• OpenAI CFO Sidelined; IPO Timing Dispute Surfaces
  • Friar reporting to Fidji Simo, not Altman, since Aug 2025
  • CEO and CFO diverge on timing for the public offering
  • The Information, Techmeme
• UK Woos Anthropic With Dual Listing Offer
  • UK pitch intensified after Anthropic's clash with the US DOD
  • Keir Starmer's government backing a dual listing as the incentive
  • Financial Times via Techmeme
• Copilot ToS Quietly Labels It 'Entertainment Only'
  • Terms updated Oct 2025: 'Don't rely on Copilot for important advice'
  • Contrast with Microsoft's aggressive enterprise Copilot push
  • TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, Techmeme
• North Korea's $270M Drift Heist: Six-Month Sting Op
  • Attackers posed as quant firm, made $1M+ deposit to build trust
  • Operation ran 6+ months and included in-person meetings
  • CoinDesk via Techmeme

• Qwen-3.6-Plus Crosses 1 Trillion Daily Tokens
  • First model ever to process 1T tokens in a single day
  • Milestone reported by OpenRouter from live platform data
  • OpenRouter via Hacker News
• Gemma 4 Now Runs Fully Offline on iPhone
  • Google AI Edge Gallery: free iOS app, 35.4 MB
  • Runs open-source LLMs on-device with no network required
  • Hacker News

• Samsung Raises DRAM Prices Another 30% for Q2
  • Another ~30% hike layered on top of recent increases
  • Sustained AI server demand driving memory price surge
  • Reddit via Hacker News
• Linux 7.0 Regression Halves PostgreSQL Throughput
  • AWS engineer flagged it: culprit known, revert looks unlikely
  • Throughput roughly 50% of prior kernel versions in benchmarks
  • Phoronix

• Vibe Coding Drives 84% App Store Submission Surge
  • 84% jump in new apps submitted in a single quarter
  • The Information attributes the spike to AI-assisted vibe coding tools
  • The Information
• Software Engineering Jobs Hit 3-Year High
  • 67,000+ openings, up 30% so far in 2026
  • TrueUp: listings roughly 2x their mid-2023 level
  • Business Insider via Techmeme

• Syntaqlite: Eight Years Wanting, Three Months Building
  • Lalit Maganti's deep dive on building a long-imagined tool with AI agents
  • Simon Willison: 'best long-form on agentic engineering I've seen in ages'
  • Simon Willison's Weblog
• Simon Willison Maps the LLM API Landscape
  • Research toward a major rewrite of his LLM Python library and CLI tool
  • Documents HTTP API patterns and quirks across dozens of providers
  • Simon Willison's Weblog