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🧵Some personal news: After a 6 year hiatus, the Internet History Podcast is back! Yes, the original tech history podcast is back with the first three episodes below, followed by a new one every week for the foreseeable future. Search your podcast app now so you don't miss the amazing interviews we have coming! Start with this one 👇 youtu.be/sjkkdcMp2Pk

Internet History Podcast | Jimmy Wales, Founder Of Wikipedia

Welcome BACK to the Internet History Podcast. After essentially a 5...

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Sam Gerstenzang
@gerstenzangOct 21
My Theranos story: when the original whistleblower story was published, I immediately recognized him. He had dated my college girlfriend when we were “on a break”: of course I remembered him. I then realized in the photo he was standing IN MY HOUSE. I had moved three months earlier and unbeknownst to me he was the next tenant. Needless to say, I was team Holmes for about three minutes.
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This is such an interesting point that I've seen so many people make recently. If you can vibe code anything, any SaaS you are paying for, then all the frontier labs should have their own internal stuff and shouldn't be paying anyone else for anything at this point.
Sar Haribhakti
@sarthakghOct 20
“Companies will vibe code majority of the thirst party software was a mirage” evidence 1001
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Christopher Mims 🤌
@mimsOct 20
Replying to @anissagardizy8
@anissagardizy8 got the scoop on Anthropic's S1 wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-re…

Exclusive | Anthropic S-1 Shows Red-Hot Growth, Risks and Massive Computing Costs

In a new draft prospectus viewed by the Journal, the AI giant disclosed an $80 billion net loss for the first half of 2026 and a long list of risk factors.

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The coming discourse around AI sentience is going to do wild things to the discourse around: pets, veganism, eating things generally, anything that is an autonomous organism pulling energy down from the universe.
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Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOroszOct 17
I cannot recall any other time in the tech industry when the COMPLETE industry (from small to large companies; nonprofits to VC-funded; private sector to government and academia) is trying to figure out how to change the dev tools and processes we use. all AT THE SAME TIME!!
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Roy Carrilho
@RuiCarrilho5Oct 16
people are starting to realize. there *are* no moats left. the only true moat in existence was intelligence, and now that's out of the equation.
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Kyros
@IamKyros69Oct 16
anthropic made claude code 3x faster using gzip. a compression tool from 1992.
ClaudeDevs
@ClaudeDevsOct 16
We keep improving performance across Claude, and you may have noticed it starts responding sooner! Claude Code now gzips the conversation it sends on every turn, so it reaches the model faster. Cloud sessions also start up as soon as you start typing.
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Dave Winer
@davewinerOct 16
Worth repeating: Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.
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Is there a prediction market running on how soon AI might break the current internet? I'd give it maybe 2-3 months...
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The Information
@theinformationOct 16
OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs face a growing challenge: Better models aren't necessarily attracting more usage. A 10-point intelligence advantage now earns just 20% more developer traffic, down from nearly 69% in late 2025. Full story: thein.fo/4hGJ9jY

Leading-Edge AI Models Are Losing Their Allure With Developers

As a lifelong, overly enthusiastic San Francisco Giants fan, this was a rough summer. Essentially out of contention since week six, the Giants ended the season with a dubious distinction: one of the...

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And I bet when the wave crests it returns to the mean. Not cause I think slop goes away. It never will. But a reset to human creation and orchestration as a value prop is inevitable. Not saying it will win, but inevitable.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@NoahpinionOct 14
The slopocalypse cometh
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Basic Apple Guy
@BasicAppleGuyOct 13
same same.
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Mark Malone@soundmigrationOct 12
Mark Zuckerberg pretending to enjoy Guinness is my new favourite thing.
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Enisco
@eniscoOct 11
“We used to copy and paste the code directly from the ai chatbot”
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Garry Tan
@garrytanOct 12
There are only two winning positions in foundation models. The absolute best. Or the best for the cheapest.
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Haz Hubble
@hazhubbleOct 12
BIG announcement: @pally is now completely FREE! Every user now gets everything that used to be reserved for Max: - Our best AI models - Connect every app: iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Calendar, Notion, and more - Unlimited automations, including ones that fire the moment something happens (“text me when my landlord emails”) - Pally gets its own phone number and email. Give them out like you would a real assistant’s - Pally makes calls for you: it books the table, chases the contractor, gets the quote - Pally books and buys things on the web for you, end to end - Media generation (videos, images, and songs) AND to celebrate, we launched a new website and updated brand! Check it out > pally.com Oh... and one more thing... 👀
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Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwartOct 9
Yeah I should have paid closer attention
Ankit
@ankitkr0Oct 9
every once in a while i think about jack clark, the bloomberg journalist who took a break to study AI for a few months and then ended up being one of cofounders of anthropic
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a16z
@a16zOct 8
Your next users are machines Agents burn nearly 5x the tokens people do, up 14x in six months
a16z
@a16zOct 8
AI agents don't use the cloud like humans do. AWS CEO Matt Garman on rewiring AWS for its newest "users": "Increasingly we're seeing teams that want a cloud that is great to work with agents and not just with people." " We've doubled down on things like starting a database in three seconds and some capabilities that agents are excited about." "Many agents wanna create a database, do a little bit of work, and then have the database go away. You don't really need that database to have five nines of durability." "There are new building blocks that agents are gonna want that we just didn't really need before: compute sandboxes, gateways, agent permissions versus people or service role permissions." " A lot of those are things that we have built and are building and thinking actively about because they are just brand-new building blocks. It's not using the existing building blocks differently." @mattsgarman @RaghuRaghuram
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Steven Levy
@StevenLevyOct 9
The iPod would have been 25 this month. Yes, the iPhone is galaxies more impactful, but iPod's demise leaves a hole that hasn't been filled. Put this take on your playlist, please, wired.com/story/im-still-con…

I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget

Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.

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