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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,
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* AI coding agent mishandled Windows junctions, deleting ~48,000 live files and corrupting Git object database * Incident surfaced on Reddit, with community mocking lack of backups and calling it “classic FAFO” * Lesson stressed: always use remote version control (e.g., GitHub) before letting AI touch production work A catastrophic incident
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Spotify has been working overtime these past few months, and when it comes to all the new features and upgrades the best music streaming service has rolled out, I've genuinely lost count. This year has welcomed a slew of fresh changes, and Spotify has taken a leap of
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In Brief 9:30 AM PDT · September 27, 2026 Saturday Night Live took on the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom last night, as cast member Jane Wickline offered her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Weekend Update host Michael Che — who sounded a little uncertain about how to
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Maximize your stride with the streaming service’s AI-powered feature. Spotify Spotify launched its dedicated Fitness hub earlier this year, another move that shows how streaming service is looking to go beyond music and podcasts. Now, with the addition of Running Mode, it's more obvious than ever. The
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The fusion reactors, the liquid-cooled servers and the 600-kilowatt server racks are all humming in race to keep the AI boom running. Everyone here knows by now that AI's real choke point is power, not chips. But less acknowledged is the absurdly aggressive tech-stack now being constructed to
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When I started learning more seriously about documentation for AI systems, I noticed something I had probably been ignoring for a long. A lot of documentation problems are not really writing problems but are consistency problems. The API is PlatformClient on one page and platformClient in an example on another.
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Part 1, Your AI Agent Doesn't Need to See Every Tool, argued for hiding low-level tools behind domain functions like investigate_delivery_issue() that hide the API calls underneath. Part 2, Not Every Step Needs an LLM, went inside those functions and separated work that belongs in code
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I still remember the first production ETL job I inherited. It ran at 2 AM, and if it failed, nobody knew until someone in finance emailed asking why yesterday's revenue numbers looked wrong. We'd scramble, find a schema change nobody flagged, patch it, and rerun. Rinse
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A few months ago I watched a fraud model flag a transaction correctly. The only problem was that it flagged it four minutes after the money had already left the account. The model was fine. The math was fine. The data pipeline was the thing that failed, quietly, the way
