wired.com

‘Saros’ Shows Off the PS5’s DualSense Tricks

The new game from the creators of Returnal goes all-in on the PlayStation's haptics and 3D audio.

platformer.news

The week that Meta employees became training data

For years, tech companies have asked contractors to behave like machines so that machines can learn to behave like people. Now Meta is asking its own full-time employees, who once occupied the top of the digital labor hierarchy, to do the same.

wired.com

A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China

An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.

stratechery.com

2026.16: Servers, Satellites, and Stars

The key to understanding and analyzing tech has been appreciating the implications of zero marginal costs, which govern the economics of everything from chips to software to services. AI services generally fall under the same rubric — fixed costs in terms of data centers and chips matter more than marginal costs (mostly electricity) — but the worsening shortage in compute means it is opportunity costs that matter more than ever.

dwarkesh.com

Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

In the end, something has to transform electrons to tokens. The transformation of electrons to tokens and making those tokens more valuable over time is hard to completely commoditize.

ai-supremacy.com

What if World Models and Quantum Computing complemented LLMs?

For all the book smarts of LLMs, they currently have little sense for how the real world works and there's a growing list of "world model" AI startups trying to fill the gap.

wired.com

Why Is It So Hard to Fix an Electric Bike? (2026)

Bike shop mechanics have lost fingers and their shirts while repairing ebikes of dubious origins.

honest-broker.com

The Ten Commandments of the New AI Religion

The faithful have been liberated from the responsibility of thinking for themselves. The bot now thinks for them.

noahpinion.blog

Salarymen, specialists, and small businesses

So far, AI is replacing tasks, not jobs. Alex Imas and Soumitra Shukla have written that as long as there are a few things that only humans can do, this pattern can be expected to hold.

lennysnewsletter.com

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

It genuinely feels to me like GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 in November represent an inflection point: the moment when AI coding agents crossed from "mostly works" to "actually works."

longreads.com

Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life.

In that time, he also lost his job, racked up a range of tech costs, and suffered through hacks and harassment, all stressors on his mental health.

stratechery.com

Apple’s 50 Years of Integration

For decades after the fact, conventional wisdom was that Microsoft's modular approach — the one that let me build my own computers — was unquestionably superior to Apple's integration of hardware and software. In fact, it was Apple's integration that kept the company afloat.

wired.com

A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work

The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars "learn" and adapt to their surroundings.

noahpinion.blog

Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI

The fact that we call most of the new tasks "services" doesn't change the fact that the set of new human tasks seems to have expanded faster than machines have replaced old ones.

fs.blog

Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education

He argues the traditional classroom was designed for a narrow slice of students and wastes everyone else's time. The fix isn't more money or better teachers; it's rebuilding from scratch around mastery, motivation, and AI.

readtrung.com

The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

The exterior of the Las Vegas Sphere, known as the Exosphere, is a 580,000-square-foot LED display wrapping a 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide spherical structure. This colossal screen is composed of 1.2 million individual "LED pucks," each containing 48 LEDs, to create a dynamic and high-resolution visual experience.

ai-supremacy.com

The Problem with AI Anxiety in 2026

We shouldn't seek to quell AI anxiety, we should embrace and analyze it. The truth is, the U.S. labor market is in serious trouble, and it has little to do with AI so far.

whyisthisinteresting

The Saturday Selection, Vol. 97

How are things different now from the way they were in the golden age? The best way to answer that might be to imagine what someone from the golden age would notice if we brought him here in a time machine.

upstartsmedia.com

Star Catcher’s Andrew Rush: Harnessing The Sun To Build The First Energy Grid In Space

Our daily lives are based on and enriched by space, regardless of who we are. So providing more power ultimately enriches humanity.

stratechery.com

2026.11: Winners, Losers, and the Unknown

However, the most recent evidence — particularly Copilot Cowork — is that the companies who are best able to harness (pun intended) model capabilities are the model makers themselves.

oneusefulthing.org

The Shape of the Thing

This new approach to AI is the outcome of the rapid exponential improvement in AI abilities. That means you can't understand where we are, and where we might be going, without understanding the increasing capability of AI.

