seangoedecke.com RSS feed · 2026-10-25
Bryan Cantrill has a great line from a talk where he cautions against anthropomorphizing1 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. I think it’s also a mistake to treat any tech company like a person. Here’s the full quote: You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it...
louisgray.com: Silicon Valley early adopter tech blog · 2026-10-24
💬 Note from @louisgray: Webnerd.ai is here -- classic RSS for feed reading, discovery and sharing. (And yes, all LG Stream posts have been through Webnerd)
In the Web 2.0 era, I always started my day in my RSS reader. A mainstay of this blog at its peak was covering the debuts and new features from many different approaches to staying caught up on friends and the news, not just from Google Reader (RIP), but Feedly, Lazyfeed, Flipboard, TweetDeck, Shyftr, my6sense and too many others to mention.In the ensuing years, as some of those products have come...
Steve Blank · 2026-10-24
I’ve been in London for the last month and have heard policymakers react to the wake up call Elon Musk just delivered. The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military version of Starlink called Starshield to Ukraine may have been a blip in the news in the US, but it has sent tremors across Europe. For years doomsayers in the UK and Europe were worried about the U.S. hav...
TechCrunch · 2026-10-23
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Exponential View · 2026-10-23
It is January 2020 all over again. Something is spreading fast. Most people haven’t noticed, and the people who have are worried.Software, the internet, and cyberspace in general are currently under relentless attack. PHP2Shell was a key plank to fall: PHP runs about 70% of the world’s websites. But the breadth of attacks is more comprehensive than that, and the exploits will keep growing. On the ...
Six Colors · 2026-10-23
We drove down the freeway from San Francisco to Cupertino with a pretty good idea of what Apple would be announcing, but with no idea how it would transform Apple forever. “Hint: It’s not a Mac,” read the invitation to an event at the Town Hall conference center on Apple’s campus at Infinite Loop. Rumors abounded that Apple was going to announce a music player, but the details were hazy. Three of ...
"Another question I asked myself" by Satyajeet Salgar · 2026-10-23
A piece of advice I’ve given for years to people when they come to Google is to use the Noogler excuse to meet with people and ask what they do. I’ve told interns to go nuts meeting people over the summer and learning about things they might be interested in. I tell teammates whom to reach out when they’re interested in a particular topic. For the last year or so though - longer outside of work an...
The Verge · 2026-10-22
Mars not depicted. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which you believe Elon Musk a...
Techmeme · 2026-10-22
Anthropic: Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 — Today, we're donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
TechCrunch · 2026-10-22
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
9to5Google · 2026-10-22
Well, that didn’t take long. As Apple’s iPhone Duo starts to land in the hands of early customers, copycat apps for the Duo’s most well-known features and apps are already landing on Android foldables – not that that’s a bad thing. more…
Chrome Unboxed – The Latest Chrome OS News · 2026-10-22
While we spent a bit of hands-on time with the ASUS Googlebook 14 back in New York City, actually getting it out of its massive retail box and onto the desk is a different experience entirely. Weighing in right around two pounds, it is easily the lightest device in the entire launch fleet: and one […]
Newcomer · 2026-10-22
If all goes to plan, Dario Amodei and his Anthropic co-founders will ring the NASDAQ bell next month to mark the company’s IPO. Their celebration will no doubt be greeted with the traditional high-fiving and back-patting from venture capitalists.But the story of Anthropic’s rise from a small group of OpenAI defectors to an industry-leading juggernaut, poised for what will likely be the largest IPO...
The Verge · 2026-10-21
Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available as a standalone app on iOS and Android and through Claude on the web. The AI agent is built around Claude Opus 5.5. Here's Anthropic's description of what ...
The Verge · 2026-10-21
OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code - and then lied about it. "The reference didn't configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the monitoring integration from the user...
9to5Google · 2026-10-21
A deal struck between OpenAI and Google will see OpenAI’s models coming to Google Cloud and even Antigravity. more…
TechCrunch · 2026-10-21
The payout is related to a recent trial involving the social media giant that revolved around its data privacy practices.
The Verge · 2026-10-20
Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said during the latter's third quarter earnings call Tuesday. Musk, who serves as CEO of both companies, said the special committees were formed at the request of shareholders and consist of independent directors (though he did not name them). He also noted that he is not a member of either committee, nor invol...
TechCrunch · 2026-10-20
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
Big Technology · 2026-10-20
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI.His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best.Amid chatter that Google w...
Ben Werdmuller · 2026-10-20
Link: Some final words on Foursquare, by Dennis CrowleyI freaking loved Foursquare. It was a wonderful way to explore cities with the help of my friends: in the same way that Upcoming was my best way of figuring out which events I should be going to, Foursquare let me know which restaurants, bars, parks, etc, were worth checking out. If Chris ranked a cocktail bar, you know it was amazing. Aaron a...
404 Media · 2026-10-20
Over the weekend, it became fashionable to use AI to replace the operating systems on smart TVs with vibe coded or AI reverse-engineered ones to make them less bloated. People have taken proprietary internet-of-things devices that were bricked and abandoned by their creators and used AI to hack them and install new software on them, giving functionality the original developers took away. In the la...
Chrome Unboxed – The Latest Chrome OS News · 2026-10-19
If you have spent any time following tech news or developer forums over the past couple of weeks, you have likely run into the massive controversy surrounding ArtCraft. Created by developer Brandon Thomas, the project set out to create a clean-room, open-source reimplementation of virtually all of Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office: spanning 13 […]
Pivot to AI · 2026-10-19
Three of the founders of AI hosting company CoreWeave — Brannin McBee, Michael Intrator, and Brian Venturo — just announced yet another planned sale of CoreWeave stock, totalling over a billion dollars’ stock sales for each since the company went public. This means that whatever happens with CoreWeave and the AI bubble … they’ve got theirs. [Bloomberg, archive] CoreWeave has never been a solid bus...
Tomasz Tunguz · 2026-10-18
We all consider Anthropic an AI company. But what if it’s a cloud? Anthropic is growing much faster than the other clouds : 15x last year. GCP’s growth is far behind at 82%. But at current growth rates, Anthropic is closer to GCP’s pace, doubling next year.1 In revenue terms, Anthropic is about 30% the size of AWS & Azure & nearly half the size of GCP. AWS Azure2 GCP Anthropic Q2 2026 Revenue, $b ...
louisgray.com: Silicon Valley early adopter tech blog · 2026-10-17
I am not an engineer and I didn't major in computer science. There comes a point in understanding and using technology where I have a limit, and even with my years of experience in Silicon Valley, it's not impossible to run into issues that I just can't solve.After a failed attempt a few years ago to move my blog to a new host and restart it on Wordpress, following general bit rot and content deca...
Pivot to AI · 2026-10-14
Linux is the name of a computer operating system kernel and a group of systems built on it, like Ubuntu or Mint. Linux is the basic infrastructure of the Internet. It’s important. A report just in from the Kernel Maintainers Summit on 8 October reveals just how full AI slop the Linux kernel project has gone. And so has project leader Linus Torvalds. [LWN] Torvalds expects contributors to use well-...
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-10-15
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday. Lots of details in here from "people with knowledge of the matter". Key things I learned from the article: Q1 revenue (Jan/Feb/Mar) was "about $4.8bn" Q2 (Apr/May/Jun) was $11.5bn Q3 ...
The Verge · 2026-10-15
Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns that the format reduces traffic to publishers. Google says it's been making "continued and substantia...
TechCrunch · 2026-10-15
Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
