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Griffin’s Doors
Inside Citadel’s Talent Machine
Friday, 22 May 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do. Reiner is CEO of MatX, a new chip startup (full disclosure - I’m an angel investor). He was previously at…
Mistral AI
Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.
Introducing Mistral Medium 3.5, remote coding agents in Vibe, plus new Work mode in Le Chat for complex tasks.
Mistral AI
Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio
Connect enterprise data to your AI applications with reusable connectors, direct tool calling, and human-in-the-loop approval controls.
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to look beyond the surface and explore hidden motivations, root causes, and the different layers of reality that shape how people act. Brought to you by Measuring…
The Markup
It’s easier for Californians to escape data brokers following a Markup investigation
The Markup and CalMatters showed how website code could make it harder for Californians to exercise their right to remove personal data. Now much of that code has disappeared.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Native random sampling in ClickHouse
Learn how to use ClickHouse's SAMPLE BY clause to run fast, approximate queries on large datasets with minimal accuracy trade-off.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Integrating the Rust Delta Kernel into ClickHouse
How we integrated the Rust Delta Kernel to replace our native Delta Lake implementation, reducing maintenance overhead while unlocking writes, schema evolution, time travel, and partition pruning.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Neon for Agent Platforms: A Companion Skill for the AI Agent Program
We've been working on neon-for-agent-platforms, a companion skill that complements our existing neon-postgres skill. The existing skill covers auth, drivers, branching, the Data API, MCP, and core Postgres-on-Neon guidance. Agent platforms have a different problem though: they don't just use one…
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
What's new in web extensions: I / O 2026 recap
Another Google I/O is behind us and we have covered all the exciting extensions updates!
OpenAI News
How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex
How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.
OpenAI News
OpenAI named a Leader in enterprise coding agents by Gartner
OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.