Today so far 2026-09-23 · 06:00 UTC

AI safety and governance dominate today's tech news, with OpenAI and Anthropic preparing to brief the UN Security Council on AI risks, while industry leaders continue grappling with questions about whether AI is really getting dangerously out of control. The AI sector is also experiencing rapid commercial momentum, as Snorkel AI tripled its valuation to $3.5B amid surging demand for training data, and both Anthropic and OpenAI released new models promising better performance at lower costs.

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I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend's company to see what they were working on (15 ppl).

2026-06-25 · 02:41 UTC
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Kalshi seeks funding at $40B valuation, nearly doubling last raise: FT

2026-06-25 · 02:23

Kalshi is reportedly in talks to raise new capital at a $40 billion valuation, reflecting growing investor confidence in…

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

2026-06-25 · 02:18

Cloudflare has launched self-managed OAuth for all customers, enabling developers to create their own OAuth clients for…

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

2026-06-25 · 02:16

Bible as RAG Database

2026-06-25 · 01:42

Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2

2026-06-25 · 01:36

Pangram Labs, an AI detection company, has released research exploring the internal representations of their Pangram 3.3.

Mixing Visual and Textual Code

2026-06-25 · 01:11

Researchers have developed Hybrid ClojureScript, the first programming language that seamlessly integrates visual and…

What I'm Finding About LLM Code Style and Token Costs

2026-06-25 · 00:52

The author argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude are generating unnecessarily verbose and inefficient…

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

2026-06-25 · 00:41

LuaJIT 3.0 is proposing syntax extensions through an umbrella GitHub issue to consolidate and document language…

Blogging Can Just Be Stating the Obvious

2026-06-24 · 23:46

Blogging often involves stating seemingly obvious truths that everyone experiences but few articulate publicly—like John…

Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world

2026-06-24 · 23:26

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and…

Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status

2026-06-24 · 23:09

Right now he's merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.

Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games

2026-06-24 · 22:47

GTA6 might be an outlier, though—at least for now.

Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood

2026-06-24 · 22:41

In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business,…

PostgreSQL Is Enough

2026-06-24 · 22:39

PostgreSQL Is Enough is a resource website promoting PostgreSQL as a comprehensive, all-in-one database solution for…

OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

2026-06-24 · 22:28

The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

2026-06-24 · 21:57

Elastic announced a 7% workforce reduction as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at accelerating innovation…

AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient

2026-06-24 · 21:56

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers as a share of total new hires have actually increased, according to…

AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

2026-06-24 · 21:42

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top…

The memory chip crunch is paying off for this U.S. company

2026-06-24 · 21:30

Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago.

New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

2026-06-24 · 21:04

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are…

One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"

2026-06-24 · 21:03

"Operation Endgame" simultaneously disrupts two widely used crime tools.

Your Hermes Agent Now Has a Pet. It Does Nothing—And That’s the Point

2026-06-24 · 20:45

Nous Research added animated mascot sprites to the self-improving AI agent—and the only thing they do is look cute while…

Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the $24,950 Slate auto.

2026-06-24 · 20:28

It has 205 miles of bare-bones range.

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

2026-06-24 · 20:20

StatusDude demonstrates that zero-downtime deployments are achievable with Docker Compose and HAProxy without…

Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

2026-06-24 · 20:09

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

2026-06-24 · 19:48

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

2026-06-24 · 19:40

Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

2026-06-24 · 19:27

Slate's embrace of LFP cells shows just how significantly the battery market in the U.S. has changed in recent years.

Leaked Code Suggests Anthropic Is Preparing to Bring Fable 5 Back

2026-06-24 · 19:25

A leaker found new strings inside Claude Code that hint at weekly Fable 5 usage built into subscription plans, not sold…

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