be reviewed by humans” is part of StrongDM’s koan for their Software Factory, where “specs + scenarios drive agents that write code, run harnesses, and converge without human review.” ~ learn more

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Long tasks finally work.

Long tasks finally work. “One developer supervising five long-task agents isn’t just 5x productivity — it starts to feel like a different kind of work.” The post describes an Emulator Challenge where GLM5 builds a Game Boy Advance emulator in […]

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The world’s first bionic cat.

The world’s first bionic cat. Seems niche, but there must be many baby steps on the way to home robots that aren’t just vacuum cleaners. “It is fully responsive and has sensitive interactions. It can feel your touch, hear your […]