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If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. The friction of writing syntax has collapsed. With Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic workflows now living inside our Docker containers and IDEs, generating the first implementation of a distributed streaming pipeline or a complex API…
Microsoft EVP overseeing Office and LinkedIn Ryan Roslansky posts an oddly oblivious self-own. The company flooding the internet with AI slop has started to realize how dumb its technology actually is in most scenarios.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…
ASUS told investors on August 12, 2026 that the initial production run of its RTX Spark laptops and mini PCs had been fully claimed by channel partners before a single unit reached a retail shelf, and that the company is now placing additional orders with Nvidia to cover a Q4 2026 launch. The disclosure, made…
ASUS and MSI have run out of RTX Spark computers before most shoppers even had a chance to place an order. Both companies confirmed that their first production allocations from Nvidia are already spoken for through channel pre-orders, and both are now going back to Nvidia for a second batch of the GB10-powered chips that…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, accusing the $2 trillion AI company of pirating copyrighted songs at massive scale to train Claude, its family of AI models. The lawsuit, filed Friday in California federal court, alleges […] The post Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over copyrighted song theft used for AI…
OpenAI’s bet on advertising is paying off far sooner than many expected. ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in less than 200 days after launch, giving the AI giant another major revenue stream as it […] The post OpenAI’s ChatGPT Ads Hit $1 Billion Revenue Run Rate in Under 200…
Searches for “amp code” jumped hard in August 2026, and most of the people typing it are not asking about electrical current. They are trying to figure out what happened to Sourcegraph’s coding agent, why it suddenly has a $200-a-month tier called Gigawatt, and whether it is worth switching to from Cursor or Claude Code.…
Four of the biggest data-labeling firms behind today’s leading AI models — the companies that quietly clean, tag, and package the raw material large language models are trained on — are working both sides of a widening US-China tech divide, according to a New York Post report published August 30, 2026. The firms supply training…
Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken strong positions on almost every major tech issue there is. For example, Meta just reached…
