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Issue #142

Startup Signal · Issue #142

Five for your Sunday.

Good morning. A heavy week for AI infrastructure, a small win for open source, and a security story you should read twice. Pour something hot — this'll take eight minutes.

AI · Deep dive

OpenAI ships its first dedicated coding model — and it's chasing Anthropic.

The benchmarks look strong, the price is aggressive, and developers we spoke to say it's the first OpenAI release in a year that feels like a direct response to Claude.

Hardware · Review

Apple's M5 MacBook Pro is the first laptop that doesn't need a pro reason.

Battery for days. Silence under load. And finally, a screen that earns its name. We've been testing it for three weeks.

Security · Investigation

Inside the npm supply-chain attack that almost reached every JavaScript app.

Three packages. Forty hours. One maintainer's very bad week. The full story of how it was spotted before it shipped to production.

Startups · Funding

A two-person team raised $40M to rebuild Postgres on top of Rust.

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