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OpenAI performance review cycle (Blind)

• dNrMySDE (Microsoft): Why wouldn’t you have talked to the recruiting ream about this during the interview process or now?
• ChoppedUnc (Meta): Prepare to be downleveled. An L7 at Google or Meta is a 6 at OAI (sometimes even a 5).
• ylgc89 (OpenAI): The cutoff for mid year perf was June so you’ll be part of the next one. It’s not relevant because managers here don’t wait for perf cycles to handle performance issues and the bar for L7 is quite high. You should show up ready to work hard.

Anthropic Interviewers are delusional (Blind)

• CJRV60: Easy acces for their effective altruist buddies, hell screen for everyone else
• texastoas (GoDaddy): They want to keep the 2% pass rate and also ban people from ever interviewing there again
• buzumaki (Goldman Sachs): you need to back-up your claim buddy. give us some examples of why you think they are delulu.

Grok is more important than clean air, DOJ says (r/technology)

• TG1970: Wtf are these data centers doing that is more important than the survival of humanity?
• DinobotsGacha: AI is the Brawndo of this Idiocracy administration
• CondiMesmer: The corruption isn’t even subtle

Anthropic and OpenAI waged a \$27 million proxy war in a Manhattan congressional race. The winner told them both to get lost. (r/technology)

• rednecronomicon: Haven’t felt this since I was a boy, is this what hope feels like?
• orlybatman: Wild that y’all allow corporations and foreign interests to flood elections so hard.
• GoodIdea321: I’ll tell them to get lost for less money, it’s a great investment opportunity.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For (r/technology)

• GenazaNL: A polymarket clone, nothing original coming out of this guy anymore. He’s just cloning whatever is populair
• No_Size9475: This guy is a curse on the world
• Readitzilla: Can’t wait…. for it to fail.

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What happened

Google Research’s official research blog published Accelerating Gemini Nano models on Pixel with frozen Multi-Token Prediction, a June 26, 2026 post about speeding up on-device Gemini Nano inference on Pixel phones without retraining the deployed base model.

The post is interesting because it treats mobile LLM serving as a systems problem rather than as a smaller-model story. Gemini Nano already runs on device, which protects user data for features such as notification summaries and text proofreading. The bottleneck is that autoregressive generation is poorly matched to phones: one token is produced at a time, the processor is repeatedly woken, and memory bandwidth becomes a hard constraint. A server can hide some of that cost with large accelerators and batching. A phone cannot. It has to preserve latency, battery life, RAM, and thermal headroom while sharing the device with everything else the user is doing.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 28, 2026 story in its cluster on Google rationing Gemini capacity to Meta, and the concrete original URL is the Financial Times report, Google caps Meta’s Gemini use as AI demand strains capacity. The important part is not simply that one Big Tech company could not sell enough AI to another. It is that the AI bottleneck has moved from model demos and training runs into the everyday allocation of inference capacity.

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We’ve officially reached AGI/ASI: The government just ordered OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 access (Blind)

• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): Were you paid for this post?
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): I heard in 2024 that they can replace humans. Was that a lie?
• Bofgster (Meta): Lol agi. Ok.

Anthropic v Google v OpenAI & Maternity Leave (Blind)

• aCDR13 (ex-Anthropic): Eligible from day-1 for all benefits
• YNBQ33 (OpenAI): I don’t think there’s a minimum working period for any of our benefits including time off/mat leave.
• xmUW77 (AMD): Congrats 🎉 Personally wouldn’t join them at this point now that their IPO is pretty much set. Google is a safe choice especially with newborns.

The AI backlash is only getting started (r/technology)

• MC68328: Begun, the Butlerian Jihad has.
• MutaitoSensei: Bring it on, it deserves it!
• MrPhily: AI should be aidding humans, not replacing them.

PlayStation is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital is Ever Truly Ours (r/technology)

• HouselessGamer: If buying is not owning then piracy isn’t stealing.
• PM_COFFEE_TO_ME: Long live physical media
• RubiesNotDiamonds: I want discs. Tired of this.

