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Artificial intelligence is attracting capital on the scale of a mature industry while still being measured like an early-stage startup. Private model developers publish incompatible revenue run rates. Public technology companies make vast commitments outside their conventional debt. Investors struggle to tell whether AI investment is earning an adequate return. Even national statistics have trouble recording the technology’s costs and benefits.

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Reinforcement learning post-training has an awkward systems boundary. Training GPUs continually update the policy, while a separate inference fleet generates the trajectories used for the next update. The two fleets are optimized for different work and usually shard the model in different ways. Keeping them synchronized therefore means moving an enormous model between incompatible layouts at every training step.

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s report, “A thousand fewer paths to root.” It describes a prototype that turns Linux kernel security research into a pipeline: agents choose high-value code, scan it, reproduce suspected flaws, build working exploits, draft patches, and package the evidence for human review. The striking result is not merely that a model found bugs. It is that discovery, validation, exploitation, and remediation were joined into one repeatable process at a scale that manual security teams could not review finding by finding.

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Democrat Gina Hinojosa takes down Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in stunning result (r/news)

• WineNerdAndProud: Guys, I think I might be proud to be an American again.
  
  Edit: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is now my senator!
• Toasty_and_ghosty: A blue Texas I can’t believe it actually happened.
• KeenisBeenis: Texas has a Democratic Governor.
  
  Texas has a new Democratic Senator.
  
  Trump is an abject failure.
  
  How do you let Texas flip?

James Talarico wins Texas Senate race in massive midterm upset (r/news)

• secretlyhumanami: Lol Trump just posted on Truth:
  
  “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
  
  The delusion is mind-blowing.
• Hrekires: I know the money is nothing to Elon, but \$200 million dollars of anti-trans ads being flushed down the drain is still something to smile about.
  
  Maybe Republicans take the lesson that it’s not actually a winning issue, especially when they’re offering nothing else.
• Der_Erlkonig: Texas going blue in any capacity was considered a pipe dream for years. this is nothing short of cataclysmic for the GOP

At least 33 dead after Russia drops nine bombs on a Ukrainian school building (r/news)

• Nels__Oleson: I can’t believe that this shit country is allowed to participate in international sporting events. Edit for where my thoughts came from on this https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/s/bLqEjdWUPM and yes, I realize it’s a little more nuanced than as simple as as I stated…and the latest update https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/DAc8uPrWK8
• SpecialistTennis6152: it feels kinda crazy how normalized in a sense this war has become and how far out of the media it has gotten 5 years in.
  
  Reading that headline as another human is just crazy bro. Not even Ukrainian but this piece of news just really messed me up this morning
• FanofBobRooney: Russia is a terrorist state and needs to be dealt with. Same for all the traitors occupying the US government.

What is by far the most blatant example of “weaponized incompetence” you have ever witnessed? (r/AskReddit)

• ConfidentDiffidence: One of the guys who trained me when I started my job told me “If you do things wrong enough, they stop asking you to do them."
  
  He retires next month, and even as the senior member of our department, he has the LEAST amount of responsibility. He went an entire 20 year career on this ethos, and it worked beautifully for him.
• Silaquix: My stepdad. He’s never done a damn thing around the house his entire life. My mom always did it for him. She died suddenly and he didn’t know where anything was, how to pay a bill or take care of himself. We were trying to sort through paperwork and he just sat there.
  
  He and my brother told me, that I ( the only woman) needed to step up and take care of him. Mind you this is a perfectly normal 62yr old man that still works a full time job. I said no so I was immediately iced out and my stepdad married a lady from his church asap
• drunkbettie: My aunt lives in Quebec, and has long since retired from her lifer career at an airport.
  
  She does not, cannot, and will not speak a lick of French.
  
  I’m in awe of her, really.

People who work alongside very high achieving people, what traits/characteristics do they have that the average person doesn’t? (r/AskReddit)

• glossyghastly: I am married to a very high achieving person. He is fueled primarily by spite. I think most people are not holding grudges like this. 
• yearsofpractice: Hey OP. 50 year old corporate veteran here - educated at a top tier UK university too.
  
