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The Verge 2 months ago 25
Patreon laid off 20 percent of its workforce, approximately 93 employees, with CEO Jack Conte citing AI's transformation of the tech industry as a factor in how the company operates and organizes. The layoffs affect roughly 93 workers out of the company's total staff. Patreon plans to use AI tools internally to better serve creators despite reducing headcount.
Dylan Castillo 2 months ago 17 ● 2 sources
A researcher tested whether AI labs optimize their models for Simon Willison's famous "pelican riding a bicycle" benchmark by generating 1,008 SVG images across 48 animal-vehicle combinations from seven models and scoring them with an LLM judge. The pelican-on-bicycle combination ranked 42nd of 48 in overall quality, and statistical analysis found no significant per-lab boost for pelicans, bicycles, or their combination after adjusting for difficulty. The results suggest AI labs are not noticeably optimizing for this benchmark, though a small non-significant effect appeared in one model.
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16 October 2026
AI infrastructure kept the spotlight today, and it wasn’t just abstract “compute demand.” TSMC posted a record profit for its sixth straight quarter—Q3 net income up 68.7% to 763 billion New Taiwan dollars (about $24 billion)—and also moved the needle on Elon Musk’s planned Terafab chip factory by setting conditions that the facility be run by TSMC, tightening the control question that will determine how quickly new capacity can actually feed cutting-edge models.
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