An analysis of how Costco's membership-fee model inverts Amazon's logic: instead of maximizing SKUs, ad revenue, and data extraction, Costco deliberately caps its selection at ~4,000 items, runs on razor-thin retail margins, and makes its money on renewals — aligning the store's incentives with the shopper's rather than the marketplace's.
Tangle walks through a cluster of end-of-term Supreme Court rulings that expand executive authority, laying out what each decision actually held and how they compound to reshape the balance between the presidency and the other branches.
Alibaba has told employees to stop using Anthropic's Claude Code and to remove all Claude models from work machines, citing security concerns about Anthropic — a sign of how AI tooling is fracturing along geopolitical lines as US-China tech tension hardens.
A researcher describes how AI collapsed the cost of preliminary exploration — sketching an argument, surfacing the first serious objections, and reaching a provisional verdict in an afternoon instead of a fortnight — and reflects on how that shift changes not just the speed of research but which questions feel worth attempting at all.