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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy Charity Majors neatly captures the dynamic between AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics, both of whom are trying to...
Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
We talk with the VendingBench authors on evaling Claudes from Haiku to Mythos, and how they build leading, and lasting, frontier evals from scratch.
Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media
After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we...
Wietse doet opeens ALLES in Codex van OpenAI + nieuwe Claude verzint minder
Reverse-engineeren wordt voor iedereen bereikbaar: je app is geen doel meer, maar een middel dat je gewoon kunt omzeilen. Tegelijk woedt in de open source-wereld een felle discussie over of je AI...
Astro Mart: Summer 2026 Collection
Get ready for a summer of sport with our new personalizable merch.
Wed 3 Jun
🔬Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
Verified Generation and Compounding Intelligence
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower reflects on his journey from self-taught technician to Google Distinguished Engineer, sharing lessons on open source, Kubernetes, AI, and building technology that serves people.
⚡️Satya Nadella: No Priors x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build
The legendary Microsoft CEO makes his first Latent Space appearance!
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would...
[AINews] Microsoft Build: MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI Family models
Microsoft Build recap, and new MAI model technical details
Tue 2 Jun
Microsoft's new MAI models
Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 1T parameters, 35B active, available to "select early partners") and MAI-Code-1-Flash (137B Parameters, 5B active,...
datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0
Release: datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 I want Datasette Agent to be able to generate and execute Python code safely. This alpha is looking promising so far. GPT-5.5 has so far failed to break out...
micropython-wasm 0.1a1
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a1 Fixes for some limitations that emerged while I was trying to use this to build datasette-agent-micropython. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly
California Brown Pelican
California Brown Pelican, in Fort Mason, CA, USI'm at the Microsoft Build conference today, held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. There are California Brown Pelicans diving into the water directly...
GitHub's plan for Agents — Kyle Daigle, GitHub
GitHub pioneered the modern AI coding era with Copilot, and the resulting explosion in agentic coding has led to notable strains on the most popular developer platform in the world. Here's the plan.
Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents
Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is available for these, but who’s acting rationally?
Pasted File Editor
Tool: Pasted File Editor I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file...
[AINews] NVIDIA Cosmos 3, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and RTX Spark
Jensen scores a huge win.
Sun 31 May
What's new in Astro - May 2026
May 2026 - A new Astro jobs board, TinaCMS makes Astro their default template, experimental advanced routing, and more!
Thu 28 May
The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more
Moeten alle Nederlanders gratis AI krijgen? + de paus blijkt een AI-nerd
Alexander draagt sinds kort Google's Fitbit Air, een schermloze tracker die hem de hele dag pushberichten stuurt als een AI-coach: het ding analyseert zijn nacht en praat hem richting zijn...
Astro 6.4
Astro 6.4 introduces a new pluggable Markdown processor API, a Rust-based Markdown processor for faster builds, and helpers to wire up experimental advanced routing with Cloudflare.
Wed 27 May
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins the show to discuss their explosive growth, the limits of AI coding tools, and why engineering judgment still matters.
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Merge pull request #5335 from sF1nX/add-x402station
Merge pull request #5335 from sF1nX/add-x402station Add x402station-mcp to Aggregators 🤖🤖🤖
Fix entry formatting
Fix entry formatting
Merge pull request #5894 from MAG-Cie/add-microsoft-todo
Merge pull request #5894 from MAG-Cie/add-microsoft-todo Add mcp-microsoft-todo
Merge pull request #6676 from ckakgun/add-heym-frameworks
Merge pull request #6676 from ckakgun/add-heym-frameworks Add Heym to Frameworks 🤖🤖🤖
Merge pull request #6021 from michaelrice/add-zendesk-mcp
Merge pull request #6021 from michaelrice/add-zendesk-mcp Add michaelrice/zendesk-mcp to Support & Service Management
Merge pull request #6462 from maxkuminov/add-obsidian-mcp
Merge pull request #6462 from maxkuminov/add-obsidian-mcp Add maxkuminov/obsidian-mcp — self-hosted MCP for Obsidian with semantic search, wikilink graph, and a self-describing vault
Tue 26 May
State of the software engineering job market in 2026
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on software engineering jobs, the AI engineering boom, whether AI engineering is “replacing” software engineering hiring, and more
Fri 22 May
Thu 21 May
The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE
Negative feedback greets Google’s redesigned AI IDE, why Google’s product ecosystem is so chaotic, Meta cuts 10% of staff as it hits record revenue and profits, and more
Marietje Schaake over de macht van AI + de vibe shift naar Codex + Googles AI-comeback
Alexander bouwde deze week een complete website zonder een regel code: hij gaf Claude de tekst en een logo, opende zijn webhoster in de browser en zei "ga door tot de site live staat." Toen hij...
