Show Notes
This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA.
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Runner-up Titles
Duffle bag of leftovers
5Are you dead in this scenario?
Bury me with my IKEA bags
Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that
AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog
Take some money off the table
No more great ideas
Rundown
IKEA FRAKTA
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund Implodes
AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say
His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable for $1.28B
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
sell on story, or sell on revenue
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
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Satyress Robotics
GitHub - mgwalkerjr95/texas-grocery-mcp: MCP server for HEB grocery shopping
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Supercharge your Claude, Cursor, and Codex. | Unstructured
Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation
valock July 2026 Recap
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npm Worm Poisons keyv, cacheable and 400+ Other Packages Across Twelve Organisations
Using AI for Product Management - The Tanzu Platform product management experience
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt
Microsoft's stock rockets more than 15% for largest single-day jump in history
Amazon revenue soars as AI investments pay off
Meta's stock drops on disappointing guidance, dwindling free cash flow
Clouded Judgement 7.31.26 - AWS CapEx ROI
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