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Alex Karp: Why Palantir Hired Jon Tester and Calls Itself Progressive
Palantir CEO Alex Karp told Politico he has been a Democrat his whole life and that Palantir’s products are “essentially progressive,” days after the 2026 midterms put Democrats…
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All-In: Midterm Blowout, $4T AI Sell-Off and the Data Center Freeze
The All-In hosts dissect the 2026 midterm blowout, the $4 trillion AI sell-off and why new governors could freeze data center construction across the US. In this episode…
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Foreign Psyops and the Data Center Backlash: What the Evidence Shows
Foreign influence operators did try to inflame America’s fight over AI data centers in 2026, but the public evidence shows a small, low-reach effort riding on top of…
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Data Center Backlash: Voters Reject AI Buildout in 40 of 41 Ballot Measures
American voters rejected AI data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures in the November 3, 2026 midterms, the first clear political check on the AI infrastructure…
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Subquadratic (SubQ) Explained: The First Fully Sub-Quadratic LLM with a 12M-Token Context Window, 50x Cost Reduction, and a Post-Transformer Architecture
Subquadratic, the AI infrastructure company behind subq.ai, just emerged from stealth with a $29M seed round and a claim that should make every AI engineer pay attention: they…
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Claude Opus 4.7 Released: Anthropic’s New Coding Powerhouse With xhigh Effort Mode, 3.75MP Vision, and State-of-the-Art Agentic Performance
TLDR Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, as a direct upgrade to Opus 4.6. It delivers major gains on the hardest coding tasks, introduces a…
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The Buzz of the Dolomites: How FPV Drones Became the Breakout Star of the 2026 Winter Olympics
Inside the 243-gram flying cameras chasing Olympic gold at 90 mph — the pilots, the tech, the controversy, and why Milano Cortina 2026 will be remembered as the…
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The Official Obsidian CLI: A Comprehensive Guide
The Obsidian CLI allows you to control the Obsidian desktop application directly from your terminal. Whether you want to script daily backups, pipe system logs into your daily…
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Inside X with Nikita Bier: Viral Growth, Elon Musk, and “Doing the Hard Thing”
In a recent episode of the Out of Office podcast, Lightspeed partner Michael Mignano sat down with Nikita Bier, the Head of Product at X (formerly Twitter). Filmed…
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Super Bowl LX (2026) By The Numbers: Production Stats, Camera Tech & Record Ad Prices
Date: February 8, 2026Location: Levi’s Stadium, Santa ClaraMatchup: Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots As kickoff approaches, NBC, Peacock, and Telemundo are set to deliver the most technologically…
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X’s $2M+ Bet on Long-Form Writing Just Paid Off — The Internet Will Never Be the Same
On February 3, 2026, X (@XCreators) announced the winners of its first-ever $1 Million Article Contest. The total prize pool across all winners exceeded $2.15 million. This special…
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The Genesis Mission: Inside the “Manhattan Project” for AI-Driven Science
TL;DR On November 24, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order launching “The Genesis Mission.” This initiative aims to centralize federal data and high-performance computing under the Department…