Generative AI as the Hindenberg
Generative AI as the Hindenberg 🦔 Michael Wooldridge, professor of AI at Oxford, is warning that the race to market AI has raised the risk of a 'Hindenburg moment' that could shatter global confidence
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Generative AI as the Hindenberg 🦔 Michael Wooldridge, professor of AI at Oxford, is warning that the race to market AI has raised the risk of a 'Hindenburg moment' that could shatter global confidence
Here's a uv one-liner that downloads and runs the MLX model against a local mp3 file uv run --with mlx-audio python -m mlx_audio.stt.generate --model mlx-community/VibeVoice-ASR-4bit --audio lenny.mp3
Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more
there’s seem to be a ton of confusion about this post. for clarity: The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that
Doomers have made the AI industry much of what it is today, by hyping the narrative. Chamath captured the current state of AI perfectly in his 2025 annual letter 'In testing the most effective messagi
Fieri Iussit https://x.com/emollick/status/1969993499157446943?s=20 My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase 'Fieri Iussit,' which means 'commanded to be made,' a co
Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took jus
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
Since GPT-5.4, we’ve unified Codex and the main model into a single system, so there’s no separate coding line anymore. GPT-5.5 takes this further, with strong gains in agentic coding, computer use, a
Your personal feelings about the competency of government does not change the fact that government is the only entity (and the only one that can claim to represent the will of the people) that can act
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V
Important: it has been confirmed that ChatGPT Images 2.0 added the 'Why are you like this' sign of its own accord https://x.com/scottjla/status/2047545918665449844 @i_am_brennan @simonw Yes, it did! 🤣
Wall Street Journal: Sam Altman apologizes to a Canadian town for not alerting police to the activity of a mass shooting suspect when her ChatGPT account was suspended — Sam Altman said AI company wil
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Swyx predicts that while 2025 focused on AI coding agents performing software development tasks, 2026 will see these agents expand beyond programming to handle diverse tasks across multiple domains. T
Tomorrow live on the show, we have Brandon Middleton, our new Head of Educational Partnerships. He's building what's next for Replit and education. Plus Content Challenge Week 4 winner @rizwanahmedmp4
A lot of institutions and companies won’t die because of AI. They’ll die because of their own internal inability to learn. Someone recently told me that at a big company, legal had to review and appro
Are you coming to @DeepLearningAI AI's AI Dev 26 x SF next week? Our Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Or Dagan, will be giving a talk diving into what our product and R&D teams are doing to automate
Cloud agent infrastructure has a lot of moving parts: VM isolation, session persistence, environment provisioning, orchestration, integrations. Each one is its own engineering challenge. In this post,
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a 72M Series C, following a 23M Series B in 2025 — Cloudsmith, a platform that prote
Kate Park / TechCrunch: Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised 60M in equity and 40M in debt; it raised 310M to date, 160M in equity — The Philippines has
Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as 'vibe working,' the Agent Mode is a more powerful version
The Codex app now includes several new features: GPT-5.5 integration, browser control capabilities, support for Google Sheets and Slides, document and PDF handling, OS-wide dictation functionality, an
Sam Altman praises the inference team's work on efficiently serving a model, suggesting that becoming proficient in AI inference is crucial to the field's progress. The post appears to highlight the t
senpai blogging!! Cursor and SpaceX: In search of a complete loop Quick notes on the deal: - the new AI lab meta of needing to own product and model in coding - why spacex and cursor need each other t
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software bra
This 2 hour lecture by Yann LeCun (Turing Award winner) will teach you why the next trillion dollar AI company won't be built on LLMs. He trashes the $100 Billion LLM race, attacks Musk and Amodei, de
Together AI has launched Delegate, an AI agent designed to handle delegated tasks autonomously, allowing users to assign work and proceed with other activities. The agent appears to be positioned as a
Earlier this month, millions of OpenClaw users woke up to a sweeping mandate: The viral AI agent tool, which this year took the worldwide tech industry by storm, had been severely restricted by Anthro
Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK tribunal rules Microsoft must face a lawsuit alleging it overcharged UK businesses to run Windows Server on cloud services from Amazon, Google, and Alibaba — Microsoft (MSFT.
