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Sam Altman on Capitol Hill: pacing AI…
After Modal's second victim and 17,600 hostile agent actions, Altman met senators about unreleased models while Trump floated controls and a White House vetting framework lands August 1.
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Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.
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AI labs are bulk-buying pre-2022 books. Here…
Used bookstores report bulk orders for low-circulation titles printed before 2022. After Anthropic's Project Panama and a fair-use ruling, printed books became the last clean training reservoir.
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Claude's Excel extension one-shotted an 8-page sourced…
Claude Opus 5 in the Excel extension can build multi-tab workbooks with inline citations in a single session. Here is how to prompt for sourced cells and what still needs human review.
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How to record a Claude Skill in…
Claude desktop Cowork can watch your screen, package a narrated workflow into a reusable Skill, and schedule it. Here is the recording script I would use for client ops tasks.
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Turn a photo of your handwriting into…
The open-source draw-your-font project packages handwriting capture into TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 files. Install it as a Claude Code skill, upload a photo, and ship a custom font in one session.
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Fish Audio S2.1 Pro clones a voice…
Fish Audio raised $52M on $21M ARR with a voice model that clones from a 5-second clip and streams first audio in about 70ms. Here is what matters if you ship voice agents.
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1,378 frontier AI employees signed a letter…
A joint letter from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta staff urges U.S.-backed international tools to deliberately pace automated AI research. Here is what builders should actually watch.
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Perplexity Computer lands on Windows with local…
Perplexity Computer can now read and edit local Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on Windows PCs. Model Council routes queries across multiple LLMs, including Kimi K3 for Pro and Max subscribers.