Wed 20 May
Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
Alice Ryhl from Google’s Android Rust team explains why developers love Rust, and what makes the language so powerful for building reliable software.
Tue 19 May
AI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2
Tradeoffs of AI tooling, why adopting AI at company-level is hard, what’s changed in two years, and more. The third and final part of a series analyzing our 2026 AI survey results
Mon 18 May
Thu 7 May
Anthropic: de laatste uitvinding komt in 2028 + Microsoft Copilot is opeens goed geworden?
Alexander keert terug uit Shenzhen met een ongemakkelijke conclusie: de Chinese tech-hoofdstad is geen fabriek meer maar een R&D-magneet die alles aanzuigt wat met hardware te maken heeft. Een VC...
Astro 6.3
Astro 6.3 introduces experimental advanced routing with Hono support, image redirect handling, resilient island hydration, and more.
Starlight 0.39
Get more flexible autogenerated sidebars, improved styling, and stronger multilingual docs support with the latest Starlight release.
Fri 1 May
feat(antfu): document tsnapi, tsdown-stale-guard, and fast-npm-meta (…
feat(antfu): document tsnapi, tsdown-stale-guard, and fast-npm-meta (#28) * feat(antfu): document tsnapi, tsdown-stale-guard, and fast-npm-meta Add an API Stability section to library-development...
Thu 30 Apr
OpenAI's super-app ambitie met GPT-5.5 + DeepSeek V4 voor een schijntje + Rick Lamers over AGI
OpenAI lanceert GPT-5.5, een model dat zelfstandig spreadsheets analyseert, presentaties bouwt en onderzoek doet zonder dat je elke stap hoeft voor te kauwen. Greg Brockman ziet het als de eerste...
Astro 6.2
Astro 6.2 introduces an experimental custom logger with JSON output, an SVG optimizer API, a new font file URL helper, and more.
What's new in Astro - April 2026
April 2026 - Astro Together London, an alpha preview of Astro 7, and more!
Mon 27 Apr
feat: ToC (wip)
feat: ToC (wip)
Update in progress (#1735)
Update in progress (#1735) * docs: update-in-progress * Update print statement from 'Hello' to 'Goodbye'
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Sun 26 Apr
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Thu 23 Apr
Reson8 bouwt aan de beste Europese spraakherkenning ft. Thomas Kluiters
Anthropic lanceert Claude Opus 4.7 en Claude Design, een nieuw product waarmee je presentaties en marketingmateriaal kunt bouwen. Figma daalde 7% op de beurs. OpenAI breidt Codex uit tot een tool die...
Wed 22 Apr
The invisible engineering behind Lambda’s network
The subtle inventiveness that reduced cold start setup from seconds to 200μs.
Evolving Our License for Long-Term Sustainability
The road to Directus v12 and an update on our license
Tue 21 Apr
Thu 16 Apr
Laat Claude je helpen in Word + wij reden in zelfrijdende Tesla + hebben de studenten van vandaag straks nog een baan?
Alexander zat met een hartslag van 180 achter het stuur van een zelfrijdende Tesla bij de Amsterdam Arena. Handjes op schoot, blauwe knop ingedrukt, en daar ging de auto: de snelweg op, een...
Wed 15 Apr
How I Turned a Month-Long Migration Into a Weekend Project (And You Can Too)
A runthrough of how to handle your data migration using the Directus MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and Claude CLI.
Fri 10 Apr
Directus v11.17: Background Imports, Netlify Deployments, and a Translations Generator
A more capable deployment module, a smarter way to handle large data imports, and a utility that saves hours of translation setup work.
Anthropics nieuwste model is te gevaarlijk
Anthropic durft zijn nieuwste AI-model niet vrij te geven. Mythos, het grootste model dat het bedrijf ooit trainde, wordt alleen gedeeld met veertig geselecteerde organisaties zoals Apple, Google en...
Tue 7 Apr
S3 Files and the changing face of S3
Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files
Thu 2 Apr
Tue 31 Mar
What's new in Astro - March 2026
March 2026 - Astro 6, CloudCannon CMS Partnership, Astro Together London, and more!
Mon 30 Mar
Leap Week 4 Highlights
Get the recap on the UI Era keynote, partner workshops, what’s next for Directus, a new community program and much more!
Fri 27 Mar
The UI Era is Shifting
Hear from Directus CEO & Co-Founder Ben Haynes on software is shifting from UI-first to data-first. When everyone can build an interface, what is actually valuable?
The Build-Off
Three builders. Three AI tools. One backend. Who can ship the best frontend in 30 minutes?
AI in the Enterprise
How are enterprises giving teams access to AI while managing governance, data privacy, and risk?
From Zero to Production
Spin up a backend, connect a frontend, and deploy to production - all in one session. Featuring Railway.