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REDDIT'S CEO SAYS R/POPULAR ‘SUCKS,' AND IT'S GOING AWAY

Reddit is also limiting how many popular communities one person can moderate and pushing more personalized feeds.

THE WAR ON “ANEMIC” CODE

Anemic code refers to thin wrappers that explain nothing and add needless indirection.

TESLA OPTIMUS SHOWS OFF ITS NEWEST CAPABILITY AS PROGRESS ACCELERATES

Elon Musk says that Optimus will be able to relieve humans of work entirely within the next 20 years.

STREAMLINING MY USER-LEVEL CLAUDE.MD

This post provides a CLAUDE.md file that contains guidelines that Claude should abide by while using its own planning and decision-making tools.

ANDY KONWINSKI WENT FROM JEHOVAH'S WITNESS OUTCAST TO AI EVANGELIST

Andy Konwinski co-founded Databricks and Perplexity, and now he wants to solve 'species-level' problems.

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OPENAI DECLARES ‘CODE RED' AS GOOGLE THREATENS AI LEAD

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a 'code red' effort to improve the quality of ChatGPT. Other products will be delayed as a result. OpenAI is facing immense pressure from competitors, who have narrowed the gap in the AI race. Google Gemini last month surpassed OpenAI's models in industry benchmark tests. OpenAI is also facing pressure from Anthropic, which is becoming popular among business customers.

ANTHROPIC REPORTEDLY PREPARING FOR ONE OF THE LARGEST IPOS EVER IN RACE WITH OPENAI

Anthropic is in early talks to launch an IPO next year. It has engaged a law firm that previously worked on high-profile tech IPOs such as Google, LinkedIn, and Lyft. The company has also discussed a potential IPO with major investment banks, but the discussions are in an informal preliminary stage. The potential listing will test investors' appetite for loss-making AI startups amid growing fears of an AI bubble.

HOW BLUE ORIGIN PLANS TO BEAT SPACEX TO THE MOON

Blue Origin sees the Moon as an opportunity to gain an edge over SpaceX. It is currently working on a bigger, more powerful version of its New Glenn rocket. The formerly slow-moving company is now transitioning into a production organization. It has planned several orbital missions, including an early 2026 cargo flight to the Moon.

WAYMO'S SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE SUDDENLY BEHAVING LIKE NEW YORK CABBIES

Waymo has been trying to make its cars more confidently assertive. The move is necessary to scale up in some cities because of how busy they are. Passive vehicles can be disruptive. The vehicles are now programmed to make common-sense decisions, which can involve trade-offs.

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AWS RE:INVENT 2025: LIVE UPDATES ON NEW AI INNOVATIONS AND MORE

AWS re:Invent 2025 will run throughout this week. The cloud service company has already unveiled groundbreaking innovations such as frontier agents that can run autonomously for days, an expansion of the Amazon Nova model family, the availability of Trainium UltraServers, and the launch of AWS AI Factories. More announcements are expected throughout the week. This page contains live updates from the event.

BUILD ML AND DATA PIPELINES COLLABORATIVELY

Tangle is a platform-agnostic experimentation platform with a powerful drag-and-drop editor. It allows developers to create complex ML workflows with a powerful visual editor. Users can clone, edit, and run any pipeline they see fit. Tangle uses content-based caching to save time and compute costs.

WHY LOCAL TECH SCENES HAVE CHANGED

AI has changed the relationship between local tech scenes and San Francisco. The opportunity cost of being anywhere other than San Francisco is now at an all-time high. However, it is also much easier for players who want to stay local to start a one-person business and grow it themselves. AI will enable local tech scenes to produce promising startups and select for promising talent in very different ways than they used to.

THE JUNIOR HIRING CRISIS

AI is accelerating the erosion of the traditional apprenticeship model in tech. This puts the 10- to 20-year talent pipeline at risk. Students and early-career professionals need to start building relational intelligence now. Relationship skills have always been a differentiator, but now they're a necessity.

BIG TECH'S ‘SPEND LITTLE, EARN LOTS' FORMULA IS THREATENED BY AI

Investors are giving tech giants the benefit of the doubt on their AI plans despite the uncertainty of future payoffs.

GOOGLE SEARCH ADDING SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM AI OVERVIEWS TO AI MODE

Google is testing a new design on mobile that brings users into AI Mode when they tap an AI Overview's 'Show more' button.

‘REVERSE MATHEMATICS' ILLUMINATES WHY HARD PROBLEMS ARE HARD

Mathematicians have used reverse mathematics to prove that many distinct theorems in complexity theory are actually exactly equivalent.

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VANGUARD WILL NOW ALLOW CRYPTO ETFS ON ITS PLATFORM

Vanguard will allow ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold select cryptocurrencies starting on Tuesday.