  I’m very average in terms of my life and achievements, but the characteristics I have noticed in high achieving people are as follows:
  
  1. An ability to concentrate. This sounds so simple, but it’s a consistent indicator of people who are successful. An ability to truly concentrate on a question or problem is sometimes the only way to resolve it.
  2. An ability to understand concepts and quickly apply them. This is - in my opinion - what “intelligence” is. It takes me some repetition and practice to apply concepts. A friend who became a literal fighter pilot had this ability - tell him something once and he can apply it immediately.
  3. This one is hard to define, but a healthy suspicion of arbitrary rules and regulations. Almost every single person I know who’s achieved professional success will ask the question “Well WHY can’t I do this? I’m going to do it anyway and see what the consequences are”
  4. In a corporate setting, the most successful people I know have the ability to influence other people. Frankly, sometimes it’s manipulation, but if a person knows how to connect with other people, they can multiply the force they bring to bear on problems or targets.
  
  R
  
  1. esilience and a sense of humour about failure. The sooner someone accepts that failure and humiliation are guaranteed on the path to success, the more likely they are to push themselves in a certain direction.
  2. Finally, and this one is not fair, but if a person has successful parents, it increases their likelihood of being successful themselves. This ain’t fair, but it’s true, alas.
• Wizzy117: The biggest thing is how they handle mistakes.
  Average people often get defensive, try to hide the error, or look for someone else to blame.
  High achievers treat a mistake like a data point. They immediately own it, figure out why it happened, fix the system so it never happens again, and move on without any emotional bruising. They separate their ego from their work entirely.

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Why are people leaving Anthropic now? (Blind)

• talete (Roblox): To escape from IPO lockup period. Now they can dump everything on day one of IPO. If they sit through the IPO their stocks would be worth one-tenth by the time they sell.
• clay~king (Oracle): Bubble is about to burst … here we coming
• nwi (Netflix): Could be anything. Burnout. Getting pushed out. Culture shift as the company prepares to IPO. IME prepping for IPO does cause a shift, more focus on profit, less transparency, cleaning house and bringing in new leadership.

Blood bath at Squarespace (Blind)

• qupwpphxv (ByteDance): The system hired you to do useless shit in the first place. The system giveth and taketh
• XKrd83: This post is not actionable, homie. What do you want readers to do?
• appyaloin (Meta): Thats 20% of total and you say affecting product and engineering. Almost 40%. Too high man too high

I’m completely numb at layoff rumors now (Blind)

• xXiT08 (Amazon): It’s just a job. Why do you stress yourself out so much? Just relax and keep doing what you’re doing. If it’s out of your control - why even worry?
• pika chuut (Adobe): I’ve become numb in tech in general
• Prestige™️ (Expedia Group): Be me! I really don’t care about layoffs. If they lay me
  Off, this is my last job before I call it quits anyways

Jobless folks, what are your plans? (Blind)

• /j/bum (LinkedIn): Was stuck for the past few months, took a break, went home to my parents for a month, came back and started using AI to interview.
• rddtholder (Reddit): Been interviewing but I’m way less passionate about tech than I was pre-AI. I’d love to change careers but the money in tech is too good and I have a family to support.
• piracy (Crunchyroll): The ones at the front of technology are starting their own thing. History has shown us that many will not make it, but many will. They are the ones who are best positioned to land wealth. And most of the ones who don’t make it will become the ones taking all the most senior jobs.
  
  I’ve seen this in every market disruption over the last 20 years. I’m looking for a way to start my own thing now.

Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. (Gift Article) (r/technology)

• SkankHuntThreeFiddy: >“Search and A.I. are deeply integrated,” said Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google. If a school has banned A.I., he added, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.”
  
  Not only is Google cutting off a stream of ad revenue from their search results, but they’re giving school districts another reason not to buy Chromebooks.
• ChileCheeseburger: Obviously we’re not the customers anymore, but the product.
  
  /r/degoogle
• Oceanbreeze871: My child’s school district uses Google Classroom, Gmail etc But has a district wide ban on AI use under the cheating and integrity policy.
  
  So Google is gonna Nerf the Internet for the entire school district?

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Sen. Chris Murphy had a stroke and is in the hospital, his office says (r/news)

• Solid_Bobcat2267: Crazy timing, having just gone public warning the American people about the governments war plans
• Sorry-Secret-2347: At least he is being honest about his condition as any good public servant would…. Im looking at you mitch mconnel
• fotank: Sounds like he had minor neurological symptoms and was found to have a stroke. Always get new neurological symptoms checked right away! Even if they just “came and went” (also known as a TIA) as the risk of a major neurological event in the next 30 days is quite high.

