Google has acquired the data of failed The Register airline Spirit
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
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GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $4 per million input tokens, $20 per million output tokens. Higher uptime with…
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
Rickmanelius is about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and Rickmanelius is not alone).…
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less…
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake’s Jira
Wiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR.
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB 2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, Duckdb preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous…
Incident with Github.com
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. Simonwillison has been…
Anthropic’s ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within…
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Claude: System Prompts
See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai), the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios), and the [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Super El Niño continues to strengthen as new forecasts push toward record levels, with Fall and Winter 2026/2027 impacts emerging across the United…
AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
Auto-research with codex: How Sankalp achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Maths f...
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
Blog is coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in Blog’s hometown of Baltimore. This means that Blog’s…
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
The dustbin themed candidate got 9,455 votes and came second to Nigel Farage