ANOTHER OPEN SOURCE PROJECT DIES OF NEGLECT, LEAVING THOUSANDS SCRAMBLING

Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller in March.

ANDROID JUST ENTERED A NEW ERA OF FREQUENT UPDATES WITH THE LATEST ANDROID 16 RELEASE

Starting with Android 16, Google will deliver multiple Android releases throughout the year containing new system features and developer APIs.

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APPLE TO REVAMP AI TEAM AFTER ANNOUNCING TOP EXECUTIVE'S DEPARTURE

Apple's senior vice president in charge of AI strategy has stepped down. His duties will be split among other senior vice presidents responsible for software engineering, services, and operations. Amar Subramanya, who was involved with developing Google's Gemini chatbot, will join Apple as vice president of AI. The reorganization signals a new era for Apple's AI work, which has so far failed to keep up with the industry.

DEEPSEEK DEBUTS NEW AI MODELS TO RIVAL GOOGLE AND OPENAI

DeepSeek has unveiled two new models. The startup claims DeepSeek-V3.2 matches the performance of OpenAI's GPT-5 across multiple reasoning benchmarks. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is designed for mathematical computations and matches the performance of Google's Gemini-3 Pro. It also performed at gold medal levels on the International Math Olympiad.

SAMSUNG REVEALS GALAXY Z TRIFOLD, CONFIRMS US LAUNCH IN EARLY 2026

The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is set to launch in the US early next year. Its inner display measures 10 inches across. The phone's specs are overall pretty similar to the Galaxy Z Fold 7, though the battery is quite a bit bigger at 5,600 mAh. The device will come only in 'Crafted Black'. It only measures 3.9mm at its thinnest unfolded point. When folded up, the device measures 12.9mm thick, which is markedly thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 5, which was only released two years ago.

NEURALINK'S FIRST PATIENT COULD RECEIVE AN UPGRADE

Neuralink is considering an upgrade for its first human patient. Since receiving the implant, the patient has been able to play games, attend classes, and work. He is currently studying neuroscience and maintaining good grades, something that would be impossible without Neuralink. An upgrade would allow him to perform even more sophisticated tasks using only his mind.

PUNYCODE: MY NEW FAVORITE ALGORITHM

Punycode is a special encoding used to convert Unicode characters to ASCII. It's deceptively simple on the surface, but there's real sophistication in how it manages the problems inherent in encoding arbitrary Unicode within DNS' ASCII-only infrastructure. The algorithm uses adaptive bias adjustment, variable-length encoding, and delta compression to achieve extremely dense results. This article looks at how to encode arbitrary Unicode within DNS's ASCII-only infrastructure. It provides a step-through visualizer at the end that lets readers watch the algorithm encode domains from various scripts.

TREAT TEST CODE LIKE PRODUCTION CODE

The same coding standards applied to production code should also be applied to test code. Test code needs to be readable, well-factored, and reviewed, just like production code. Good code makes it easier for people working on the code to read, understand, and update. Applying coding standards and design principles to test code makes maintainability easier.

COLLEGE STUDENTS FLOCK TO A NEW MAJOR: AI

Interest in understanding, using, and learning how to build AI technologies is soaring. Schools are racing to meet rising student and industry demand. Dozens of universities and colleges in the US have announced new AI departments, majors, minors, courses, interdisciplinary concentrations, and other programs. Students hope that the AI branding will open up more job opportunities.

INSTAGRAM MANDATES TOTAL RETURN TO OFFICE FOR EMPLOYEES IN 2026

Instagram employees will be required to return to the office beginning February 2. Employees will still be able to work remotely when needed, but they have been asked to use their best judgment on when to take advantage of that flexibility. Other planned changes intended to make Instagram more nimble and creative next year include the scaling back of recurring meetings and a faster process for unblocking and decision-making. While executives insist that in-person work has important benefits, employees often disagree.

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AWS ANNOUNCES PREVIEW OF AWS INTERCONNECT - MULTICLOUD

AWS Interconnect - multicloud provides simple, resilient, and high-speed private connections to other cloud service providers.

OPENAI TAKES STAKE IN THRIVE HOLDINGS, A BUYER OF SERVICES FIRMS

Thrive Holdings was created to buy up and consolidate providers like accounting firms.

SHOPIFY BREAKS DOWN ON BUSY CYBER MONDAY

Shopify experienced an outage on Cyber Monday that interrupted operations for some merchants.

GOOGLE UNKILLS JPEG XL?

The Chromium team has reversed the Obsolete tag for JPEG XL as it has decided to support the format in Blink, the engine behind Chrome.

GOOGLE, NVIDIA, AND OPENAI

The heroes of the AI story over the last three years have been OpenAI and Nvidia, but Google is now striking back.

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