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Beyond Smart

October 2021If you asked people what was special about Einstein, most would say that he was really smart. Even the ones who tried to give...

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at...

Putting Ideas into Words

Hollywood demos vs. real-world demos

There are two types of AI demos: the “Hollywood demo,” which is highly produced, polished, and looks pretty perfect; and the “real-world demo,” which...

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3D Heterogeneous Integration Powers New DARPA Fab

A 1980s-era semiconductor fab in Austin, Texas, is getting a makeover. The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE), as it’s called now, is tooling up...

What I’ve Learned from Users

September 2022I recently told applicants to Y Combinator that the best advice I could give for getting in, per word, was Explain what...

Building our next R&D hub in Berlin

We are opening our next R&D hub in Berlin to support significant investment in our AI customer service platform, Intercom, and market-leading AI Agent,...

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Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault

A Washington DC protester has been found not guilty of misdemeanor assault after a video emerged showing him hurling a sandwich at a US...

Alien Truth

October 2022If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they'd share certain truths in common with us. The truths of mathematics would be the same,...

How to build a Content Design Agent

It’s Monday morning. Slack and email are overflowing with content requests. “Can you review this flow?”; “Can you rewrite this screen?”; “Can you name...

Info – Sailfish OS

Sailfish OS’s heritage lies in Nokia times, especially in the MeeGo operating system. Prior to 2011 Nokia and Intel had a vision of an...

The Bear Roars: Dan and Brad

I recently joined Dan Caruso on The Bear Roars podcast, and our conversation brought one thing into focus: we’re living through a shift that’s...

What You (Want to)* Want

November 2022Since I was about 9 I've been puzzled by the apparent contradiction between being made of matter that behaves in a predictable way, and the...

Securely access Intercom data in ChatGPT

Customer conversations hold value for the entire business, but they’re often locked away in your support platform. From today, the new Intercom connector for ChatGPT...

dvir-biton/MyraOS: A x86 Unix-like OS made entirely from scratch

A x86 Unix-like OS made entirely from scratch. Features Protected mode (GDT/IDT, ISRs/IRQs) Paging and virtual memory Memory management Heap and dynamic memory User-mode (ring 3) and kernel mode (ring...

Authors & Innovators 2025 – Feld Thoughts

I love to read. I love everything about books. LLMs will not replace good writing anytime soon, although they have mastered the art of...

The Need to Read

November 2022In the science fiction books I read as a kid, reading had often been replaced by some more efficient way of acquiring knowledge. Mysterious "tapes"...

Preparing for the Customer Agent future

At Pioneer 2025, our CEO Eoghan McCabe shared our most ambitious goal since we first set out to build Fin.  Fin will not be just...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel has long held outrageous ideological views — and imposed them on the world using his billions of dollars...