"Culinary epitaphs offer a point of connection to the deceased’s descendants and anyone else who comes across them."
A reading list on how museums reflect culture.
"The earlier internet was a haven, everyone making it up as they went along."
Have you left Twitter? Would a new “link experience” be enough to lure you back? The platform formerly known as Twitter announced it was testing a new way to boost engagement for posts with links on Sunday evening. As X head of product Nikita Bier wrote: We’re testing a new link experience, starting on iOS...
An interview with Asana founder and Chariman Dustin Moskovitz about Asana, AI's impact on SaaS, and the debate about AI Safety
CNBC: AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after an outage in its US-EAST-1 region, first reported at 3:11am ET, that took down major websites — Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: Study: brain-computer interface company Science's PRIMA device, which includes a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients — Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk's brain-interface venture …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic “one of the good guys” after David Sacks accused the company of running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering” — Two of the main members of the PayPal mafia are sparring again — this time over artificial intelligence.
Jaures Yip / CNBC: OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA — OpenAI announced on Monday in a joint statement that it will be working with Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA, and other actor unions …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Doc: Google launched a Trusted Tester program that will select 15 of its “Superfans” to test unreleased Pixels, using protective cases to disguise the hardware — Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company's next handset ahead of its public introduction.
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users — Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder: DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute — Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle …
Matt Durot / Forbes: An interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 profit of $170M to $200M, about the company's $300M round that pushed its valuation above Rippling's — HR software rivals have accused each other of corporate espionage in lawsuits filed earlier this year.
Sharon Goldman / Fortune: LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation — LangChain, one of the earliest breakout startups of the generative AI era, announced a $125 million Series B funding round on Monday at a $1.25 billion valuation.
David Pan / Bloomberg: CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers — Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency — Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company's artificial intelligence technology …
Reuters: Evernorth, a digital asset treasury backed by Ripple, says it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger with a blank check company and expects to raise $1B+ — Evernorth, a new crypto venture backed by digital asset firm Ripple, said on Monday it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger …
Katie Drummond / Wired: Q&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Apple's and Google's “wrong decision” to remove ICE-tracking apps, and more — Mere months ago, New York's mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.”
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Oura launches a redesigned app with a new feature showing a weekly overview of stress management and says it's working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study — The company is launching a study that uses ring data to detect ‘early signs of hypertension.’
Webb Wright / ZDNET: Adobe launches AI Foundry, a program that helps enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP — ZDNET's key takeaways — Adobe assures its new AI model service is copyright-safe. — Foundry models leverage Firefly and are trained on brands' IP.
It’s very easy to ignore what happens before and behind-the-scenes when you enter… Tags: generative, human, system
For Governing, Jule Pattison-Gordon on how librarians are handling the slop trying to… Tags: Governing, library, slop
From WikiProject AI Cleanup, a guide on spotting fake writing on Wikipedia. This… Tags: fake, Wikipedia, writing
"After open-heart surgery."
データ分析と問題定義――現代アートの「問い」の立て方 前編の記事では、ピックアップしたビジネスの構成要素の中から、「経営戦略」「組織マネジメント」についてお話ししました。後編では「データ分析」「マーケティング」について取 […]
"Miami’s famous casserole is a dish meant to be shared. (That’s where I went wrong.)"
普段からセルラー仕様のiPadを持ち歩いている。そういう人は珍しいらしく、ガジェタッチというYouTube番組で「なんでiPad持ち歩いてんの?」というインタビューをされたくらいだ。 持ち歩く理由は、「光る本」としてどこ […]
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS — It comes in response to creators' complaints about the reach of posts containing links. — Links have proven to be a tricky thing when it comes to social media engagement.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Business subscribers to search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles can cost from $2,500 to $1M+ — Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable. … Handles are going to be broken up into two broad categories.
Financial Times: A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned over €64M in BTC over eight years — How a mysterious tip-off led investigators to uncover the inner workings of a highly unusual hacking operation
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference — The maker of ChatGPT and Sora wants to control its destiny, which means controlling the hardware that runs its software
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming that GPT-5 solved Erdos math problems, after pushback from Demis Hassabis and others; Yann LeCun ridicules OpenAI — OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community …
Bloomberg: China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023 — China said it's uncovered “irrefutable evidence” of US government cyber attacks on the country's main agency responsible for timekeeping.
Jocelyn Gecker / Associated Press: Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers — Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share
Zeyi Yang / Wired: ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia — ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.
The Conversation: A study of 311 AI-generated eighth-grade civics lesson plans in Massachusetts suggests they fall short of inspiring students or promoting critical thinking — When teachers rely on commonly used artificial intelligence chatbots to devise lesson plans, it does not result in more engaging …
Jinjoo Lee / Wall Street Journal: A look at some US energy companies linked to AI infrastructure, such as Sam Altman-backed Oklo, whose stocks have soared despite having little to no revenue — Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations — Forget about the froth in tech valuations. The real excess might be building up in energy stocks.
Emma Beavins / Fierce Healthcare: Counsel Health, which uses a medical AI chatbot and human physicians to provide virtual care, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and GV — Artificial Intelligence Andreessen Horowitz Google Ventures Telehealth — AI-enabled virtual care company Counsel Health …
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital — UPCITI's platform helps cities run essential operations with greater efficiency and security, offering a clear, proven ROI that simplifies adoption for municipalities.
Dan Jones / Fierce Network: Boston-based OneLayer, which offers zero-trust security and device management for private 5G and LTE networks, raised a $28M Series A led by Maor Investments — private 5G private LTE cybersecurity funding — OneLayer has scored $28 million in funding — SNS Telecom said that it already has 30 private network customers
Meir Orbach / CTech: Prisma Photonics, which develops AI-based tech for monitoring infrastructure using existing optical fiber networks, raised $30M, taking total funding to $80M — The Tel Aviv deep-tech firm turns ordinary fiber networks into global security and power-grid sentinels.
Financial Times: Sources: Chinese companies including Ant Group and JD.com pause plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong after instructions from regulators not to move ahead — Regulators raise concerns about the rise of privately controlled currencies — Chinese tech giants have paused plans …
宇宙から流れてくる電波の中に、個人や企業、政府の重要データが暗号化されないまま混ざっている―そんな驚くべき実態を、米カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校（UCSD）の研究チームが明らかにした。研究者らはわずか800ドル（約1 […]
Business Insider: US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the top US Army commander in South Korea says “Chat and I” have become “really close lately” — - Some military leaders are adopting AI for decision-making. — The military has adopted an aggressive push …
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Shares of bitcoin mining companies pivoting to AI and HPC infrastructure have soared in 2025, with a fund tracking mining firms up 150% year-to-date — Shares of the large-scale computing outfits that make Bitcoin work are once again outperforming the original cryptocurrency …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others — Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform.
Andy Newman / New York Times: Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles — After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
Reuters: Nexperia's China unit asserts its operational independence and compliance with Chinese laws amid escalating tensions with Nexperia Netherlands — Nexperia's China unit has respected Chinese laws and has the right to operate independently, it said on Saturday, a day after the Netherlands …
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers — It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions …
Natallie Rocha / New York Times: The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees — The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco's residential rents up by the most in the nation …
