References

BrowseComp is a 1,266-item OpenAI benchmark (Apr 10, 2025) of intentionally obscure, single-answer browsing tasks created by human trainers with strict checks to ensure difficulty and verifiability.

Humanity’s Last Exam is a 2,500-question test created by scientists to probe deep, cross-disciplinary expert knowledge across mathematics, humanities, natural sciences, ancient languages and niche subfields.

IndQA is a new OpenAI benchmark (released 2025-11-03) of 2,278 culturally grounded, reasoning-focused questions in 12 Indian languages across 10 domains, authored and reviewed by 261 experts.

Qwen 3.5 benchmark comparison website (published 2026-02-25) aggregates verified benchmark scores and head-to-head infographics for models including GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, Gemini-3 Pro, Qwen3-Max-Thinking, K2.5-1T-A32B, GPT-OSS-120B and Qwen3.5 variants (397B, 235B, 122B, 35B, 27B).

Spinning Up in Deep RL is an OpenAI educational release (2018-11-08) that bundles tutorials, curated papers, exercises, and minimal, well-documented implementations of VPG, TRPO, PPO, DDPG, TD3, and SAC (repo: github.com/openai/spinningup).

OpenAI Five Finals will be held April 13, 2019 in the Bay Area (11:30am–~4pm PT) and showcases OpenAI Five—trained in Dota 2 as a general-purpose AI testbed—competing against reigning world champions OG with commentators Blitz, Capitalist, ODPixel, Purge, and Sheever; in-person attendance required an invite (streaming available on Twitch).

OpenAI published two AI literacy resources on 2025-12-18 for teens and parents: a plain-language family guide that explains model training, failure modes, prompt-writing, and data/settings controls, and a parents' tipsheet with conversation starters and strategies for critical thinking and healthy boundaries.

OpenAI’s March 2026 release turns teen AI safety from a high-level governance goal into a deployable artifact: prompt-based policies that developers can plug into gpt-oss-safeguard or other reasoning models.

TsviBT’s post is primarily an invitation and field-building pitch for the 2026 Reproductive Frontiers Summit in Berkeley, centered on germline engineering and adjacent reproductive technologies.

Simon Hill’s 2026 WIRED guide is a large-scale recommendation list for podcast listeners, built as a curated map of the medium rather than a reported industry analysis.

OZ HQ is a practitioner-built reference site focused on the mechanics of Opportunity Zone investing during the 2026-2027 transition from OZ 1.0 to OZ 2.0.

Julian Chokkattu’s 2026 WIRED buying guide is a broad but experience-driven review of camera-carry options, spanning not just bags but the entire support ecosystem around mobile photography and video work: filter and memory-card cases, tech organizers, camera cubes, straps, slings, messenger bags, and backpacks.

Rob Bensinger’s March 19 LessWrong post is a straightforward call to action for the March 26 release of The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.

The Computer History Museum is extending its Apple-at-50 celebration with a March 28 public event focused on Apple history and interactive exhibits.

WIRED is promoting a March 26 livestream on defense tech, military operations, and the intersection of Big Tech with US politics.

Epoch AI’s Frontier Data Centers Hub is a useful new primary-source-style dataset on the physical buildout of frontier AI infrastructure, focusing on power, compute, construction timing, and capital intensity.

Epoch AI’s new explorer is a useful primary-source-style attempt to quantify the global installed base of AI accelerators, an increasingly important constraint for model training and deployment.

S&P Global Energy's Global Power Markets Conference (April 13–15, 2026) was promoted on the podcast by Hill Vaden and Doug Giuffre as a timely industry forum.

Mimms Museum of Technology and Art opens “iNSPIRE” on April 1, 2026, a 20,000+ sq ft exhibit housing 2,000+ Apple artifacts — from a Steve Jobs–signed Apple I spec sheet to employee badges — plus an interactive iPod silhouette experience.

Chicago’s 2026 business-traveler guide highlights an 18% decade growth in tech (106k+ direct jobs, ~150k indirect), strong CS graduate output, and conference focus areas like quantum computing and energy-efficient data centers.

Dumbo is profiled as a practical business neighborhood in Brooklyn, noting NYC’s 2023 tech-relocation surge (~15% to NYC per SignalFire).

Phil Schiller will appear at SXSW on March 18, 2026, 2:30 p.m.

Apple: The First 50 Years is a 600+ page, deeply illustrated history by David Pogue based on interviews with 150+ insiders; it documents 450M iPods, 700M iPads, 2.2B iPhones, explores failures (Lisa, Apple III, MobileMe), and launches March 2026.

