One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
Thursday, 4 June 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Towards passive heart health monitoring via smartphone camera
Health & Bioscience
Framework blogs: Next.js releases / Svelte / Angular / Django / Rails / Laravel / Spring / React Native / Flutter
Laravel May Product Updates
Full-stack scale-to-zero compute and managed queues on Laravel Cloud, @fonts and MySQL 8.4 in Forge. Here's everything that shipped in May.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Updates to Legal Terms
The proliferation of agentic workflows means developers now regularly grant AI tools direct access to their infrastructure, use services that act autonomously, and build on platforms that themselves use AI to operate. We’ve updated our Terms of Service and Marketplace terms to clarify shared…
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell. There’s a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer. What is the optimal way to tax and redistribute the wealth that will be generated? How should countries not in the AI supply chain index into the…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
What to look for when selecting a real-time analytical database
Most databases can query fast. Far fewer can query data that arrived seconds ago. Learn what real-time analytics really requires.
SeattleDataGuy / FinOps Foundation
Building an Integrated FinOps Practice: Tim Wright’s FinOps Evolution at Nationwide
How a Head of Cloud Operations built a unified technology cost function spanning cloud, on-premise, software assets, and now evolving for AI.
Wiz Research
AI Threat Readiness Pillar 1: Reduce Critical Exposures & Scan with AI
Diving into the first pillar of the AI Threat Readiness Framework and how Wiz helps
OpenAI News
How Endava is redesigning software delivery around AI agents
Learn how Endava is using AI agents, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Codex to accelerate software delivery, automate workflows, and build an AI-native culture across the enterprise.
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Announcing the Networking Workgroup
The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Swift. The primary goal is to guide the evolution of networking libraries, protocols, and APIs in the…
OpenAI News
Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT
ChatGPT introduces a new memory system to better remember preferences, keeping context fresh and relevant across conversations.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway Nemotron 3 Ultra from Nvidia is now available on. Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model built for orchestrating long-running agent workflows, with a 1M token context window. The model targets multi-turn agent workflows: planning, tool use, sub-agent…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Supabase Series F
Supabase has raised a $500M Series F at a $10B pre-money valuation, led by GIC.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Multigres v0.1 Alpha: an operating system for Postgres
Today we're releasing Multigres v0.1 alpha to the open source community, bringing Vitess-grade horizontal scaling, high availability, and operational simplicity to Postgres.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Build and deploy Shopify storefronts on Vercel
Shopify store directly from Vercel and You can now create astart building a production-ready storefront in minutes. Install the Shopify integration v0 to automatically configure your Shopify credentials in Vercel. Create a free test store, build withand deploy without leaving your workflow. When…
Hugging Face Blog
Designing the hf CLI as an agent-optimized way to work with the Hub
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Click-a-thon 2026: 24 hours, Bengaluru, and the fastest analytical database on the planet
ClickHouse's first in-person hackathon in India. August 1–2, Bengaluru. Four tracks, ₹10,00,000 prize pool, 24 hours to ship something real. Applications close June 25.