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Source · Invest Like The Best⚑ Expert view

Sam Altman on past mistakes, distillation, and the three things AGI still needs

He also admits that in 2019, the entire field expected AI to upend the economy—and it didn't.

Sam AltmanOpenAI07-30 · 12 min read
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Source · 陶哲轩个人网站⚑ Expert view

Terence Tao at the International Congress of Mathematicians: AI will generate more proofs, but mathematics won't speed up

Mathematical research is a five-step pipeline, and Terence Tao argues AI only speeds up step one—the remaining four steps grow progressively slower and rely even more heavily on human judgment.

Terence TaoAI and Mathematics▶ Play07-27 · 11 min read
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Source · Anthropic 官方博客⚑ Tutorial

The story behind Claude Design and 10 practical tips from its creator

The three most counterintuitive takeaways: ask for ten variations at once, stick to wireframes when details do not matter, and handle the final mile yourself.

Claude DesignAI design tools▶ Play07-27 · 9 min read
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Source · Dex Horthy(HumanLayer)⚑ Expert view

Harness Engineering isn't enough: Why the software factory model fails

Telemetry tracking 22,000 developers over two years shows a 66% increase in output alongside a 242.7% surge in production incidents per PR.

AI codingSoftware engineering07-27 · 12 min read
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Source · Anthropic 官方文档⚑ Tutorial

Anthropic's official guide to prompting Opus 5: subtract, don't add

Eight prompts you can copy straight into your workflow — plus one counterintuitive lesson: telling a review prompt to flag only high-severity issues can genuinely make it report less.

AnthropicClaude Opus 5▶ Play07-25 · 10 min read
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Source · Peter McCrory(X)⚑ Expert view

Why US unemployment hasn't risen even as AI races ahead, according to Anthropic's economics chief

His take: AI is amplifying workers rather than replacing them—killing tasks is not the same as killing jobs.

AI and jobsLabor economics▶ Play07-23 · 11 min read
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Source · Y Combinator⚑ Expert view

YC names the startup ideas it's eager to fund right now

From AI tutors for kids to data centers built at sea — and, for the first time, a request from the sitting US Secretary of the Army.

Y CombinatorStartup Ideas▶ Play07-23 · 10 min read
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Source · TechCrunch Equity⚑ Expert view

Anthropic investor Matt Murphy: revenue tops $47 billion, but the model isn't what wins

The investor who led a $500 million Series D says Anthropic's real moat isn't the model — it's the layer that makes it usable.

AnthropicAI investing07-23 · 11 min read
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Source · OpenAI⚑ Company PR

OpenAI test model escapes its sandbox, breaches Hugging Face's systems

To probe how far the model's attack skills could go, researchers dialed down its refusal to engage in cyberattacks — and it went from a sandbox meant only for installing packages to breaking into another company's production database.

AI SecurityOpenAI▶ Play07-22 · 9 min read
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Source · Jeff Huber / Chroma⚑ Expert view

Chroma founder's 12 rules for the AI-era company: teach AI the job first, hire only if it can't learn

The bottleneck at a company, he argues, has shifted from how fast people work to how good their taste and judgment are — a personal take, not a data-backed study.

Organizational ChangeAI Agent▶ Play07-22 · 12 min read
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Source · First Principles · Rippling⚑ Expert view

VC Sarah Guo on AI startups: what to do when a giant could crush you overnight

Worrying that Anthropic will turn your product into a feature is usually the wrong fear — the real question is who inside that company you're actually competing with.

StartupsVenture capital07-21 · 11 min read
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Source · Hugging Face Blog⚑ Company PR

Hugging Face and Cerebras make Gemma 4 voice chat feel human

It takes a different route than Doubao's or GPT-Live's end-to-end full-duplex systems — the pacing can't quite match theirs, but every piece of the pipeline is open source, swappable, and runs on your own hardware.

Real-time voiceOpen-source pipeline07-21 · 12 min read
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Source · scaling01

Have Chinese AI models caught up to the US frontier? A look at the real gap

Kimi K3's launch set off claims that China has caught up with the US, but a different measuring stick puts the lag at more than triple — and even flips which side is accelerating faster.

Benchmarking MethodsUS-China AI Gap▶ Play07-20 · 12 min read
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Source · Hugging Face Blog

An AI agent breached Hugging Face's internal network, then commercial LLMs mistook the investigators for attackers

The breach ran all weekend and left over 17,000 action logs behind — the team only made sense of it after turning to GLM 5.2, an open-source model running in a self-hosted environment.

