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Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.

Google's $10M Spirit Airlines data bid puts employee privacy on trial
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Google's $10M Spirit Airlines data bid puts…

Bankrupt Spirit Airlines' corporate archive includes 100M emails and crew records. Flight attendants blocked Google's purchase while Micro1 offered $12.5M. The fight is over who owns the exhaust of a dead company.

Three ex-SpaceX engineers opened a robot welding factory for AI data center steel
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Three ex-SpaceX engineers opened a robot welding…

Cincinnati startup 1872 raised $15M to automate steel skid fabrication with Path Robotics welders and an AI-native Factory OS. The team targets 80% autonomous ops by 2027 while welding costs drop from $0.78 to $0.12 per inch.

Amazon Prime Air wants 500 US cities by year-end. The ops math is finally catching the 2013 keynote.
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Amazon Prime Air wants 500 US cities…

Prime Air will expand from 11 drone sites to nearly 500 US cities and towns in 2026, with tens of millions of customers eligible for 30-minute deliveries. Here's how hub radius, pricing, and Walmart's drone race change last-mile automation.

Claude Managed Agents now cap web domains and show per-thread cost in the Console
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Claude Managed Agents now cap web domains…

August 2026 Managed Agents updates add allowed_domains and blocked_domains on web_search and web_fetch, memory on self-hosted sandboxes, and a Console Inspector with per-thread cost. Pair with session budgets before you run unattended fleets.