Imperfect Women will host a cast panel at Apple The Grove on March 11 with Kerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss, Kate Mara and showrunner Annie Weisman; the Apple TV limited series premieres March 18 (two episodes), then weekly Wednesdays through April 29.

The Computer History Museum’s "Apple at 50" panel (March 11, 2026, 7 p.m.

Ed Catmull's Creativity, Inc.

Masters of Doom traces how John Carmack's low-level innovations (adaptive tile refresh, Doom/Quake engines, IPX multiplayer) powered id Software's shareware hits—Keen, Wolfenstein and Doom—which generated tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per month/day; conflicting founder goals (Carmack's engineering minimalism vs.

Richard Branson's Screw It, Let's Do It compresses nine chapters of practical, anecdotal advice into a ~1–2 hour read, stressing action, lateral routes into careers, and keeping ventures enjoyable.

Walter Isaacson's The Innovators profiles dozens of pioneers—from Ada Lovelace (1850s notes foreseeing programmable machines) and Claude Shannon (1937 information theory) to Engelbart's 1968 demo and the transistor-era founders—arguing the digital revolution grew collaboratively at the arts–science intersection and through institutional links (Bush's postwar policy, Fairchild/Arthur Rock's early venture deals).

Chuck Yeager's autobiography traces his path from a poor West Virginia childhood to WWII fighter ace and legendary test pilot.

Callum McDougall’s post is a substantial curriculum release for ARENA rather than a research claim: 8 new exercise sets, mostly grouped into a new Chapter 4 on alignment science, are intended to let learners reproduce and interrogate recent alignment and mechanistic-interpretability results in notebook form.

MTRAG-UN is a 666-task benchmark (released Feb 2026 by Rosenthal et al., IBM) for multi-turn retrieval-augmented generation that emphasizes hard conversational phenomena: unanswerable, underspecified, non‑standalone questions and unclear responses.

SPARTA is a benchmark and prompt-template suite aimed at scalable, principled evaluation of tree-structured multi-hop question answering that must operate over both natural-language text and structured tables.

Steve Jobs in Exile, Geoffrey Cain’s forthcoming book (published May 19, 2026), reconstructs Jobs’ 12-year NeXT period with unprecedented access to unbroadcast meeting footage, private company documents, and interviews.

SumTablets is a curated, machine-readable collection that pairs Unicode cuneiform glyph sequences with scholarly Latin‑alphabet transliterations for 91,606 Sumerian tablets (6.97M glyphs).

Put This On’s eBay Roundup (2025-10-11) compiles curated secondhand menswear listings on eBay, noting brands, sizes, and occasional fit notes.

eBay Roundup collects curated eBay menswear listings (published 2025-10-17) with brand, size, and item-type details and promotes customized search links and a $5/month Inside Track for extra picks.

Put This On's eBay Roundup (Jan 24, 2026) is a twice-weekly curated list of secondhand menswear on eBay that uses affiliate links; the 412-word post highlights specific garments with sizes and brands—e.g., Cream Anthology Tussah silk sport coat (40), Orazio Luciano tweed (42), Alden shell cordovan boots (11)—and promotes a $5/month Inside Track membership and tailored search links.

PleIAs is a French private AI lab training language models for document processing, publishing a Hugging Face project on 2024-08-05.

PleIAs/SYNTH is a synthetic Q&A/reasoning dataset posted on Hugging Face for text-generation tasks, roughly 3.8k examples and associated with a 0.3B tag and frequent use of the qwen-3-8b-memorization label.

Common Corpus is a two-trillion-token open dataset (announced 2025-06-02) aggregating uncopyrighted or permissively-licensed text and code for LLM pre-training.

Common Corpus is a 2 trillion-token, truly open multilingual dataset released 2026-01-26 (OpenReview id 0wSlFpMsGb) assembled from uncopyrighted or permissively licensed material.

WIRED's 'Best Wireless Headphones' (Feb 25, 2026) compares ~20 models across price tiers, focusing on real-world performance: noise canceling, comfort, call quality, and unique features like JBL's Smart Tx/Auracast support or wired streaming from charging cases.

Future Forum was a not-for-profit, four-day conference run by Isaak Freeman and a gap-year/college-break team in South San Francisco; planned for 150 attendees but attracted 1,300 applications.

Film Crit Hulk's Screenwriting 101 was published as an Amazon ebook on December 7, 2013, with iBook editions promised shortly after.

Apple released eight recorded talks on Feb 23, 2026 from its July 2025 Workshop on Reasoning and Planning.

Apple: The First 50 Years, David Pogue’s 600-page oral and archival history due March 10, 2026, compiles two years of reporting and 150 interviews with key figures (Wozniak, Sculley, Ive and current Apple brass).

