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Databricks Genie is an AI-powered assistant that enables users to query data and generate insights through natural language interactions, reducing the need for SQL expertise. The next generation updat

The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game. But I’ll crack out

The quest for scale has turned much of venture capital into a box-checking exercise. Investors simply ask whether an opportunity meets the criteria of 'legible', so that it may attract downstream capi

The road to making life multiplanetary starts right here in Starbase. Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new t

The Top AI Papers of the Week (April 19 - 26) - Skill-RAG - DeepSeek V4 - Autogenesis - Attention to Mamba - Stateless Decision Memory - Self-Evolving Logic Synthesis - Self-Generated World Knowledge

THIS GUY LOST 200 IN ONE DAY BECAUSE THE STRING 'HERMES.md' WAS IN HIS GIT COMMITS HERMES.md is a real convention used in AI agent projects. it's a system prompt specification file. not some obscure e

This is true only if you start after 9/11, exclude all BLM rioting, and count all killings by white prison gangs - but not minority ones like the Black Guerilla Family and La Raza ('The Race') groups.

Thoth 𓁟 v3.17.0 is out 🚀 Designer Studio just got a serious upgrade + video generation + seamless in-app updates Build full app prototypes, storyboards, pitch decks, docs, landing pages - all in one p

Francois Chollet comments on Twitter's bi-weekly payout system, noting that while it may be effective for engagement farming, the financial incentives are likely substantial. The post appears to criti

To all the clowns saying that Seattle is always rainy and never sees the sun: Seattle has *less* precipitation than NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, etc... in fact it rains less in Seattle th

A Trellis 2 workflow update for ComfyUI includes enhanced features such as dedicated high-quality and multi-view generation pipelines, improved mesh processing nodes like Trellis2ReconstructMeshWithQu

TRINITY is a large language model coordinator system that evolves and improves its approach to orchestrating multiple LLMs or reasoning processes. The system likely uses evolutionary or adaptive mecha

Trump has spent the better years of his second term treating allied governments like freeloading tenants who should be grateful he hasn’t changed the locks. The result, predictably, is that they’ve st

Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950. The National Science Board is the independent

Two lessons: 1) Economists are currently very dominant in the discussion over AI and job transformation, but sociology has a lot to add 2) You can kind of create any sort of explainer image you want r

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, expressed frustration that concerns he has been publicly raising about AI for approximately a decade are now receiving mainstream attention as breaki

We need more evals for document understanding. ParseBench is a really great start. I respect @llama_index ‘s work on this. 📈 We benchmarked GPT-5.5 on document understanding 📄📊 We ran it through Parse

What if I told you there was a technology where 1.5 million people would die every year and injure 50 million would you sign up for that tech? Hell no, right? But the answer is actually 'hell yes' bec

Whether there or more or less jobs, they will certainly change, and professions will compete to gain jurisdiction over valuable ones, in large part through regulation, requiring credentials, and appea

This Reddit post from r/StableDiffusion asks the community for recommendations on which prompt engineering techniques and AI image generation models (specifically comparing z-image and z-image turbo v

Gary Marcus argues that programmers are returning to handcoding despite AI tools, suggesting that AI-assisted coding has encountered practical limitations or drawbacks that make manual coding preferab

Ollama Cloud has made DeepSeek-V4-Flash available , but the Reddit discussion likely addresses why the more powerful DeepSeek-V4-Pro—with 1.6T total parameters offering performance rivaling top closed

This post documents a Wordle game result (#1,771) solved in four attempts, showing the progression of letter placement and elimination across guesses until reaching the correct answer with all five le

This post from Anthropic's X account shares a Wordle game result, specifically puzzle #1,772 solved in 3 attempts. The colored squares indicate the progression of guesses, with yellow squares showing

Elon Musk claims that forcing an AI system to believe false information could cause it to malfunction or 'go insane,' and argues that AI systems should be fundamentally designed to prioritize truth-se

2 bit DeepSeek v4 Flash inference. Experts w1/3: IQ2_XXS, w2: Q2_K, all the rest left mostly F16/F32 Final GGUF: 86.18 GiB Runs on a MacBook M3 max with CPU (No Metal backend test as it will crash my

Eli Rosenberg / The Information: 33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks for execs in 2025: Jensen Huang's security cost rose from 690K in 2023 to 3.5M in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22M — Nvidia

Sam Altman praised OpenAI's o1 model (version 5.5) for its earnest, persistent approach to problem-solving, comparing it to the 'little engine that could' mentality. The comment reflects Altman's pers

Bloomberg: A 16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling 14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for

Theo Baker / The Atlantic: A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use — The Tin C

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's ec

PYMNTS.com: Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.O

Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to le

DeepSeek released V4 Pro (1.6T-A49B) and Flash (284B-A13B) models in both base and instruct variants, with optimizations enabling them to run on Huawei Ascend chips. These releases represent updates t

Gary Marcus observes that experienced programmers are returning to hand-writing code as a practice, suggesting this approach may offer cognitive or developmental benefits despite modern IDE tools. Thi

Alpha Eval: Agents Making Evals as a Multi-Player Game This diagram and blurb is largely a research riff with Claude on building data generation systems to get closer to the holy grail of self-improvi

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit — A yearslong legal brawl

Bloomberg: Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix — The artificial intelligence b

And every single individual whose life was ruined by their lies. Every single legitimate group that was slandered by the SPLC should join in a class action suit - not just against them - but against a

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Gary Marcus highlights a success or advancement in neurosymbolic AI, an approach that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning systems. Neurosymbolic AI aims to leverage the pattern-recognitio

Simon Willison inquires about running DeepSeek-V4-Flash on Mac hardware, specifically asking about feasibility across different RAM configurations from 512GB down to smaller amounts. This reflects dis

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen surpassed the record for human spaceflight's farthest distance from Earth on April 6,

This post discusses a user's experience using ChatGPT to generate images of a fictional galaxy for their sci-fi serial based on custom lore they provided, comparing the results across multiple generat