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Even Sam Altman Thinks Elon Musk's Space Data Center Pitch Is Overselling It And He's Not Wrong. AI-Generated.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk spent the weekend trading insults on social media, which is not, in itself, particularly newsworthy. These two have a long and well-documented history of public sniping.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
A Company That Was Laying Off Staff Last Year Just Became Wall Street's Newest Fusion Darling. AI-Generated.
Fourteen months ago, General Fusion laid off at least a quarter of its employees because it couldn't raise the money it needed to survive.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Anthropic Just Made Claude Cheaper To Access In India But It's Still Missing The One Thing That Actually Matters. AI-Generated.
India represents 5.8% of all global Claude usage. That makes it Anthropic's second-largest market in the world, trailing only the United States itself.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
SpaceX Is About To Fly Starship Again And This Time It's Not Just About Rockets, It's About Public Shareholders. AI-Generated.
Elon Musk has a name for what happens when a SpaceX rocket explodes: "rapid unscheduled disassembly." It's the kind of phrase that only makes sense inside a company culture built around failing fast and fixing faster. For most of SpaceX's history, that philosophy worked because the company was private and answerable mostly to Musk himself and a small circle of investors who'd bought into the long game.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
LA Just Walked Away From The Surveillance Network Tracking 80,000 License Plates Here's Why That Matters. AI-Generated.
The Los Angeles Police Department, the third-largest police force in the United States, just let its contract expire with a company most Americans have never heard of, but whose cameras have probably photographed their license plate anyway.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Uber Spent Years Building Robotaxi Partnerships. Now It's Lobbying To Regulate Them Out Of Existence.. AI-Generated.
For years, Uber and Waymo looked like an unlikely success story: former courtroom rivals turned business partners, putting Waymo's self-driving cars on Uber's app in Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Steve Jobs' Son Doesn't Want To Talk About His Dad. He Wants To Talk About Curing Cancer.. AI-Generated.
Ask Reed Jobs about his last name, and he shrugs it off with a joke. Ask him about curing cancer, and he won't stop talking.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Maserati Finally Built Cars That Make Its Comeback Feel Real. AI-Generated.
For many years, it felt like Maserati was stuck in limbo: trading on decades of legendary heritage while building cars that never quite lived up to the badge, plagued by patchy quality, dated tech, and lingering questions about its long‑term future. But after spending time with the new Grecale Trofeo and GranTurismo Trofeo, I can say this: the cars themselves are finally here. They’re brilliant, they’re true to what Maserati should stand for, and they prove the brand is capable of greatness again. That said, there’s still work to do if it wants to turn strong products into a full‑blown revival.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
I Let AI Write 10,000 Lines of Code a Day — Here’s What Broke Me
Evan Harris pushed his third cold brew off to the side of the monitor just as the Slack notification from a marketing account slid into view: “Two‑person garage team uses AI to crush a 200‑person outsourced team in three days.” He swiped open his phone, screenshotted it, and sent it to Maria with the caption: We could do that too.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The Man Who Shredded His Own Instruction Manual
Leo’s fingers were dry when he fed the seventh version of the New Hire Onboarding Master Guide into the shredder. No sweat. Before, whenever he cleaned out his bookmarks, he’d gnaw at his cuticles first, then back the links up to three different places, like burying time capsules. This time he just watched the paper drop into the clear bin and thought about the expired supermarket loyalty card still stuck to his fridge.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
AI and the Future of Human Adaptation: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Way We Live, Work, and Thrive
Yet AI's greatest impact may not be the automation of individual tasks. Its most significant contribution could be changing how humanity adapts to an increasingly complex and fast-moving world.
By Siamak Callimi2 months ago in 01
The Paper Airplane and the Spare Key
The afternoon Alex Warren paid off the last contractor invoice, his banking app pushed a notification: $4,312. He didn’t dismiss it. He let the number float in the corner of the screen while he opened a terminal and ran Pacemaker’s deploy script one more time. He’d built the product over seven months—automated reconciliation for small merchants, feeding invoices and bank statements to AI. It used to take an entire finance team. Now it took one person, plus a noisy old Dell server.
By Jin2 months ago in 01