Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
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Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI
The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue....
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Stack Overflow
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Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more (The Substack Post)
The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition?
The man who predicted the 2008 crash, Anthropic’s co-founder, and a leading AI podcaster jump into a Google doc to debate the future of AI—and,...
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Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more
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Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
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AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
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Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted
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Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees' office attendance and how many hours they spend there, after its RTO mandate (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
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Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office
Amazon rolls out an updated dashboard for managers to track office attendance and hours, expanding strict RTO policies.
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Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees
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US PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/haveli-buy-majority-stake-contract-software-firm-sirion-2026-01-08/
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US PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B
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Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu says the smart glass maker, which has a $1B+ valuation, recently raised $100M from "supply chain partners" and other backers (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/smart-glasses-pioneer-xreal-raises-100-million-in-new-funding
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Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu says the smart glass maker, which has a $1B+ valuation, recently raised $100M from “supply chain partners” and other backers
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D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
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D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits for $550 million to boost gate-model development
D-Wave’s crashing the gate....
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D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash
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Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users (Bloomberg)
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AI Video Generation Leads China’s Kuaishou to 84% Stock Surge
Few major companies have tried to pull off a pivot to AI as swiftly as Kuaishou Technology.
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Chinese short-video app Kuaishou
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Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)
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OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confiden...
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Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info
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Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
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Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
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Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials
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