404 Media put an AirTag in a used book to track it to an Amazon scanning facility. (Clever investigative reporting or legal gray area?) Not sure how much we can read into this because Amazon has been scanning books for over 20 years, ever since the "look inside" feature.
Listening to the latest AppStories podcast about how to grade Siri AI. I like the way John and Federico approach this. Siri AI can be both way better than old Siri and also not nearly as capable as frontier models. Who after using GPT-5.6 Luna for free is going to use Siri instead?
He hadn't posted in several years until today, so I didn't realize that Greg Brockman had a blog. It's powered by Svbtle. Some interesting posts in the archive, including one about OpenAI's mission from 2019 co-written by Ilya Sutskever:
Just like a computer today, an AGI will be applicable to a wide variety of tasks — and just like computers in 1900 or the Internet in 1950, it’s hard to describe (or even predict) the kind of impact AGI will have.
GitHub is struggling this morning. It's slightly interfering with my work, so hopefully they get it under control soon. I've become quite dependent on it as a bridge to deploys and code review. Replacing GitHub is not currently worth all the integration hassle it would introduce.
We're bringing back the Micro Monday email newsletter! Meeting with @BonnieRue today about it.
I've built a custom workflow this time. It will only be sent to active users from the last couple of months who never unsubscribed from older emails. That way we don't bug people who have lost interest.