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Google’s New AI Summaries in Discover: The Next Blow to Publishers?

If you work in media or publishing, brace yourself — another platform update from Google is quietly shifting the ground beneath us.

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Trillions Flow into AI: The New Infrastructure Arms Race

🌐 Big Tech Bets Trillions on AI Infrastructure

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Claude 4 Has Arrived: Anthropic’s AI Agents Raise the Bar for Autonomous Intelligence

Anthropic has officially launched the Claude 4 model family, and with it, the frontier of artificial intelligence just shifted again.

a month ago 24 votes
OpenAI Launches Codex: The Future of AI-Powered Software Engineering

OpenAI has officially launched Codex, its most advanced AI coding agent to date, within ChatGPT. Designed for developers, teams, and enterprises, Codex represents a major step forward in agentic AI systems purpose-built for software engineering.

2 months ago 34 votes
OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all.

In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of its nonprofit entity, abandoning earlier plans to restructure as a for-profit company.

2 months ago 22 votes

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Announcing Speedrunning the Idea Maze

A live course, limited to 30 people. Applications close 21st July.

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June 2025: Show times

I really want to stop mentioning Trump. Even when he sends troops into LA, one of my favourite cities. But when he launches 30kt bombs on Iran, it is very hard to avoid talking about him. In the context of what Trump’s been up to, the welfare reform screw-ups by the Labour government seem almost… Continue reading June 2025: Show times →

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Issue 88 – The stockchain

Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it

4 days ago 10 votes