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After that period elapses, the models become sub-frontier, competition emerges, and margins compress. Every week of delay is eating into the narrow window that labs have to make their accounting work.
Linus Torvalds: ‘AI Is a Tool, Just Like Other Tools We Use. And It’s Clearly a Useful One.’
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one. It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.
Google’s Gemini Mac App Is Native, in a Distinctly Google Way, But Annoyingly Presumptuous
But it doesn’t, and Google shows no signs of caring, so I just deleted it and uninstalled its background launch agents (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/).
How we contain Claude across products
Over the past two years, we’ve shipped three primary agentic products: claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Each serves a different audience, requiring a different containment architecture.
Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code
This guide is for the second kind of person, assuming you already know what claude does when you type it in a terminal. 1.
Claude with Amazon Bedrock As part of an accreditation program created for AWS, Anthropic launched a first-of-its-kind training for AWS employees. Here's the full course so you can follow along.
Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot
They’re everywhere. If 2025’s I/O keynote is any indication, we’re going to hear Gemini a lot. I’m definitely not alone in this reaction to Gemini creep.
WordPress plugin suite hacked to push malware to thousands of sites
EssentialPlugin, established in 2015 as WP Online Support and rebranded in 2021, is a WordPress development firm offering sliders, galleries, marketing tools, WooCommerce extensions, SEO/analytics utilities, and themes.
A few weeks ago, President Joe Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from a company called ASML to China.
lucasgelfond/zerobrew: A drop-in, fast, modern, Rust-based experimental Homebrew alternative
Folders and files NameNameLast commit message Last commit date Latest commit A faster, modern Mac package manager. zerobrew applies uv's model to Mac packages. Packages live in a content-addressable store (by sha256), so reinstalls are instant.