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- Opinion | Code Is Free Speech. Seriously.
The article argues that code should be protected as free speech, asserting that meaningful AI regulation depends on recognizing this right.
- Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Welder
Gen Z is increasingly enrolling in trade schools like welding programs to future‑proof careers against AI, despite resistance from parents and peers.
- OpenAI Is Showing Kalshi’s World Cup Odds in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced a partnership with prediction‑market platform Kalshi to integrate its World Cup match odds directly into ChatGPT’s search answers, the AI firm’s first such collaboration.
- The Agentic Economy: The Convergence of Intelligence and the Economy
The treatise offers flexible ways to engage with the Agentic Economy concept, from a one‑minute summary to full text, audiobook, or video.
- Video Generation Models are General-Purpose Vision Learners
GenCeption turns a pretrained video generation diffusion model into a unified, feed‑forward vision system that matches or beats task‑specific SOTA across depth, normals, pose, segmentation and keypoints using text prompts.
- What will be left for us to work on? - by Arvind Narayanan
Arvind Narayanan argues that AI will augment rather than replace human work, requiring decades of societal adaptation and emphasizing reliability over raw capability.
- The Most Human Technology Ever Made - by Anish A - a16z
The article argues AI’s greatest value lies in enabling people to spend time creating and expressing themselves, turning consumption into making and democratizing innovation beyond coders.
- Apple's New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer achieves 2.12% WER on clean LibriSpeech, beating Whisper Small and legacy SFSpeechRecognizer while running about three times faster.
- AI companies are throwing museums a lifeline. What do they want in return?
The article examines how AI firms are providing financial and technological support to museums, questioning what they expect in return, such as data access or branding.
- Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. Threats
Nearly 200 economists and tech leaders urge policymakers to better understand and act on AI‑driven disruptions, warning of significant societal and economic risks.
- From Prompt Engineering to Intent Engineering
Switch from prompt engineering to intent engineering—describe desired outcomes instead of step‑by‑step instructions—as AI improves, our guidance becomes counterproductive over time.
- Boringlaunch - Increase Your SEO Score In 30 Days
Boringlaunch offers a service that submits AI startups to over 100 free platforms within seven days, promising improved domain rating and SEO scores within thirty days.
- The White House Made Fixing Intel Its Pet Project. It’s Working. - WSJ
White House pressure and a $9 billion equity stake spurred Intel’s rebound, securing Apple, Nvidia and SpaceX deals and quadrupling its stock since 2025.
- OpenRouter Models - Unified Access to 400+ AI Models
OpenRouter provides a unified API to browse, filter, and retrieve details for over 400 AI models, including pricing, capabilities, and provider info.
- The ChatGPT "Super App" Sort of Super Sucks
The new ChatGPT Mac app merges Codex and chat into a confusing Electron-based super app with poor UI, burying chat under work modes.
- China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate Over A.I. Data Centers
State-linked actors from China, Russia, and Iran are amplifying U.S. debates about AI data centers to exploit public concerns over the technology's impacts.
- A $3.2 Trillion Deal-Making Frenzy Is Spurred by the A.I. Economy
Global AI-driven deal-making hit its highest six‑month spending in a decade, though analysts doubt the surge can be sustained long‑term.
- A new way to reflect on how you use Claude \ Anthropic
Anthropic launches a beta reflection dashboard that lets Claude users track, visualize, and assess their AI usage patterns against personal goals.
- Toyo — Your AI assistant for busy teams
Toyo is an AI executive assistant that triages email, schedules meetings, drafts replies, and tracks commitments via text, voice, or phone, integrating with Gmail, Calendar, Slack and other tools.
- ‘Hysteria’ Grips San Francisco’s Housing Market as A.I. Wealth Pours In
The surge of AI‑related wealth from firms like OpenAI and Anthropic is inflating San Francisco housing prices, prompting buyers to compete and sellers to demand equity instead of cash.
- Graph based Agent Memory - by Neo Kim
Shared folders and vector databases fail for multi-agent AI memory; a graph-shaped system with typed schemas, atomic commits, and Git-like branching solves this, as demonstrated by Omnigraph.
- The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age - The Atlantic
The differentiator in the AI age is not intelligence but one's relationship to mental effort, with cognitive polarization likely dividing society into those who thrive and those who decline.
