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Google L7 to Anthropic T6 (Blind)

• 6️⃣7️⃣: You can say no
• scHR67 (Uber): they starting to low ball now hahah
• BLaA58 (Google): Lol no

OpenAI Proposes 5% US Gov Stake: A New Precedent for Tech Regulation? (Blind)

• iqbdh (Meta): Scam Altman
• dfgjbvv (Meta): Corrupt mfers
• 46cahdY (DoorDash): Bribe.

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI (r/technology)

• Sufficient-Skill9530: Says the guy that always talks about the antichrist and looks like a demon.
• Tessa7: Another person that ran out of people to tell him ’no’ a long time ago and now thinks he has some sort of special insights
• Silicon_Knight: I never thought anyone could make Elon Musk look sane.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!” (r/technology)

• ottwebdev: Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers from saying what he really thinks during live interview…..
• williamgman: Is ketamine the new CEO breakfast of champions?
• jobrien80: Congratulations to Drugs. Clear winner of the war on drugs.

Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them (r/technology)

• BoppinMonkey: Welcome to Little Tikes Democracy. You may be holding a wheel, but Big Brother is pushing you wherever he wants.
• Hi_Im_Dadbot: Someone should call the police about that.
• sad_cosmic_joke: It’s almost as if “fighting crime” isn’t the actual purpose of these systems??

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Techmeme surfaced this July 3, 2026 story in its top-news cluster on Alibaba banning Claude Code, and the concrete original URL is The Information’s briefing, Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Claude. The Information reports that Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code and told them to remove Claude models from work machines, citing internal security concerns about recently discovered hidden code that could identify Chinese users.

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Egg producers will pay \$3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims (r/news)

• Imnotsureanymore8: Fines are worthless. These folks should see jail time.
• thirtytwoutside: And the average consumer who paid the higher prices will see none of that.
• aschesklave: The people who shouted “the price of eggs is Biden’s fault” must feel really dumb right now.

U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to round of 16 and keep its World Cup dreams alive (r/news)

• DieHardNole: Okay Seattle we need your stadium to do your thing Monday
• halfredowl: does this effect lebron james legacy?
• Adventurous-Fact-523: USA, Canada, and Mexico are still alive. USA are gonna be slight favorites vs belgium

Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico (r/worldnews)

• noidontwantto: A trade deal that he negotiated himself, fucking guy
• CountOnBeingAwesome: The fart of the deal
• Rsantana02: Canada and Mexico are leaving the US behind and looking for other trade partners and allies. It is a loss to the US.

What was the shortest lived fad? (r/AskReddit)

• willieyobslayer: Backwards pants a-la Kriss Kross.
• silently_fluid: 3D TV
• SpeedBlitzX: NFTs

People who are highly observant: what is a tiny, almost invisible psychological ’tell’ that instantly reveals someone’s true intentions or character? [Serious] (r/AskReddit)

• tretschinken: How they treat people they don’t need anything from. It’s surprisingly hard to fake consistently.
• dinkinflicka02: The assumptions they make about other people’s intentions tells you more about a person than almost anything else.
• GordonGartrellShirt: doing something good when they think no one is watching

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Microsoft Layoffs are Only just getting started (Blind)

• ❓Vain❓ (Microsoft): Bunch of word salad
• dNrMySDE (Microsoft): Cool story
• nbfigure (Meta): Ok Rajesh.

How much of your AI code do you actually understand? (Blind)

• texF34 (Meta): Needs “nothing” option
• vVoT00 (Amazon): none of it sometimes
• Dumped (Robinhood): Every character

Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI” (r/technology)

• Winter_Particular904: Yankovic is a national treasure
• Quenz: He’s a good dude. He’s turned down advertising for alcohol because it would put him at odds with his demographic.
• the_astro_cat: We need more Al, and less AI

New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI (r/technology)

• Entrefut: They don’t see highly skilled workers as as asset, they see them as an expense. They want to remove the concept of skilled labor from their business models.
• drkstar1982: For now, if the rich have their way, AI will come for all jobs.
• --Edit_Deleted--: Well yeah, ai ain’t flipping burgers or kicking tyres now.

‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution. (r/technology)

• Haunterblademoi: And as long as data centers continue to be built, that will increase.
• MisterSanitation: Whoa the paid supporters got in here FAST
• supercali45: These Datacenters are going to be raided for parts soon

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Techmeme surfaced this July 2, 2026 story in its top-news cluster on OpenAI’s possible government stake proposal, and the concrete original URL is the Financial Times report, OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake. The report says OpenAI has discussed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company as a way to clear political obstacles, share some AI upside with the public, and align itself more closely with an administration that is increasingly willing to intervene in frontier AI.

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What happened

Databricks’ official blog published From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up, a June 30, 2026 post by Reynold Xin about the storage architecture behind Lakebase and the LTAP model Databricks is building on top of it.

The post is interesting because it treats the database problem below the usual query-engine boundary. Rather than arguing that one engine can be equally good at OLTP and analytics, Databricks starts from the physical facts of a traditional Postgres-style database: the write-ahead log makes commits fast and durable, the data files make reads fast, and both usually live on the same machine. That local coupling is convenient until the database has to survive disk loss, scale reads, clone cheaply, branch quickly, or let analytics run without disturbing transactions.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Contiguous Array
• Topics: Array, Hash Table, Prefix Sum

Problem gist

Given a binary array, find the longest contiguous subarray that contains the same number of 0s and 1s.

The key constraint is that the answer must be a single continuous slice, not a subset. A brute-force check of every slice works logically, but it takes too long because there are O(n^2) possible slices. The useful observation is that “same number of zeros and ones” can be turned into a prefix-sum equality problem.

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TBPN surfaced this July 1, 2026 piece in Brandon Gorrell’s post, Meta Sells Compute?. The post points to Bloomberg’s report, Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Excess AI Compute, and frames the news as more than another cloud rumor: Meta may be turning its internal AI infrastructure buildout into a business that sells compute and hosted model access to outsiders.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Briefing article listed in the contents under Access to AI and published under the headline A bouncer gone berserk.

A Ban That Shows Power And Weakness

The article argues that Donald Trump’s order forcing Anthropic to block foreigners from its most advanced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models is less a coherent AI strategy than a dramatic proof of American control. Washington may have been trying to punish Anthropic after security concerns about its models, but the result was much larger: allies, companies and governments discovered that access to frontier AI could vanish overnight by political decree.

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Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing postponed until January (r/news)

• upvoter222: TL;DR: The federal trial is being delayed until after the state trial since it’s impractical for Luigi’s team to work on both trials simultaneously.
• chocolateboomslang: How much time is he going have served already if they sentence him?
• firefighter26s: So it’s my understanding that any time served in prison leading up to the trail can be deducted from the sentence if found guilty, but what if he’s found innocent? How is that time handled? Is there any kind of reimbursement?

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to appeal E. Jean Carroll \$5 million verdict (r/news)

• Mockturtle22: E.Jean knows he will never pay that money. She just wanted him held accountable. Which is something that will also never really happen.
• ImperfectRegulator: Trump and his admin are taking some Fat L’s today, and I’m here for it
• New-Leader-7891: Is it just me, or does it seem like the Supreme Court is constantly tied up with BS Trump cases when it should be focusing on actual laws that effect actual citizens?

Venezuela earthquake: father and son found alive in rubble after four days as death toll nears 1,500 (r/news)

• trunksshinohara: 51000 people are still missing.
• Som12H8: The longest someone has survived in a collapsed building due to an earthquake is 27 days, in Haiti, so I hope they keep digging. Basically I think you need access to water to survive that long.
• BeginningPlastic3747: four days under rubble and they came out alive, that’s genuinely hard to wrap your head around.

Which fast food restaurant do you think will go out of business soon? (r/AskReddit)

• poizon_elff: Panera bread (fast casual I guess) it’s so expensive for what you get
• Kaos99: Panera. Went to private equity and has sunk ever since
• ellistonvu: Buffalo Wild Wings is hemorrhaging money. Not sure how long that will last.

What has gradually disappeared over the last 10 years so subtly that most people didn’t even realize it? (r/AskReddit)

• lencastre: right to privacy
• Extra_Ad_5451: Cocoa content in chocolate.
• QueenOfSplitEnds: SkyMall on flights