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FYI: We're now omitting links in @Techmeme tweets. Why?
1. Links limit reach (see embedded study)
2. The cost for posting links using X's API increased today by 1900%.
Links may return later, but we're still exploring how we might accomplish that.
1. Links limit reach (see embedded study)
2. The cost for posting links using X's API increased today by 1900%.
Links may return later, but we're still exploring how we might accomplish that.
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (@laurahazardowen / Nieman Lab)
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Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to "lead the optimization" of its models on TPUs (@Ryanbarwick / The Information)
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An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that "hunger beats tenure" (@felixrieseberg)
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Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation (@RashiShrivast18 / Forbes)
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Source: Apple has discussed charging $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an OLED XDR touch screen and M5 Pro chip, $400 more than the current M5 Pro model (@markgurman / Bloomberg)
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Discord says it will let public-channel messages from servers listed in Server Discovery appear in web search from mid-December; admins and members can opt out (@LaurenForristal / TechCrunch)
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Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is "deeply flawed," as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing (@annierpalmer / CNBC)
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Oracle adds ChatGPT and Codex to its app stack and expands Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lineup with Google TPUs, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, and Cerebras hardware (@seemacnbc / CNBC)
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Google launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, initially as a preview to trusted testers (@jaypeters / The Verge)
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Anthropic's S-1 shows an 85% gross margin in H1 from running its models, a reality check for skeptics who said pay-as-you-go model sales wouldn't be profitable (@steph_palazzolo / The Information)
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