- Exclusive: Tesla Cybercab Includes More Powerful FSD Hardware - Not a Tesla App
Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi uses a more powerful FSD computer with more RAM than consumer vehicles, enabling Level 4 autonomy.
- American A.I. Companies Say Chinese Copycats Are Quickly Catching Up
US AI companies claim Chinese rivals are using distillation to copy their models, a long-standing technique they struggle to detect.
- How to AI-Proof Your Fund Portfolio<!-- --> - Barron's
Barron's identifies five defensive sectors and 13 funds that can protect portfolios against overvaluation and concentration risk from the AI-driven tech rally.
- Alibaba’s A.I. Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker
Alibaba's open-source AI models gain global developer traction but struggle to generate revenue since they can be freely used and modified.
- Current AI – Open Source AI Gap Map
Mozilla's Current AI project maps the open source AI stack, evaluating 24,626 projects to identify gaps and seeking collaborators to close them.
- Can a URL in a prompt change an LLM's output?
LLM output is influenced by URLs in prompts only when the URL's content was memorized during training; JavaScript-rendered sites often remain invisible to training crawlers, creating a growing data gap.
- Are the ‘MANGOS’ Stocks Already Turning Soft?
The MANGOS stocks—Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, and others—show early signs of softening performance as the AI boom's momentum begins to fade.
- OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
OpenAI unveiled its first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, designed with Broadcom and assisted by OpenAI's own models, claiming better performance-per-watt.
- The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Hacker News commenters debate the sustainability of open-weights LLMs, arguing they cannot be taken away once downloaded despite potential future restrictions or discontinuation by funders.
- Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor
A smart model routing tool for Claude, Codex, and Cursor claims to reduce costs and improve speed by dynamically selecting the best model for each request.
- Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
Hacker News commenters agree that LinkedIn's AI evangelist content is insufferable spam, often AI-generated, and driven by hype and marketing rather than genuine insight.
- The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams
HN commenters debate whether Robin Williams' monologue proves human experience is irreplaceable in art or whether it shows acting can convey depth without lived experience, questioning implications for AI-generated content.
- I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
A user describes using Claude Code to review an MRI report, finding it a helpful informational tool but cautioning against blind trust in LLM outputs.
- What is fenic? - fenic, by typedef
fenic is a PySpark-inspired DataFrame framework built from scratch for LLM inference, featuring semantic operators, native unstructured data support, and batch inference across providers.
- GitHub - workweave/router at console.dev
Router from Weave is a drop-in proxy that routes each prompt to the optimal model in under 50ms, cutting costs by 40-70% with just an endpoint change.
- Introducing Browserbase Agents
Browserbase Agents lets users create and run browser agents from natural language goals via one API call, returning structured results and observability, on the platform used by Ramp, Shopify, and Lovable.
- How A.I. Might Change the Way Doctors Think
AI-generated patient exam summaries may change how doctors form diagnoses, potentially reducing their cognitive engagement with cases.
- OpenAI proposes U.S. government own 5% stake to address political blowback
OpenAI proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth $42.6 billion to ease political pressure, with Sam Altman arguing it shares AI benefits publicly.
- Exclusive | SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk’s New AI Device - WSJ
SpaceX showed investors a slim, handset-like AI prototype running xAI's software on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, though the project is early-stage and may not be produced.
- How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users
OpenAI splits WebRTC into a stateless relay and a stateful transceiver, using the ICE ufrag for routing to serve 900M voice AI users with low latency.
- Redeploying Claude Fable 5 \ Anthropic
Anthropic redeploys Claude Fable 5 after export controls lift, with updated safeguards and a proposed industry jailbreak severity framework.
- Learning to Replicate Expert Judgment in Financial Tasks - Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab fine-tuned a custom model on expert-labeled financial data to outperform frontier LLMs on information-filtering tasks at lower cost.
- The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI
Three winning essays propose using AI foundations for pandemic eradication, advocating for light-touch AI policy for non-supply-chain countries, and adapting Hong Kong MTR's rail-plus-property model for AI lab profitability.
- The Company Reviving AOL, Vimeo and Other Internet Oldies Amid the A.I. Boom
Bending Spoons, an Italian company that buys aging internet brands, is going public this week at a potential $19 billion valuation, showing value in old tech names amid the AI boom.
- Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists \ Anthropic
Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that integrates scientific tools, produces auditable artifacts, and manages compute for researchers.
- Zaro - Build intelligence for your company. Not your vendor.
Zaro offers a platform that lets companies build AI agents, apps, and workflows on their own data with full governance and shared memory.
- We’re Only Starting to Grasp the Pitfalls of Using A.I. at Work
Managers vet AI-produced work less carefully, and AI models favor AI-written content and exhibit rational biases, undermining productivity gains from workplace AI.
- “It’s Hard to Eval” Is a Product Smell – Hamel's Blog
Products that are hard to evaluate programmatically are likely hard for users to verify, so design for verification first.
- Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google expands Gemini's personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., using data from connected Google apps.
- How a Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I.
Advanced chip packaging, critical for AI computing power, has increased US reliance on Taiwan, with political decisions affecting development efforts.
- In San Francisco, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
Even $180,000 tech salaries in San Francisco are insufficient as AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic drive up costs, widening inequality and forcing workers to reconsider staying.
Takes
AI writing is so good now, there are only a handful of idiosyncrasies left to point out. Those will vanish shortly.
@pmarca
All you guys almost unanimously recommended @SMB_Attorney when I asked for a startup lawyer ~6 months ago A really really cool guy to work with, very funny, informal, nice and fast He's also very pro-AI which I like so I'd check documents first with Claude quickly, let it write up some notes and send to him and then he'd review that speeding both of us up If you have some legal stuff you need I can recommend him 😊
@levelsio
A ChatGPT automation just found ~$45K in erroneous invoices across 3 years of billing history that I've confirmed and already had resolved. My lifetime history for ChatGPT is ~$1,800, so it just paid for itself 25x over. I setup an automation with read-only access to my email, and tasked this one specifically with analyzing construction invoices. It has access to prior construction invoices, emails, meeting notes, etc. It produces a report and emails it to me (the only email its allowed to send, enforced by API token) whenever I receive a construction invoice. Across 3 years of construction projects, it found about $45K in issues. Some were wrong amounts, some were duplicate invoices, some were invoices addressed to the wrong person. I manually verified, emailed my GCs, and got refunded/credited. I get multiple construction bills each month and each bill is ~50 pages in a PDF of low-quality scanned paper. I do manually review each bill but its pretty hard to be right all the time. I do believe these were genuine mistakes and not done out of ill will just based on what the mistakes were. I don't want to share my full construction costs across the past few years, but $45K is a very small percentage of overall billed amounts. Pretty sweet.
@mitchellh
1/ Last week at @aiDotEngineer, I presented the 2026 AI Engineering Survey: 1,000+ AI engineers on model selection, build vs. buy, who’s shipping with AI, and (of course) whether GPUs are going to space. This year, we ran it with @NotionHQ and @vercel. Some highlights 🧵
@barrnanas
Hot takes on AI memory
@samzliu
I made myself a personalized podcast player using @grok 4.5 and @perplexity_ai Computer It finds the top topics people are discussing on tech and business podcasts, then lets me play a single stream across multiple podcasts by topic. When you click PLAY DEEP-LINK STREAM, it plays me all the pods talking about China and open source (in the screenshot here) it's called PODMEME (after Techmeme, which is what i modeled it off of!) Thanks @AravSrinivas @elonmusk for the harness and model! Cost me 1,100 "credits" on Perplexity -- so $11! Not sure what it will cost to run this every 48 hours... but, I think worth it. I might actually output a custom MP4 file for each topic with an audio transition in the middle
@Jason
It works! AI labs started indexing, training, and serving my new *.md files ✨ Right after pushing to prod, I asked ChatGPT to check {{startup_markdown_URL}}, and it couldn't because of "cache missed" or "400 timeout fetching". So I added all 8,831 URLs to the sitemap.xml and added the following headers: "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8" "Content-Disposition": "inline" I can't tell if this helped, but 24 hours later, ChatGPT was able to fetch them properly 😊 Maybe AI assistants need the page to be indexed first, before being able to crawl it?
