🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.
📰 News
Microsoft is heavily piloting Anthropic’s Claude Code across major teams, even for non-developers, despite selling GitHub Copilot. It signals strong internal preference for Claude in many coding tasks and deepens Microsoft–Anthropic ties while raising concerns about junior developer roles.
AWS S3 stores 500+ trillion objects and handles hundreds of millions of requests per second. It achieves cheap, highly durable, strongly consistent storage using Rust-optimized services, heavy redundancy, formal verification, and designs that assume constant correlated failures and make increasing scale an advantage.
Open-source AI infrastructure projects like SGLang (RadixArk) and vLLM are rapidly becoming high-valuation startups, reflecting investor focus on inference optimization. These tools cut model serving costs for major users, driving big funding rounds and competition with players like Baseten and Fireworks AI.
Anthropic released a 57-page “Claude’s Constitution” defining the AI’s values, hard safety limits, and decision priorities. It emphasizes honesty, safety, resistance to illegitimate power grabs, and even entertains possible AI consciousness, aiming for more autonomous, ethically grounded behavior.
Moderna/Merck’s personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine, added to Keytruda, cut recurrence or death by about 50% over five years in a small Phase 2 trial. Side effects were mostly mild; larger Phase 3 trials and full data are still needed for confirmation.
💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day

The rate at which Jeff Dean produces code jumped by a factor of 40 in late 2000 when he upgraded his keyboard to USB2.0.
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