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Food carts are a staple of New York City dining, dispensing everything from dosa and doner kebabs to dogs and dim sum in short order. But no matter how enticing the aroma of a cart’s food, the smelly gas generators that keep the lights on threaten to put customers off their meals. Cart owners and […]
I shared this chart recently about the fundamental breakdown of S&P 500 returns in 2025: The fact that the dividend yield plus the earnings growth more or less equalled the total return makes for a clean story. Investors tend to focus on a wide variety of variables — the Fed, geopolitics, interest rates, inflation, economic […]
from the closing-the-book dept Every year, a little after New Years, I do a post about the previous year of Techdirt traffic and comments. You may notice that we skipped last year’s for 2024. 2025 was so crazy with everything happening, we just didn’t get around to it, and I kept saying I would and […]
In our last Rubber Duck Thursdays stream of 2025, I wanted to build something celebratory. Something that captures what Rubber Duck Thursdays is all about: building together, learning from mistakes, and celebrating everyone who tunes in from across the world. Along the way, I picked up practical patterns for working with AI that you can […]
They dive into the uneven productivity results of AI tools, how tech teams are evolving their roles and work in response to these massive technological shifts, and what the nervous developer can do to maintain joy in their work. Founded by computer and data scientists from the University College London, TurinTech automates your code optimization […]
Florida-based pet food and product online retailer Chewy has been around for less than 15 years but has quickly become a popular source for everything pet-related. Chewy even has supplies for farm animals, reptiles, fish, and more, carrying over 3,500 brands, including everything from food to medicine to toys. My cat is constantly throwing up […]
Developing effective agentic AI requires a new research playbook. When systems plan, decide, and act on our behalf, UX moves beyond usability testing into the realm of trust, consent, and accountability. Victor Yocco outlines the research methods needed to design agentic AI systems responsibly. Agentic AI stands ready to transform customer experience and operational efficiency, […]
Some doctors see LLMs as a boon for medical literacy. The average patient might struggle to navigate the vast landscape of online medical information—and, in particular, to distinguish high-quality sources from polished but factually dubious websites—but LLMs can do that job for them, at least in theory. Treating patients who had searched for their symptoms […]
European leaders facing a Greenland-linked dispute with Washington could treat U.S. Treasurys as a leverage point. That would test not just the headline size of foreign holdings, but the market’s capacity to absorb speed, and how quickly higher yields would filter into the dollar, U.S. credit conditions, and crypto liquidity. The Financial Times has framed […]
Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, is an emerging standard for communication between AI agents and services used to complete tasks. By using MCP, you can expose functionality to a variety of agents, from desktop clients to autonomous LLM-based agents running on other systems. After configuration, agents take the prompts and determine which […]
