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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
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Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune
The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.
Read →Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
Read →Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up
The money behind the money is thrilled, mostly.
Read →I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over.
The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it’s also fun and engaging enough that I didn’t want to switch back to my Pro Max.
Read →From restaurant guides to payments, here’s how TikTok is building a super app
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
Read →OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
Read →Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
Read →4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale
On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory of your id...
Read →Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
Read →Fifteen Coder fingerprints and 7,392 title matches describe very different evidence
Fifteen Coder fingerprints and 7,392 title matches describe very different evidence Product names that are also common English words create a measurement problem. A title search can find pa...
Read →Track new and closed jobs at any Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby company in Google Sheets
When a company opens three sales roles and a RevOps lead, it has budget and a plan. Hiring is one of the most honest buying signals there is. The trouble is that it lives on a few hundred careers page...
Read →What metrics matter for LLM inference observability (TTFT, TPOT, ITL)?
Track time to first token (TTFT), time per output token (TPOT), and inter-token latency (ITL) together, because each exposes a different aspect of inference effectiveness. TTFT reflects queueing and p...
Read →Ranking position trendnews → referrals
Referral traffic from published news coverage.
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