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Theo writes the long ones: essays on how technology actually gets built, bought, and broken. Formerly shipped software; recovering nicely.
Sam Altman reportedly pitched a public ownership stake as OpenAI faces a more interventionist Trump administration on AI...
By Theo Lindgren
A Zurich court rejected 22 of Palantir’s 23 requests to force the Swiss magazine to publish responses to reporting on it...
By Theo Lindgren
The StackSocial-powered Techdirt Deals store is selling a MYNT3D handheld 3D printing pen bundle with PLA filament and a...
By Theo Lindgren
The longtime Apple writer ended his More Color column, closing a Macworld run that began in 1997 and continued through n...
By Theo Lindgren
The Commerce Department lifted restrictions after Anthropic added a classifier meant to block a jailbreak flagged by Ama...
By Theo LindgrenCory Doctorow argues AI-assisted coding is useful for personal tools but dangerous when bosses turn it into production m...
By Theo Lindgren
Legal analyst Florian Mueller says Nintendo’s narrowed Japanese patent case against Pocketpair may produce only a small...
By Theo Lindgren
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber points to Anthropic engineer Felix Rieseberg’s Electron background as central to Claude’s...
By Theo Lindgren
Leigh Beadon’s July 4 Techdirt history post points back to disputes from 2006, 2011 and 2016 over copyright, speech and...
By Theo Lindgren
Daily Chat is now available to Day One Gold users on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and the web, with voice input, memor...
By Theo Lindgren