Ben Werdmuller
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Jul 20, 2026
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- Top 50M sites
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- Jul 13, 2026
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American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing. (opens the original)
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Link: China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance, by Robert Hart in The Verge AI models, as a product in themselves, have very little moat beyond what amounts to brand loyalty and superficial switching costs. Instead, the moat is in the enterprise services that sit around them: the deals and contracts, connectivity with enterprise systems, and quality of life features in an enterprise context. If we consider the models themselves, it’s easy to switch between them: someone could be
Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it. (opens the original)
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Link: Trump dismantled a federal climate website. These women rebuilt it., by Jenae Barnes at The 19th This shouldn’t have been necessary, but is still wonderful to see. Climate.gov had been the go-to resource for climate data, but it went offline when the Trump Administration radically cut NOAA’s funding. At that point: This is possible because US government data is public domain by law. Had it not been available under a permissive license, the administration’s act of vandalism would have meant
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