Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few examples, and it was CTO and co-founder Lee Holloway who created these mechanisms. However, he was forced…

“It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”...

This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays.

Impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been …

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What are the true limits to motivation?

This case involves Project Bluebird, a social media service previously named “twitter.new” and renamed to tweet.app immediately after this ruling (for reasons this post makes obvious). Project Bluebird’s service is designed to reimagine the Twitter service…

See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.

I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout.

Initially we believed the other team had also solved t…

The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption isn't intelligence. It's discovery. The system can do almost anything, but it still requires you to already know what to ask for.

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” staffer says in resignation post after leaving the tech giant.

I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. …

You either loved it, or were using it wrong.

OpenAI spent millions to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but who should get credit?

The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11 surveillance boom.

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

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A caller phones Radio Erywan.
“Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?”
“True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”.…

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.