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The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

Sure, but as the article points out, had it not been for the change of heart, Xenix light could have been something like Coherent. Having learnt UNIX on Xenix, I know how expensive it was, we had a single tower that the teacher carried on into class, while we in groups of 2 students had about 15 minutes time slots to try out our applications that we prepared on MS-DOS ahead of time with Turbo C 2.0.

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter is the evidence that yes. Its just that the idea is dumb. What you are seeing in VCs salving their own money, buying their investment out with the money they out into more successful ventures. Look at how the same pools of capital sit on multiple sides of the market: the router, the payment layer, and the model providers... Its all the same club Investor ---- Economic Overlap --------------------------------------------------------- Andreessen - OpenRouter, Stripe, OpenAI, Mistral, xAI Sequoia - OpenRouter, Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI CapitalG - OpenRouter, Stripe, Google/Alphabet MenloVentures - OpenRouter, Anthropic NVentures - OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AMP PBC - OpenRouter, Anthropic

On AI regulation and messaging

> I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer. Then, proceeds at promising it again, without delivering. Amazing. > We are however doing our best to fix this: Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine, and we hope to have incredible results in the coming years and some early glimmers in the coming months. When we’ve actually accomplished something real, the whole world will hear about it, as loudly as possible, you have my word on that.

Anthropic's Annualized Revenue Tops $65B Before IPO

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

My aim was to turn my ramblings into something more coherent. No more. No less. I have made longer notes using exactly the process you prescribe, but that wasn't necessary for me in this case as it wasn't the most complex of ideas - I just regenerated until it gave me a fair approximation of what I wanted. And to be fair - even if I had given it follow-up guidance it would still have the LLM "smell". It would receive EXACTLY the same treatment from the anti-llm crowd. Thats pretty much one of the core points of the post (judging the medium ahead of the content).

Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI': Most revenue despite being most expensive

Architecture is secondary right now. How Anthropic cleaned up the datasets for training and tuned the alignment - that's the real engineering magic. OpenAI came up with GPT, but Anthropic turned it into a fully functional tool for engineers

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

They said they also block usage of Claude models to build ML models. Which is definitely protecting their turf, but also probably a little bit hiding their “RSI” abilities for competitive reasons. My theory is that a lot of “safety blocking” is actually WIP training of new business directions. Anthropic has started hiring biologists and has opened a preview of a “Claude code for bioinformatics”. I’m guessing they’re tweaking their bioinformatics market play, and block “bio safety” requests so competitors can’t learn about their training.

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

5. Absolut democracy is available at the liquor store in various flavors, but has negarive long-term health effects. I'd be happy with a sane system of taxation supporting a coherent budget.

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)

What a nice question. There won't be a simple answer, but if the model=actor due to survival pressures theory stands, it must be clearly testable. I would go about answering that question as follows, identify the smartest creatures, whose cognition is most alien to ours, whose behavior suggests they have a strong real-time sense of self that extends into it immediate processing, regardless of immediate action, or immediate action dependent on immediate state that is not easily explained as normally detectable or processed lower order state. Humans obviously. Then the octopus, a true alien cognition. it has an extremely curious and creative mind, and can behave quite differently in even slightly different situations, as well as coherently is situations that ought to be well out of its nich…

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

This is actually a great representation of what is good and what is insidious about LLM assisted writing. The practice of writing can serve the purpose of conveying an idea or information to the readers, but it can also be an invaluable tool for the writer to process, digest, and internalize a message. The act of wordsmithing, and shaping the idea from its raw rambling form into a coherent narrative, is intellectual metabolism. A good writer will both distill the ideas, present them in such a way that will be pleasurable to their readers, and also bring the reader along the way so they can learn as well, and feel like an active participant. The LLM tend to produce prose that defeats the purpose for the writer, takes the joy out for the reader, and ultimately does nothing for anyone but ta…

People are worried about America's solvency

Ah yes, I remember Strom Thurmond, that great firebrand of the left, and his 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Basically Lenin. /s To be fair, US political culture (and capitalism in general) contain deep, deep contradictions so it's going to require a whole lot of glue and squinting to say that there is any coherence to any US political party... The person you're responding to has it correct, though, that there was an important cultural shift around Johnson and Nixon and the Southern Strategy and all that... not that these cultural politics could ever touch the materialist facts of capital.

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

That's fine, maybe they don't want casual users like you to be part of their community. There is a reason to prefer group coherence over availability. Availability doesn't actually help the group for most online communities, it's actively a hinderance.

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)

You can think abstractly about geometry problems, or graph tgeory but even about linear algebra. Feynman describes how he felt while holding and analyzing problems in his mind. I'm less eloquent. Also you can think about the narrative and the valence of a scene for a book, without blabbering to yourself while planning the story. I can narrate it like as if I imagine a friend being there and translating my thought into language but it's an extra step. It also exhausts me more. Which makes coding with LLMs more tiring for me. Before it, I could code without language use exhausting my brain, but talking to LLMs requires putting all of it into English, while before I could just imagine a certain refactor as one coherent thought in my mind without turning it into sentences. Of course above a c…

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Obsessive is the right word. Over the weekend I had to stop it multiple times deep into a multi-hour long turn to ask what the hell it was doing. It was like a dog with a bone and would NOT let go of its current work to talk to me. I had to interrupt it three times with increasingly aggressive instructions to STOP and answer my questions before proceeding. In another session it straight up told me it was in the middle of debugging something important and to ask later. I'm running an RTX 6000 Blackwell. It regularly spent over an hour per turn thinking. Every time I looked at it, the thinking trace seemed coherent, sensible, appropriate. But it could never settle on a solution. Granted, I was trying to have it solve a hard problem that 5.6 Sol couldn't solve, but still. Either way, I'm sti…

On AI regulation and messaging

Well, is ”not actively make things worse in the short term?” too ambitious a goal? Considering the vast amount of money, world-class talent and political and industry vonnections Anthropic has access to, it feels a bit unfair to ask me to solve this for them.

Why does everyone hate data centers?

Not what the article says Article quotes OpenAI that anti-data-center content was being produced by ChatGPT (so it’s really sam altman funding it when you think about it)

Anthropic's War on open source AI

Suppose the upside is as Dario claims, very positive. Why should frontier companies be the ones controlling access to the model weights and gatekeeping research? Shouldn't you be giving it to everybody as quickly as possible? It's my understanding that Dario has two answers to this question: 1) bio/cyber/misalignment risk. 2) a democracy should gatekeep frontier capabilities from authoritarian adversaries, due to the aforementioned risks in 1). So it's really just one reason. There's a big problem with that, and I'm not sure if he genuinely does not understand: the bio/cyber/misalignment risk is precisely the highest when you concentrate ownership of compute and general intelligence in the hands of a few. Consider bio/cyber risk, or more generally, any sort of nov…

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Surpasses $65B Ahead of IPO

Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

"My writing is my work, and Anthropic's current strategy is aggressively writer-hostile."