Claude Code and What Comes Next
Jan 7, 2026 - A big reason Claude Code is so good is that it uses a wide variety of tricks in its agentic harness that allow its very smart AI, Opus 4.5, to overcome many of the problems of LLMs.
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Ph.D.s Can’t Find Work as Boston’s Biotech Engine Sputters
Dec 29, 2025 - A life-sciences job in Boston used to be a sure path to a high-paying career, but empty labs and unemployed grads now herald tougher times in the city.
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything
Dec 18, 2025 - It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff—and taught us a lot.
OPM launches Tech Force to recruit technologists to government
Dec 16, 2025 - An initial cohort of 1,000 people will serve in agency roles for two years. Roughly 25 companies — including Microsoft, Palantir and xAI — are partners on the initiative.
The most asked questions of Alexa in 2025
Dec 12, 2025 - There is certainly some irony in one of the questions most commonly posed to Alexa this year: “What does AI mean?”
The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation
Dec 6, 2025 - In this 2025 edition of the annual McKinsey Global Survey on AI, we look at the current trends that are driving real value from artificial intelligence.
'Europe has the resources to sustain cutting-edge AI research'
Dec 4, 2025 - Around 30 artificial intelligence leaders – researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs – urge Europe to invest in talent and science.
Billboard's Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop
Nov 12, 2025 - An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard's "Country Digital Song Sales" chart in the United States.
How Much AI Will Audiences Accept in Music and Movies? Quantifying Where Consumers Draw the Line on AI Art
Nov 12, 2025 - Unpacking public sentiment around AI in filmmaking and music production.
Finding Work With AI
Nov 12, 2025 - An estimated 3.5% of the conversations were about finding work or moving through a job application process between May 2024 and July 2025.
Giving your AI a Job Interview
Nov 11, 2025 - As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
San Francisco’s youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom
Nov 7, 2025 - Mercor’s 22-year-old CEO Brendan Foody imagines a future in which white-collar contractors earn riches teaching machines to behave like humans.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
No 7, 2025 - X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
The Wubi Effect
Nov 7, 2025 - the story of Professor Wang Yongmin, a hard-headed computer programmer who solved this puzzle and laid the foundation for the China we know today.
The worst October for layoffs in over two decades
Nov 7, 2025 - Employers cited cost cutting and automation as reasons to cut jobs.
Initiative Aims to Help State Governments Build AI Capacity
Nov 4, 2025 - The AI Readiness Project is an endeavor intended to help states, territories, and tribal governments build their capacity to use AI responsibly through convenings, knowledge sharing and pilots.
Your New ChatGPT Guide 💫
Oct 30, 2025 - 25 AI Tips and Tricks from a guest expert
AI Novel Tops Japan's Biggest Fiction Website, Sparking Literary Uproar
Oct 29, 2025 - An AI-generated novel shot to No. 1 on Japan’s Kakuyomu platform, igniting a fierce debate over authorship, automation, and storytelling.
How the Shutdown Has Cut Off Key Data Guiding the Fed
Oct 28, 2025 - At a crucial moment for the US economy, Federal Reserve officials are preparing to decide whether to keep lowering interest rates or hold them steady — but they will have to do so with limited fresh data.
How Employers Are Talking About AI in Job Postings
Oct 28, 2025 - AI-building jobs dominate, but new applications of AI are emerging.
Open-source protein structure AI aims to match AlphaFold
Oct 28, 2025 - The developers of OpenFold3 have released an early version of the tool, which they hope will one day perform on par with DeepMind’s protein-structure model.
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Oct 28, 2025 - Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
Lightning Launches New Suite of Tools for PyTorch Developers and Researchers
Oct 24, 2025 - Lightning, creators of PyTorch Lightning, has announced a suite of new tools built to accelerate distributed training, reinforcement learning, and experimentation for PyTorch developer and researchers.
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
Oct 24, 2025 - This is a comic about AI art.
Beep. Boop. Busted. Here's how math nerds caught the NBA's Terry Rozier.
Oct 24, 2025 - How sports betting monitors used math to catch Terry Rozier and dozens of others accused of fixing bets on basketball.
Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
Oct 20, 2025 - When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
Formula One bets on AI to win the next era of racing
Oct 19, 2025 - "The team that's going to be the most successful is the one that has the best AI strategy."
Resistance to AI is bubbling up
Oct 19, 2025 - The pace at which AI takes off depends in part on its users — and there's a cohort that's just saying no.