Marc Malkin, Variety:
Jessica Chastain says Apple TV is finally going to release her
political thriller series “The Savant.” [...]
“Before it was like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to see it,’ but
now I can say, ‘We’re going to see it,’” Chastain told me
exclusively on Saturday at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in
Santa Monica.
As for when, sources tell me that Apple is planning for a July
release.
Previously, re: The Savant’s limbo release date.
Link: variety.com/2026/tv/columns/jessica-chastain-apple-tv…
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Every AI agent demo looks magical, but most hit a wall in enterprise deployment. It’s not model quality or latency. It’s authorization. Authentication proves an agent’s identity. Authorization defines its blast radius.
The winners in enterprise AI won’t have the most features. They’ll be the ones enterprises can safely trust. Learn how WorkOS FGA scopes that blast radius with resource-level permissions, and read their deep dive for more.
Link: workos.com/blog/agents-need-authorization-not-just…
Woohoo! Jasper and Florian added webmention support to their blogs!
Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems. Their system prompt archive now dates all the way back to Claude 3 in July 2024 and it's always interesting to see how the system prompt evolves as they publish new models.
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Research: Claude system prompts as a git timeline
Anthropic publish the system prompts for Claude chat and make that page available as Markdown. I had Claude Code turn that page into separate files for each model and model family with fake git commit dates to enable browsing the changes via the GitHub commit view.
Tags: system-prompts, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms
Vittoria Benzine, at Artnet (via Oliver Thomas):
The singular American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick saw the little
details. He even saw the future. But, most of all, he saw
people, with all their quirks. Kubrick’s films, from Dr.
Strangelove (1964) to The Shining (1980), of...
Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
Mac Minis with larger-capacity RAM chips — a base M4 model with
32GB of RAM, starting at $999, and the M4 Pro models with 64GB of
RAM, starting at $1,999 — are “currently unavailable” on
Apple.com. And estim...
Agentic Engineering Patterns >
Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a lot of work done in a single shot.
First, some background. I send out a free Substack newsletter around once a week containing content copied-and-pasted from my blog. I'm effecti...
Apple Design:
Avoid pestering people. Repeated rating requests can be
irritating, and may even negatively influence people’s opinion of
your app. Consider allowing at least a week or two between
requests, prompting again after people demonstrate additional
engagement wit...
I wrote yesterday:
And the apps that do the right thing — like Godier’s Current — and never solicit a review like a needy hustler are penalized.
On Mastodon, Steven Troughton-Smith responded:
Review prompts are the difference between a great app getting five
positi...
This year's PyCon US is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference talks from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th and tutorial and sprint days either side. It's in Long Beach, California this year, the first time PyCon has come to the US West Coast since...
Nancy Friedman notes the decline in quality in movie taglines. “As movies have become louder, flashier, and more expensive, their taglines have atrophied: they’re limp, lackluster, and uninspiring.”
The 16th season of the Dissect podcast is a deep dive into Daft Punk; here’s the 1st episode.
"Armed with drones, balaclavas and vegan sausage rolls."
The Bodega Cats of New York project documents the working cats of NYC’s delis, bodegas, and corner stores.
The cat at the local deli wasn’t a pet. She knew the regulars. She kept the mice out. She gave people a reason to walk an extra block. And she was technically a violation of city health code.
That was six years ago. Since then, the project has documented over 150 shops, collected 13,500 petition signatures, and helped introduce the first legislation in New York City history to classify bodega cats as working animals.
Available soon in book form.
Tags: cats · NYC · photography
