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In this episode, Judd Kessler breaks down the hidden rules behind everyday competition, from school admissions to Taylor Swift tickets. He reveals how “hidden markets” quietly shape who gets what—and how understanding them gives you an edge. Drawing from his new book Lucky B...

Bustling downtown San Jose.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 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 ...

In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the Brexit vote, which was cast 10 years ago this month. David explains why Brexit has not only been a failure but has led to years of political instability in the U.K. in the deca...

The current gold rush in civic tech is around HR1 work requirements implementation. Vendors are pitching states on systems to help them comply with the new federal mandates. The pitch sounds like operational efficiency, reducing burden on caseworkers, helping eligible people stay on benefits through the new verification gauntlet. What’s being built is administrative burden as a service.

Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond. Was a U.S. law firm right to pay a $20 million ransom. Could Cisco h...

Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives

There are about a thousand and one debates about the ecology of AI, the ethics of AI, the governance of AI. As the technology advances, the debate with the slipperiest footing is on the actual efficacy of AI: does this work for this application? Or for this one? Ultimately, whether LLMs “work” as a technology or not doesn’t matter. The function of a system is its output, and no matter what utility individuals find in the tech, the widespread adoption and deployment should be considered and regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force.

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.

a natural evolution of Follow the Crypto, her project tracking over $130m spent by crypto companies in last year’s elections

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Apple held its big WWDC 2026 keynote and introduced the new Siri AI for iOS 27, with sign-ups now available for the iOS 27 beta. However, Siri AI will be delayed in the EU for iOS and iPadOS 27. Liquid Glass has some opt-in options to roll back elements of the design. And A...

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.

Every time I see a link to one of of Car Pal’s BeamNG car simulator videos, I have to stop what I’m doing and watch it. (It’s becoming a problem.) This one was particularly good: Is it possible to reach the speed of light with perpetual speed boosters?

A recent video of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea offers the possibility of deriving valuable information for conservation strategies.

Two NFL players were arrested in recent days as part of domestic violence criminal cases. On Monday night, Rams offensive lineman Alaric Jackson was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of felony domestic violence, first reported by NBC4. Earlier on Monday, Broncos outside l...

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.

Anthropic has launched a streaming music video on YouTube for “thinking and building” called Claude FM. “Made and curated by musicians.”

The automaker today is turning on vehicle-to-grid charging for its GM Energy customers. Will people actually use it?