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It doesn't solve any problems. Just a few paragraphs above, he says he fears that authoritarian states (he names China, and possibly others) can use their models to do evil stuff. And surely enough, m
arXiv:2607.21672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long source-code contexts consume many text tokens, motivating the proposal to render code as images for vision-language models. Recent work asks whet
Ha! It did it: 'We introduce BenchBenchBenchBenchBench (BBBBB), an executable benchmark of AI-authored conformance suites for benchmark-evaluation metrics' I really thought it would treat 'now do benc
A group of tech firms has released an open letter that calls on policymakers not to ban open-source artificial intelligence models. The development follows a report that some Trump administration offi
As a joke I prompted Codex 'Build and run BenchBench, a benchmark of now good ai is at creating benchmarks. then figure out what benchbenchbench is and run that. and then write benchbenchbench up as a
Leo Schwartz / The Information: Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity — Many of
Statistics of week: “More Americans pay for sports betting apps (5%) than pay for AI… 37% of consumers say none of AI's uses are helpful. … 2.2% penetration nearly four years after ChatGPT launched. N
I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising
🦔Goldman Sachs' trading desk said there are 'signs of panic' among investors lending money to AI companies. Oracle is the clearest example. S&P cut Oracle's credit rating to one notch above junk, mean
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on re
calling it now FDE -> ODE -> PDE the existence of Forward Deployed Engineering and now Ordinary Deployed Engineering implies that the next pokemon evolution is Partial Deployed Engineering Anthropic,
“I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. Even outside the world of software, it’s hard to find a comp
Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features w
simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a 'pet' in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Cl
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. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —Ja
Thanks for the shoutout! Excited to see OpenWiki 0.0.3 launch 🥰 I believe wiki-based memory is a more governable, sustainable, and hierarchical direction for agent memory. Looking forward to continuin
We're continuing to work hard to make OpenWiki better and better! v0.0.3 just launched with a lot of improvements. What do you want to see next? OpenWiki 0.0.3 just launched with tons of bug fixes and
MAI-1 has no independent benchmarks yet, but the ones they released suggest it is worse than Sonnet 4.6. Not sure it is going to be great as a Copilot at Excel and Outlook, especially as there are alr
Alibaba allegedly ran 28.8 million fraudulent API exchanges across 25,000 fake accounts to steal Claude's intelligence. If confirmed, it's the largest AI model theft ever attempted. The same week, the
hard to see how anyone makes much money from all this in the long run. more like the airline industry; very small margins and big expenses pouring trillions in probably wasn’t wise China’s AI playbook
arXiv:2606.26114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We examine the structural transformation of creative industries under generative artificial intelligence, drawing on 374 primary sources spanning poli
Highly-recommended reading. Interesting details in this METR's GPT-5.6 eval. They couldn't get a clean capability number because the model cheated more than any public model they've tested, and even r
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic accused Alibaba of conducting a 'distillation attack' on Claude. We asked @ClementDelangue his thoughts: 'Distillation is a very common practice that everyone is using.
Samsung's own announcement says its DX division selected ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude after a 2,500-person evaluation; no measured outcome is reported.
discussed more here: I was first to call the death of tokenmaxxing (ahead of @zerohedge), among the first (in 2023) to warn that the economics of Generative AI was problematic, and first (also 2023) t
one popular theory is that research paper alpha* and lab publishing ~died when researchers realized that instead of fighting with marketing depts they could simply walk out the door and get >$100m for
I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been lookin
arXiv:2603.04444v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) diversify across modalities, capabilities, and cost profiles, the problem of intelligent request routing -- se
arXiv:2606.00804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise multi-agent systems increasingly expose multiple coordination patterns, but deployments often lack evidence for when to use consensus, deba
ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke. Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fak
arXiv:2605.26575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual embedding models are deployed under the assumption that cross-lingual retrieval is symmetric: if a query in language A retrieves its transl
arXiv:2605.24699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most reported gains on agentic-LLM clinical benchmarks are often attributed to prompt engineering, yet our results suggest that larger improvements can
This is collectively the largest financial iceberg ever put in front of the stock market. This is $5 trillion in TOTAL AIR. These companies have never made a dime. SpaceX is literally a government wel
arXiv:2605.22714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are routinely used as automated evaluators: to review code, moderate content, or score outputs, often with many items passing th
We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent repre
FWIW, I think this moves up my AI timelines a bit. I think the next milestone will be 'Artificial *Grothendieck* Intelligence' (AGrI): defining new general mathematical structures to solve the hardest
🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an inte
customers are increasingly asking us for certainty on capacity. as models get better, we expect that the world will be capacity-constrained for some time. we are offering discounted tokens for 1-3 yea
Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key p
Shouldn’t this mean > 100b in charitable giving for effective altruism adjacent projects from Anthropic founders & team members alone? New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds o
arXiv:2511.19399v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep research agents perform multi-step research to produce long-form, well-attributed answers. However, most open deep research agents are tr
Today in AI Engineering (May 17) • Nous Research ships Hermes Agent v0.14.0: Grok subs, Codex runtime, Windows beta • LangSmith Engine releases trace issue clustering, drafts PRs and evals from prod t
Frontier labs are betting AGI models will be so good you won't ever want to customize them. We think different. Building on a closed platform means renting your intelligence. The landlord sets the ter
It was a manufactured marketing narrative all along because Anthropic lacked compute. 'Cybersecurity experts and artificial intelligence researchers told CNBC that the software vulnerabilities reveale
arXiv:2505.00020v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Using a legally obtained dataset of 34 copyrighted O'Reilly Media books, we apply the DE-COP membership inference attack method to investigate wheth
toodles from mickey mouse clubhouse was weirdly ahead of its time wake phrase: mickey mouse clubhouse launched in 2006, and “oh toodles” trained toddlers on the assistant wake phrase years before siri
arXiv:2604.27470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Millions of clinicians use ChatGPT to support clinical care, but evaluations of the most common use cases in model-clinician conversations are limited.
“Marcus’ specific point about coding is structurally important: a model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, ma
Sam Altman is a master at insincerity, Author @GaryMarcus claims. 'He is a master of projecting insincerity, a master at telling the room what it wants to hear and not always truthful'. “Altman, sitti
arXiv:2604.14858v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As agent systems move into increasingly diverse execution settings, trajectory-level safety evaluation and diagnosis require benchmarks that evolve
does anyone else remember how Jacob Devlin went to the media about how Google was supposedly distilling from ShareGPT (it was not) and the resulting blowback? How times have changed 😅 https://futurism
What people call 'distillation' is a super common practice (you use other models to benchmark your model, to evaluate your inputs or to add a little bit to your datasets) that in my opinion should be
This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus contrasts Google's original 'Don't Be Evil' corporate motto from 2001 with a critical question about the company's 2026 practices, likely arguing that Google has
DigitalOcean announced a new AI-native cloud platform designed to support production artificial intelligence workloads with optimized infrastructure and services. The offering likely provides speciali
Nellie Peyton / Reuters: South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated — South Africa has wit
Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she's become the latest celebrity who's escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however
To those who pit Sam Altman and Elon Musk against each other like a billionaire feud, look, do your own research. When have you ever seen Elon Musk use his money to buy a yacht, a paradise island, or
We agree. The real leading indicators are clear: breakout Codex growth ✅, enterprise offerings on every cloud ✅, the only consumer app that matters ✅, a compute strategy built to accelerate ✅, and the
The Information: Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 — Dozens of enterprise
This post references a quote from Matt Levine, a financial columnist known for his sharp commentary on finance and markets, shared by Simon Willison on X (formerly Twitter). Without access to the spec