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Nomination Sent to the Senate
NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE: Brian Johnson, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection for a term of five years. The post Nomination Sen…

Presidential Message on U.S. Catholic Bishops Honoring the 250th Anniversary of American Independence
Today, Melania and I join in prayer with Catholic Bishops gathered in Orlando, Florida, as they consecrate the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of J…

First Lady Melania Trump Launches Fostering the Future Accounts America’s First Savings & Investment Vehicle for Foster Youth
First Lady Melania Trump launched her Fostering the Future Accounts, a new financial resource established to empower foster youth to be fiscally autonomous upon…

Restoring American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Building on prior actions to strengthen American seafood production and support working fishing …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific
UNLEASHING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY IN THE PACIFIC: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation to restore commercial fishing access to nearly half …

75th Anniversary of the White House Navy Mess, 2026
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On June 11, 1951, President Harry S. Truman formally established a unit of the United States Nav…

Nomination and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate
NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE: Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence, vice Tulsi Gabbard. WITHDRAWAL SENT TO THE SENATE: Walter C…

Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide
Which AIs to use, and how to use them…

Against "Brain Damage"
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking…

The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.…

GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Putting the AI in Charge…

Mass Intelligence
From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI…

On Working with Wizards
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier…

Real AI Agents and Real Work
The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints…

An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
What AI to use in late 2025…

Giving your AI a Job Interview
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it…

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents…

The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients
And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal…

Claude Code and What Comes Next
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things…

Management as AI superpower
Thriving in a world of agents…

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
It's not just chatbots anymore…

The Shape of the Thing
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next…

Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough…

Stop Answering the Same Question Twice: Interval-Aware Caching for Druid at Netflix Scale

Software Finally Gets to Work: The Opportunity in Vertical AI
Vertical software has always punched below its weight. For all the defensibility that Epic, Veeva, and Procore built, the category never escaped a persistent ce…

Evaluating Netflix Show Synopses with LLM-as-a-Judge

The Human Infrastructure: How Netflix Built the Operations Layer Behind Live at Scale

Sign of the future: GPT-5.5
One impressive step on the curve…

Scaling Camera File Processing at Netflix

Manifest OS: AI-Powered Legal Services for Every Business
The first thing you learn in Econ 101 is how supply and demand impacts prices of goods and services. Higher supply of something means lower prices. Higher deman…