The Steve Jobs Archive released 'Letters to a Young Creator' online on Feb 24, 2026, timed to what would have been Jobs' 71st birthday.

Links (79) is a Nintil link roundup (published 2024-06-11) covering biotech, AI, and climate-investment topics: it cites a finding that GLP-1 analogues don’t increase muscle loss beyond caloric restriction (mitigable with high protein/exercise), flags Cradle (formerly Lorentz) for tissue cryopreservation work, calls out Lumina’s tactics, and links to Anthropic’s sleeper-agent paper and Andy Matuschak’s learning essay.

Links (86), published by Nintil on 2025-03-16, compiles 86 curated links across AI, biotech, longevity, neuroscience, and policy.

Nintil's Links (89) (29 June 2025) is a tightly curated link roundup (~24 items, 170 words) spanning biotech advances (gene circuits, AAV vs adenovirus, oral PCSK9 inhibitors, nattokinase effects, LSD lifespan data), aerospace topics (cost drivers, rapid jet development timelines) and tech/policy commentary (Scott Alexander grants, Anduril, Palmer Luckey), serving as a quick pointer list for further reading.

Nintil's Links (90) (2025-08-09) is a short curated roundup linking science and industry pieces: it emphasizes new work on cellular memory and argues inflammaging stems from industrial lifestyles/obesity, cites an RCT where psychotherapy reduced chronic pain, and collects essays on AI vs.

Nintil's Links (91) (2025-09-13) aggregates 91 items spanning Alzheimer’s research—lithium orotate, amyloid‑cascade defense noting Alnylam’s ‘no NfL change’ result, and a company’s Phase‑1 AD trial planned in 2025—plus tech, RCT biomarker failures, and AI commentary.

Nintil's 'Links (92)' roundup (27 Oct 2025) assembles 92 curated links spanning AI, biotech, aerospace, and policy, from Noah Smith's Breakneck review to technical pieces on rotating detonation engines and pan‑cancer therapy advances.

The Steve Jobs Archive's Letters to a Young Creator (Daring Fireball, Feb 24, 2026) collects essays by diverse, distinguished creators—curated by Laurene Powell Jobs—who answer fellowship questions with candid stories of struggle, success and lessons.

Acquired’s hosts, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, used a short summer episode to announce a major live event and to reflect on a whirlwind few months.

Epoch AI's Frontier Data Centers database (updated Feb 19, 2026) compiles satellite imagery, permits, and public documents to estimate power, compute, timelines and costs for major U.S.

The post is a curated set of testimonials praising David Deutsch’s books and talks for delivering a unified philosophy that links quantum theory, the Turing principle, Popperian critical rationalism, and replicator/evolutionary ideas.

Bloomberg's New Economy podcast previews the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, where ~400 global leaders will tackle climate, finance, cities, technology and inclusion.

The Wealthy Accountant’s February 20, 2026 email is a short newsletter teaser centered on a Roth IRA tax-warning headline, alongside links to prior tax, conference, and accounting-automation posts.

Contrarian Thinking’s February 18, 2026 newsletter uses urgency-heavy marketing to argue that federal small-business financing, especially SBA lending, creates an opportunity for individuals to buy “cash-flowing” businesses with limited personal risk.

Shawn Reynaldo’s First Floor newsletter hands its weekly recommendation slot to Ian Kim Judd, a New York-based DJ and founder of the OST label, to spotlight a record suited to a bleak winter stretch in NYC marked by the city’s biggest blizzard in nearly a decade and a prolonged cold spell.

Tim Urban spent six years turning a short blog impulse (June 18, 2016) into a finished book, What’s Our Problem?, published Feb 21, 2023.

Protocolized is using a free February 2026 workshop to recruit contributors and codify an explicitly AI-native approach to writing and publishing.

DCD Data Center Construction frames schedule management as a major economic lever in the current data center boom.

DG Matrix’s sponsored message frames facility power as the weak link in AI-ready data centers, especially for multi-site cloud and hybrid architectures.

DCD’s February 2026 newsletter is a stream-now promotion for a Management & Operations episode about automation in data center maintenance.

Facilities Dive is promoting a Trendline on building energy ROI centered on operational efficiency tools rather than new generation.

Codie Sanchez’s newsletter uses the threat of white-collar layoffs to sell entrepreneurship through small-business acquisition.

Contrarian Thinking’s February 17, 2026 newsletter is effectively a sales email for Main Street Millionaire Live, a virtual event running February 20–22.

Contrarian Thinking’s February 17, 2026 newsletter is a sales email for Main Street Millionaire Live, a live virtual event running February 20–22.

DCD’s 2026-02-17 newsletter is a promotional invitation to stream a Management & Operations broadcast about data center lifecycle management.

