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You know how I said yesterday that my feed is littered with people just making stuff up? We didn’t have 71% of Americans opposed to cell phones. Or ipods. Or laptops. We *do* have 71% of Americans opp

arXiv:2605.15333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have recently reached near-parity with classical planners on well-known planning domains, yet this competence relies on world-know

A lot of the discussion of the good and bad of phones on society is really a discussion about the end of boredom. Boredom makes people seek out things to do. That has both good & bad effects: research

a new era of hackathons: 2005→ look what i built with web search 2016 → can you build a rails app in 24 hrs? 2025 → spin up a CX bot with Claude in 5 min 2026 → train your own model over a weekend hap

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of t

Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy—a cancer treatment—as a way to reset the immune system in lupus, Graves' disease and other autoimmune conditions where the body's defenses malfunction. The t

Also a great example of positive contribution to open source by wanderingmeow - you don't need to contribute code to have a positive impact, just providing detailed feedback and confirmation that some

The Information: Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The d

And, yes, our experiments used a mix of GPT-4 & GPT-4o (publishing takes awhile). I think we would see much larger results with more recent models, let alone recent agentic tools. 'The Cybernetic Team

Appreciate it when the AI doomer crowd occasionally lets the mask slip a little (Allen is a co-founder of the anti-AI group Humans First and frequent guest on conservative podcasts pushing, uh, Unabom

b9191 is a llama.cpp release that includes refactoring of CLI flags and environment variables, renaming 'webui' references to 'ui' with backward compatibility maintained, and updates to C++ server int

b9192 is a llama.cpp release that refactored CLI interface terminology, renaming webui flags to ui flags (--webui → --ui) with backward compatibility, and updated environment variables and C++ struct

B9193 is a llama.cpp release that refactors the webui component, renaming CLI flags from --webui to --ui with backward compatibility and updating environment variables, preprocessor defines, and C++ s

b9196 is a llama.cpp release that includes refactoring of CLI flags and environment variables, renaming 'webui' references to 'ui' with backward compatibility maintained . The release contains updates

b9197 is a build release of llama.cpp , an open-source C/C++ implementation that enables efficient large language model inference on various hardware platforms. The release includes cross-platform bin

Basically every political instinct I had when I was a lib in 2015 ended up being completely wrong. Even in 2020, even after 4 years of being disabused of all sorts of bad ideas, all my remaining lib a

Gary Marcus draws a historical parallel between Bernie Madoff's claimed 16.3% annual returns (which proved to be a Ponzi scheme) and Sam Altman's promised 17.5% returns, warning that similarly implaus

🚨Breaking new study: memory in LLM agents still can’t really be trusted, even after over trillion dollars has gone into the development of the field. Excited to share our new paper: “Useful Memories B

This post outlines a development roadmap for an AI agent system, prioritizing initial version building with internal testing (dogfooding), implementing tracing and observability for data collection, a

@cerebras IPO'd this week 🔥🔥🔥 More people reached out to me in the last few days is somehow higher than on my birthdays!!! Many thanks to every single one of you. In one of my first conversations at C

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in o

Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating — AI is swiftly rewir

ComfyUI-DramaBox is a custom node implementation of ResembleAI's expressive text-to-speech system built on the LTX-2.3 audio diffusion transformer. The recent update adds support for LoRAs and integra

The aiDotEngineer Singapore conference, organized by speakers including Agrim Singh and Swyx, successfully concluded, marking the completion of the first edition of this AI engineering-focused event i

“Data centers create economic activity, especially in directly related sectors and during construction, and they are associated with larger county-level income aggregates. They also raise electricity

A vulnerability in DeepSeek's website exposed a significant amount of data, including user chats. A publicly accessible ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database ope

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chi

doomers and AI fans love hearing “it’s over” - but @scaling01 really should have noted that the below refers to a domain specific benchmark (exploitbench) rather than general purpose AI. also note the

Elon Musk argues that reusable rocket technology is fundamental to establishing a multiplanet civilization, drawing a parallel to how ocean colonization would have been impossible without reusable shi

As artificial intelligence agents become more powerful, agentic AI governance becomes increasingly important – and yet, today’s governance solutions struggle to keep AI agents from going off the rails

This post reflects on how Pixar films resonate differently with adults, particularly uncles, compared to children, suggesting that mature viewers gain deeper emotional appreciation for themes of respo

Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions — Fast16 didn't p

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: Filings: in Q1, Trump traded 220M-750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news — President Donald Trump

finally lecun says something i haven’t been saying all along for years too bad it’s wrong, and he is back on the hype train. Yann LeCun says that within a year to 18 months, we'll have a general metho

For most of human history, women did not experience children as some rare interruptions to adult life. Babies were everywhere, in arms, on hips, asleep in slings, playing under tables while bread was

ChatGPT restricts creating images in the style of artists whose latest work was created after 1912 , which means requests for images in Frank Frazetta's style generally succeed since Frazetta complete

FSD V14.3.3 is a banger Tesla FSD V14.3.3 just started rolling out, and it comes with the Spring Update! Actually Smart Summon’s top speed has also been increased to 8 mph (from 6 mph)! Downloading it

G4-MeroMero-31B-uncensored-heretic is a fine-tuned variant of Gemma 4 31B optimized for creative tasks, featuring low KL divergence (0.0100) and minimal refusals (15/100). The model is designed to be

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in res

Gemini for Science is a collection of science tools and experiments designed to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration , including tools to help scientists explore more hypotheses, v

Yohei Nakajima shared a personal post about having a good day watching the Super Mario Galaxy movie and dining at Din Tai Fung restaurant with children. The post appears to be a casual social media up

GPT-5.5 Pro faces its hardest academic challenge: to apply the technique from a paper analyzing which word pairs were funny & why to come up with its own It came up with scrotum snorkel, tuba subpoena

The Hacker News: Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay — Grafana has disclosed that an “unautho

Grok Build is improving like lightning Update on my experience Grok Build. The team at @xai made an update, while I was sleeping, and I can already see the difference. Yesterday, I couldn't get Grok B

Harness profiles! https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/deepagents/profiles I like what Langchain recently released in their deepagents harness, which is an adapter to modify the syntax of primitive f