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Pentagon Gives Anthropic Friday Deadline to Agree to Terms or Terminate Contract — The Information
The two sides have clashed over Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI models to be used for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons use without …
Of course I still use checks! Anyone taking your money should hear the power flick of your pen, dearie.
Writing a check looks like an innocuous bit of financial sleight-of-hand. You scribble on a piece of paper, and some …
This beautiful clock has been sitting in our house since Thanksgiving, making noise only when we passed by it too heavily.
As of yesterday, it makes very satisfying bongs every fifteen minutes and chimes the hour.
I am very pleased.
The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas:
Taalas’ silicon Llama achieves 17K tokens/sec per user, nearly 10X faster than the current state of the art, while costing 20X less to build, and consuming 10X less power.
Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church reaches its peak with Tower of Jesus Christ:
A crane placed the upper arm of a cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ, the church’s soaring central piece, which now stands 172.5 meters (566 feet) above the …
Watched: Crimson Tide 🍿
I’m not sure how I missed this one, but it was a fun Red October-adjacent submarine movie. Ethics, Russians, nuclear war, and a surprising amount of discussion of horses.
Plus: Aragorn!
The iPhone’s lowest brightness setting is still quite bright if you’re in a dark room. But there’s a way to get it even darker.
I learned recently that this trick, which I thought was well-known, is not ubiquitous, so here it is. …
A Fortune survey doing the rounds this week has thousands of CEOs admitting that AI has had no measurable impact on employment or productivity.
They respond:
It’s a silly analogy, but you wouldn’t buy everyone in the …
I spent a lot of time talking about “Hark!” in December. Fun to have it show up in today’s mini crossword.
The best Olympics highlight so far comes from the NHL’s social media team.
Excellent work, no notes.
Glad to see at least some things are going the right way:
The word “unprecedented” is getting a workout after a grand jury in Washington on Feb. 10, 2026, rebuffed an attempt by federal prosecutors to get an indictment against perceived enemies of …
Every few months for the past several years, I’ve returned to this idea of getting an intuitive understanding of the vocabulary of different Biblical authors. I’m not sure there’s exegetical value, but every time I heard something …
I gave a talk this week on responsible autonomy in airports.
Tonight, I watched an “autonomous” wheelchair strand a passenger in the middle of a crowded concourse at MIA.
No obstacles. Clear path. It simply stopped.
The passenger had to be rescued by …
I’ve been watching ER recently, alongside the new season of The Pitt. (I’m a sucker for procedurals.)
The callbacks from Noah Wyle to… Noah Wyle… are numerous and frequent.
It’s like noticing the Friends commentary all over How I Met Your Mother.
Cowards! They skipped Fitter Happier.
This brewery is unapologetically playing straight through OK Computer. I’m loving it, but it’s most certainly a choice.
Write about the future you want - daverupert.com
I don’t have to look far to find people around me who have inspired me by writing about the future they want.
Writing isn’t the only tool—building is a an important one too—but it is a tool, and it’s …
I am about halfway through Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom, and I have just realized that it is the same conceit as the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. Which is a far more adult novel/series.
I hope the second half shows I’m right.
I continue to appreciate my my new home airport. It was more crowded today than I’ve ever seen it, but I still got through TSA exactly 41 minutes after my Lyft picked me up.
The only way to make it better would be not flying to Miami during ski …
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills:
Here, AI creates a potential tension: as coding grows more automated and speeds up work, humans will still need the skills to catch errors, guide output, and ultimately provide oversight for …
Daring Fireball: Taegan Goddard: ‘There’s No Going Back’:
The only way to counter “move fast and break things” is to move fast and fix things.
Brent Simmons shared a great, and terrifying, and hopeful, email from his family living in Minnesota, about what’s happening there.
Finished reading: A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Another nice cozy story. Includes a nice little riddle near the beginning that’s fun to piece together yourself.
The ending is a little too telegraphed for me, and …
Seventeen People is a perfect use of the Web.
I wish to put things like this into the world.
Finished reading: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz.
Cozy restaurant with robots, set in a speculative future where California has violently seceded from the US.
It’s pretty short and rapid-fire. Which makes the bingo card of San Francisco …
