The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterized by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT.
I’d love to see more color on these incidents. It’s both surprising that these issues weren’t caught as part of the CI/CD process, but also not surprising given the sophistication of cowork tools/models.
Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes after
This makes sense, but it is also a common software engineering practice.
I’m hoping they’ll publish more context around what happened and what they’ve learned.
In a report released yesterday afternoon, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) set about calculating the loss to the Treasury resulting from the IEEPA ruling. CBO director Phillip Swagel reported primary deficits—not accounting for changes in the economy—will be $1.6 trillion larger over the next decade compared with projections prior to the ruling.
There is a Girl Scout cookie season and it’s typically January through March, but local troops can set their own schedule. You also cannot buy cookies year round, you must buy a cookie for a scout or troop you know. Something I just learned today.
This is an exciting development for Chicago and the state of Illinois. Nearly 200 million fully autonomous miles logged on U.S. roads — plus billions in simulation. Welcome, Waymo!
Shoppers have been forced to get used to a new normal they plainly resent. While inflation has slowed overall, the costs of things Americans often want or need most continue to rise — like groceries, utilities and housing.
Ed Olson unpacks where refunds stand following the Supreme Court’s decision last week with guests Peter Harrell and Ryan Petersen.
The consensus is that importers (domestic and, ironically, foreign) will receive refunds (the ruling found that the Section 232 tariffs were illegally levied; refunds are the remedy). In some cases, importers will receive what feels like a windfall. The American consumer, who pays the bulk of the tariff costs in the form of higher prices, will not get their money back.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the President offers some token tariff benefit to the public in tonight’s State of the Union address to try to sway public opinion on tariffs, which is overwhelmingly negative.
Bloomberg looks at 12 data points ahead of the midterms