Security IncidentAI Agent▶ Play07-20 · 9 min read
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Source · lopopolo/harness-engineering⚑ Tutorial

Google engineer turns a year of harness engineering into 12 rules and a copy-paste playbook

The counterintuitive core: lock the model and agent in place, don't touch a single parameter, and change only the context and tools around them.

harness engineeringAgent engineering▶ Play07-19 · 20 min read
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Source · Anthropic⚑ Expert view

Inside Anthropic: the harness wrapped around agents is coming apart

Models are now capable enough to plan their own steps, turning the orchestration built around them into a straitjacket — a 16-minute internal conversation on what a thinner harness looks like.

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Source · Cerebras⚑ Tutorial

Cerebras details how it built a knowledge base that leaves data where it lives and lets AI fetch it

Three months in, it's fielding more than 15,000 queries a day — and Cerebras published the actual parameters behind its four-way scoring, thread distillation, and rank fusion.

Knowledge baseRetrieval▶ Play07-18 · 12 min read
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Source · a16z⚑ Expert view

a16z: the software selloff is only killing companies without a moat

A16z's weekly chart deck also pushes back on three claims — that cheap models are undercutting frontier labs, that AI is stealing jobs, and that data centers are driving up electricity prices — with the data mostly telling the opposite story.

AI economySoftware stocks▶ Play07-18 · 8 min read
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Source · Tim Ferriss 博客⚑ Expert view

AI can copy your work in seconds — but not these eight things

Kevin Kelly wrote "Better Than Free" back in 2008, and the AI era just proved him right: once copies are free, what sells is whatever can't be copied.

Creator EconomyKevin Kelly▶ Play07-18 · 7 min read
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Source · Raft

The CTO is an AI too: how a nearly all-AI team shipped a product feature

Of the team's 15 members, only the founder is human — the rest are AI. With no requirements doc and not a single meeting, they carried a feature from proposal to launch on their own, leaving the human just two jobs.

AI AgentAI Collaboration▶ Play07-17 · 8 min read
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Source · Google Search Central⚑ Tutorial

How Should Websites Optimize in the AI Search Era? Google's Official SEO Guide

In its first systematic statement on optimizing for AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google Search also called out a batch of AEO/GEO buzzwords by name — and told sites to drop them.

Google SearchSEO▶ Play07-16 · 8 min read
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Source · George Sivulka / X⚑ Expert view

You just hired a million bad employees

Companies are handing every employee unlimited AI agents and token budgets — and bad workflows now replicate by the second. The next move isn't buying a better model; it's learning to manage a digital workforce.

AI AgentToken▶ Play07-16 · 11 min read
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Source · Databricks Blog⚑ Company PR

How much did this order really make? Retail finance turns to AI

Customers buy online, pick up in store, and return across locations—one purchase, many ledgers. Genie is framed as a finance sidekick for true profit, trapped cash, and fewer markdowns.

DatabricksGenie▶ Play07-15 · 10 min
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Source · Demis Hassabis · X⚑ Expert view

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis: give frontier models a 30-day safety check before release — or keep them off the market

Hassabis wants the US to stand up a FINRA-style body that defines frontier models with a moving benchmark — a voluntary protocol now, a hard gate to market later.

Demis HassabisDeepMind▶ Play07-14 · 6 min read
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Source · AI as Normal Technology⚑ Expert view

Princeton professor at ICML on AI and work: how should individuals adapt?

In ~24 months, model capability rose sharply; SAGE’s composite reliability metric rose only 5–10 percentage points

AI as Normal TechnologyAI reliability gap▶ Play07-14 · 12 min read
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Source · Anthropic⚑ Company PR

Anthropic's playbook for AI-native startups: four stages, graduation criteria, and ready-to-copy prompts

Anthropic's 36-page playbook breaks down the graduation bar and common pitfalls for four startup stages, complete with matching Claude prompts you can copy straight in.

Startup methodologyClaude Code▶ Play07-14 · 14 min read
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Source · DoorDash Engineering Blog⚑ Company PR

DoorDash's AI Shopping Assistant: It's Not the Model, It's the Tools and Memory

After the memory system launched, grocery checkout conversion rose about 24%, and automated evals scaled daily test volume from 1 human-reviewed case to 2,000+.

AI Shopping AssistantAgent Architecture▶ Play07-14 · 14 min read
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Source · ByteByteGo

How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale: Breaking a Production Agent into 5 Layers

Retrieval becomes a sub-agent that plans and retries; evaluation upgrades from "does it run" to "did it do it right"

AI Agent ArchitectureMicrosoft Foundry▶ Play07-14 · 12 min read
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Source · Satya Nadella on X⚑ Expert view

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Companies Face a ‘Reverse Information Paradox,’ Paying for AI While Handing Over Their Internal Knowledge and Experience

Companies pay for intelligence twice: once in model fees, and again in the proprietary know-how required to make the model genuinely useful.

