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Background Work: From Cron Jobs to Distributed Systems

Consider what can happen when someone uploads a profile photo to a web application. Depending on the use case, the application may resize the image into different sizes. It might run the image through a content check…

Robotaxis enter their villain era 

It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn't human - and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain…

Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The "connectome" provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also provides an opportunity…

2026.34: App Snore

( Adam Mares , Greatest of All Talk) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for…

OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI.…

OpenAI Jalapeño 🌶️, Perplexity Portable Computer  💻, Claude combines memory 🧠

The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: More on the “great engineering leader career break.” The industry is changing fast, and the VPE and CTO roles…

The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far

The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show officially opened to the public today following a week of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're struggling to keep up with what has been announced,…

Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming

Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.

Apple Updates Mini and Studio, AI Computers, OpenAI Jalapeño

Apple and OpenAI have two completely different hardware announcements; both represent pressure on Nvidia.

Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Epoch and METR release MirrorCode, a benchmark for seeing…

Every machine is about to speak Claude

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) started as a connector and eventually became the default way AI agents talk to software. The company’s next act is getting a bit more physical. The new Model Hardware Standard…

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.

Netflix to Sell Streaming Services?, Streamers as Aggregators, Revisiting Roku

Netflix is considering selling other streaming services, and I think it's a good idea; it's also a let-down for Netflix's original goals and potential pivots.

Gemini Omni 1.1 🎬, Cohere Parse 📄, Codex persistent mode 👨‍💻

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Import AI reader giveaway! Upcoming event: Fiction and the…

OpenAI Cursor split 💔, self-improving AI 🧠, GPT-6 Astra 🚀

llm-gemini 0.34

Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash , with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan .…

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The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Did Meta really decide to reduce team sizes by 60% because of AI? An in-depth report by Reuters details how…

An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment

Listen to this post: Good morning, This week’s Stratechery interview is with OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman . Brockman dropped out of college in 2010 to join Stripe, and rose to become the company’s CTO;…

The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: New trend: tech companies moving to open models. Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are making…

Fable 5.1 🧠, World Labs Atlas 🌍, Cognition $47B 💰

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API…

How to Make LLMs 3X Faster

What is loop engineering? (Sponsored) Every agent already runs a loop. Loop engineering adds a loop around the agent itself, enabling it to evaluate its output, try again when the work falls short, and refine its…

“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs

For many small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), VMware has become too expensive. Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualization firm brought the end of perpetual license sales and the arrival of pricey, stacked,…

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Make new code the last resort Discussion

DeepSeek Flash Vision 👀, Claude Mythos security 🛡️, inside Grok Bot 🤖

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I…

GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts…

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

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How to Steal an AI Model’s Private Thoughts

Secure AI and MCP with protocol-level access control (Sponsored) Securing AI usually requires hardcoding permissions into application code for every MCP server, or using static API tokens for all-or-nothing access (and…

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

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OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control…

CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom

U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2

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Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

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Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . AI can decisively out-persuade humans: …“AI systems were…

Autonomy and Innovation

Listen to this post : Log in to listen While not every Western followed the cliché, by the 1930s cowboy serials had landed on a consistent visual cue: the hero of the show wore a white hat, and the villain wore a black…

OpenAI's first AI chip brings the heat

OpenAI named its first in-house AI chip Jalapeño, and the first benchmarks just came out appropriately spicy. The company's internal tests have the chip beating Nvidia's flagship GPUs on both speed and power efficiency,…

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The Letterboxd alternative Discussion

The Pragmatic Engineer: Five years

Wow, has it already been five years?! The newsletter hits a big milestone this week, and it wouldn’t have been possible without subscribers. Thanks to everyone who’s read an article or listened to a podcast episode…

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please . Want to be able to deal with RSI? Here are 23 actionable…

Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face

Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company does is about avoiding a consolidated world.

The SpaceX-Nvidia partnership heads for orbit

Sam Altman called data centers in space "ridiculous." Elon Musk just answered with a launch timeline and a big-time hardware partner. SpaceX and Nvidia are officially teaming up on Musk's orbital data centers, aiming…

AGI is whatever you want it to be

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast , we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter…

GeoJSON Map Viewer

Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council ) and found a need to display some GeoJSON…

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of…

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’…

EP223: Ollama vs vLLM vs SGLang

Over 80% of container spend is wasted. Here’s how to fix it. (Sponsored) Many teams over-provision containers, underuse spot instances, and have no visibility into which pods are burning budget. Get the eBook from…

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost

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Codex bundles LibreOffice

I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called…

The Pulse: Meta’s self-inflicted resignation-wave

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Meta can’t stop the “resignation-wave” it triggered. In what was predictable: Meta’s layoffs and forced…

Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just…

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical guidance document on September…