Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children

AI Is a Harsh Mistress

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people aged 2 years and older living with diabetes.

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

OSM US is incredibly excited to announce the latest Charter Project: OldInsuranceMaps.net (OIM)!If you’re a map nerd you’ll remember ever seeing a Sanborn Insurance Map in person. They often come in absolute...

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

This post discusses preview features in JDK 28\nJEP 401, a major Valhalla milestone, has been integrated as a preview feature in JDK 28. This is very exciting, as value classes increase both our ability to communicate the semantics of our programs to others and the optimization opportunities available to the JVM.\nHowever, I have seen people online essentially taking a “Value all the classes!” approach to this. I worry that there is a belief that ordinary classes give you a floor on performance, and that value classes will do their best to raise you above that floor, but won’t ever take you below it. Unfortunately, that is not true. A well-intentioned program may put the JVM into a situation where a flattened representation is faster for so

A curmudgeon tries a language server

Queryable Executables

I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to have struck a chord with others.

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

Right now, when an AI agent uses a website, it squints at the screen like a person would: reads the pixels, guesses which button is checkout, clicks, and hopes. It’s slow, brittle, and it breaks the moment you move a div. WebMCP flips that around. Instead of the agent guessing what your site can do, your site just tells it, in plain, structured tools the agent can call directly. It’s an early web standard, it’s in Chrome right now behind a trial, and once you see it you’ll want to add a tool to your own site in about ten minutes. Here’s how it works and why it matters.

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

GLM-5.3-Flash

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

About Proliferate Proliferate is the open-source, self-hostable AI IDE where you can collaborate with agents as a team. Longer term, we are building the substrate through which companies deploy agents for real work. We believe the future of all work is companies staffed by thousands of agents and we’re building the platform that manages them. We’re early, the product still has rough edges, and we’re oriented around large goals. We are backed by True Ventures, Pear VC, and 50+ YC founders- and we work together in person in SoMa, San Francisco. About the founder I’m Pablo! I finished my bachelor’s at 17, ran a consulting company at 18, completed my master’s in AI at 19, and joined Onyx (YC W24) as engineer #1. I spent a year building ent

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

Our report examines how Taylor Farms became one of the largest produce suppliers in the U.S. and what its power means for food safety, farmers, and workers.

AWS Acquires DuckDB

DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

Twitter Viewer to browse any public Twitter profile and tweets without login. View X profiles, photos, videos anonymously. No account required.

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

Most RAG systems are more complex than they need to be. Compare six retrieval architectures, from naive to agentic, and pick the simplest one that works.

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.