OpenAI tells investors its revenue runs $20 billion under projections, while Finland orders Google to halt two AI data centers over environmental violations. Plus Anthropic ships a dashboard-building Claude agent, Mark Zuckerberg's AI-accord diplomacy gets scrutinized, Ben Thompson interviews Katie Harbath on Facebook's politics team, Periodic Labs makes its case for AI-run physics experiments, Sean Goedecke on how to actually read code, Denver voters weigh a school tax measure, Phish close a Richmond stand, and a wildcard: a pond protist that rewrites the genetic code.

TechCrunch · Oct 8

OpenAI's annualized revenue is near $50 billion, about $20 billion below earlier investor estimates, per new reporting.

CNN · Oct 8

Profile of how Zuckerberg shaped the White House's voluntary AI safety accord and sidestepped stricter regulation.

Frederic Lardinois, The New Stack · Oct 8

Anthropic launched a beta data agent that builds live dashboards and shows the underlying queries.

Ben Thompson, Stratechery · Oct 8

Stratechery podcast interview with Katie Harbath on her decade running Facebook's elections policy team.

Latent Space · Oct 8

Podcast on Periodic Labs' plan to ground AI reasoning in physical lab experiments for materials science.

Euronews · Oct 7

Finnish regulator ordered Google's Tuike subsidiary to halt land-clearing at two data center sites pending environmental review.

Sean Goedecke · Oct 7

Essay on "dyadic scanning," a multi-pass technique for reading unfamiliar or complex codebases.

Chalkbeat Colorado · Oct 7

Guide to a November ballot measure raising Denver property taxes to fund DPS employee raises.

JamBase · Oct 7

Recap of Phish's second Richmond, Virginia show, which wove Led Zeppelin teases into an extended "Golden Age."