Our Long Term Benefit Trust has appointed Reed Hastings to Anthropic's board of directors.

Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the world’s best coding model. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, delivering superior coding and reasoning.

“Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded”

🚀 We are excited to launch Nile Auth today! Nile Auth is a comprehensive open-source B2B auth solution designed for multi-tenant apps https://t.co/abDwKbAjdW 1. Purpose-built for multi-tenant apps 2. Unlimited active users 3. Customer and user data stored in your DB

treating a people that have fought and bled for years to protect their homes from an invading empire like they’re spoiled children begging for treats is just disgusting

Introducing Claude 3.7 Sonnet: our most intelligent model to date. It's a hybrid reasoning model, producing near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking. One model, two ways to think. We’re also releasing an agentic coding tool: Claude Code.

The analytics world is moving from BI to AI. This isn’t just about enabling insights, it’s about powering actions. To make this real analytical data needs to work at the speed of operational applications. @confluentinc and @Databricks are partnering to make this happen:

We’re excited to announce a major expansion in the Databricks + @confluentinc partnership, enabling real-time data for AI-driven decision-making. Many organizations struggle to make AI operational because their data is siloed into different systems that weren’t built to work

Data Streaming 🤝 Data Intelligence Confluent and @Databricks are teaming up to empower organizations with AI-ready, real-time data. Our seamless integrations between Tableflow, Delta Tables, and Unity Catalog will connect operational and analytical systems, to power AI-driven

New distributed systems protocol write-up! Virtual Consensus (Delos) heavily inspired the new architecture in Confluent’s Kora engine, powering Freight Clusters. This write-up dives into Virtual Consensus in Delos paper and why it makes sense as the default log replication

Did you know Freight Clusters can slash your networking costs? Now generally available on AWS, this new cluster type helps you onboard more data-intensive workloads without breaking the bank. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/572obd8oE7

Speculation is growing that Snowflake is planning to acquire Redpanda—but why? What justifies the rumored high price tag? When you consider market trends, the Snowflake vs. Databricks rivalry, and the AI shift, the rationale starts to become clear. Here’s my take.

My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures

Better late than never, we finally released transaction support in WarpStream! As usual, we wrote a blog post explaining all the nitty gritty details. https://t.co/79CyKkb6hW

Nikki Haley telling lazy Silicon Valley companies that if we just avoided immigrants like they do in South Carolina, we could have a tech industry like theirs. I suspect she’s right! :-)

This combined with better remote work tools and practices (which also help multi-site work split across timezones) have largely internationalized tech hiring. So now companies are extremely flexible in where they hire based on the availability of talent and cost. At this point I

This used to be true of just the largest tech companies, but a combination of bad immigration policy in the US, and bad housing policy in the Bay Area restricted the supply of local talent to the point that a Bay Area only talent strategy was not viable beyond the very early

The entire discussion on immigration exists in an imaginary world where companies aren’t massively international. The alternative to more immigration isn’t higher US wages it’s mostly employing the same top talent but in their country of origin. This is often cheaper and more