platformer.news

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it

I've long assumed that before too long, AI might take my job. I just assumed that someone would tell me when it happened.

lennysnewsletter.com

🎙️ This week on How I AI: Mastering Midjourney: How to create consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts

I think where a lot of people get tripped up is trying to make AI work the way you want it to work instead of actually understanding how it works.

wired.com

How to Run Ethernet Cables to Your Router and Keep Them Tidy

Boosting internet speeds around your home is easy with Ethernet cables, and these tips will help you keep things neat.

readtrung.com

The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

The exterior of the Las Vegas Sphere, known as the Exosphere, is a 580,000-square-foot LED display wrapping a 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide spherical structure. This colossal screen is composed of 1.2 million individual "LED pucks," each containing 48 LEDs, to create a dynamic and high-resolution visual experience (translation: blows your got dang socks off).

readtrung.com

The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

One rebuttal — which I happily ascribe to — is to reply with an image of Las Vegas Sphere and say, "yes, we definitely do" build anything beautiful anymore.

readtrung.com

The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

One rebuttal — which I happily ascribe to — is to reply with an image of Las Vegas Sphere and say, "yes, we definitely do." Look, the latter might not be the Cathedral Notre Dame or La Sagrada Familia…or the Forbidden Palace. But it's still a different kind of marvel and incredible engineering accomplishment.

wired.com

This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won’t Work

Devevillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.

noahpinion.blog

If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?

Like almost everyone in the AI model-making industry, Anthropic's employees believe that they are literally creating a god, and that this god will come into its full existence sooner rather than later.

honest-broker.com

Why Are Tech Bros Watching Videos at 3x Speed

At first I thought this was satire—especially when he gave an example of a video played at that rate.

oneusefulthing.org

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era

Because of this change, you have to consider three things when deciding what AI to use: Models, Apps, and Harnesses. Models are the underlying AI brains, and the big three are GPT-5.2/5.3, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3 Pro (the companies are releasing new models much more rapidly than the past, so version numbers may change in the coming weeks).

ai-supremacy.com

What Rivian's AI & Autonomy Growth Signals

Advanced autonomy, improved sensors, millions of miles more experience, integrated software and embedded AI have all improved considerably in the last decade.

wired.com

7 Laptop Docking Stations to Unlock the Full Desktop Experience (2026)

Laptop docking stations expand what your laptop can do, and I've been testing the best of the best to see which you should buy.

platformer.news

Inside the backlash to the AI war machine

Who wants mass surveillance? Only the Epstein class. The robot's point was that billionaires often build powerful surveillance technologies while simultaneously going to great lengths to maintain their own privacy.

wired.com

ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns

ByteDance's new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company's compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

oneusefulthing.org

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era

Because of this change, you have to consider three things when deciding what AI to use: Models, Apps, and Harnesses. Models are the underlying AI brains, and the big three are GPT-5.2/5.3, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3 Pro. These are what determine how smart the system is, how well it reasons, how good it is at writing or coding or analyzing a spreadsheet, and how well it can see images or create them.

wired.com

What AI Models for War Actually Look Like

While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.

longreads.com

25 Years of iPod Brain

Maybe this is the essential blessing of the iPod: the software gives you the potential for an unlimited musical library, but the hardware's limits still lock you into a committed relationship with the songs you choose.

ai-supremacy.com

What Rivian's AI & Autonomy Growth Signals

Advanced autonomy, improved sensors, millions of miles more experience, integrated software and embedded AI have all improved considerably in the last decade. That world of robots, delivery drones, robo-taxis and consumer ambient intelligence: well, it's finally coming.

ai-supremacy.com

Citadel's 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis Response to Citrini Research

A lot of the "Technological optimism" we see online is actually manufactured by those who have the most to gain and by various financial motives and incentives.

oneusefulthing.org

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era

Because of this change, you have to consider three things when deciding what AI to use: Models, Apps, and Harnesses. Models are the underlying AI brains, and the big three are GPT-5.2/5.3, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3 Pro.