Federal judge dismisses Trump attempt to interfere in Alaska Senate race (r/news)

• polarwaves: Uh-oh, demented Truth social post incoming in 3…2…1..
• invyros: > The lawsuit also sought to block the certification of the Senate election if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. On Saturday, the Republican-led state government in Alaska implored a federal judge to prevent that effort in a court filing.
  
  Even the Republicans in Alaska want Trump to back the fuck off.
• N8CCRG: The fact this article fails to include the fact that Alaska has ranked voting is a really bad sign of journalistic integrity. That alone renders the alleged “concerns” about spoiling completely moot.

McDonald’s must face lawsuit over McRib, judge rules (r/news)

• callmemerryss: The funny part is that most people probably never stopped to think about what cut of pork was actually in McRib. But when you put “rib” in the name and shape the patty like ribs, you can see why customers might expect actual rib meat. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
• RollingCarrot615: What’s a reasonable consumer? I consider myself reasonable and I was not aware that the McRib does not contain any rib meat. I figured it would be scraps, but certainly still there.
• Timmar92: Okay so I don’t live in the US and the McRib has never been on the menu over here but if I walked in to a McDonald’s tomorrow and saw “McRib” on the menu I would immediately assume that it was made out of boneless ribs or rib meat.
  
  I feel like that is a natural thing to think?

People who lost an entire group of friends, what happened? (r/AskReddit)

• Brokenhip2026: Me out of control doing drugs they got sick of my shit ….btw drug free 302 days today
• Choffies: One of my closest friends within our tight knit group passed away. I had decided to be the one to call everyone, deliver the news, and dropped everything to fly out to his services and be there for all of us. It cost me over \$1K.
  
  Fast forward a month or so after and during a little text exchange in our group chat, one of the guys said he wished it was me that died instead of our buddy. That one struck a cord deep within me, and nobody Interjected but instead remained silent.
  
  I feel like I lost all of them, and I chose to step away from who I thought were my lifelong friends. I’m in therapy now for a few reasons other than that comment but wow that hurts.
  
  UPDATE: Some of you wanted more context, and there is some below in the thread. I tried to give every detail! Thanks for all of the kind words and awards.
• Possible-Buffalo-321: We found out a coworker was a pedophile. They kept hanging out with him ‘because its hard to get a good DnD group together’.

What happened to the Valedictorian from your high-school? (r/AskReddit)

• nkh86: She went to a state school on a full ride and eventually got a Masters in library science and now works as an archivist at a government agency responsible for the protection and conservation of natural resources. She knits excessively to try and disassociate from the daily professional trauma while fantasizing about throwing it all away to live in the woods with her cat.
  
  Source: she is me. I have knit an excessive number of sweaters in the last two years. It’s not working well as a distraction but at least I’m warm?
• lostin_contemplation: She’s crushing it academically and growing personally, which is cool, but she never texted me back this weekend, which is uncool. I’ll say 50/50.
  
  It’s my sister.
• 1_877-Kars-4-Kids: We didn’t have one. School got the “we can’t make people feel bad” bug up their ass that year. Everyone in the top 20% of the class jointly wrote a speech and everyone said a line or two of the speech.
  
  Cringey, offensive and stupid. I hated my high school

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Anyone gone from Anthropic to OpenAI? (Blind)

• bugddb (Robinhood): Yes
  
  Those people got tired of Dario’s style of scamming and wanted to be surrounded by Altman’s style of scamming
• ihefag (Google): This question is better suited for internal channel
• chat2 (Meta): I mean wait for a possible ipo before jumping to another startup?

Good luck out there with Leetcode (Blind)

• p@$sw0rd (Amazon): Google swes have been resting and vesting. They’re probably worse than average.
• asdfdfsvf2 (Apple): I can do a medium one, if a company is heavy on LeetCode, that company can go fuck itself. Likely a shit place anyway, if they want to sift through the sea of candidates and find “the best” that way.
• poppyy (Amazon): I hate to spread negativity but these layoffs are so sad. Entered the field 2 years ago so excited for the future of tech, and it’s just layoff after layoff with the end being AI replacing us all anyways. The future does not seem inspiring. I hope we can just start actively pushing people away from the field to put the power back in the hands of employees one day.