@marclou
this has 0 manual edit and was done by Fable with Revid MCP crazy simple to use the MCP 👇 https://www.revid.ai/mcp
@tibo_maker
My favorite use case of GPT-5.6? Video Editing. Drop MP4 -> "Make 60 second hype video" -> Enjoy Full tutorial on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAWbvEwUoiI
@clairevo
what are best products from ai startups in sf right now actual products that end users use
@thdxr
Introducing a new way to reflect on how you use Claude. Your monthly recap shows when you use Claude most and what you spent that time working on, with options to set quiet hours and nudges to take breaks. Find your dashboard in Settings under Reflect: http://claude.ai/settings/reflect
@claudeai
I had Fable build another thing I always wanted, a full procedural fantasy kingdom generator with economics, trade routes, population growth, wars, lineages, and occasional dragons. First, I worked with it on a plan, then it made it. You can play it here: https://annals-kingdom.netlify.app/
@emollick
what app do you guys use to create context for ai? e.g. where do you share your links to articles you want to remember, thoughtful/fun images or memes, things you want to read, things you want to watch (youtube vids, tiktok’s, reels), things you want to listen to, interesting tweets, spotify tracks, even clever musings you write to yourself, etc. this is all so fragmented right now. ideally you’d love a place where all of this magically lives & is highly queryable / organizable, etc. i.e. when you use claude/gpt, it should able to reference this database easily for context too. there needs to be a first class citizen here but i think it’s sorta missing.
@signulll
You're not ambitious enough with Claude
@christinexzhu
Very excited to help chart the future of Git (and SCM generally) for the agentic future with Taylor!
@gdb
Introducing iMessage video ads in Claude We taught Claude to make iMessage video ads in one shot with a single skill. These iMessage ads are absolutely killing it on Meta right now. The skill teaches Claude to make a full video ad in one shot with iPhone frame, SFX, music, and end card. And it's just HTML. It doesn't use any video generation models, so it's cheap! Comment Goose below and I'll send you the skill.
@shivsakhuja
I can finally talk about 5.6. I’ve been testing it for months and, without exaggeration, it’s the best model I’ve ever used. Fast, smart, genuinely creative, and you guessed it, they finally fixed front-end design. I haven’t needed to check the code I’ve written in two months.
@skirano
Jake, who built a $50K/month alarm app in 4 months, says the most valuable skill right now isn't building it's... "Focus on top of funnel only. That is the most valuable skill right now is marketing. There's so many people that can build an app and it's so easy with AI, but there's not so many people that know how to market and know how to get views." "If nobody knows about your app, it doesn't exist. You can build as many features as you want." "Building doesn't really matter so much. You got to build a good product, of course. But getting views is more of the unknown."
@starter_story
Claude Cowork is coming to mobile and web. Hand Claude a task at your desk and pick up the finished work from your phone. Close the laptop and Claude keeps going. Beta is rolling out over the next several weeks starting with the Max plan, with more plans to follow.
@claudeai
This is our first time telling the story of how we first built and launched Claude Code, starting with its origins in Anthropic safety research. So much more to do. We are 1% done.
@bcherny
Headroom -- a lightweight native Mac OS menu bar app for tracking your usage. Shipping tonight/tomorrow so that you can keep eyes on your Fable-filled week ahead. Works for both your subscriptions and API spends. Codex and Claude for now. Free dollars. Fully signed install package will be downloadable from my website. Stay tuned
@kylezantos
GOODBYE LOGO DESIGNERS IN 2026. Here are 10 Claude prompts that generate brand identity, visual direction, and logo concepts without hiring anyone. Save this before it goes viral. 👇👇
@shubham_crazy08
Asked Claude to design my logo. The result looked like it cost $500,000. It cost $0. The 7 prompts I used (steal these): Save for later🔖
@ElsaSofia__AI
I built an engine for Fable to create its own self-improving NPC town with @threejs and it's actually doing it lol. Literally shipping its own PRs to advance the story and lore. Crazy.
@gill_works
My chief of SEO, Claude Cowork Fable 5
@bloggersarvesh
one of my favorite uses of @claudeai design is, after creating a design system, generate an "avatar sheet" of dozens of variations on the brand that i can easily download and make use of everywhere. super handy.
@Shpigford
Claude Fable 5 is so back from timeout. And people are already going crazy with it. 10 wild examples:
@minchoi
How did I ever function without AI? cc chefcook @theo
@steipete
Why Claude keeps telling me to connect MCP to Google Drive etc?