Application security startup Contrast Security Inc. today announced a new integration that pipes runtime application telemetry from its Application Detection and Response platform directly into Google
As AI inference demand surges and enterprise compute budgets buckle under expanding workloads, x86 efficiency has emerged as one of the most powerful — and underutilized — levers in cloud financial ma
https://x.com/tanayj/status/2046733145446502805?s=46 My read on the structure of this deal: 1. xAI is leveraging Cursor's data / traces to help train a better coding model (both Grok base model and po
A 22-year-old Indian medical student created an AI-generated social media persona named 'Emily Hart' to target MAGA audiences, generating thousands of dollars through merchandise sales and paid subscr
ml-intern by @huggingface is wild 🔥 You drop a high-level prompt (“build the best scientific reasoning model” or “crush healthcare benchmarks”) and this open-source agent does the entire post-training
The fight for the agent control plane is underway — and it might determine who controls enterprise artificial intelligence for the next decade. Google LLC came into Google Cloud Next 2026 with a clear
This thread discusses how advances in AI tooling and accessible models have lowered barriers to entry for startups, enabling small teams to leverage capabilities previously requiring specialized ML ex
Gary Marcus expresses skepticism or concern about an artificial intelligence claim or incident that he finds implausible, suggesting that even young children would recognize the flaw in the reasoning
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Vast Data, which makes software infrastructure for managing large amounts of data with a focus on AI applications, raised a 1B Series F at a 30B valuation — Vast Data announc
Amazon.com Inc. plans to invest up to 25 billion in Anthropic PBC and provide the company with a significant amount of additional computing capacity. The collaboration, which was announced today, buil
NATO is a military and political alliance established in 1949 as a collective defense organization, where member countries commit to mutual defense under Article 5, meaning an attack on one is conside
I came up with a somewhat foolish new benchmark for testing image generation models, to exercise the new ChatGPT Images 2.0: 'Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham
Adobe Inc. today unveiled a new enterprise platform designed to coordinate artificial intelligence agents across marketing, content and customer engagement workflows, as the company seeks to position
💯 agree The AI bubble will burst says economist Ann Pettifor She is Chair of the Political Economy Research Centre's Advisory Board at Goldsmiths, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, a director
Amazon’s AI coding boom is creating a mess. Vibe coding their way to chaos. @GaryMarcus 🦔The internal document was reported by Business Insider. Here’s the link: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-spr
Dwarkesh is not an AGI party bro. He's been pretty diverse in how he seeks alpha from across a wide variety of industries. I enjoy the hell out of a lot of his podcasts. This podcast though, his quest
Important to note: that 3x increase for images is entirely due to Opus 4.7 being able to handle higher resolutions. I tried that again with a 682x318 pixel image and it took 314 tokens with Opus 4.7 a
Simon Willison shared an experience attempting to use X's Community Notes feature to add clarification to his own tweet, experimenting with whether the self-noting functionality would work as intended
Moonshot AI today released Kimi-K2.6, the latest addition to its popular Kimi series of open-source large language models. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup says that the algorithm outperfor
The AI industry insists they can manage the risks of superintelligence, but there are in fact zero widely agreed on or accepted solutions to the problem of how one could even control something vastly
这可能是今年AI圈最清醒的一条推文， Yann LeCun 是当今 AI 领域最有影响力的科学家之一，深度学习三大教父之一，2018 年图灵奖获得者， 他直接怼了Anthropic CEO Dario的著名言论， Dario说未来一到五年，一半的科技法律咨询金融岗位会被彻底干掉。 LeCun说你错了，而且不仅Dario错了，所有的AI实验室CEO 和一众大佬包括Sam Altman，Yoshua
Gary Marcus critiques the assumption that massive financial investment in AI scaling alone can solve fundamental challenges related to common sense reasoning in artificial intelligence systems. The po
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if you are the only one who can build this amazing tech and believe it is super dangerous, it’s very easy: you quit for the sake of humanity. if you are not the only one who can do it, you are definit
“my honest read is that a significant portion of this spending is driven by competitive fear rather than demonstrated returns. Nobody wants to be the company that didn't invest in AI when everyone els
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands — Salesforce
The tensor engine was first implemented inside SN3 (before it was called Lush) in 1992 at Bell Labs by Léon Bottom and me. The naming convention has survived to this day in PyTorch and other libraries
Bloomberg: Hangzhou-based Manycore shares rose 187% early in its Hong Kong debut after raising $156M in its IPO; it is pivoting to selling AI training data to robot makers — Manycore Tech Inc. built a
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“The sharpest drop came from people who used the model for direct answers, not from those who used it more like a hint system, which suggests the real issue is not AI exposure itself but replacing eff