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A funny thing happened on the way to writing our book Architecture as Code—the entire industry shifted. Generally, we write books iteratively—starting with a seed of an idea, then developing it through workshops, conference presentations, online classes, and so on. That’s exactly what we did about a year ago with our Architecture as Code book. […]
Read full articleA real astrology engine disguised as a fortune teller. A scammer-punishment machine loaded with the Shrek screenplay. A tool that reads any book and maps every idea to your actual life. These are not normal skills.
The shift to usage-based AI billing introduces expense volatility, impacting financial stability and strategic planning for tech companies. The post Microsoft cancels Claude Code licenses as AI costs surge across the industry appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder – and how to learn to live with it Simone Stolzoff describes himself as “naturally an uncertain person” inclined to rumination and self-doubt. This tendency benefits him in his work as a journalist, but can otherwise be a double-edged sword. While working for a magazine in New York, Stolzoff was approached about a job at a design firm in San Francisco. Now, he laughs at how tortured he felt “having to decide between two attractive career paths”. Continue reading...
Washington’s week from hell for stablecoins and the Fed. Across crypto X, the dominant thread is a single question: does Washington finally lock in a crypto‑compatible framework or kill the industry’s yield engine in the name of bank stability. Posts…
In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the "student." Although it's often used legitimately within companies using one of their own AI models to train another, it's also a practice that's sometimes used by smaller AI labs to try to get their models to mimic the performance of a larger competitor's model. Asked on the stand whether he knew what model distillation … Read the full story at The Verge.
A survey of the city’s ads shows an ecosystem selling real products with real swagger, while sidestepping safety, job loss, and anyone outside the bubble.
"I think there's optimism, from an industry perspective, that we'll be better than where we started at the beginning of the administration," John Miller said.
New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.