Substack sent a brief livestream notification promoting a live conversation between Bill Bishop and Josh Szeps titled “What’s China Up To?” The item provides only a watch link and platform metadata, without any transcript, agenda, or substantive geopolitical analysis, making it effectively an event invitation rather than an article.

Casey Handmer compiles a heavyweight reading list and argument that rapid declines in solar and battery costs — plus synthetic fuels and green hydrogen pathways — make solar‑led decarbonization inevitable.

Packy McCormick's 2025 year-end roundup (Dec 23, 2025) highlights his five favorite Not Boring essays—from The Electric Slide (a month-long technical deep dive on the 'Electric Stack' and its 99% cost declines) to Most Human Wins (a strategy memo on humans vs.

HealthBench is a new OpenAI benchmark (released 2025-05-12) of 5,000 realistic health dialogues with physician-crafted rubrics (48,562 criteria) created by 262 physicians across 60 countries.

OpenAI DevDay 2025 will be October 6 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, bringing 1,500+ developers for product and research announcements; attendance requests open July 23–30, tickets $650, keynote livestreamed and sessions recorded.

The Grand Egyptian Museum, opened November 2025, cost over $1 billion (including a $300 million Japanese loan), spans about seventy football pitches and was completed after nearly 20 years amid delays and a military-era leadership change.

Murata’s sponsored whitepaper, circulated by Data Center Dynamics, frames AI infrastructure as a power-management problem: higher-density, more variable compute loads are stressing legacy designs built around fixed thresholds and siloed monitoring.

A short Data Centre Dynamics newsletter blurb highlights an AFL whitepaper on the physical-layer bottlenecks behind hyperscale AI infrastructure.

The Browser’s “Senses And Seoul” newsletter is a curated recommendation list rather than a reported article, pairing two essays linked by attention to cultural inheritance and the built environment.

DCD’s February 16, 2026 newsletter is essentially an event invitation for a February 17 webcast on managing data centers across their full operational lifecycle.

POWER’s January 15, 2026 email is essentially a marketing newsletter for the publication and its event business.

Michael Girdley’s short newsletter is primarily an event reminder and lead-generation email rather than a substantive essay.

Accenture’s sponsored whitepaper teaser argues that AI and cloud growth are rapidly reshaping US data center infrastructure, with power demand projected to reach 16–23% of national electricity use by 2033.

The Browser’s “Wikipedia And Balance,” published on 24 Jan 2026, is essentially a lightweight newsletter stub directing readers to external media rather than offering substantive editorial content of its own.

The Diff’s “Longreads + Open Thread” issue is primarily a curated link roundup rather than an original analytical essay, spanning healthcare, infrastructure costs, religion, media, and geopolitics.

Why Is This Interesting?’s “Saturday Selection, Vol.

Ryan Holiday’s January 25, 2026 reading-list email is a curated bookstore newsletter blending literary recommendations, current-events framing, and promotion for his shop, The Painted Porch.

Corning and Data Center Dynamics frame AI infrastructure growth as a networking problem: larger GPU clusters and distributed AI systems require denser, higher-bandwidth, lower-latency interconnects than conventional data center designs.

Data Center Dynamics is promoting a short on-demand broadcast about how operators should evaluate energy storage in newer data center power architectures.

Hacker Newsletter #780 is a weekly roundup of popular Hacker News links rather than a single deep article, so its value is as a signal of what the technical internet paid attention to in late January 2026.

Michael Girdley’s February 2, 2026 newsletter is a promotional invite to a repeat webinar with Acquisition Lab co-founder Chelsea Wood on small-business acquisitions.

Memelord Magazine’s “The Grammys 2026” newsletter is essentially a trend-tracking, marketing-oriented roundup of image and video moments from the 2026 Grammy Awards that could be turned into viral memes.

Contrarian Thinking’s February 9, 2026 newsletter is essentially a promotional email for Main Street Millionaire Live, a live virtual event running February 20-22 aimed at aspiring business acquirers.

Contrarian Thinking promotes Main Street Millionaire Live as a virtual workshop for aspiring business buyers, using a road-trip metaphor to emphasize how confusing first-time acquisitions can feel without guidance.

Memelord Magazine’s Super Bowl 2026 newsletter is effectively a promotional swipe file for marketers and meme creators.

DatacenterDynamics positions distributed AI infrastructure as a response to inference workloads that cannot tolerate centralized latency or operational bottlenecks.

Contrarian Thinking uses a headline statistic—that the top 1% now control $52 trillion—to market small-business acquisition as a path to tapping into luxury spending.

Codie Sanchez uses the statistic that the top 1% of Americans now hold $52 trillion to frame a familiar “serve the wealthy” thesis for small-business buyers.