Terrific, poignant profile of Warriors head coach Steve Kerr by Wright Thompson for ESPN:
Kerr doesn’t want the Warriors to end up like the New England Patriots, marred by grudges and grievances. He watched Michael Jordan retire, then unretire, then retire, then unretire...
The 13 circuits of the U.S. federal courts of appeals operate with a fair amount of independence, including their typographic choices. I was reminded of this today while reading the aforelinked decision from the Ninth Circuit in Epic v. Apple, because the Ninth Circuit sets ...
Following up on yesterday’s item re: Apple’s petition to the Supreme Court, here’s the Ninth Circuit ruling. It starts with a “Summary” that is specifically intended for the convenience of the reader. Page 50 is where it covers Apple’s argument regarding Trump v. CASA as precedent that an injunction on commissions should apply only to Epic Games, not to all developers in the U.S. App Store.
James Poniewozik, writing for The New York Times (gift link):
He didn’t land the pope, but he got a Beatle. He didn’t have a new
project to announce, but he left us with a song (in fact two). He
didn’t choose to end his show, but he ended it his own weird,
wonderful way....
Kieran Healy kindly accepted my implicit homework assignment yesterday, and wrote a piece on Apple Sports’s bizarre “zero sum” team stats visualization:
It also doesn’t do away with the core problem. That problem is
principally one of information design rather than data
...
Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac:
Apple today filed a request with the Supreme Court in an attempt
to reverse key lower court rulings over the App Store injunction
in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games. [...] In its
petition, Apple is asking the Supreme Co...
Speaking of Apple and sports, here’s another one from Apple Newsroom:
This Saturday, May 23, Apple TV will present a special live Major
League Soccer match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro — marking the first time iPhone will be used to capture the entirety
of a maj...
Apple Newsroom:
Apple Sports — the free app for iPhone that gives fans access to
real-time scores, stats, and more — is now available to download
on the App Store in more than 170 countries and regions around the
world, including more than 90 newly added markets. Designe...
When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?”
Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place — only a
place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when. Unless you are
in a place right now, you can only speak of it in past-tense.
Andrew Liszewski and Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge (gift link):
Google’s I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related
announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new
features for Search and Gmail, and updates about its Project Aura
smart glasses.
Katherine Blunt and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal from Google I/O (gift link):
Google is supercharging its Gemini artificial-intelligence model
to become more competitive in the era of agentic AI.
The company has started rolling out what it calls ...
Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger, and Brian X. Chen, opening The New York Times’s report on yesterday’s Google I/O keynote (gift link):
For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender bar
where people typed in keywords like “World Cup.”
But over the past three yea...
22-year-old pop singer-songwriter Brye, on TikTok:
“Lemons”, my biggest song ever, that went like super viral during
quarantine back in 2020, was actually produced, if you can believe
it, in GarageBand on my school iPad.
My high school gave us all iPads and I produced “...
Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few
years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am
very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain
deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on
it in time.
Karpathy is, to say the least, a star in the AI research field. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, was director of AI at Tesla (reporting directly to Elon Musk) from 2017–2022, went back to OpenAI in 2023, and then left again in 2024 to start an AI education company named Eureka Labs. He coined the term “vibe coding” in February last year.
The context that actually matters isn’t in your database. It’s in the tools your users live in every day. Multi-stage agents stall the moment they hit a step they can’t see. And every missing integration is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, weeks of plumbing before the agent reads a single record.
WorkOS Pipes connects your agent to the tools your users live in. Pre-built connectors for GitHub, Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive, and more. Pipes handles OAuth, token refresh, and credential storage. You call the real provider API with a fresh token, every time. Your agent pulls context at every step, for as long as the task runs.
Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit
against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the
three-year statute of limitations.
Mr. Musk filed his suit against t...
Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik:
When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market
capitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, it
sits near $4 trillion. That is more than a 1,000 percent inc...
While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link):
Even though it has largely missed out on the...
A follow-up point on my “AI Is Technology, Not a Product” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”:
By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that people will swipe on
thei...
Jim Prosser, back in February:
Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only
works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t
kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking
over the public meant the industry had built ...
Wikipedia:
The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established
permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned
corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was
established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9, Section 15 of the
...
Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup:
Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for
artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly
half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these
projects, with 7% strongly in favor. [...]
The data cente...
My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.
Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica:
But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off;
Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone.
Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep
using Reddit.”
There was no way to ...
Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight:
The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of cracking
down on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money,
Meta has hamstrung its own fraud prevention teams and helped fake
companies bypass its filters to en...
Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (News+ link to get around Wired’s miserly paywall):
Much more recently, I quizzed Ternus and global...
Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media:
Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer
science section of ArXiv, wrote on X: “If generative AI
tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content,
biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect reference...
Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link):
OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company
as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired
has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now
lead the company’s produ...
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