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Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?

Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.

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Text • Tyler Gooch

Survival Tips for Anyone Currently Being Hunted by Joey Chestnut

Somehow he’s escaped containment. They were supposed to throw a burlap sack over Mr. Chestnut’s head, like they do when subduing an ostrich, and take him away once he’d finished the pile of hot dogs. But now he’s loose, and he’s picked up your scent. Here is what to do… Run ...

Remarkable People
Audio • Guy Kawasaki

What Most People Get Wrong About Arguments

The internet has trained us to think every disagreement needs a winner and a loser.

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Text • Reinette LeJeune

Velotric + Heybike July 4th e-bike sales with up to $828 savings, Samsung Bespoke AI ventless washer/dryer $1,850, Greenworks, more

Leading our Thursday Green Deals is Velotric’s 4th of July Sale with up to $812 e-bike savings, which is offering another chance to score the Fold 1 Plus Folding e-bike with SensorSwap tech and Apple Find My at its $1,399 low, among other models. There’s also Heybike’s own ...

Rich Tabor
Text • Rich Tabor

WordCamps

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

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Text • Patrick Redford

Your Guide To The 2026 Tour de France

Your Guide To The 2026 Tour de France
Now that we've covered two of the most interesting fellas who will be riding the 2026 Tour de France, and the theory of why they'll be riding this particular route, it's time to talk about the route itself. This year's Tour will span 3,321 kilometers of Spain and France whil...

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Text • Jason Kottke

“ The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month...

“The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month or $100 per year, according to analysis of thousands of publications hosted on Beehiiv.” KDO memberships start at $3/mo. and I haven’t raised prices since 2016. You folks are getting an incredible deal!

Platformonomics
Text • Charles Fitzgerald

Platformonomics TGIF #133: July 2, 2026

Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email TGIT. Happy Fourth! My Writing Governor’s new economic council snubs startups, forgets AI I wrote another piece for GeekWire, this time on Washington Governor Bob Ferguson’s new […]

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Text • Peter Johnson

Kia axed its affordable EV, but a replacement is set to go on sale soon

Kia is dropping the Niro EV from its 2027 US lineup and will only sell the hybrid version. The EV3 will replace it later this year as Kia’s most affordable electric vehicle.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Frederic Lardinois

What comes after attention? This startup says it already knows.

When Subquadratic launched earlier this year, it could build a sparse-attention model that could handle a 12-million token context window

The post What comes after attention? This startup says it already knows. appeared first on The New Stack.

Fresh Air
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Writer Kennedy Ryan uses romance novels as a vehicle for discourse

The romance books Kennedy Ryan read growing up rarely included characters who looked like her. Now she deliberately centers people the genre has left out – like women of color and women with chronic illness and disabilities. The award-winning novelist spoke with Tonya Mosley about her “Trojan horse” storylines, the value of the sex scene, and giving people happily-ever-afters. 

Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews Craig Ferguson’s new CNN series ‘American On Purpose.’ 


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The Passion According To A. Frog

The Passion According To A. Frog
Ever since I was scooped up as a froglet from my marsh, taken into this laboratory, and developed a burgeoning freelance writing career, I have felt lost. I know I am searching, but I do not know what I seek. I want to share my life story with someone, anyone. I want to unde...

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Text • Jameson Dow

Hydrogen for heavy trucks is dead, says world’s 2nd-largest oil company

Hydrogen heavy trucks are being displaced by electric ones, as advancements in batteries and charging infrastructure eat away at the advantages of hydrogen, according to Sinopec’s internal magazine.

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Text • John Scalzi

Some Passing Thoughts About 250 Years

In no particular order: 1. No, I’m not feeling particularly engaged with the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, but that’s mostly because a malignant narcissist decided to make a national celebration mostly about himself, and that malignant narcissist is also an actual fascist, so that kind of sucked all the fun out of it […]

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Text • Ray Ratto

Belgium Cannot Be Understood By The Pedestrian Soccer Mind

Belgium Cannot Be Understood By The Pedestrian Soccer Mind
It has long been a staple of sporting analysis that the last thing you saw is a terrible predictor of the thing you will see. Las Vegas is paved with the headstones of people who thought they figured out a team's future by breaking down its past. And then there's the Belgia...

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Hank Green interviews Ze Frank , who kind of invented...

Hank Green interviews Ze Frank, who kind of invented the modern YouTube format (aka vlogging). “At the episode’s end, Ze lays down some of the best advice Hank’s ever heard.”

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Text • Jason Snell

EveryMac turns 30 ↦

EveryMac is a site with a comprehensive set of specs for Mac models, current and historic, that’s celebrating an anniversary today:

On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com

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Text • Veronica Riccobene

Commander-In-Crypto

 Commander-In-Crypto

It’s been a lucrative year for President Donald Trump.

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Text • Sohini Desai

Unlike The Defendants, One Of The Prairieland Judges Is Part Of An Organized Cell of Extremists

Unlike The Defendants, One Of The Prairieland Judges Is Part Of An Organized Cell of Extremists
Whether you remember his name or not, you've probably been reading about Judge Reed O'Connor and his judicial malevolence for years. O'Connor is making headlines again for being one of two judges to sentence 15 ICE protestors to a combined 547 years in prison. As the writer ...

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Text • Carolyn Wells

The Brits Panning for Gold

"In remote rivers, prospectors still hunt for treasure .They even hold tournaments."