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Lena Hoffmann

Covers startups, venture funding and the European tech scene from Berlin.

Automation was supposed to end the labeling industry. Instead the work got harder, more specialised and better paid.

Lena Hoffmann November 4, 2026 1 min read

Dozens of competing orchestration libraries have collapsed into three serious options. Developers finally get to stop rewriting glue code.

Lena Hoffmann November 4, 2026 1 min read

Reinforcement learning from human feedback made assistants polite. It also made them hedge, flatter and over-explain.

Lena Hoffmann November 3, 2026 1 min read

Accelerators are finally available. The grid connections to run them are not.

Lena Hoffmann November 2, 2026 1 min read

Bootcamps and universities are rewriting curricula around tools that write most of the boilerplate.

Lena Hoffmann November 1, 2026 1 min read

Theorem provers, planners and rule engines are being bolted onto language models, and the combination is beating either alone.

Lena Hoffmann October 30, 2026 1 min read

Rust components now ship in mainstream operating systems, and the bug counts tell the story.

Lena Hoffmann October 23, 2026 1 min read

Investors have decided that breaches are inevitable and are backing the companies that help afterwards.

Lena Hoffmann October 14, 2026 1 min read

The first consumer notebooks on the open instruction set ship with working Linux and a long list of caveats.

Lena Hoffmann October 10, 2026 1 min read

Demand from accelerators ate the supply, and the fabs that could help are years from opening.

Lena Hoffmann October 7, 2026 1 min read

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