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ComfyUI announced a 30 million fundraising round at a 500 million valuation, with Co-founder and CEO Yoland Yan participating in a discussion with The Block on X at 12:40pm PT to discuss the funding a

ComfyUI announced a $30 million funding round to support scaling and development of its open-source node-based UI platform for AI image generation. The funding will likely be used to expand infrastruc

Aroon Deep / The Hindu: Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers — India is now part of a

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

This is where we are right now. And i’m not gonna lie it feels pretty magical 🧚‍♀️ Qwen3.6 27B running inside of Pi coding agent via Llama.cpp on the MacBook Pro For non-trivial tasks on the @huggingf

Ethan Mollick discusses the phenomenon of users entering deeply immersive, flow-like states while intensely interacting with advanced AI models, suggesting the need for better terminology to describe

This is a hypothetical discussion thread from r/ChatGPT exploring the absurd scenario of replacing all Earth's water with lemon-flavored ice tea, likely featuring creative speculation about biological

1. We believe in iterative deployment; although GPT-5.5 is already a smart model, we expect rapid improvements. Iterative deployment is a big part of our safety strategy; we believe the world will be

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

GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually

ai researchers rocket scientists 🤝 managing burn https://x.com/shyamalanadkat/status/2047419602267988344?s=46 researchers will start giving an ai a vague hunch, compute budget, and access to tools; it

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals 27B or 400K+ per worker — Tens of thousan

LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse, which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entirely in the browser, us

GPT-5.5 may not be in the official OpenAI API... but it's available via the apparently approved-of Codex API backdoor So I used that to make these pelicans (default and xhigh)! https://simonwillison.n

A Pareto improvement (or Pareto advance) is an economic concept where a change benefits at least one person without making anyone worse off. Swyx's post likely celebrates or discusses this economic pr

I had a great chat with a friend of mine, a middle-aged gay man who left Seattle after the 2020 riots made the city he called home for thirty years “unlivable.” He’s traditionally voted Democrat but a

In ChatGPT, full-stack inference improvements enable a more capable model at faster speed. This efficiency is a game-changer for GPT-5.5 Pro, now a much more practical option for demanding tasks, and

'The pessimistic professor...can predict anything he wants, for if his prophecies don't come true now, just wait: failure could be just around the corner, or else his voice of reason has prevented the

Things have been degrading super fast in Claude Code. I still use Claude Code, but my default is now Codex. I still prefer Opus models for coding, and so I will try again with the fixes. I appreciate

This post shows the #ET30 Class of 2026 (likely a cohort of emerging entrepreneurs or innovators) at the Nasdaq in Times Square, with Jerry Liu inviting followers to identify who in the photo inspires

tldr: claude code changed some harness settings which degraded perf. these small harness tweaks can matter a lot! 1. default reasoning high -> medium 2. bug that accidentally evicted thinking blocks o

Apparently my blog is mostly about token pricing now, here are some notes on the big changes GitHub Copilot just announced, including pausing new signups entirely https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22

As far as I can tell this tweet buried in a thread is currently the ONLY official confirmation that this potential pricing change won't affect existing Pro subscribers When we do land on something, if

arXiv:2604.19211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI agent frameworks have made remarkable progress in automating individual tasks, yet all existing systems serve a single user. Human productivi

To act at the speed of business, AI agents must operate in fast and trusted reasoning loops. They need to “think” by reasoning across both your historical context and your live operational reality. On

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, lawsuits, government filings, essays) will break. 🚨New pre

Excited to gather a group of technical builders Tuesday May 12 at @cognition's beautiful SF rooftop Join us for a Q&A with @ScottWu46 & Cognition employees on scaling up AI agents within F500 companie

'Funny and distressingly realistic...propelled by awesome characters and inventive twists”— @andyweirauthor Silicon Valley invents the time machine in my upcoming book PARADOX INC, now available for p

Had a great conversation with @swyx on @latentspacepod about what we're building at @Shopify. SimGym, Tangent, our approach to PR review at 30% month-on-month merge growth and why larger models are ch

arXiv:2509.21080v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Advancements in Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a variety of downstream applications like story and interview script generation. How

In the early days of generative AI, building safe and reliable business tools took massive engineering effort and a high tolerance for trial and error. We helped solve that with Vertex AI, our trusted

Introducing Race to Revenue. Follow real founders around the world for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build and launch products live on camera. But whose app will prove itself with cold, hard rev

jesus h christ that seed round https://x.com/msg/status/2046735581661872575?s=20 @SpaceX @cursor_ai Cursor funding rounds 📈 • Seed (Oct ’23): 8M • A (Aug ’24): 60M @ ~400M • B (Jan ’25): 105M @ 2.6B •

The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastruct

Team @Shopify brought some fire to this one; add this to the growing list of “WTF happened in Dec 2025” charts (this plots token usage across all the technical staff of shopify - the whole time they h

arXiv:2603.20897v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The strong and continuous increase of AI-based services leads to the steady proliferation of AI data centres worldwide with the unavoidable es

The Never Ending Lore of Harness w/@Vtrivedy10⚡️ Viv brought some amazing perspective around harness design, evals, file systems, RL Envs and so much. 0:00:00 - INTRO 0:03:30 - PhD at Temple Universit

There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some som

Vibe coders are not going to like this. UC San Diego just published the first real field study of experienced developers using AI agents. They watched 13 of them code in the wild and surveyed 99 more.

Succeeding in the agentic era requires a transformation in your data strategy: moving from human-scale to agent-first workloads, evolving from reactive intelligence to proactive action, and shifting f

From vibe-coded and large-scale apps to AI models and agents, Cloud Run delivers on-demand compute with zero overhead and pay-per-use pricing for all of your workloads. Last year, the number of extern

Ethan Mollick discusses the concept of 'setting time on fire'—wasting time on unproductive activities—and explores the temptation to do so, drawing on arguments he originally published two years prior

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Marc Andreessen just revealed the Elon Musk philosophy that completely broke his brain: 'The best product in the world shouldn't even need a logo.' We all

APIs and limited releases for AI models are not a safety policy, they’re a business model (which is totally ok as long as you’re transparent about it). Especially on cyber-security, they give a false

arXiv:2511.03180v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) gain traction across South Asia, their alignment with local ethical norms, particularly for Bengali, sp

do not miss. one of the INSANE gets courtesy of @osanseviero and the @GoogleDeepMind london avengers. if you always felt out of the loop on the SOTA on Imagegen, today or otherwise, this is the best 4