My inbox is full of messages from experts who cold email me asking to be a source for any stories I’m working on. So, at first, the one from Sophie Cress, which invited me to interview her for a future article, seemed typical. “I’ve got over 8 years of experience and qualifications in Psychology and…

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Android 16’s first public beta will start rolling out later today, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride-sharing and food delivery, following yesterday’s reveal of a similar feature in Samsung’s Galaxy S25 phones. The new beta also forces…

The race to replace us Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027 Amodei: "I think progress really is as fast as people think it is." Benj Edwards – Jan 22, 2025 3:33 pm | 35 A photo of co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, dated May…

Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive. In order to protect Gwern's anonymity, I proposed interviewing him in person, and having my friend…

A new year is an opportunity for a reset, in which many of us resolve to be wiser than we were last year. So, to help you kickstart 2025 a little wiser, I’ve compiled 25 ideas I think will prove useful to you. The ideas come from many times, places, and disciplines; the only thing they have in…

Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away continues to attract audiences from all over the world, not only for its wonderful visuals and intriguing characters but also for its ability to incorporate complicated cultural nuances into a globally accessible plot. His masterpiece features several awe-inspiring…

Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy. We will never interact with it. We will never see it. What happens there is irrelevant to us, now and for the conceivable future. What would you hope this planet is like? Would you hope that it’s a sterile rock, as barren as our Moon? Or would you hope…

Introduction On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle service that gave us unrestricted targeted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan. Using the access provided by the…

In 1988, Bill Moyers produced a series of intelligent, inspiring, provocative conversations with a diverse set of cultural icons, ranging from Isaac Asimov to Noam Chomsky to Chinua Achebe. It was unlike any public discourse to have ever graced the national television airwaves before. The following…

Every so often, I come across a writer whose work compels me to read more of what they have to say – and quickly. Typically, this involves a sense of wishing to read more than just the particular book that’s gripped me: I tend to want to go beyond this with the aim of gaining access to the writer’s…

By | Jul 10, 2018 Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s complex prose doesn’t fit into Twitter’s 280-character format. Still, at a time when sound bites dominate political discourse, her work is improbably attracting the public’s attention. In addition to writing more than 25 books and editing another 21,…

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is…

We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream: The costs of housing, healthcare, and education have soared far beyond the pace of inflation and wage growth.We are a democracy, but 144 million Americans – 42% of the adults who live…

Plenty of wealthy people plan to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropic causes. Jeff Atwood says he'll actually do it within the next five years. Atwood, the co-founder of computer programing platform Stack Overflow — which was acquired by global investment group Prosus for $1.8 billion in…

20th January 2025 DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 “reasoning” model. Today they’ve released R1 itself, along with a whole family of new models derived…

As Jack London’s most autobiographical novel begins, its hero, a poor young sailor named Martin Eden, has just gotten into a brawl. Noticing a gang of drunken hoodlums about to assault an upper-class young man, Martin scatters them with blows that leave his knuckles raw. To show his gratitude, the…

Categories Entrepreneurship January 21, 2025 by Vincent Schmalbach In 2013, a failing founder posted their story on Hacker News (link). The responses were overwhelmingly supportive: "Failure is just an event, not who you are." "Get back up and try again!" "This is valuable experience for next time."…

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Architects of the leading generative AI models are abuzz that a top company, possibly OpenAI, in coming weeks will announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes Ph.D.-level super-agents to do complex human tasks. We've learned that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — who in September dubbed this "The…

There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying legacy media person, into his home. In April 2018, I ventured there to hear his plans to do the right thing. It was part of my years-long embed into Facebook to write a book. For…

Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a shocking pivot, but not exactly surprising. It’s just the latest example of a billionaire flip-flop affecting our social lives on the internet. After January 6th, Zuckerberg bragged to Congress about…

January 13, 2025 Collections Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive. From Rarified to Commonplace: A Brief History of Hashibukuro The chopstick sleeve originated in the Imperial Court of Japan sometime during the Heian period…

Architects of the leading generative AI models are abuzz that a top company, possibly OpenAI, in coming weeks will announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes Ph.D.-level super-agents to do complex human tasks. We've learned that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — who in September dubbed this "The…

On December 13, 2023, we released CodeQL Action v3, which runs on the Node.js 20 runtime. In January 2024, we announced that CodeQL Action v2 would be retired at the same time as GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.11. This retirement period has elapsed and CodeQL Action v2 is now discontinued. It…

One day in March of this year, a Google engineer named Justine Tunney created a strange and ultimately doomed petition at the White House website. The petition proposed a three-point national referendum, as follows: 1. Retire all government employees with full pensions. 2. Transfer administrative…

1962 book by Daniel J. Boorstin The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America is a 1962 book by the political historian Daniel J. Boorstin. In his book, Boorstin argues that Americans have a false "image" of what "news" actually is. He argues that Americans mistake certain "pseudo-events" for real…

In the early 1990s, Toyota saw that environmental awareness and tighter emissions regulations would shape the future of the automotive industry. The company aimed to create an eco-friendly, efficient vehicle that would meet future standards. In 1997 Toyota introduced the Prius to the Japanese…

If you don’t have time to read this post, these four graphs give most of the argument: Source. Each bar here represents 1 year of the activity, so the live car-free bar represents living without a car for just 1 year etc. I got these numbers from back of the envelope calculations using publicly…

For almost half a century I’ve lived and worked in Silicon Valley. I was lucky to be present at the creation of the technologies that now drive our economy and have transformed the world – for better and worse – the first microprocessor companies, the first personal computers, the first Internet…