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WordCamp US 2018 sparked a career-changing conversation in a hallway. Discover the importance of networking beyond sessions at WordCamps.

Sam Altman in an op-ed about safety for the Financial Times:

Democratic institutions must not cede their responsibilities to AI labs. The labs develop the technology, but citizens and their elected representatives must make the rules. The most important decisions about how this technology is used should be made through democratic processes, not by a small number of companies in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, in a twist because it’s an election year, Greg Abbott has decided he’s against data centers despite previously championing them.

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% from the same quarter a year ago and roughly 74,000 vehicles above Wall Street’s consensus estimate.

It’s Tesla’s strongest second quarter ever and its first year-over-year delivery growth after two straight years of decline.

This animated explainer, the third in a series of animated videos done in partnership with Briefly, guides you through which justices dominated this term, which judicial alliances mattered most, and whether the court's so-called ideological divide is more hype than reality. 

Yet more mobile app updates! Epilogue 2.4 is out for Android too. If you aren’t familiar with the mobile companion apps to Micro.blog, check out the full list on the download page.

It is said, probably more often than is necessary, that a team that loses a player to a red card must be prepared to suffer. This is particularly true when the team that has gone down a man has a lead to protect. As soon as that card comes out, fans must prepare to watch the...

You can't learn from your mistakes if you aren't bloody truthful to yourself about what happened and what went wrong.

I'm working on an app in Claude that has a server and the server has an API. One day we had an aha moment. I bet you (Claude) can control the app via the API. Yes. And now unless we're debugging something in the UI, Claude just interacts via the API. It feels like a person but you have to remember that it's actually a piece of software. ;-)

I saw a bit of a commencement speech by Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO of Google, where he was talking about AI and getting boo'd by the audience. But he was saying things that were right and should be paid attention to. Most important, and I'm paraphrasing, the AI world is just getti...

This article explains why traditional CI/CD gates are not enough for production AI systems. I share a practical release-gating approach

The post Why traditional CI/CD fails for LLMs (and the release gates we built to fix it) appeared first on The New Stack.

This episode of This Week in AI arrived at a moment when the AI infrastructure most teams take for granted suddenly looked a lot less stable. Andreas Welsch, founder and chief human AI officer at Intelligence Briefing, was joined by Matt Palmer, head of developer experience at Conductor and developer educator on LinkedIn Learning, to […]

Jake S. Truscott and Adam Feldman crunched the numbers from the 2025-26 term and pulled together key takeaways.

McMurtry has unveiled the production version of its Speirling electric hypercar, which uses giant fans to suck itself to the ground to get unreal performance numbers and has shattered track records.

STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories away forever.

The post The Human Story of the Open Web appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

Rivian dropped a positive note today to investors on production and delivery totals for the quarter ending June 30, 2026. The company produced 12,613 vehicles at its manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, and delivered 12,194 vehicles. That compares very favorably to the 9000/11,000 numbers they had predicted. Looking forward, Rivian is also driving forecasts up…

The founders risked everything. What are we willing to defend?

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"A dispatch from the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where the drinks were good, and the nature documentaries were, for the most part, sad."

Early on in the Christmas classic It’s A Wonderful Life, there’s a scene where George Bailey absentmindedly strolls back and forth on the sidewalk in front of Mary Hatch’s house, dragging a stick along her fence. Mary sees him from an upstairs window, leans out and yells, “What are you doing… picketing? It’s a great […]