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Automating My Favorite Part of Software Engineering
I don’t usually write essays. Actually, I don’t think I have written many long-form things in my life, except code files. My journey with computers started with Microsoft Word. I was probably around 10 when I first saw WordArt. It was one of the coolest things I had seen. You could create these amazing (at … Read more
Running NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B Without a GPU: Benchmark Results
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B on October 23. The pitch is a small model tuned for agents: it calls tools, follows instructions, and is small enough for laptops, Jetsons and other edge hardware. The model card’s benchmarks are tested on H100s, RTX 5090s and DGX Spark. I wanted to see what happens without any … Read more
How to Get Your First 100 SaaS Users Without an Audience
Short answer: Go to the places where your buyers already are. With no audience, your first users come mostly from direct outreach, communities, launch directories and search content. Expect the first 100 users to come from effort, not from a launch day. Why having no audience is not fatal An audience helps, but it is … Read more
Inside Republika Srpska’s Chinese Tech Deal and Russian Influence Network
The contract came first. Independent oversight was still a thought. By the time Dražen Višnjić publicly explained the technology project, Republika Srpska’s government had already signed an agreement worth BAM 57 million with the Chinese company ELINC. The proposed combination was explicit: Chinese hardware and software, Russian organizational practices, and Israeli training. Asked who would … Read more
Jio shares surge 21% in market debut after blockbuster India IPO
Jio has debuted as India’s second-most valuable listed company, behind its parent, Reliance Industries.
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VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon’s ownership in Anthropic.
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sort of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
Here’s why the iPhone Duo’s hinge could be cracking the screen
Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the middle of the screen above the hinge, with lines appearing … Read more
Guidewire buys Hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash
The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.
From 8VC to Benchmark, here’s what’s hiding in October SEC filings
A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds.
GM is embracing hybrids now
GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now it’s gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.
Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant
The banking giant reminds customers that “you’re responsible for activity” resulting from your AI agents’ access.
How I Use Codex and Wispr Flow to Create Custom 3D Prints
I’ve been dictating designs to Codex with Wispr Flow, then printing the results: holders that fit my speaker, my pegboard and the little meters I want to use. I’d never done CAD modelling before. Now I can describe what I want and get something made to my specification. Roughly three months ago, I didn’t even … Read more
Your Customer Health Score Is Probably Astrology: Here’s How to Test It
Most SaaS companies have a customer health score. Green, yellow, red. A number from 0 to 100, built out of logins, seats, NPS, support tickets, and weights someone picked in a workshop. Very few of those scores have ever been tested. Not “does it look reasonable.” Tested: when the score said an account was red, … Read more
Tesla Made a Car Cling to the Ceiling – Now, Make Flying Useful
A car hanging upside down makes a remarkable photograph. I still cannot think of a journey I need to make that way. That tension is what interests me about Tesla’s latest Roadster reveal. Its most memorable moment offered almost nothing I would ask for in an everyday car. Yet, it made me think much harder … Read more
Building Secure Video Playback With DRM and Server-Side Authorization
When people hear “DRM,” they picture cryptography: keys, ciphers, the dark art of stopping a video from being copied. That part is real, and on a creator platform that sells video, it is also the easy half. The maths is solved. There are well-understood encryption schemes and well-understood providers to hold the keys. You can … Read more
Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company’s antics. It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI … Read more
Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as “America’s answer to Shenzhen.”
Here’s How I Stopped Scrolling on My Phone
My phone’s Downloads folder has 379 files in it. I know that only because I asked. Finding anything in there used to mean the same routine: open a file manager, sort, scroll, squint. Now I just ask. The app doing this is Gotcha, the open-source Android copilot we build at Samosa AI. It is not … Read more
Elon Musk says Ukraine’s military violated Starlink’s terms of service
Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink’s terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. According to Musk, “Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week,” however Ukrainian officials have denied that happened, or that it … Read more
Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
Trump is making it easier for fossil fuel companies to leak methane
In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks. Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and a powerful greenhouse gas that’s up to 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide on a 20-year horizon. It’s the primary component of … Read more