OpenAI’s Model Leak Tells You Everything About Where They’re At
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Sol as an official preview on June 26 — not a leak. That distinction tells you more about where they're at than any benchmark.
Apple’s Vision Pro Hardware Chief Just Defected to OpenAI. Here’s Why That Matters
Paul Meade spent years making Vision Pro happen at Apple. He was the guy who turned Apple’s mixed reality headset from a joke into something people actually wear in public without looking completely ridiculous — which, given Apple’s design…
When Two Harvard Dropouts Took on NVIDIA
Then TSMC fabricated its first batch of chips in 2025, and the conversation changed. By the end of June 2026, Etched had assembled something that looks less like a typical startup and more like a financial institutions reunion. The company quietly closed…
Ford Called Back 350 Engineers After AI QA Failed. The Lesson Is Useful for Every Automaker.
Ford is not the only automaker that has stumbled with AI. GM tried replacing full-time engineers with contractors a few years ago to cut costs, and ended up with quality problems and an internal culture crisis before reversing course. FCA (now…
Cloudflare Just Made AI Companies Choose: Pay Up or Get Blocked
OpenAI's Daybreak update brings GPT-5.5-Cyber, Codex Security automation, and Patch the Planet — the security tools that might actually matter for SOC teams.
Perplexity Brain Wants to Give AI a Persistent Memory. I Have Questions.
Perplexity Brain Wants to Give AI a Persistent Memory. I Have Questions. The moment I realized my AI assistant had forgotten our entire conversation was a Tuesday. I had spent forty minutes explaining the architecture of a system to it — the specific…
Meta AI Glasses Now Look Normal — And Cost $299
The latest Ray-Ban Meta glasses look like actual glasses, cost $299, and represent the first generation of smart eyewear that normal people might actually buy.
Sakana AI Fugu Ultra Routes Complex Tasks to the Right Specialist Model
A Tokyo-based engineer first mentioned Sakana AI to me in the context of foundation model research. Not as a footnote. In the same conversation as work coming out of Stanford. That was enough to make me pay attention. Sakana is based in Japan. Fugu Ultra…
AI Agents Forget Everything — Here Is What Teams Are Actually Doing About It
The complaint comes up in almost every team retrospective once AI agents go into production. Not a technical complaint, not a model accuracy complaint. Something simpler: the agent forgets. In customer service, it shows up as the bot that asks for your…
Salesforce Slackbot Gets a Full AI Rebuild: Now an Agent That Works Where You Work
Salesforce Rolls Out a New Slackbot: This Time It Is an Actual AI Agent Salesforce has been building toward this for a while. The company has been layering AI capabilities into its product line for the past few years, starting with Einstein AI features…
Railway Raised 100M to Build the AI-Native Cloud That AWS Is Not
Railway closed 100 million in funding last month. The pitch: AWS was built for a different era, and AI workloads expose the mismatch everywhere you look. The hyperscalers cannot restructure their pricing and infrastructure without cannibalizing the…
US Government Lifts Block on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 — What Actually Changed
The block hit on a Tuesday. I was in a Slack room with about two hundred developers when someone’s phone went off, then someone else’s, and then we all just sat there. Nobody said anything for maybe thirty seconds. First it was confusion.…