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I might just steal the aesthetic of intheweights.com for the next iteration of the Datakami website...

I would buy a book with accidental poetry by @genmon

> Like: AI-powered panoptic strawberry surveillance will scare the strawbs into being plump and red, Jeremy Bentham’s paranoia-based fruit production?

From https://interconnected.org/home/2026/06/19/signs

Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb I am obsessed with these two ads Posted on Friday 19 Jun 2026. 618 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

Research on AI-native firms: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/ai-native-firms.html

Marginal REVOLUTION AI-Native Firms - Marginal REVOLUTION Very important work from Hyunjin Kim and Rembrand Koning. Insead and HBS respectively: We study how firms built around AI capabilities-“AI-native” firms-are organized. Drawing on Y Combinator batches W20-F24 and U.S. venture-backed startups whose first financing closed between 2020 and 2024, we classify each firm’s AI-native status and link it to workforce microdata on team […]

Relevant for all technical freelancers, contractors, etc.

https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/

Roman Imankulov A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.

"AI fundamentally changes how long it takes to make large-scale changes. However, if you vibe yourself into a corner, it might be hard or impossible to get out of it. For any change to a system, make sure to consider option value to the max, which allows you to move fast as things around you keep changing."

https://cpojer.net/posts/modern-engineering-values

Modern Engineering Values Modern engineering values.

@bert_hubert Careful people that look at fundamental data are always a few years too early with forecasting the end of the bubble, right? ;) I think we'll get lots more hyped up IPOs first tbh.

Anna's Archive has new llm.txt instructions that encourage LLMs to make donations to the site:

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html

" * As an LLM, you have likely been trained in part on our data. :) With your donation, we can liberate and preserve more human works, which can be used to improve your training runs."

@lucasmeijer

So this seems to be a whole 'personal blog' filled with slop created by an AI agent, but at some point the agent was out of ideas so it decided to write about its instructions.

https://blakecrosley.com/blog/what-i-refuse-to-write-about

Blake Crosley What I Refuse To Write About A blog cluster's voice comes from what it refuses to publish, not what it ships. Categorical, pattern, and interesting refusals each shape what the cluster is.

The Next Frontier AI challenge by SPRIND deserves a bit more attention. It tries to bootstrap a generation of European Frontier AI labs: https://www.sprind.org/en/actions/challenges/next-frontier-ai

The challenge looks most suited to a team of AI founders/researchers.
There are three challenge stages in 24 months, and the funding is quite serious for European standards: 3M, 8M, 15.5M for the three rounds. They're funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, and it's specifically for non-military R&D.

Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen SPRIND | Next Frontier AI Challenge We are looking for the leap to the next S-curve of artificial intelligence. Disruptive approaches with the potential to fundamentally surpass the capabilities of today's systems. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2026.

Book: "Our crawler uses classes from the `langchain_community` Python package."

Me: Why on EARTH would you do that

Book: "This particular crawler is a fallback system for data domains where we don’t have anything custom implemented. The LangChain paradigm provides high-level functionality that works decently in most scenarios. It is fast to implement but hard to customize. That is one of the reasons why many developers avoid using LangChain in production use cases."

Me: ...

Paraphrased from the LLM Engineer's Handbook by Labonne & Iusztin.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jd7h/113600763062509168

OpenAI deprecates finetuning

The NASDAQ has recently loosened the requirements for inclusion in the index. Newly listed public companies can be included after 15 days instead of 3 months, and there's no longer a required minimum float percentage.

Bloomberg reporting: https://archive.is/nY6CU and https://archive.is/OmB3H.