Now is the best time to become a content creator (Blind)

• IVY55 (Amazon): What topics do you focus on? Finance or Tech like AI tools, vibe coding etc?
• now_fin (Intercom): Interesting! Could you please share your full workflow including tools/software you use? Thank you!
• MU glazer (ex-Block): Don’t overcomplicate things. Claude is all you need paid. Everything else is open source. Iterate until you find your style, claude.md it, then script your automations. It’s that simple

Useful/ethical AI career (Blind)

• bampf_it (Waymo): You tagged Waymo so you’re probably already thinking about it but Waymo. And then you tagged Neuralink and I lost faith.
• omw_out (Meta): Well, recommendation systems are actually useful and one of the most successful applications of machine learning from a business standpoint.
  
  It sounds like you want to work on innovative stuff, but you need to narrow that down a bit more. There’s AI for healthcare, physical AI, etc…
• plz delete (JPMorganChase): Plumbing.

Tables Turned: Entire Police Department Quits After Finding Out What It Feels Like to Be Tracked (r/technology)

• headphonesXX: every police and vehicle should have a GPS tracker
• AbeFromanEast: Rookie mistake. The locations of those officers could have been triangulated and bought from 3rd party data brokers who track their cell phones via apps. No physical tracker required.
• TheHammer987: The attempt of this article to paint the mayor as the problem is going to fall flat on its face.
  
  For the residents of that town - just so you all know, all 5 of your police were crooked and stealing hours from your property taxes. Now, all of you are probably related to them, but it’s still important to go to your cousin or second cousin in law and ask why they felt entitled to take your money.

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Carney says, unequivocally, Canada seeking to become the EU’s 1st associate member (r/worldnews)

• ContrastingCanvas: I for one, would love the European consumer protections afforded to their members.
• sportow: Everyone asking “what does this mean” needs to relax.
  
  It’s new and they are negotiating. Likely collective defence, ERASMUS+, Horizon, more trade, investment, critical minerals to name a few. It’s whatever is advantageous to both Canada and the EU.
  
  But, it could be the framework for the middle powers alliance that we all want when other countries want to join.
• wiseguy77192: Let EU citizens vote on it. It’s clear yes from me

G20 Photo Scrapped After Leaders Object to Russia’s Presence (r/worldnews)

• Sharktopotopus_Prime: As any sane people should.
• FullMoonsOfSeptember: why don’t they walk out on the whole thing?
• NotMyName_3: The Orange Idiot slowly rehabilitating his boss’s image to an international audience. Lavrov was a test to see how far he could push it.

What is the best possible response to “Do you know why I pulled you over”? (r/AskReddit)

• texacer: no
• Excavatoree: But you don’t know. Yes, you might have committed a ticket-able offense, but really, you don’t know if the officer saw you or not. you don’t know if you or your car fits a description, or maybe your tail light is out. (that happened to me. Body shop screwed up my wiring) So, you aren’t even lying when you say “no.”
• Purplociraptor: I had a cop in an unmarked SUV tailgate me in a notoriously bad neighborhood. I didn’t know what was going on. I thought I was about to get carjacked. I sped up to get a little distance and he pulled me over. He then had the fucking BALLS to say, “You were speeding. Are you late to work or something?"
  
  At this point I decided to not say a fucking word and just comply. Not a single word. That dashcam footage came in real handy when I took his ass to court.
  
  TLDR: Even saying “NO” is more than you need to say. You have the right to remain silent.

What’s a ‘rich people’ thing you tried once and immediately understood why they do it? (r/AskReddit)

• Responsible-Tie-4373: Ordering groceries that arrive pre chopped, pre washed, and neatly portioned. I laughed at the price tag once, tried it during a burnout week, and instantly understood. It’s not buying food it’s buying back two hours of your Sunday so you don’t spend it crying over a cutting board.
• skinny-mini-me: I drive a Lexus. Oh, wait, its 20 years old. Regardless I feel like a princess behind the wheel.
• monty_kurns: Flying first class on longer flights. I spent my first 35 years flying economy. Once I had a taste of first class and all the perks that go with it (more comfortable seats, more leg room, free booze, sometimes a meal), it’s really hard to go back!

