Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch.Earlier this week, I sat down with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, to try to understand how the company is meeting this moment.“We built the simplest possible thing,” said Cherny. “The craziest thing was learning three months ago that half of the sales team at Anthropic uses Claude Code every week.”AI-powered coding has evolved quickly. From 2021 to 2024, most tools functioned as little more than autocomplete, suggesting a few lines of…
Villages looked for niches they could fill in the global market. The town of Xuchang, for instance, capitalized on its legacy of making hairpieces for opera performers—and on the willingness of rural women to sell their black ponytails—and turned itself into a hub for wigs. Zhuangzhai became the largest supplier…
The weekend is here. Huzzah! It looks like we’re going to get snow this weekend, but I won’t believe it until I see the white fluffy stuff on the ground. At least it’s not supposed to be too terribly cold. A friend of mine sent a screenshot of the temperature…
Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in bikinis or other “revealing clothing.” The change in policy on Wednesday night follows global outrage at Grok being used to generate thousands of harmful nonconsensual “undressing” photos of women and sexualized images…
Congress is close to enacting a two-year authorization of Medicare telehealth services for older adults, renewing a pandemic-era coverage in the nation’s largest government health insurance program.Legislation passed Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives provides some relief for older Americans covered by Medicare health insurance who have come to…
The past year has been traumatic for many of the volunteer tech warriors of what was once called the United States Digital Service (USDS). The team’s former coders, designers, and UX experts have watched in horror as Donald Trump rebranded the service as DOGE, effectively forced out its staff, and…
You may walk past your neighbor’s house and see some new solar panels quietly absorbing sunlight and turning it into electricity. Your neighbor is smiling because solar is now the least expensive electricity in history. So, your neighbor is almost certainly saving a lot of money. This will be better…
Against that backdrop, Europe’s reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst case scenario, though experts consider the possibility remote, the US could choose to withhold access to AI services and crucial digital infrastructure. More plausibly, the Trump administration could use Europe’s…
It’s Wordle Wednesday, which means we have an extra riddle to solve before we get to the day’s Wordle itself. Here’s your bonus riddle:Sometimes big, sometimes small, I carry weight but weigh nothing at all. What am I?I’ll post the answer tomorrow. Let’s solve this Wordle!Looking for Tuesday’s Wordle? Check…
I hope everyone had a nice holiday Monday, but now we’re back to the grind. Fortunately, we have some fun diversions, like the newest NYT Games App puzzle game, Pips. Let’s grab some dominos and solve today’s Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles!Looking for Monday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.How…
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, the biggest names in tech have mostly fallen in line with the new regime, attending dinners with officials, heaping praise upon the administration, presenting the president with lavish gifts, and pleading for Trump’s permission to sell their products to China.…
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Wordlers! I hope you have a nice time with friends and family, especially if you have the day off of work (or school). We have a Wordle to solve, so let’s solve it!Looking for Sunday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.Today’s Bonus WordleNow…
If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode.On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph and…
NASA has started to roll out Artemis, and there is quite the buzz on social media. I normally write about weather and climate topics, but I spent twelve years of my career as a NASA scientist. Being NASA-attentive, I feel qualified to provide you with a little “101” on Artemis…
I just got back from the JP Morgan conference. A few learnings that apply to any industry, not just healthcare:Humans + AI will change the industry. Not AI alone.Cash flow matters. Not AI hype.The real AI revolution is operational.One of the most hyperbolic promises in healthcare in the last month…
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