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State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2
Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are declining, management’s “great flattening”, and more
Essential books for product builders—part 2
36 more timeless books that’ll make you a better builder, leader, and person
What Salesforce Learned from 20,000 Enterprise Agent Deployments
We sat down with John Kucera, Salesforce’s CPO of Agentforce, to learn what separates agents that deliver real business value from those that stall after a good demo.
Claude Fable 5 review: what the new Mythos model gets right (and very wrong)
Watch now | 🎙️Early access to Claude Fable 5: what Anthropic claims, what I tested, and my honest take
June 8, 2026
On June 8, 1789, Representative James Madison of Virginia stood up to address the House of Representatives in order to introduce a series of amendments to the U.S.
How AI Teaching Assistants Are Transforming Online Graduate Programs
Professor Anna Marbut on building and deploying OpenAI-powered TAs in asynchronous, professional-focused courses
Nobody knows what they’re talking about on A.I. consciousness
Your hot takes won’t solve the major riddles of Western philosophy.
I'm on Product Hunt! + Updates Jun 2026
Experimenting with Claude Code + Mac Mini setup, building mobile apps, and so much more
The uniformity delusion in Chinese thought and Western progressivism
The false premise from which so much toxic nonsense flows.
A Commencement Address to the ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026
On Friday, we welcomed the inaugural ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026 to our San Francisco headquarters to celebrate what they’ve made possible by putting frontier AI to work.
The 50 Essential Western Films
I pick the definitive movies in the genre. Here's the first (of three) installments.
🔎 Why Google is Selling $85B of Itself
Cash, debt, or equity: how Big Tech pays for AI
Old Dogs, Same Tricks | Barb Lishko
Three "flavors" explain the different ways people love books. | #104
I’m Charlie Becker, a second-generation bookseller building an AI tool for used bookstores out of my family’s store in Houston, Texas.
One Casino Per Year: Marginal Buyer in Markets
Level 2- Value Investor
Islamismophobia
Support Islam, Oppose Islamists
The Historical Turn: Toward a Temporal Ecology of Consciousness
An extension of the Cognitive Ecology Model
The Right of Conscience
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
How To Be Trad When The Finances Are Tight
Manners and Morals #11
BREAKING: Trump Says U.S. Must Retaliate Against Iran, NBA Finals Crowd Boos Trump, Paxton's Own Lawyer Endorses Talarico, and more...
Top Stories for June 9, 2026.
Seven Years Sober, One Big Announcement
On July 16th I'm releasing something that matters deeply to me — paid subscribers find out today
THE SUBSIDY
On what we gave that was never counted, and who was receiving it all along
June 9, 2026
Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.
Good Person
Five things we're meant to say
Pets.com burned $300 million and died in 268 days
$11 IPO. $0.19 at death. A sock puppet mascot. And Chewy later proved the whole idea actually works.
The Election Interference Story Is No Longer About 2020. It Is About What Comes Next.
The Election Interference Story Is No Longer About 2020.
What it feels like to work with Mythos
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
Today on Lawfare: June 9, 2026
From Lawfare's Editorial Team.
No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff) | TechCrunch
Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's resignation was a shock, and it’s safe to say that few if any saw this coming — even his mentor, Marc Benioff.
This President Cannot Handle the Truth
And why that keeps me up at night
FICO: The Contestable Monopoly?
Part 3 of FICO Series
The Most Dangerous Political Weapon Isn’t Election Fraud
It’s Convincing Millions To Expect It
Rock You Like An Intelligence Agency
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[AINews] Anthropic Claude Fable 5 — Mythos but Safe, with Controversial Terms
The much anticipated launch of the Mythos-class model was marred by some controversial usage policies
I'm off to CSICon!
A week of wonders, wit, wisdom, woo, wonks, and wows
The Risk of Working Small
Delicate and beautiful is better than sturdy and clunky
The 9 TED Habits That Quietly Decide Whether You're Remembered
Why some speakers go viral and others go unwatched
Introducing Connect the Dots: a guided workbook for tangled situations
Most of the decisions that keep you up at night are not simple “pick A or B” choices.
How a VP of Product Uses Claude Without Producing Slop | Matthew Wensing, Customer.io
Every tutorial online is written for IC (individual contributor) PMs. This one is for the GPM, Director, VP, CPO tier.
Israel Intensifies the Killing in Gaza as the World Looks Away
“They have taken everything from us. They have taken away the possibility for life.”
🇨🇴🇵🇪 Eleições: esquerda busca reverter desvantagem no 2º turno em Peru e Colômbia
GIRO #335 | Peruanos escolhem presidente neste domingo (7), com Keiko Fujimori em ligeira vantagem nas pesquisas pela 1ª vez. No dia 21, esquerda colombiana tenta barrar ‘nova’ ultradireita
Stock Analysis 101 with AI: How to Research Any Stock Like a Buy-Side Analyst in 2026
A free Claude skill + 16 prompts that turn filings into an institutional-grade research brief. Educational research, not advice.
Three Labs With a Plan and A Memorandum
The big story today is the release of Claude Fable 5, the version of Claude Mythos that Anthropic believes they can safely distribute to the people.
Temu Bridesmaids and Millionaire Proms
"NIL so crazy you a think this a wedding lol"
There aren't always wings
On pimple-faced college boys and blinking signs
What’s your team’s path to the World Cup title?
And which group-stage matches are actually worth buying tickets to?
Japan's Free Companies
The Rise Of AI Politics
Anthropic just asked the world to hit pause. The world will not hit pause.
The Kiln of Proceduralism: On the Failures of Magnifica Humanitas
by Matthew Schultz
Books that form a Moral Imagination
Highlights (and some lowlights) of our pre-k to 3rd grade "curriculum"