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Daily Edition · Page 5

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

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SPACEXAI DEBUTS GROK 4.6, OVERTAKING KIMI K3'S PERFORMANCE AND MATCHING GPT-5.6 SOL FOR WORLD'S THIRD BEST ON ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.6, a model focused on long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work. The model surpasses Kimi K3 and ties with GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It posts sizable gains over its predecessor across coding, terminal, knowledge-work, and agent benchmarks. The API starts at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, less than half of what GPT-5.6 Sol costs in standard mode.

venturebeat.com · 15 min

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AI IS REMOVING THE MIDDLE CLASS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster. Bad engineers were always a liability, but there used to be a limit to how fast changes could be implemented. Before, there was a good chance someone would catch their bad decisions before they went too far. Companies can't afford to hire bad engineers anymore. The money will increasingly get funneled towards an increasingly small number of people who can actually be trusted.

blog.florianherrengt.com · 5 min

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WHY TINY JPEGS LOOK DIFFERENT IN CHROME

What looks like a rendering bug is actually a clever JPEG decoding optimization in Chrome. Chrome delegates image decoding and rendering to Skia, which does not always decompress the full image and scale it afterward. It computes the closest fraction with a denominator of 8 and decodes the image at that scale, then scales the image further using a more traditional downsampling algorithm until it reaches the desired size. This is why small images can look thicker on some machines.

guillaumetech.github.io · 4 min

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WHY YOU CAN'T COPY PALANTIR

Palantir is a vertically integrated outcome-based software solution provider. It offers tech consulting and software services with a unique outcome-based model that lets it bypass the traditional trade-offs of both traditional consulting and software companies. It is vertically integrated because it has an extreme elitist attitude towards using its own software and services, unlike the rest of the market, which is much more polyamorous. There's little hope of any company being able to catch up to Palantir as investors allow the company to do R&D over an extremely long and unspecified time horizon.

ethanding.substack.com · 38 min

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