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With the Milwaukee Brewers sitting comfortably at the top of the NL Central, you might think that it's an easy time to be their vice president of communications. Post the Jake Bauers highlight reel, oversee some decent memes featuring Bernie Brewer, and let the good vibes keep on flowing. All you have to do is not commit any big misstep. For example, don’t repost Elon Musk tweets in support of far-right British politicians who peddle racist propaganda about Britain being threatened by violent immigrants.

I would go as far as to say maybe just don't retweet Elon Musk at all, but what do I know? I'm not the vice president of communications for the Milwaukee Brewers. Tyler Barnes is, and on Tuesday he popped onto Twitter after a two-year hiatus to weigh in on British politics by retweeting Elon Musk's white genocide propaganda.

Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others.

Hayden Field and Tom Warren, writing for The Verge (gift link): This year’s Build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcée posting a thirst trap on Instagram. “It’s always fun to be at developer conferences in times of great change,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said ons...

The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is breaking containment and can no longer be ignored.

Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.

Reviewed my ChatGPT memories after OpenAI updated dreaming today:

In contrast to saved memories, dreaming leverages a background process that allows ChatGPT to learn from many conversations and synthesize ChatGPT’s memory state in order to always provide the freshest, most relevant context to your conversations. Dreaming also makes it easier for memory to include context that occurs naturally in conversation, without relying on explicit requests to remember something.

Claude has dreams too. Codex and OpenClaw use lots of Markdown files to update memory, which makes it fairly transparent.

If there’s one big takeaway from the AI coding space this week, it’s that the era of flat-rate, all-you-can-code pricing

The post Cursor cuts prices and adds enterprise spend controls amid “tokenomics” reckoning appeared first on The New Stack.

Team Spirit is a wonderful short film for ESPN by Errol Morris about the funerals of die-hard sports fans.

I love the Steelers fan laid out in a recliner under a Steelers blanket in front of a television with a Steelers game on as if “he just fell asleep watching the game”.

[This is a vintage post originally from Aug 2012.]

Tags: Errol Morris · sports · timeless posts · video

It's not the sort of anxiety that haunts you, or maybe it just rates below too many of my other haunting anxieties to register. But as a non-soccer person, the quadrennial arrival of the World Cup has a peculiar and not altogether unpleasant anxiety about it; a bunch of stuf...

Google has introduced Gemma 4 12B, a new model designed to bring high-performance, multi-modal intelligence to standard laptops. Small enough

The post Google Gemma 4 12B nearly matches 26B benchmarks — and runs on your laptop appeared first on The New Stack.

Ready or not, the agentic enterprise is here, and the key to enabling it efficiently is being debated from various

The post Snowflake thinks it knows what’s really slowing developers down appeared first on The New Stack.

Peter Borg: Lingon makes scheduling apps, scripts, shortcuts, and commands feel simple. Create a task in minutes, run it on a schedule, and stay in control. Lingon helps you run whatever you want whenever you want without living in Terminal. Schedule apps, scripts, shor...

As large language models evolve from mere chatbots into autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and acting, they are beginning

The post Autonomous agents have met their biggest challenge yet: The database. appeared first on The New Stack.

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

The official trailer for season three of Silo. Looks like we finally get some origin story stuff (well, more than a brief scene at least).

The biggest obstacle to enterprise AI isn’t models, data science talent, or even infrastructure.  It’s operations. Across today’s enterprises, hybrid

The post Why agentic AI makes the ops platform the most important layer in the enterprise appeared first on The New Stack.

The indie artist has played a string of surprise, small venue shows with no phones allowed, prompting fans to piece together clues about a potential upcoming album.

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best interior design advice column. Today we have a bathroom color dilemma, a backyard makeover, and someone wondering if they’re DIYing too close to the sun. GB asks:  I own an older townhouse type of condo in the southeast. ...

On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place. “The bulldozer effortlessly demolished cars and buildings, including the home of a former mayor, the office of a newspaper that had sided against him in an editorial…”

This month's featured home theater is astounding in its extensive planning and execution. Owner Robert Vanman went all out on an uncompromising 13.7.8 audio system and 194" screen in a room-within-a-room-within-a-room. Scott Wilkinson talks with Robert about his amazing the...