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Some sober thinking about Mythos (full version with links at my newsletter): 1It’s probably not as bad as they say, as AI and cybersecurity expert @HeidyKhlaaf explains elsewhere (in a thread “As some

Started a Substack & will post X articles too! I think its a good thing to put out more policies for discussion & @WillManidis did a great policy on the politics The math though is... not great and I

.@steipete has been an amazing supporter of open models and local models. This is even before the rise of OpenClaw. 🦞 Ollama is here to love. ❤️ Let's make the world a better place together. Some folk

Strong release! GLM-5.1 is a DeepSeek-V3.2-like architecture (including MLA and DeepSeek Sparse Attention) but with more layers. And the benchmarks look better throughout! Looks like THE flagship open

SWE-1.6 is lightning fast! Here's what 950 tok/s feels like - available in Windsurf today. Media We’re releasing SWE-1.6, our best model in both intelligence & model UX. SWE-1.6 matches our Preview mo

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulner

The EU deep state is telling us (via state-owned media and Soros-funded NGOs) that Telegram is a PROBLEM because people can discuss content from OTHER social media in PRIVATE telegram groups. This non

The feature I most want from AI labs right now is documentation on which underlying search engines they use when their chat tools run a search OpenAI and Anthropic and Meta AI all have search and I ha

The new Anthropic managed agents API is basically the Letta API that we've had since a year ago, but closed source and with provider lock-in. They even have read-only memory blocks and memory block sh

The new model from Meta is already looking like a disappointment: overoptimized for public benchmark numbers at the detriment of everything else. Knowing how to evaluate models in a way that correlate

Enterprise revenue now accounts for more than 40% of OpenAI's total revenue and is on track to reach parity with consumer revenue by the end of 2026. The company is observing a key shift in how l...

'The priority for defenders is to start building now: the scaffolds, the pipelines, the maintainer relationships, the integration into development workflows. The models are ready. The question is whet

The queue to get into @mattpocockuk workshop 'AI Coding for real engineers' is around the floor. We're re-translating this workshop to the Gielgud room as well. Matt is starting with a smart zone | du

The scariest part of this is that Anthropic showed some restraint in not releasing a potentially dangerous technology but some of their competitors (such as OpenAI and xAI) might well not. Whether Myt

Perplexity AI has launched the 'Billion Dollar Build,' an eight-week competition inviting founders to use its agentic AI system, Perplexity Computer, to build a company with a path to a $1 billion...

There are no questions anymore about whether AI will change filmmaking and movie making. The only questions still up in the air are how fast and how deep. Steven Soderbergh says his upcoming documenta

This bit isn't exactly wrong, but is misguided - the idea that someone studying cryptography would use the same foundational technique (PKE) and programming language (C / C++) as everyone else in the

this is interesting. 1. Did Anthropic forget to run a control? 2. Where does this leave us? New post: We tested the Mythos showcase vulnerabilities with open models. They recovered similar scoped anal

This is literally why I wrote Taming Silicon Valley. Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: 'AGI will not emerge from a government funded

🇮🇹🇪🇺 This is utterly unacceptable. Reports indicate that Giorgia Meloni is preparing to sideline Roberto Cingolani, CEO of Leonardo, Italy’s largest defence group. The reason? Multiple sources suggest

To anyone who read Rebooting AI back in (checks notes) 2019, this is both hilarious and unsuprising. The field has wasted 7 years on an architecture that can’t solve one of the most basic litmus tests

Replit introduced a **stock analyzer skill** for its AI Agent platform, allowing users to perform stock analysis directly within the Replit environment. Users can activate it by asking the Agent t...

