TLDR 2026-11-12
Nvidia's CEO search 🔍, AWS emulator 👨💻, Gemini Decisions API 💡
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The AI-Agent Face-Off: What Muse, Dots, and Duet Are Doing on Your Website (Sponsor)
Three agents are racing to win the internet. Muse, Dots, and Duet are bringing agentic browsing and shopping into the mainstream. But what happens when they reach your website?HUMAN put them to the test. Join us for the AI-Agent Face-Off to compare how the leading agents behave online and what their activity means for your business.You'll learn:🔍 Who's gaining ground: Which agents are growing fastest and how people use them.🛒 How they behave: Where agents go and what they do from discovery to checkout.🛡️What to do next: How to manage agent traffic, reduce risk, and decide which agents to welcome or block.
Save Your Seat AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code (9 minute read)
AWS Emulator gives coding agents a local copy of AWS to test against. It enables agents to build and check most software, leaving engineers to decide what gets built and when the work is correct. The code for the emulator is public.
Nvidia Working With Outside Firm to Identify CEO Candidates (4 minute read)
Nvidia is searching for a potential replacement for its CEO following reports of multiple extramarital affairs by Jensen Huang. Its board is considering naming a temporary chief while it searches for a permanent one. Keeping Huang as CEO would likely subject Nvidia to scrutiny from lawmakers, investors, customers, and staff. Huang's potential exit will have impacts far beyond the company's operations.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
OpenAI's ‘shepherds' affirm blockbuster physics result (3 minute read)
Experts appointed by OpenAI have verified OpenAI's proof of the existence of the quantum Yang-Mills theory, a vital foundation for the Standard Model of particle physics. OpenAI created a committee to supervise the proof's release after backlash it received when it released a flood of more than 700 AI-generated proofs on a single day in October. This shepherding approach has riled some mathematicians, who see it as an act of needless gatekeeping. The experts do not claim to fully understand the proof yet, as it is too lengthy and complicated for human minds to immediately grasp.
Handing over humanity (22 minute read)
Some AI experts believe that once we achieve superintelligence, humans will be permanently disempowered, and we shall all be ruled by an AI god. This might not be such a desirable outcome, as humans have a natural desire for freedom. The arrangement will probably not work, as keeping power responsive to human needs has required checks developed over centuries, sustained by repeated feedback from the real world and correction, and there's no reason to keep that equilibrium stable once humans have surrendered all control. Humans have the ability now to steer the technology in a way that will not lead to a complete replacement of human judgment.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
Incident Response Strategies for the AI Era (Sponsor)
More AI-generated code is reaching production in shorter cycles. When it breaks, on-call teams take the hit.
Datadog's latest guide maps where AI should lead and what engineers must own from triage to post-incident review. Read for a four-phase live incident reference model + six lessons on earning trust in AI.
Get the On-Call Survival GuideSubagents considered harmful? (11 minute read)
There are several ways to delegate to subagents, and they all fail in different ways. This post covers the different approaches and why teaching agents to choose between them is difficult. Forking beats summarization in a lot of cases, but it can get expensive as context grows. The post presents a solution where a fork keeps the parts of a conversation it needs and drops the rest.
Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions (5 minute read)
The Gemini Decisions API can evaluate up to 1,000 yes/no, choice, and rubric-scoring questions in a fast, single pass. It can accept text, images, audio, video, and PDF input. Powered by Google's new Gemini Decision 1 model, the model is available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. It costs $0.10 per 2 million tokens - outputs are free.
The fall of “what you can do” and the rise of “who you know” (5 minute read)
The returns from being social have gone up. Many well-connected people mix their work and personal lives. Sam Altman is a prime example of a well-connected person who mixes work and personal. He didn't make his connections because he knew they would pay off in his career - he's just a generous person who is innately curious about people and technology. The best strategy is to be your best and truest self.
Of Miracles and Moats (31 minute read)
AI may simultaneously accelerate imitation and the accumulation of advantage. It is the presence or absence of durable competitive advantage, and the entry price, that determines whether a business and its investors will profit from the proliferation of a technology. More miraculous technologies require better moats. We are entering an age of consumer surplus the likes of which humanity has never seen.
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