Mark Cuban gets dragged after saying people don’t really hate data centers — “The fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers. They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI” (r/technology)

• gringoloco01: Sounds like someone is heavily invested in data centers lol
• dzenib: No, we hate both. For different reasons.
• Alklazaris: So build it next to your own fucking house then.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 27, 2026 story in its cluster on Sakana Fugu and 360 Tulongfeng, and the concrete original URL is Kate Park’s TechCrunch article, Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on. The important point is not that two Asian AI companies made ambitious benchmark claims. It is that U.S. model-access restrictions are already being converted into a commercial and geopolitical pitch for alternatives.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 26, 2026 release in its top-news cluster on OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 rollout, and the concrete original URL is OpenAI’s post, Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model. The important story is not just that OpenAI has a stronger model family. It is that the model is arriving through a limited, government-aware access process that could become the template, or the warning sign, for frontier AI releases.

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What happened

The official Cloudflare Blog published the engineering write-up Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all, a June 24, 2026 post about opening self-managed OAuth to all customers after a careful upgrade of Cloudflare’s underlying OAuth infrastructure.

The product surface is simple: developers can create OAuth clients, users can grant scoped access through a standard consent flow, and integrations no longer have to depend on broad API tokens. The engineering problem underneath was less simple. Cloudflare already ran OAuth for a small set of manually onboarded partners, but that system was not designed for broad ecosystem access, agentic tools, richer consent, easy revocation, and stronger anti-phishing affordances at Cloudflare scale.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 25, 2026 pricing shift in its Apple memory-shortage item, and the concrete article used here is Rolfe Winkler’s Wall Street Journal report, Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models. The important part is not just that Apple raised prices. It is that Apple is publicly telling customers that the AI data-center buildout is now expensive enough to change consumer hardware prices.

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10% of my colleagues at Robinhood are gone. (Blind)

• apple145 (Meta): Elon is the first one to start this dumb trend. And he’s now rewarded by becoming a trillionaire. We live in a sick world
• avx256 (Snap): 10% is trimming fat. Now solid workers can climb up
• pbodyy (Instacart): starting a layoff email with “robinhoodies” is crazy work

\$2.7 BILLION wasn’t enough to keep Noam at Google (Blind)

• applpiee (Meta): Let’s say you are at a stage where money doesn’t matter, but have to deal with constant BS. Someone comes and says we will give you free hand to do whatever you like and however you wanna do it. Wat will you do?
• dara.singh (Uber): Not every thing is about money lil man
• h2020c (Google): Google didn’t pay him 2.7b to stay. Shut up .

Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (r/technology)

• Xollector: This is what you get when you essentially have a cartel in control of supply.
• nukem996: Suppliers have never cared about small customers. Small customers are much more costly while generating very little revenue. It doesn’t matter how public or “important” they seem. I’ve seen hardware vendors drop US military suppliers because their support burden was too great. If you are not a whale customer you are not worth their time.
• 81PBNJ: Went to order 10 Surface Pros from CDW. Got the quote Tuesday morning, they wouldn’t honor it the next day because prices had already increased.

AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections (r/technology)

• NotAllOwled: Perhaps it would be quicker if we listed the things they’re not trying to seize control of?
• TonyInNY: I can not think of a worse idea about how to secure free and fair elections. The thought of these tech billionaires having access to the system that counts and deliverers results of elections is just a quick path to the destruction of democracy.
• YaBoiSammus: People forget that same shit happen with Elon Musk and he flooded Twitter with brain rot propaganda. This shit isn’t new it’s just a different paint color.

47% of Harvard seniors admit to cheating — and the problem existed long before ChatGPT (r/technology)

• ggibby: What percentage of Harvard admissions is legacies vs merit?
• DetroitPeopleMover: School filled with ultra competitive students willing to do whatever takes has students willing to do whatever it takes to get good grades. News at 10
• Raa03842: Just remember, 50% of all licensed doctors graduated in the bottom half of all licensed doctors. I wonder how many of them cheated?

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Techmeme surfaced Thomas Claburn’s report in The Register on a newly published challenge to Microsoft’s topological-quantum-computing claims. The immediate controversy involves two Python mistakes and data that did not appear in Microsoft’s original paper. The larger issue is more consequential: when software decides which experimental regions count as evidence, a plotting or filtering choice can become part of the scientific instrument.