Today, our group at @Mila_Quebec and the lab of @francesarnold at @Caltech just released a new paper I contributed to, exploring how multimodal generative modeling could accelerate protein sciences! ⬇

Today, we are launching our collaboration with @nomic_ai to make AI agents more effectively and efficiently understand complex PDF documents. Nomic's new nomic-layout-v1 model allows your AI agents to

Today we're announcing the Billion Dollar Build. An 8-week competition where teams will use Perplexity Computer to build a company with a path to $1B. Finalists have the opportunity to secure up to $1

Top Community Contributors: @SHL0MS (7 PRs) — p5js creative coding skill, manim-video skill + 5 reference expansions, research-paper-writing, Nous OAuth fix, manim fix @sidbing (3 PRs) — Firecrawl clo

In February 2019, OpenAI announced GPT-2, a language model trained on text from 8 million webpages to predict the next word in a piece of writing, capable of adapting to the style and content of a...

The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is seeking unprecedented access to the medical records of millions of federal workers, retirees, and their families. The proposed re...

Cursor's AI agents platform (accessible at cursor.com/agents) allows developers to run autonomous coding agents that can independently write, modify, test, and review code — triggerable via the web...

Trying to DIY your own document parser by screenshotting into a frontier VLM (Opus, 5.4, Gemini) carries when you try to scale it up into production workflows. Here are two edge cases we've observed:

Nous Research's **Hermes Agent** is an open-source agentic framework by NousResearch that delivers significantly improved reliability when using GPT-5.x or Codex (OpenAI Codex subscription) models ...

Ollama v0.20.4 is a minor patch release published on April 7, 2026, containing two changes: improved Apple Silicon M5 performance via NAX on the MLX backend, and enabled flash attention for the Gem...

On April 8, 2026, Elon Musk reposted a tweet from user @Rainmaker1973 (Massimo) that highlighted the concept of vastly different levels of technology existing simultaneously across human societies....

I was unable to directly access the specific X (Twitter) post or the underlying paper it references, and my general web search did not surface the specific study being discussed. I cannot responsib...

View from @aiDotEngineer Europe today 💂🇬🇧😎 I know, I also couldn't believe this wasn't generated with Nano Banana 🤯 Thanks for the warm welcome, London, and excited for all the great talks and hallway

AI critic Gary Marcus uses the irony of ChatGPT's Voice mode being unable to perform a basic task — starting a timer — as a pointed illustration of the gap between AI industry hype and real-world c...

Want more proof that Anthropic's PR has no idea what it's talking about? The talk of Mythos being 'their most aligned model ever'. They could perhaps truthfully speak about 'new high scores on our ali

We absolutely LOVE local models. Have been talking about this for years, it is my favorite thing. Most people cannot afford luxury AI tokens. Yet, everyone on earth should have a personal AI. The only

We gradually transitioned from a democratic welfare state to full-on race communism between the 1960s and today for two reasons: 1. The beneficiaries of our race laws went from 10 percent of the popul

The specific tweet (status ID 2042004372704424284) could not be retrieved from search results, as it does not appear to be indexed or publicly accessible via web search. The URL references a post b...

We partnered with @Zai_org to bring GLM-5.1 to Modal. Free to try as an endpoint for the next month. GLM-5.1 further improves upon GLM-5's coding abilities and long-horizon effectiveness. Introducing

We’re partnering with @MiniMax_AI across product and models to make their upcoming releases the best for Hermes Agent users. MiniMax models are already some of the most-used in Hermes Agent. If you ha

We're seeing even more autonomous AI coworkers. The new MLE agent on the market is Disarray. In Kaggle competitions, Disarray: - won 28 medals across diverse domains (vision, NLP, tabular data) - plac

we’re thrilled to announce the first wave of sponsors for @aiDotEngineer singapore: @OpenAI , @GoogleDeepMind , @cursor_ai , @Zai_org , @Cloudflare, @vercel , @stripe , @convex - and more coming! chec

What Should We Take From Anthropic’s (possibly) Terrifying New Report on Mythos? – ⁦@garymarcus’s latest @CACMmag⁩ https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/what-should-we-take-from-anthropics-possibly-terrifying

X (formerly Twitter) has fully launched a Grok-powered automatic translation feature that renders posts in any language directly within users' timelines and 'For You' feeds, with translation qualit...