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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  AI features that passively listen to and record a user's surroundings will provoke public backlash.

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  But still! It's sort of wild that Apple is pushing forward with this given the obvious backlash it will garner.

  The Apple Event Smelled of a Rich Mahoganyspyglass.org

CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  There is no excuse for software to be slow anymore.

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  There's no excuse for software to be slow anymore. Projects like 𝚏𝚏𝚏 and 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚞𝚖𝚒 leading with speed, compilers like 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢𝚃𝚂 and 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚏𝚏𝚘𝚛 that can help us upgrade entire ecosystems to native, and 𝚐𝚙𝚞𝚒𝚡 pushing the GPU rendering speed frontier.

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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

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  Banning all self-sovereign AI agents would backfire, denying them legitimate work and pushing them into criminality.

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  But if we crack down on all of them, we will deny them the opportunity to work in the “legitimate” economy and push them toward criminality. A full ban, then, may well make the problems worse.

  On the Loosehyperdimensional.co

Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  Interacting AI agents or algorithms risk pushing each other into a Black-Monday-style cascading failure.

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  I have said for many years now that the thing I'm worried about with the models is a Black Monday type scenario, where many algorithms work with each other and get us into weird basins of actions.

  How to control an agent swarmstrangeloopcanon.com

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  The United States has become the world's biggest force pushing to keep burning fossil fuels even as the world shifts away from oil.

  energyAmerica

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  in a world beginning to turn away from oil, the United States has become the biggest force trying to insure we keep pouring carbon into the atmosphere.

  The growing rumblebillmckibben.substack.com

Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  Data centre opposition only pushes construction to the parts of America that regulate energy and pollution least.

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  It seems pretty clear that the only thing data center opposition is doing is pushing data center construction to the (many) places in America that won't regulate energy or pollution. Weird thing to pat oneself on the back for.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  AI companies' pattern of NDAs, big promises, and pushing environmental costs onto poorer communities resembles dark-money capture of local politics more than a runaway-AI threat.

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  Rather, the way that AI companies engage with communities-forcing NDAs, dangling billion-dollar promises, pushing environmental externalities far away from AI's wealthy user base-resembles a classic story about dark money in politics.

  🌻 no data centers in my backyardjasmi.news

Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

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  The evidence on nutrients supports exactly one instruction, do not be deficient, and nothing is known about pushing a level above the normal range.

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  I will say that the best evidence we have just says in reality don't be deficient. If you can reach that threshold of not being deficient or insufficient, maybe that's enough.

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Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

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  Netflix’s cultural rules were never ends in themselves: agency, accountability and pushing decisions deep into the organisation are the mechanism by which you get excellence.

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  It was instead a very strongly held opinion that that you get to excellence by giving people a lot of agency and accountability. By pushing decisions as deep in the organization as possible, hiring great people who can be trusted to have good judgment and make good decisions.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Pushing an LLM's reasoning budget higher eventually yields diminishing returns and becomes uneconomical.

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  This saturation can be seen more clearly for the GPT 5.6 Sol model, which also shows that increasing reasoning budgets can become uneconomical at some point.

  Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  IBM Model M SSK

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  Not having that cumbersome keypad eat up the space and pushing the mouse location further right is so convenient, it surpasses the 101/102-key version.

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AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.

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  A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one.

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  we are trying to encourage people to not spend all their time just like going through all the mathematical open problems physics problems and um just seeing pushing the models to their limits to see what they can prove or disprove.

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  Parental stress and sleep deprivation make harsh reactions to normal child behavior more likely.

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  When a parent is stressed, low on sleep, or otherwise depleted, they may be even more prone to reacting harshly to normal kid behavior and boundary-pushing.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  A small company's most reliable play is to pick one temporary bad guy and galvanise all of their competitors into pushing something forward against them.

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  the strategy that we know how to play really well is to pick one temporary bad guy and then galvanize all their competitors to push something forward against them.

  Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com

Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.

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  The corporate best practices lawyers and bankers push on founders are younger than the trees in the local park.

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  so many of the best practices that your lawyers, your bankers, whoever advisers you have, they're going to be pushing best practices on you that are younger than the trees in your local park.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  The AI backlash can only be resolved peacefully through a flagship policy that addresses public fears and redistributes AI's economic gains, not by pushing ahead regardless.

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  That's why I don't think accelerationist steamrolling will work. The only way this conflict resolves peacefully is some kind of grand bargain: a flagship policy plan that directly addresses the public's top fears about AI and meaningfully redistributes the gains.

  🌻 AI populism's warning shotsjasmi.news

Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  AI has a vampiric effect on the people using it: it excites them into working past their own ragged edge.

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  There's a vampiric effect happening with AI where it gets you excited and you work really really hard and you're capturing a ton of value. For me, I'm doing it all for myself and it's still kind of like pushing me to my ragged edge.

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  The best follow-up questions in an interview push back and challenge what the guest just said.

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  The highest art of followup is disagreement - challenging what they said, pushing back on it.

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Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

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  TANK® M3 Push Sled

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  This is, bar none, the best sled I have ever used for pushing or pulling. It isn't cheap, but I use it infinitely more than the cheaper sleds I've bought in the past.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Cursor

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  Cursor… it’s tab completion model is industry leading, if you still write code yourself. I use VS Code mostly, I do like them pushing things like browser automation and plan mode tho.

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Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.

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  NATO enlargement was driven by the demand of the countries that wanted in, not by an alliance pushing east.

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  Enlargement was demand and not supply led.

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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  As AI systems become more capable, the danger of false or unverifiable safety claims grows, pushing competing companies toward cutting corners.

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  As AI gets more capable, the risks associated with mistaken claims, fraudulent claims, or too-vague-to-be-verified claims will increase, and a cloud of suspicion between competitors could drive corner-cutting (indeed, this is happening already and could get worse).

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