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Extreme Heat Is a Crisis Cities Can See Coming

10 July 2026

Extreme Heat Is a Crisis Cities Can See Coming

In June 2026, Spain’s mortality monitoring system attributed just over 1,000 deaths to a single month of heat, roughly three times the average June figure of the previous eleven years. I wrote about t…

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Why Microsoft Is Putting 6,000 Engineers Inside Its Customers

9 July 2026

Why Microsoft Is Putting 6,000 Engineers Inside Its Customers

In the space of two months, Microsoft, AWS, OpenAI and Anthropic have all moved in the same direction: putting their own engineers inside customer organizations to build and run AI systems. A single l…

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SpaceX and Cursor: Making Sense of a $60 Billion Price

27 June 2026

SpaceX and Cursor: Making Sense of a $60 Billion Price

On June 16, a few days after its stock-market debut, SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor, the four-year-old company behind a popular AI coding tool, for $60 billion, paid in SpaceX shares rather than in cash.

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Qwen built a flight simulator for AI agents

25 June 2026

Qwen built a flight simulator for AI agents

A flight simulator lets a pilot practice an engine failure that never happens, in a plane that never leaves the ground. It works because the software predicts what a real plane and a real sky would do…

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Superintelligence Might Be a Company of Copies

24 June 2026

Superintelligence Might Be a Company of Copies

Imagine you have one good AI agent. Not superhuman, just competent, about as sharp as a strong human professional. Now imagine you can copy it. Not hire and train someone similar over a decade, but co…

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Google’s New Format for Agent Context: A Standard, or Just a Folder?

15 June 2026

Google’s New Format for Agent Context: A Standard, or Just a Folder?

Google’s Open Knowledge Format, or OKF, wants to be the common language for the knowledge that AI agents read, the table definitions, metric formulas, and runbooks a model needs but rarely has. Google…

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How to tell a real GitHub star from a bought one

11 June 2026

How to tell a real GitHub star from a bought one

The star count is the most visible number on a GitHub repository, the first thing you see after the name, and it carries real weight: it feeds GitHub’s own search ranking and its trending page, ventur…

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What Dario Amodei Just Proposed in “Policy on the AI Exponential”

10 June 2026

What Dario Amodei Just Proposed in “Policy on the AI Exponential”

For three years, Anthropic’s public policy position was transparency: AI companies should disclose their safety procedures and test results, and binding legislation should wait until the risks took co…

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Anthropic Just Released Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful Public Model

10 June 2026

Anthropic Just Released Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful Public Model

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9, and it is the most capable model the company has put in front of the public. Andrej Karpathy called it a major leap, not a routine update. By Anthropic’s o…

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