Factory and Cognition fight over a board observer
Factory's Matan Grinberg says he terminated board observer Chris Degnan for talking to Cognition while sitting in board meetings. Degnan says he resigned and never shared anything, and Cognition's CEO says the allegations are not true.
The big disagreement
Factory accuses Cognition of prying, Cognition and Degnan both deny it
Factory's Matan Grinberg said he terminated Chris Degnan as board observer and advisor, claiming Degnan advised Factory on confidential board matters while in recurring talks with Cognition, and that Cognition engineers faked interviews to pry.
I have a lot of respect for what you’ve built, but competing with integrity doesn’t include posts like yours.
How they actually work
Pocock's five word prompt: restate my intent before continuing
Matt Pocock says he has started asking agents to restate his intent before they continue, a five word trim of a longer prompt lauren posted. Hers asks the model to restate in its own words what it thinks her goals are and what problem she is trying to solve.
restate in your own words what you think my goals are and what the problem i'm trying to solve is
Model and agent watch
Gemini 4 Argon ships to trusted testers, Orosz says that is a press release
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon as a frontier model for coding, enterprise knowledge work and cybersecurity defense, rolling out to a set of trusted testers through its Fairwind Program.
Gemini really started shipping press releases instead of products huh