Tech Things: Everyone's Getting Fired
Meta laid off roughly 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, as part of a broader wave of tech industry cuts driven by AI adoption. Oracle eliminated an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 positions globall…
OpenAI is an American AI research laboratory founded in 2015, known for creating ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, and DALL-E image generators. It is one of the most influential AI companies in the world.
Meta laid off roughly 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, as part of a broader wave of tech industry cuts driven by AI adoption. Oracle eliminated an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 positions globall…
Anthropic and OpenAI have acquired package manager companies Bun and Astral respectively, signaling growing interest from frontier AI labs in these software development tools. Package managers are pro…
OpenAI models now run agent turns through the native Codex app-server harness by default in OpenClaw, replacing the previous approach where OpenClaw drove the model loop itself. The change gives Codex…
Creation of a blog using OpenAI Codex desktop, highlighting its Markdown session transcript export feature. It provides a link to the session that built the blog and references issue 179. The post is …
Cerebras Systems has secured a 750MW compute deal with OpenAI, positioning the company for its upcoming IPO as demand for fast token generation surges. The wafer-scale chip maker's speed advantages, p…
A blogger known as "Cons ulet" published a post arguing that Emacs is easy to use, not arcane or complicated as commonly believed. The post, part of a series on Emacs usage patterns, aims to dispel th…
A new study published April 30 in *Science* found that OpenAI's large language model outperformed physicians on several clinical reasoning tasks using real emergency room records. The findings arrive …
OpenAI is forming a new company to deploy AI, reinforcing the thesis that the technology's impact will require top-down implementation, with other labs expected to follow suit. Separately, Apple has e…
OpenAI deprecated its finetuning APIs, signaling a broader industry shift away from the technique as Anthropic nears a higher valuation than OpenAI for the first time. The move makes finetuning the la…
Every interaction with a modern large language model is structured as a list of messages, each tagged with a role—system, user, or assistant—that shapes how the model responds and how context is manag…
A philosophy PhD student at Cornell, Nikhil Dominic, has proposed that countries not in the AI production chain should treat AI like oil and establish sovereign wealth funds to avoid being sidestepped…
OpenAI, Microsoft, Broadcom, AMD and Nvidia developed a new network protocol called Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) that scales Ethernet to over 1 million endpoints for AI clusters by increasing t…
Release of llm 0.32a2, highlighting that most reasoning-capable OpenAI models now use the `/v1/responses` endpoint instead of `/v1/chat/completions`, enabling interleaved reasoning across tool calls f…
Thinking Machines released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters, advancing real-time voice interaction by processing audio and images in under 20…
Large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude operate as next-token prediction machines, taking a sequence of tokens as input and outputting a probability distribution over their vocabulary f…
OpenAI's GPT Image 2 model is available on imagesv2 through a credit-based pricing system, where users purchase credits that are deducted per image generation based on quality, size, and mode. Plans r…
OpenAI Codex can be used with a visual workspace like Nimbalyst to move beyond terminal-based sessions, enabling users to review diffs, plan features in markdown, and run multiple sessions in parallel…
Global IT spending is projected to reach $6.32 trillion in 2026, a 13.5% increase from 2025, driven by soaring demand and price hikes for CPU, GPU, and memory components amid shortages. The surge, fue…
Podcaster and AI commentator Dwarkesh Patel launched an essay competition asking participants to answer one of four unresolved questions about artificial intelligence, including why AI scaling continu…
Anthropic has developed a new AI model, Claude Mythos, which it claims is too powerful to release publicly due to its ability to identify critical security flaws in operating systems, browsers, and so…