How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
Ethereum's “low-risk DeFi” applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business
Vitalik Buterin Says Focus On Low-Risk DeFi Than Memecoins Zack Abrams / The Block : Low-risk DeFi, not memecoins, can best sustain Ethereum's economy, co-founder Vitalik Buterin says Evans Karanja / ...
Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four “super agents”, for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol
So Why Are You Still Treating It Like One? Aiko Gao Ishida / Tech in Asia : Walmart deploys AI agents to assist shoppers, boost ecommerce Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : Google, Walmart Separately Set O...
An interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features demoed in 2024 using Siri's “V1 architecture” and its work on a V2
and What's Coming Next Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Siri snubbed at Apple's WWDC 2025 as AI takes center stage Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overam...
A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders
In recent months, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of “TBPN,” a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention … X: @willmanidis , @dwr , @manasjsaloi , @thefrandawg , @aginnt , @cjgbe...
Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 39% YoY to $884M, below $863M est., US commercial sales up 71% to $255M, and raises 2025 sales guidance to ~$3.9B; PLTR falls 5%+
Our interest in arming the United States of America, in ensuring that its defense … Proactive : Palantir shares drop sharply after results fail to justify lofty valuation Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters : Pa...
OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why
OpenAI's internal tests show o3 hallucinated on 33% of person-related questions, double the rate of previous models. Even worse, o4-mini hit 48%. Mastodon: Aulia Masna / @aulia@mementomori.social : “...
Google says Gemini Advanced subscribers can now use Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, up from Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental in March 2025
here's what it can do Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin : Google launches Gemini 2.5 Pro-powered Deep Research, outperforming ChatGPT Deep Research X: Logan Kilpatrick / @officiallogank : Deep Research in ...
A look at RISC architecture's origins, the Arm vs. RISC-V war, and how RISCites beat the CISCites, as RISC's increasing adoption risks US companies' dominance
“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski , @wired.com , @waterslicer , and @wired.com . Mas...