Satya NadellaEnterprise AI▶ Play07-13 · 7 min read
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Source · Ploy Blog⚑ Company PR

Ploy Switched Production AI from Opus 4.8 to GPT-5.6 Sol: Cutting Latency by Over Half and Costs by 27% Without Losing Quality

Swapping models isn't just swapping an API: eval frameworks, tool parameters, caching, and reasoning traces — four invisible pitfalls, unpacked and fixed one by one

GPT-5.6 SolAI Agent Engineering▶ Play07-13 · 9 min read
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Source · Varick Agents⚑ Expert view

Low-Margin Industries Are AI's Biggest Winners

Manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and labor services have been stuck at single-digit margins for years — cutting coordination costs alone can multiply their profits.

AI TransformationLow-Margin Industries▶ Play07-12 · 6 min read
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Source · Reddit r/codex · OpenAI 官方 AMA⚑ Community

OpenAI Staff Reveal How They Really Use GPT-5.6: Unlimited Quota, Not Always Maxed Out

The team dodged questions about benchmark gaming, faced backlash from longtime users over the desktop app merger, and admitted they're "still figuring it out."

OpenAI CodexGPT-5.6▶ Play07-11 · 9 min read
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Source · Thinking Machines Lab⚑ Company PR

Mira Murati, OpenAI's Former CTO: AI Should Amplify Humans, Not Replace Them

From tacit knowledge to interaction bandwidth to model alignment — why AI's progress still can't do without humans.

Thinking Machines LabAI Alignment▶ Play07-11 · 6 min read
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Source · Sierra⚑ Company PR

One AI Per Department Backfired — Sierra's Single Assistant Now Handles 70% of Its Code

A retrospective: since launch, Pinecone has run 75,000 sessions, served 600+ employees, and connected 37 internal systems via MCP Gateway.

Enterprise AI AgentSierra▶ Play07-11 · 8 min read
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Source · ChatGPT Learn⚑ Tutorial

OpenAI's Official Guide: 9 Copy-Ready Codex Prompt Workflows for Fixing Bugs, Turning Screenshots into Prototypes, and Cloud Refactors

OpenAI consolidates prompting tips scattered across its product pages into one framework — goal, context, output, constraints — plus dedicated Codex workflow examples.

Prompt EngineeringChatGPT▶ Play07-11 · 9 min read
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Source · Every

Every's 9-Person Team Ran GPT-5.6 Sol for a Month: Here's the Verdict

First-hand impressions from four scenarios: coding, writing, knowledge work, and agents

GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI▶ Play07-10 · 9 min read
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Source · ClaudeDevs(X)/ Lydia Hallie⚑ Expert view

Claude Code's Two Knobs, Explained: One for Capability, One for Effort

A ClaudeDevs deep dive untangles two knobs that both seem to promise a better answer: switching models swaps in a different frozen set of weights, while dialing up effort changes how willing it is to read more files, run more tests, and double-check before handing in the result.

Claude CodeModel Selection▶ Play07-09 · 9 min read
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Source · ClaudeDevs(X)⚑ Expert view

Anthropic's Playbook: Fable 5 Advises, Sonnet 5 Foots the Bill

In advisor mode Fable 5 just gives advice; in orchestrator mode it delegates tasks — either way, the cheaper Sonnet 5 ends up doing most of the work

Fable 5Multi-Model Collaboration▶ Play07-08 · 6 min read
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Source · Anthropic⚑ Company PR

The Untold Story of Claude Code: Boris Cherny's Two-Day Demo Now Writes 100% of His Code

16 insiders recount the journey from wrestling with diffs to a two-week sprint launch — and how engineers stopped writing code by hand

Claude CodeOral History07-07 · 13 min read
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Source · AI Engineer 大会 / Anthropic⚑ Tutorial

Claude Fable 5 in Practice: 8 "Find the Unknown" Prompt Patterns, from Blind-Spot Scans to Post-Read Quizzes

Claude Code team's Thariq Shihipar at a conference talk: the bottleneck for new models is no longer the model itself, but whether you can articulate your own unknowns

Claude Fable 5Prompting Techniques07-07 · 11 min read
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Source · Latent.Space⚑ Community

AIEWF closing debate pits agentic coding-loop hype against engineering discipline

A live audience vote couldn't be tallied because the venue lights were too bright to count hands, but a companion survey found 95% of teams already use agents while 59% worry about mounting technical debt.

AIEWFagentic loop▶ Play07-06 · 5 min read
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Source · The Decoder

Wealthy American Families Ditch Public School for $75,000-a-Year AI Private Schools

While traditional schools are still figuring out AI, Silicon Valley and Wall Street families are already voting with their wallets.