@levelsio
Fable is pure magic. I wanted a beautiful app to explore ocean wildlife. Fable built this in an hour. It generated videos with Seedance and carefully synchronized them to make these absolutely insane transitions. I've never seen anything like this in an app. Unreal.
@anshuc
Fable 5 + Goose Ads is insane – literally a full ad-creative team right in Claude Code. 1. Install the skill: npx gooseworks install --all npx gooseworks login 2. Ask Claude Fable to make ads for your brand. /goose-ads create ads for my brand <your-website>. Fable 5 pulls the ads already winning in your space and rebuilds them on-brand – your product, your palette, your copy – a whole batch, ready to test. It can ship a month of creative testing in a single prompt. This is also possible with Opus and Sonnet, but Fable's brand research is next level. Link below.
@shivsakhuja
my wife thinks i'm obsessed...but I will keep repeating this. Claude Fable 5 + SEO is going to create more “self made millionaires” this year than the last decade combined. don't bookmark this if it crosses your timeline. just paste this entire thing into Claude Fable 5. thank me later.
@bloggersarvesh
Career advice in the age of AI
@philhchen
The Hardware Coup: Why AI Hardware Just Changed Forever
@ai
Them: There’s really no use case for consumer AI. Moms: I really need help carrying the mental load on… 🛒 groceries 🍳 meal prep 🎂 birthday parties 🎁 gifts 📅 doctor's appointments 💊 vitamins and supplements ✈️ trips 💸 bills + taxes 📈 investing 🏠 home maintenance 🖼️ home decor 📚 reading lists 🧘 therapy + self-care 📺 screentime monitoring, 📢 community engagement 🏃🏼♀️exercise Etc.
@brit
Hot take: I think it's still important to understand the code that our agents write! In this mega thread (based on my AIE talk today), I will explain why that's the case, and show some ideas for how to efficiently understand code. Alright, let's dive in. 1/
@geoffreylitt
Introducing Voice Agent Builder: a no-code platform to create human-like voice agents with Grok Voice. Available today at $0.05 / min. http://x.ai/voice
@SpaceXAI
sneaky, but also clever. https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
@steipete
I'm bullish on open source AI. Was paying $15/month for a popular AI voice to text tool. But switched to an open source one where you download the model to your computer, and everything is done locally. It's better, faster, more private, and it's free! I wonder what other subscriptions I can get rid of?
@thepatwalls
My girlfriend couldn’t cancel a hotel reservation today. No cancel button. They weren’t replying on WhatsApp. Since I really didn’t want to call the hotel, I told her to try and just use Codex. 2 minutes later, she came back to me saying that Codex quickly realized there was a basically hidden cancel button on the reservation page (nasty dark pattern), and it just went ahead and canceled for her. It’s a little thing, but there’s so much daily stuff now I’m doing with Codex. Paired with Computer Use and the Chrome integration, it’s really great at a huge range of tasks, so I’m starting to default to it. (this is probably true for Claude as well)
@linuz90
I'm building an app to make $10,000/Month and I'll record everything... I want to document my WHOLE journey building an app, marketing it, and making money off of it. Is it really that easy? How hard is it? I've been seeing so many X users online talking about how easy it is to make money online with AI now. I want to test it and show people the reality of making a business online.
@jomatech
Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind. Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases that you can connect. Available now in beta.
@claudeai
We’ve added a few updates to Claude Managed Agents: Streaming session event deltas, per-session agent overrides, new webhook event types, reverse pagination, and credential injection scoping.
@ClaudeDevs
Let It Crash: How to Steer What Comes After
@vijaypande
I’m top 5 Computer Use users at OpenAI Ask me anything.
@jxnlco
Every time you think you need a dashboard to look at data, stop yourself. Do this instead: 1. Ask your agent to make sure that you have all the data to analyze something actually stored in the database. 2. Ask your agent to write a skill to gather that data. 3. Ask your agent to do the analysis and create a temp and throw-away HTML dashboard to answer the question(s) that you have In my experience, every dashboard that I've created gets less and less use over time and decays. It's much better to make sure your agent can get the data you need and answer the questions you have, on-demand.
@ryancarson
Build a document processing workflow in 30 minutes
@MistralDevs