Anthropic launches an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs, says it shows "limited evidence" of AI-led job loss so far (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
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OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
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Elon Musk testified in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday, defending his 2022 statements preceding his purchase of Twitter, which former shareholders alleged were falsehoods.
Cuba is a matter of time. The US first plans to finish with Iran, Trump stated.
🇮🇷⚡️🇮🇱 Fire in central Israel after strikes!
Roblox launches real-time AI "chat rephrasing", which replaces banned words with "more respectful language", instead of using the traditional # symbol (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
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Waitaminute. That service that all the white nationalists send me threats from? That fuckin Proton? Wasn’t the whole reason for using it supposed to be it protected you?
You aren’t here for the hunting, are you
US house officially fails to pass 'H.Con.Res. 38 – Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran', with all votes counted. 212 yeas, 219 nays
Canada and the European Union sign a deal to modernize economic and trade agreement.
Drafting this season's most underrated players
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The best way to elicit music from your feed is to ask them to help you build a playlist on a topic.
BREAKING NYT:
Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.
371 security/ privacy academics, including a Turing Award winner, just issued a letter saying age verification laws are building global surveillance infrastructure. Every search, message, and article read would require ID verification.
Democrats are working w/ Republicans to push these laws through
Yeah, I’d wager the Canadian position is more informed by our delusional belief we’re an inherently good country than actual community.
Iran Conflict causes U.S. critical infrastructure to be affected in the Middle East.
OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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Meta recently hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the company behind the vibe coding app Gizmo, to join its Superintelligence Labs (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
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Donald Trump has appointed Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla, to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Anthropic says Claude's free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year, with Monday being its strongest day ever (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: with the rise of powerful AI agents like Claude Code, developers may no longer need a code editor at all. With Anna Tong.
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In an alleged drafted proposal, the U.S. government would play a role in every chip export sale regardless of which country it's coming from.
U.S. crude oil jumps after Iran says it attacked a tanker
U.S. crude oil prices on Thursday touched their highest level since June 2025 after Iran claimed to have attacked a tanker. U.S. crude was last up 3.8%, or $2.86, at $77.52 per barrel, while global benchmark Brent rose 2.9%, or $1.89, to…
Oaktree’s Howard Marks says there’s no systemic problem with private credit
Veteran investor Howard Marks said he doesn't see a widespread problem brewing in private credit, but warned that the sector's rapid expansion over the past 15 years could expose weaker lenders when markets eventually…
Apple explains the ‘MacBook Neo’ name as cheaper laptop ignites commentary https://deadstack.net/cluster/20209
#tech #timcook #technology #hardware #pricing #macbook #media
Harry Styles talk to Zane Lowe about his decision to play residencies instead of doing a traditional world tour:
“I think it makes the show better. I think you can build something that doesn’t have to travel every night. I think the show itself is better.”
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Proper Maintenance and How-To Guide for making the switch from ChatGPT to Claude.
Markwayne Mullin: "He has the ability to come back and ask Congress to declare war on Iraq"
Took longer than I anticipated but… it seems like we’re here.
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New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)
