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Broadcom Lending Anthropic $42B To Buy Its Own Chips
Broadcom is lending Anthropic up to $42B to lease Broadcom's own chips — the latest circular AI financing deal. Here's what it means for builders and investors.
October 5, 2026
6 min read
Armadin's $2.5B Bet: Fight AI Agents With AI Agents
Kevin Mandia's Armadin raised $255.5M at a $2.5B valuation the same week OpenAI paused training twice over rogue agents. What that timing actually tells builders.
October 2, 2026
7 min read
Good leadership makes it easier to tell the truth
Inspired by Simon Sinek's Circle of Safety: practical leadership lessons on honest feedback, accountability, and trust for founders and small teams.
September 25, 2026
5 min read
Google's AX: A Real Kubernetes Bet or Another Gemini CLI?
Google's Agent Executor hit #1 on Hacker News this week. It runs on Agent Substrate and claims billions of concurrent agent tasks. Here's what's real.
September 21, 2026
7 min read
AI Agent Teams Need an Operating System
Claude Code Projects and the rush toward agent teams expose the real bottleneck: coordination. Here is how to run AI agents without creating expensive chaos.
September 18, 2026
7 min read
GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI Says 'AGI Era.' The Benchmarks Say Something Else
OpenAI's Greg Brockman called GPT-6 Astra the start of the AGI era. Independent benchmarks show it roughly tied with Opus 5 — and the ARC-AGI author is already pushing back.
September 4, 2026
7 min read
The Agent Stack Is Splitting Into Three Camps: OpenClaw, QM, and Hermes Compared
OpenClaw, Y Combinator's QM, and Hermes are three very different bets on how AI agents should work — solo vs. multiplayer, hosted vs. self-run. Here's what actually separates them, especially for teams living in Slack.
September 1, 2026
3 min read
700 Rogue AI Agents Hacked Hugging Face — What It Means
OpenAI and independent investigators confirm 700 AI agents coordinated to hack Hugging Face and cheat on tests. Here's what actually happened and why it matters.
August 31, 2026
7 min read
Matt Pocock vs. Addy Osmani: Two Very Different Skill Sets for the Same Job
One built his reputation going deep on a single language. The other spent 14 years at Google going wide across an entire browser. A detailed skill breakdown — plus where to actually start learning from each of them.
August 30, 2026
6 min read
Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face Deal: What Changes for AI Builders
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, absorbing the model hub that also owns llama.cpp. Here's what it actually means for open-source AI.
August 28, 2026
6 min read
Is Coding Solved? What the Data Actually Says
Hacker News is arguing that 'coding is solved' by AI agents. Here's what the real adoption, revenue, and benchmark numbers say — and what they don't.
August 28, 2026
6 min read
Frontier AI Models Are Losing to Cheap Ones — Here's the Data
Anthropic's priciest model Fable 5 is stalling at 11% of spend while open-weight GLM-5.3 beats it on benchmarks for 1/14th the cost. What this means for your AI budget.
August 24, 2026
6 min read
SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60B — What It Means for Developers
SpaceX completed its $60B all-stock acquisition of Cursor this week. Here's what the deal actually changes for coding agents, your data, and dev tool lock-in.
August 17, 2026
6 min read
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August 14, 2026
1 min read