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SaaS Sales Playbook Is Dead: Why Enterprise Buyers Are Ditching Multiyear Contracts

Over the past year, we’ve spoken with dozens of SaaS founders, GTM leaders, and buyers navigating a fundamental shift in

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Text • Sam Alba

AI Agents Need Help. Here’s 4 Ways To Ship Software Reliably

This post is a written deep-dive of the talk I gave at the 2025 AI Engineer World’s Fair in San

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The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Updates on the Midtown Office Shooting

Brittany Kriegstein, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, reports the latest news of last night's shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office tower.

 


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Text • Javier Carbajal

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

Stress, isolation, and uncertainty appear to have caused the brain to age quicker for those who lived through the crisis.

WIRED
Text • Reece Rogers

ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems

OpenAI’s new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn’t address generative AI’s underlying disruption of education.

WIRED
Text • Molly Taft

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.

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Text • John Gruber

Amazon Is Selling M4 MacBook Airs for $200 Off

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These prices — which I presume are a back-to-school season promotion — are even lower than those during the weeklong “Prime Day” earlier this month, and you don’t need to be a Prime subscriber to get them:

These are make-me-rich affiliate links, as is this link for AirPods Pro 2 for just $200, $50 off.

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Trump's Epstein Betrayal Triggers MAGA 'Hero Frame' Collapse

With his flip-flop on the Epstein Files, Trump is reframing himself. The hero frame is collapsing into what we might call a Betrayer frame.

https://www.theframelab.org/trumps-epstein-betrayal-triggers-maga-hero-frame-collapse/

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Text • Kylie Robison

Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

The Brian Lehrer Show
Audio • WNYC

Your Side Hustles

A sharp uptick in people with side hustles is fueling fears of another recession. Listeners call in to talk about their side hustles and how much more cash they make each month doing them. 


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Audio • WNYC

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the United States,  and Katy Crosby, Mercy Corps senior director of Policy and Advocacy, talk about the on-the-ground reports they're receiving on the food and medical crises in Gaza.


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Audio • WNYC

'Cane Sugar' vs High Fructose Corn Syrup

Coca-Cola announced it will offers some "cane sugar" offerings in response to pressure from Pres. Trump.  Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health emerita at NYU and the author of many books, including the forthcoming, What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters (North Point Press, 2025), talks about the chemical differences and perceived differences of the two sweeteners.


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Text • Alexander T. Williams

HTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up?

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For a long time now, JavaScript has been the hero of the modern web, swooping in to build full-scale apps

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Text • John Gruber

Microsoft Introduces ‘Copilot Mode’ in Edge

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Sean Lyndersay, general manager of Edge at Microsoft: For decades, the way we’ve used browsers has remained linear: open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat. It’s a model that’s worked well, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed. Until now. As AI begin...

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Text • Matthew Gault

Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random

Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random

The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing without pulling the trigger. The manufacturer says that's impossible, but the firearms community is showing the truth is more complicated.

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Text • Lauren Theisen

The Robbin’ Padres Took Away A Home Run Before Anyone Knew What Happened

The Robbin’ Padres Took Away A Home Run Before Anyone Knew What Happened
Folks with fancy degrees will tell you that kleptomania is a mental illness, but I bet those doctors never watched a San Diego Padres game. On a couple of occasions already this month, Kelsey has covered how the outfielders of the Robbin' Padres so spectacularly take away wo...

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Audio • WNYC

The Environmental Protection Agency Flips on Greenhouse Gases

Jake Spring, Climate and Environment Enterprise Reporter at The Washington Post, discusses his reporting on why the EPA is proposing to rescind a 2009 legal opinion, referred to as the "endangerment finding", which determined that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, and justified their regulation. 


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Text • Ankit Jain

The Case Against Metrics for Developer Productivity

Thousands of colorful poles, implying charts and metrics. DORA metrics were not designed to measure developer productivity.

Dashboards, metrics frameworks, acronyms, scorecards, tools — in the rush to quantify and optimize every aspect of software development, our

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Text • John Gruber

Google Chrome Adds AI-Generated Store Summaries

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Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: Google on Monday announced an update to its Chrome web browser that will introduce AI-generated store reviews to U.S. shoppers with the aim of helping to determine the best places to make a purchase. The feature, which will be availab...

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Why Generative AI Needs A New Kind of Security Solution

The rapid adoption of generative AI tools, AI agents and AI coding tools is creating a new threat vector that

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