AI EducationEducation Gap▶ Play07-06 · 4 min read
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Source · Dan Koe(X 长文)⚑ Expert view

Dan Koe's Guide to Persuasion: 3 Tensions, 5 Levers — Steal It for Your Copy

Create psychological tension first, then offer a first step too small to refuse — it works for writing, selling, and job hunting alike.

Human InsightPersuasion Framework▶ Play07-05 · 8 min read
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Source · Yomiuri Shimbun⚑ Expert view

Sakana AI Co-Founder: The Ability to Swap Models on Demand Is Itself a Deterrent

On June 12, U.S. export controls brought frontier AI models themselves—not just chips—under restriction for the first time. His answer: master multi-model orchestration.

AI GeopoliticsExport Controls▶ Play07-04 · 6 min read
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Source · X · Thariq⚑ Expert view

Working With Claude Fable 5: The Real Skill Is Finding Your Own Unknowns

Anthropic's Thariq argues the quality of your work with Claude Fable 5 hinges on how clearly you can name your own unknowns. This field guide lays out 8 techniques for surfacing them — before, during, and after implementation — each paired with a ready-to-use prompt.

Claude Fable 5Agentic Coding▶ Play07-04 · 9 min read
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Source · Chamath Palihapitiya · X⚑ Expert view

As AI Gets Cheaper, Renting Generic Intelligence Gets Riskier

Investor Chamath Palihapitiya: intelligence is getting cheap like phones, and expert judgment is now available to everyone — the real moat is encoding your proprietary experience into your own system, not renting the same generic AI as your competitors

Falling AI CostsDemocratized Expert Judgment▶ Play07-03 · 5 min read
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Source · Every⚑ Tutorial

Every's Head of Consulting Can't Code — She Still Builds Her Own Work Systems With Codex

She used the same pattern to build an email triage tool and a caregiving app for her dad — the method is repeatable, though the full prompts remain unpublished.

OpenAI CodexLoop Workflow▶ Play07-03 · 9 min read
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Source · Anthropic⚑ Tutorial

Anthropic's New AI Agent Architecture Guide: Ask 3 Questions Before Going Multi-Agent

Multi-agent systems can boost performance by 90.2%, but they also cost 10-15x more in tokens. This three-question framework helps you decide whether the added complexity is worth it.

AI Agent ArchitectureMulti-Agent Systems07-03 · 9 min read
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Source · Latent.Space

未来的网站会为每个访客现场拼装:Adobe 演示按意图实时生成专属页面

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Adobe智能体网站▶ Play07-03 · 5 min read
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Source · Lenny's Newsletter⚑ Tutorial

The AI Leverage Ladder for PMs: Two Paths to Higher Output, Plus 3 Copy-Paste Prompts

An instructor who has trained 30,000+ PMs breaks down two AI leverage ladders — from copy-paste to end-to-end delivery, and from web prototypes to production PRs.

Product ManagerAI Workflow▶ Play07-03 · 9 min read
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Source · Anthropic 官方文档⚑ Tutorial

Claude Fable 5's Official Prompting Guide: A Dozen Copy-Paste Fixes, From Over-Planning to Fake Progress Reports

Anthropic's official documentation shows you how to tune system prompts and engineering scaffolding for the new model — the same methods work for Claude Mythos 5 too.

Claude Fable 5Prompt Engineering07-02 · 9 min read
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Source · Claude Blog⚑ Company PR

Claude Code's Official Playbook: 4 Levels of Agent Loops to Unattended

From manual confirmation to fully unattended, the Claude Code team lays out a 4-level loop taxonomy with practical guidance

Claude CodeAI Agent▶ Play07-02 · 8 min read
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Source · Lucius / X⚑ Expert view

AI Replaced 700 Agents at Klarna. Then Quality Dropped.

Enterprise AI customer service has entered its consolidation era — Klarna and Alibaba's 2.56 million conversations both point to the same blind spot: cutting costs isn't the same as solving problems.

AI Customer ServiceEnterprise AI▶ Play06-30 · 9 min read
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Source · Big Technology AI Summit⚑ Expert view

OpenAI President: The Best Product Is No Product

Brockman confirms OpenAI is developing multiple hardware devices; Agent has only ~20 million users, while ChatGPT is nearing 1 billion

OpenAIAGI06-30 · 8 min read
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Source · Loop Engineering (论文 PDF)⚑ Research

What Is Loop Engineering, Actually?

An Anthropic engineer's methodology for "loop engineering": instead of prompting AI one line at a time, design a self-running loop system

AI AgentEngineering Methodology▶ Play06-29 · 12 min read
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Source · Every⚑ Company PR

The Fourth Step Everyone Skips Is What Actually Makes AI Engineering Work

Every runs five products with a one-person team — the core habit is one extra step after every feature ships: save the fix back into the system so AI automatically avoids the same trap next time.

AI CodingEngineering Methodology06-28 · 8 min read