Daring Fireball

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X (XCancel link):
Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next fewyears at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I amvery excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remaindeeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work...

The context that actually matters isn’t in your database. It’s in the tools your users live in every day. Multi-stage agents stall the moment they hit a step they can’t see. And every missing integration is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle...

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuitagainst OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of thethree-year statute of limitations.
Mr. Musk filed his suit against the $730 billion artificialintelligence start-up in the summer of 2024, but the jury foundthat he was aware of the behavior discussed in his complaintagainst OpenAI as far back as 2021....

Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik:
When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s marketcapitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, itsits near $4 trillion. That is more than a 1,000 percent increase.Revenue went from $108 billion in fiscal 2011 to over $41...