Teachers of Reddit, has Gen Alpha really speedrun past reading, writing, and arithmetic straight into brainrot, or are we exaggerating? What’s actually happening in classrooms? (r/AskReddit)

• JackWhitesGhost: As a teacher of 12 years I feel like I can say the literacy crisis is real. If you are a parent of young children the number one thing you can do to help your kids is to read to them. Read them picture books until they’re old enough to hear chapter books. Do not quit reading to them until they prefer to read on their own. My middle school students who are the most put together are the ones who will read for pleasure. If you can instill that passion for reading in your kids they will be okay.
• LeChatVert: It’s not gen alpha, it’s the decades of government’s decisions of slashing school’s budget. We reap what they sowed: ignorance.
• AllTheNopeYouNeed: High school teacher for 20 years.
  
  Short answer: yes.
  Long answer: parents aren’t parenting and instead of running in the woods and getting lost or playing a pick up game on a street and learning basic survival skills - kids are scrolling.
  
  Brain rot and lack of parenting has made these kids genuinely stupid. I don’t like the use the word in general but it applies here.
  
  Kids are getting downright stupid.

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offer at Robinhood got rescinded yesterday (Blind)

• jaсob (Snap): Incoming layoffs.
• Glinda: Hopefully, you did not give notice to your current employer, if you are working.
  
  Was the req cancelled?
• dhjelle (Roku): That’s muck’d up

Uber’s culture compared to meta (Blind)

• JHqQ30 (Meta): Any place will be better than Meta
• LWPu88 (Uber): More stable and less chaotic than Meta. Very top to bottom down culture. Refreshers depends on how much your manager likes you.
• tUvdgggg (Uber): Believe me uber is 2-3x Amazon. Don’t go to that place

Is SWE really dying? (Blind)

• kDRv27 (NVIDIA): whoever says software engineering is dying (because of LLMs) doesn’t really understand how things work (the populace including incompetent engineers). either that or they want you to think that way (marketing/manipulation masters like Anthropic/OAI or their investors). the vast majority making noise out there is in those 2 camps. the job is not being automated. the tasks are. it may be almost plausible to say ‘coding is automated’, but that’s a small portion of SWE. as you realized yourself, the SWE job is far far far away from being automated. we just no longer need silly people that take all day to refactor a function that will be obsolete 2 months later.
  
  engineers are moving up the food chain and getting larger scopes of responsibilities. of course it doesn’t automatically mean they’ll thrive… you’ll need more product, social, business skills (all the things many ICs didn’t really care about) to succeed.
  
  if you like the craft and you care about it, cut out the noise and keep going. couple of years from now you’ll have extremely powerful tools and your judgement.
• TheFrom (Apple): China AI bubble just burst. People are reducing spend. It turns out normal people aren’t using AI as much as their biggest customer (software engineers).
  
  AI still programs in a very human way in the sense that they’ll program in the literal way you want it to. The ambiguity from business requirements is still there. The edge cases you can think of or the common pitfalls that you know how to avoid are still valuable. It’ll just implement the design not tell you it hacked around just to get to it, are you willing to sign off on that?
• gotPIP (Amazon): I think the concern is that it just keeps getting better and better bro

Why are people are acting like the AI bubble has popped, after like 2 bad days (Blind)

• DeGenAI-1 (NortonLifeLock): There is no evidence to prove AI has increased productivity
• qupwpphxv (ByteDance): This is just beginning
• menhhshwjw (Salesforce): When you know you’re part of a Ponzi scheme people who sell first, win. No one wants to be left holding the ai ponzi bag. Most likely this all ends in a taxpayer subsidized bailout

Did your code base improve after AI? (Blind)

• F*ai (Cohesity): Problem is we are pushing code way more than we can understand
• knowshits (Amazon): Nobody cares. As long as it works.
• tUDw24 (Meta): Much better. All of the “bugs” I’ve seen is people not pre-empting edge cases via prompting. I don’t think I’ve seen AI genuinely write flawed logic or hallucinated code in 4-6 months at this point and before then it still wasn’t a common occurrence past around sep 2025.

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Google DeepMind’s latest robots can change a lightbulb, fetch popcorn and tie a knot. Yet sweeping crumbs into a dustpan remains unreliable. That contrast captures the central problem in Adam Rogers’s article: artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at manipulating symbols, but a useful household or workplace robot must manipulate a physical world full of soft bags, fragile grapes, slippery glasses and unfamiliar rooms.