Daily Dashboard

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Simon Willison ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally and found it outperformed Claude Opus 4.7 at SVG generation — a surprising result for a model that fits on consumer hardware.

Hacker News • 1h ago

Tech

Codex for Almost Everything

OpenAI's Codex agent is expanding to nearly every task category — writing, debugging, architecture — positioning it as a general-purpose AI co-pilot rather than a narrow autocomplete tool.

OpenAI • 1h ago

Nerd

We gave an AI a 3-year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

Andon Labs handed an AI system a real retail lease and a budget to run a convenience store, then documented what happened — a live experiment in autonomous economic agency.

Hacker News • 3h ago

Politics

Opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

Maine becomes the first state to pass legislation restricting datacenter construction, citing noise, power draw, and community opposition — a sign the 'bit barn' backlash is going political.

The Register • just now

Fiber

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband

Iran offers some of the world's cheapest consumer broadband, well below US rates — highlighting how government policy and infrastructure ownership shape what ISP customers actually pay.

The Register • 3h ago

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