Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget...
Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 1T parameters, 35B active, available to "select early partners") and MAI-Code-1-Flash (137B Parameters, 5B active, "purpose-built for...
Release: datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 I want Datasette Agent to be able to generate and execute Python code safely. This alpha is looking promising so far. GPT-5.5 has so far failed to break out of the sandbox!...
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a1 Fixes for some limitations that emerged while I was trying to use this to build datasette-agent-micropython. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly
California Brown Pelican, in Fort Mason, CA, USI'm at the Microsoft Build conference today, held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. There are California Brown Pelicans diving into the water directly behind venue! Tags:...
Subscribe • Previous Issues Your Enterprise Data Deserves Better Than a Chatbot Large language models and their multimodal variants remain the foundation models most people encounter first. That makes sense. Text,...
Tool: Pasted File Editor I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file attachment instead. I...
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Sports used to have a different rhythm. The shot would go up; a gasp; a pause; an explosion. In one final decisive moment: Diggs. Sideline. Unbelievable. Bang. Santa Maria. I don’t believe what I just saw. In...
Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all the outward signs of having written code, but...
I am always on the lookout for new AI agents and applications that operate outside the coding world. By agent, I mean a system that can take a goal, use tools, keep context, and work through several steps rather than...
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Last week, I noticed that Anthropic was hiring for a partner success manager.The very first line of the description was:Consulting and systems integration firms are racing to build Claude practices.From there, the...
Subscribe • Previous Issues Beyond the Demo: What Real AI Agents Actually Do at Work I am always on the lookout for new AI agents and applications that operate outside the coding world. By agent, I mean a system that...
The Vatican’s recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, introduces a moral framework that challenges how technology leaders evaluate artificial intelligence. It treats AI as a test of human priorities. Its central...
Joe Sparma: 864 innings pitched, exactly zero wins above replacement.A question that people often think about these days is, “how good is AI at doing stuff?” A lot of stuff that people do—like building...
In the past six months, inference costs for frontier-level AI capability dropped roughly 85%. Open-weight models from Meta, Alibaba, and others now match last quarter’s best closed models on the benchmarks that matter....
New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.Reiner is CEO of MatX, a new...