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Quantum mechanics is one of science’s most successful theories, but success has not made it intuitive. Its predictions have survived experiment after experiment and underpin modern electronics. Yet its usual mathematical description allows particles to exist in several possible places at once until a measurement returns one definite result. Entangled particles add another puzzle: measuring one appears to determine the state of another, even across a great distance. Physicists agree that the calculations work. They still disagree about what kind of reality those calculations describe.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 29, 2026 essay in its AI Dark Output cluster, and the original is SemiAnalysis’s AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output.

The article asks a harder question than whether companies are spending too much on AI: what happens if the value created by AI becomes real before the economy knows how to count it?

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This summary covers The Economist’s May 9th, 2026 Business column on Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank Group, published under the headline Warren or Masa and listed in the contents as Berkshire v SoftBank.

The article presents Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank as opposite answers to the same question: what should an investment company do when markets look unusually expensive and technology is changing unusually fast? Berkshire, built by Warren Buffett, has accumulated nearly \$400bn in cash because it cannot find enough attractive deals. SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, is borrowing heavily to finance a sweeping bet on artificial intelligence. One risks becoming too cautious to justify its structure. The other risks running out of money before its vision pays off.

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What changed

Uber Engineering’s official blog published Modernizing Artifact Storage at Uber, a May 28, 2026 account of replacing a fragile on-premises artifact repository without moving the operational burden into every build.

Artifact storage is easy to underestimate because it often looks like a passive dependency. At Uber it sits on the critical path for builds across large monorepos and thousands of smaller repositories. Builds resolve hundreds or thousands of dependencies, and the platform stores the outputs that downstream systems consume. At that scale, an artifact repository is developer infrastructure with production-service requirements: it must remain available during failures, serve immutable bytes correctly, keep latency low, and avoid turning growth into a sequence of risky storage interventions.

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Drag queen Pattie Gonia asks apparel company Patagonia to drop trademark infringement lawsuit (r/news)

• whiskyspacecadet: The merch she is selling is a direct rip off of the Patagonia logo. Its got less to do with her name and more to do with her using a well established brand’s image to make her own money.
• ElderBerry2020: I love when people post who know nothing about trademark law.
• TomTomXD1234: He’s literally trying to sell clothing with the name pattie gonia…..this is 100% legit lawsuit

Canadian man admits sending ‘suicide packets’ to hundreds of people around world (r/news)

• Much_Guest_7195: The people regretting it is horrifying
• Klutzy_Act2033: If people want to die they should be able to with dignity, but this ain’t the way
• SWALLOW009: Hard to wrap my head around someone treating suicide like a mail-order business

Nato ready to defend ‘every inch’ of territory as Russian drone hits Romania (r/worldnews)

• fsactual: The most likely and simplest response is just to give more weapons to Ukraine.
• Aluzionz: We’re ready to defend EVERY INCH! - Just not, that particular few inches.
• olight77: So what did they do when the drone hit then?

Japan’s 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows (r/worldnews)

• Dexterestein: When the population works 25 hours a day…
• lilymooree: How is anyone supposed to have time to date there when people are sleeping on shibuya to wake up for their shift
• shadowX015: Steepest fall so far

I bit into a pearl in my dollar store smoked oysters (r/mildlyinteresting)

• HippoProject: You’re interesting enough for eating oysters from the dollar store.
• bmanley620: Dollar store and oysters is something I never would have imagined seeing in the same sentence
• Toofless205: Not even dollar store, but the sketchy cart outside the dollar store

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Is being L5 SWE at age 35+ damaged goods? (Blind)

• daMan1ac (Google): yep - once you hit 35 you should be president of usa
• KpopSrini (Salesforce): I am L4 level touching 50.
• dddjjj184 (Google): L4 ar 42. You do what you do

VP at Google. AMA. (Blind)

• Roti Prata (Standard Chartered Bank): Apart from the compensation, what are the perks of a VP at Google that might not available to everyone at Google?
• PjPq41 (Google): Fake post
• Dee’s (JPMorganChase): Bro posted an AMA to not answer

Ronny Chieng’s ‘F*ck AI’ Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates: “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber” (r/technology)

• government_not_ok: He’s right tho.
• Elehaymyaele: The bitter truth is that they were already that dumb.
• the_millenial_falcon: I’ve noticed that mediocre people love AI the most.

Mystery company accidentally blew \$500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (r/technology)

• Fateor42: Would be funny if they can’t pay and just declare bankruptcy leaving Claude holding the bag.
• MalaproposMalefactor: “cheaper than manual labor” 😃
• krum: Mystery company who’s name starts with the letter Microsoft.

Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers boosting usage scores — Senior executive tells staff ‘don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI’ as computing costs rise (r/technology)

• BentoMan: It’s like evaluating workers by how many commits they have. Then you end up with people committing one file at a time and jacking things up. Completely foreseeable.
• 4everLost82: So it sounds like, once again, the C-Suite suits have no fucking clue what they are doing…as always.
• JDGumby: Except, of course, that Amazon execs were the ones demanding the use of AI just for the sake of using AI in the first place…

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (r/technology)

• wiegerthefarmer: So it’s pvpve now?
• WesternBlueRanger: I see someone reads xkcd and knows about Little Bobby Tables.
• pilgermann: The point critics are missing is that if this works then LLM coding cannot be trusted. This is an entirely ynsophistocaged prompt injection. If the LLM doesn’t know to flag it, it should. That’s the whole issue. This could easily be added to any project.

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What happened

Cloudflare’s official engineering blog published How we built Cloudflare’s data platform and an AI agent on top of it, a May 28, 2026 post about Town Lake, its internal unified analytics platform, and Skipper, an AI data agent built on top of that platform.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Capacity To Ship Packages Within D Days
• Topics: Array, Binary Search

Problem gist

There is a line of packages, each with a weight. A ship moves packages in the given order, and each day it can carry packages only until the total loaded weight reaches its capacity. The task is to find the smallest ship capacity that can move every package within days days.

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Robin George Andrews treats the new push back to the moon as more than a spaceflight milestone. If NASA’s Artemis program and related robotic missions create a lasting presence there, the moon could become a scientific instrument in its own right: a quiet, ancient body covered with clues that Earth has largely erased. Plate tectonics, weather, oceans and life have constantly recycled Earth’s oldest rocks. The moon, by contrast, has preserved much of its early history in place.

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TBPN surfaced this May 29, 2026 post, and the original is From Tokenmaxxing to ROImaxxing.

The important shift in the piece is easy to miss because the surrounding AI news is still enormous. Anthropic has passed \$47B in annual recurring revenue, raised a \$65B Series H at a \$965B post-money valuation, and released Claude Opus 4.8. Large companies are rolling AI tools out widely. Usage is no longer a niche experiment run by a few curious engineers.