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Bustling downtown San Jose.

OpenAI published an article about the company’s high-level plan for AI, written by Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki. There are themes in it that will be familiar for anyone following OpenAI closely this year. This passage feels a little new:

Entirely automating everything is not the future we want. It would be unfulfilling, and it would be dangerous. AI should help people pursue their goals, not become untethered from them.

The Talk Show Live is tonight. I’ll be there. Not too late for tickets if you’re in the area. John Gruber blogs:

If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful big theater and tickets are still available.

Catching up on more of Apple’s new AI architecture. Finally have some clarity that the sort of default Apple Foundation Models will run on Apple servers. The most capable “Pro” model will run on Nvidia chips in Google Cloud. Seems like a reasonable way to split things up.

Myke Hurley blogged a very optimistic take about Siri AI:

I fully understand I may be in that WWDC Glow right now when it comes to Siri AI. I want to preface this before I say what I am about to say, which is that I imagine that after Siri AI ships later in the year, I will not have much need for any of the general-purpose chatbots like Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, or others.

I don’t see this at all. But everyone is different, and Siri AI should be fairly popular.

Three areas of insights for improving focus, from this afternoon’s long run: needs, defense, techniques.1. Make sure your "needs" are met. If your needs are not being met, you will be distracted from whatever you are trying to focus on by those unmet needs.2. Defend against a...

Sometimes it’s good take a step back and re-assess things from the immediate like daily routines & habits, to how to focus on goals whether within weeks, months, or years. Taking bits of time off to reflect on these and related topics. The grayscale phone interface has helped me get here: https://tantek.com/2026/124/b1/may-the-focus-be-with-you-iphone-grayscale

I’ve posted an update to the Micro.blog 4.0 beta for Mac. You can download the new version here. There’s no “Check for Updates” for the beta. It improves bookmarking and also adds collecting anonymous machine stats for the first time, so we can have a better sense of what Macs people are using.

Reading Stories Of Ireland by Brien Friel.

Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Mythos, Fable. I’m not a fan of Anthropic’s business but I’m a fan of their names. So nice.

The fifth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 5, I chat with Mike, the author of Shellsharks. We talk about, among other things, balancing personal and professional identities on personal websites, curating interesting content on the web, and creating bridges between disciplines with curation. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Instead of thinking about on-device models and cloud models, a better framing for Apple vs. everyone else is on-device context and cloud context. Apple is focused on apps, privacy, and security, at the expense of speed and universal access anywhere. There can’t really be a w...

A comment to a friend who roots for the Spurs. Ok you guys won one. I think last night they wanted it more than the Knicks. The Spurs knew they were going to be discombobulated, but the Knicks probably didn't expect the atomosphere to be so unusual? I was 100 miles away and could feel how much everything had changed. Whatever happens, in KnicksLand 2026 will mark a major change in the story, forever.

Maybe the cure for Meta glasses is that they be required by law to emit a signal that can be picked up by an app on a phone and can start ringing loudly when you're in range of one of these monsters, and the rate picks up when they look at you. You can point your phone at them and broadcast their image to a special website where their identities are collected and shared along with their location?

Congrats to the Iconfactory on 30 years! 🎉

I’m impressed with what Apple has come up with their most advanced on-device model. From the Machine Learning blog:

Built on cutting-edge Apple research, this 20-billion-parameter model uses a sparse architecture, activating just 1 to 4 billion parameters at a time depending on the request.

My Claude today pulled a Hal. It was so egregious. It made a change to the software based on a question I asked. It invented a whole set of instructions from me that I never gave it. And then it broke Rule #1 -- don't tell Dave what to do -- he is the driver. It is so import...

You know how job interviews for programmers include realtime problem-solving. Sometimes Claude is so dumb it could never pass one of those tests. Up till this point I would have been surprised to hear that.