Uber employees secretly created an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi for pitch practice. This bottom-up tech innovation tears away the veil of corporate AI deployment, revealing how raw compute is reshaping workplace dynamics and managing up.
Today’s Daily Tech Insights covers Stripe’s potential acquisition of PayPal, critical leadership changes at Amazon AGI and OpenAI, Alibaba’s efficient Qwen 3.5 models, and Google’s massive clean energy investment for AI infrastructure.
In an era where Postman grows increasingly bloated, is Insomnia the geek’s final sanctuary or another tunnel into the Kong empire? A deep dive into its architecture, the Insomnia vs. Bruno debate, and the shift towards Spec-as-Code.
Google enforces a hard ban on users of the open-source tool OpenClaw, wiping out decade-old digital assets. What does this “compute-induced” dimensional strike reveal about the monopoly risks in the digital age?
Taalas unveils a hard-wired chip with the LLaMA model etched directly into silicon, achieving a staggering 17,000 tokens/s. An exploration of the new aesthetic of specialized AI compute that abandons the “general-purpose” illusion.
