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Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &

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Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them

Enterprise AI has largely been built around context engineering. Teams connect enterprise systems, generate chunks and embeddings, build retrieval pipelines, and assemble the context needed by individual AI applications. While this approach works well for isolated assistants and copilots, it treats enterprise knowledge as application-specific context rather than a shared

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Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety”

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SDE to FDE: The 4 Skills That Matter More Than Coding

The SDE career ladder was built around a groomed backlog. The fastest-growing senior role in AI has no backlog at all — and crossing over is a skill you can practice from your current desk. The Move Is Cheap Right Now, and That Won't Last Look at the supply