Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

A look at Catches and other startups that are offering AI tools to let shoppers visualize fit and style before buying clothes, aiming to curb online returns (Elsa Ohlen/CNBC)

Techmeme

Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

Techmeme

Amazon and USPS reach a new delivery deal; sources: Amazon will reduce the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, instead of the two-thirds cut proposed earlier (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC)

Techmeme

Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Techmeme

Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end (Anthropic)

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The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code (New York Times)

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Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn

The Verge - All Posts

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (Bloomberg)

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What time does Pokémon Champions release in your time zone?

Polygon - All

Star Wars: Outer Rim just got a big discount at Amazon

Polygon - All

Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Artemis II astronauts break a record, name a crater

The Verge - All Posts

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

Sebastian De Deyne

A look at Eko, whose Arkansas "capture factory" creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

All 5 MTG Secrets of Strixhaven precons are available on Amazon for MSRP — that's a great deal!

Polygon - All

Phantom App Updates, Part 3

Michael Tsai

Notes From Setting Up New Apple Devices

Michael Tsai

Apple Creating All the Apps

Michael Tsai

A rare Nintendo Switch 2 deal arrives just in time for Mario Galaxy fever

Polygon - All