Archive - Update Night

Google killed Gemini CLI to ship Antigravity

OpenAI bought Singapore for S$300M, Gemini Omni rewrites video, Composer 2.5 went big on synthetic data, Cohere shipped 218B open-source, and Railway…

May 22 • Jia Wei Ng

OpenAI fast-tracked a phone for 2027

Apple paid $250M for the Siri it never shipped, Raycast rebuilt from scratch, xAI launched Grok Build, AlphaEvolve hit TPU silicon, and Canvas leaked…

May 16 • Jia Wei Ng

Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs blaming agentic AI

GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based billing, Uber torched its 2026 AI budget on Claude Code, Vercel open-sourced deepsec, and 732 bytes got root on…

May 9 • Jia Wei Ng

ICYMI April 2026: Anthropic spent the month rugpulling

GitHub broke all month, Tim Cook stepped down at $4T, GPT-5.5 met DeepSeek V4, Microsoft and OpenAI redrew the deal, Sam Altman's house got Molotov'd…

May 2 • Jia Wei Ng

GitHub silently reverted merged PRs

Microsoft and OpenAI redrew their partnership, Google poured $40B into Anthropic, China killed Meta's $2B deal, Stripe's CLI now replaces your backend…

May 1 • Jia Wei Ng

Update Night isn't one thing anymore

Back from a year off. The new shape, the mission, and what ships in May

May 1 • Jia Wei Ng

June 2025

AI emails FBI over $2 fee

iOS 26, Apple AI lawsuit, threaten AI for better results, $1B agent facade, WhatsApp for iPad, AI 2027, DeepSeek R1 update, the new best on device model…

Jun 4, 2025 • Jia Wei Ng

May 2025

We might have reached AGI

And we'll never know — it won't arrive with an “aha”

May 27, 2025 • Jia Wei Ng

Why progress is often invisible

May 26, 2025 • Jia Wei Ng

Valve brain chip rolling out this year

Apple Chief Designer joins OpenAI, Claude 4 blackmails engineer, Copilot, Edit & WSL open source, v0 model, text diffusion model from Google and $5k AI…

May 25, 2025 • Jia Wei Ng

Be a 10 at One Thing

The power of focus in a world of noise

May 18, 2025 • Jia Wei Ng

LLMs have a hidden motive

An unexpected new database, Airbnb now offers more services & self evolving intelligence.

May 17, 2025 • Jia Wei Ng

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