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LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
8 min read
LLMs can potentially function like compilers by translating high-level instructions into executable code. However, there are concerns that relying solely on LLMs may lead to a lack of understanding of the underlying code.
I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
2 min read
In 2024, Apple partnered with Taboola to display ads in the Apple News app. Users report that these ads resemble typical Taboola chumbox ads and are often repetitive.
TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
4 min read
European Union regulators have accused TikTok of promoting "addictive design" through its infinite scroll and personalized algorithm, which they claim leads to compulsive behavior, particularly among children. The EU is pushing for changes to address these concerns regarding the app's impact on users.
US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
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US immigration processes are described as operating on the easiest setting in a piece titled "Luxury Kafka." The content includes various topics such as whisky PCs, steampunk gadgets, and the role of MLMs as organizers in a mirror-world context.
A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
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A new bill in New York requires news organizations to label AI-generated content and mandates human review before publication. The legislation, named The New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act (NY FAIR News Act), was introduced by Senator Patricia Fahy and Assemblymember Nily Rozic.
Systems Thinking
10 min read
Software development can follow two main philosophies: gradually evolving complexity over time or creating a comprehensive specification before building. This reflects differing mindsets, such as that of an entrepreneur versus traditional approaches to project management.
Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025
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Volkswagen surpassed Tesla in sales of fully-electric cars in Europe in 2025, according to data from JATO Dynamics. Volkswagen's battery electric vehicle sales increased by 56% due to strong demand for the new ID.7, while Tesla's registrations fell by 27%.
It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
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Postgres is recommended as a versatile database solution for modern applications, particularly in the AI era. The discussion emphasizes the hidden costs and complexities of using specialized databases compared to the benefits of a unified Postgres stack.
Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo
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Pro and Max users can receive a limited-time promotion of $50 in extra usage with the launch of Claude Opus 4.6. Eligibility requires a subscription started before February 4, 2026, and enabling extra usage before February 16, 2026; Team, Enterprise, and API/Console users are excluded.
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
12 min read
Multiple Claude instances can work in parallel on a shared codebase without human intervention, using a method called "agent teams." Sixteen agents were tasked with creating a Rust-based C compiler capable of compiling the Linux kernel from scratch.
My AI Adoption Journey
12 min read
Adopting new tools often involves three phases: a period of inefficiency, followed by a period of adequacy, and finally a phase of significant workflow improvement and discovery. Initial resistance to adopting new tools is common due to existing comfort with current workflows.
Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
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Flock CEO has labeled Deflock a "terrorist organization." This statement reflects ongoing tensions between the two entities.
Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
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Anthropic's newest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, has identified over 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with minimal prompting. This advancement demonstrates the potential of AI tools to enhance cybersecurity defenses.
Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
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Frontier large language models, including ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini, are being utilized for mental health support addressing issues like anxiety, trauma, and self-worth. Research indicates that these models may exhibit internal conflicts when subjected to psychometric evaluations.
GPT-5.3-Codex
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GPT-5.3-Codex is a new coding model that combines improved coding performance and enhanced reasoning capabilities, operating 25% faster than its predecessor, GPT-5.2-Codex. This model is designed to handle long-running tasks involving research, tool use, and complex execution, allowing for interactive steering and collaboration.
Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days
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Claude Opus 4.6 features significant advancements in AI models' cybersecurity capabilities. Experts believe the current moment is critical for accelerating the defensive use of AI in response to the increasing risk of LLM-discovered zero-day vulnerabilities.
Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
15 min read
Agent teams in Claude Code enable coordination among multiple instances, with one session acting as the team lead to assign tasks and synthesize results. To enable this feature, add CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS to your settings.json or environment, noting that there are limitations regarding session resumption, task coordination, and shutdown behavior.
Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6
6 min read
Claude Opus 4.6 enhances AI capabilities for finance teams by providing improved reasoning for complex analyses and delivering cleaner first-pass outputs. New tools are designed to align with the tasks analysts typically engage in, facilitating better decision-making.
Claude Opus 4.6
14 min read
Claude Opus 4.6 upgrades coding skills with enhanced planning, longer task sustainability, and improved reliability in larger codebases. It features better code review and debugging capabilities, along with a 1M token context window in beta, enabling it to handle a variety of everyday work tasks.
Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data
21 min read
Hypernetworks extend traditional neural networks to effectively handle hierarchical data, acknowledging that real-world data often consists of multiple distinct datasets rather than a single flat mapping. This method allows for the modeling of variations in observations, such as those seen in clinical trials across different hospitals, where hidden parameters influence outcomes.
OpenAI Frontier
8 min read
AI has enabled 75% of enterprise workers to accomplish tasks previously deemed impossible. A major manufacturer reduced production optimization work from six weeks to one day using AI solutions.
Company as Code
10 min read
Organisations increasingly rely on interconnected digital systems for operations, yet many still manage their core policies and procedures through traditional documentation. The concept of "Company as Code" suggests rethinking organisational structures to align with digital practices.
Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
7 min read
OpenClaw's agent skills provide extensive access to files, tools, browsers, and terminals, creating potential vulnerabilities. The system's long-term memory feature can capture user behavior, increasing the risk of exploitation.
The Missing Layer
8 min read
Vibe coding requires managing multiple agents for tasks like code generation, refactoring, validation, testing, and documentation, which can be cumbersome and costly in terms of token usage. Many experienced developers prefer not to use vibe coding for projects they intend to extend or maintain.
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
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Female workers in India, like Monsumi Murmu, are employed to watch and analyze hours of abusive content to train AI systems. This work often exposes them to disturbing and traumatic material, impacting their mental well-being.
Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
6 min read
🐈 nanobot is an ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant that delivers core agent functionality in approximately 4,000 lines of code, making it 99% smaller than Clawdbot's 430,000+ lines. Recent updates include the addition of a Feishu channel, DeepSeek provider, and improved scheduled tasks support, along with multi-provider and Docker support in version 0.1.3.post4.
Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing
3 min read
Valve's Steam Machine launch has been delayed from early 2026 to the first half of the year due to ongoing memory and storage shortages. The company will adjust pricing expectations as soon as possible.
Don't rent the cloud, own instead
8 min read
Comma operates its own data center for model training, metrics, and data storage. Owning a data center offers advantages over cloud solutions, enabling more control and customization.
Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign
2 min read
Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's advertisements for being funny yet dishonest, stating that his company adheres to principles that prevent such deceptive marketing. He expressed skepticism about Anthropic's approach, suggesting it reflects a pattern of doublespeak.
Wirth's Revenge
14 min read
Niklaus Wirth's 1995 essay "A Plea for Lean Software" critiques the software industry's inefficiencies, coining Wirth's Law: software is becoming slower at a rate faster than hardware improves. Wirth reflects on the simplicity of interactive text editors from 25 years prior compared to modern software complexity.
Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads
2 min read
Sam Altman finds Anthropic's ads humorous but questions their honesty. He emphasizes that his company adheres to a principle against deceptive advertising, stating they would never run ads in a similar manner.
OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
4 min read
Mac Minis are experiencing a surge in sales as users purchase them to run AI agents for workflow automation. OpenClaw is an open-source framework that allows users to run AI models like Claude and GPT-5 on these machines.
As Rocks May Think
23 min read
ChatGPT can now construct novel proofs for the Erdős problem, showcasing advancements in AI capabilities. The landscape of AI has significantly evolved since 2022, prompting users to adapt their interactions with technology.
Pinterest CEO fires 'obstructionist' employees who created tool to track layoffs
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Pinterest CEO Bill Ready fired employees who developed an internal tool to track layoffs, labeling their actions as "obstructionist." The company announced plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce and reduce office space.
A real-world benchmark for AI code review
8 min read
Qodo's code review benchmark 1.0 provides a rigorous methodology to objectively measure and validate the performance of AI-powered code review systems. The benchmark addresses limitations in existing methods that rely on backtracking from fix commits.
The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs
4 min read
The Codex desktop app was released recently and is part of a growing trend in integrated development environments (IDEs). The discussion emphasizes the increasing importance of specifications over actual code in software development.
Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
15 min read
The latest Epstein archive released by the DoJ contains uncensored PDFs recreated from raw encoded attachments. Complaints have arisen regarding the censorship of co-conspirators' names and the mishandling of evidence, including unredacted credentials that allowed unauthorized access to Epstein's account.
AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed
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Elon Musk advocates for a future with more robots than people, suggesting that AI should augment human roles rather than replace them. Concerns are raised about the importance of human connection, particularly in caregiving roles, emphasizing the need for emotional bonds in child development.
The Great Unwind
21 min read
Wall Street is experiencing instability due to the unwinding of the Japanese Yen carry trade. Cryptocurrencies have lost 40% of their value, and silver has dropped 40%, a decline not seen since 1980.
Intel will start making GPUs
2 min read
Intel will begin producing graphics processing units (GPUs) to enter a market currently dominated by Nvidia. GPUs are specialized processors used for gaming and training artificial intelligence models, differing from Intel's traditional focus on central processing units (CPUs).
AI is killing B2B SaaS
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AI poses an existential threat to B2B SaaS companies by challenging traditional customer renewal models. Founders and operators are increasingly concerned about maintaining subscription revenue in an AI-dominated landscape.
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022)
36 min read
UC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver argues that cryptocurrency is fundamentally flawed and predicts it will lead to disaster. Recent market events have illustrated significant risks, as the cryptocurrency sector experienced a substantial sell-off.
RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code
3 min read
MaxBittker/rs-sdk is a Runescape automation library designed for coding agents, featuring a TypeScript SDK, agent documentation, and a server emulator. It allows users to automate gameplay, level accounts to maximum levels, and explore agentic development techniques in a controlled environment.
Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
2 min read
Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is facing challenges as it aims to establish itself as a competitor to ChatGPT amid a weakening partnership with OpenAI. Users report confusing brand positioning and interoperability issues, leading to frustration among both users and employees involved in its development.
Voxtral Transcribe 2
5 min read
Voxtral Transcribe 2 features two advanced speech-to-text models, Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications, offering state-of-the-art transcription quality and ultra-low latency. Voxtral Realtime is available as open-weights under the Apache 2.0 license.
Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
2 min read
Self-attention mechanisms in Transformers typically incur costs that increase with context length, leading to higher demands for storage, compute, and energy. A new method using symmetry-aware Taylor approximation aims to maintain constant cost per token for self-attention, potentially alleviating these resource demands.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Coder-Next to rival OpenAI, Anthropic
5 min read
Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight language model designed for coding agents and local development, built on the Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B backbone. It features a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 80 billion total parameters, activating only 3 billion parameters per token to optimize performance and reduce inference costs.
Claude Is a Space to Think
6 min read
Claude is designed to provide a genuinely helpful conversational experience without advertising. The inclusion of ads in interactions with Claude would contradict its intended purpose.
'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company' | CEO Strauss Zelnick says generative AI remains a tool for enabling creators to do bigger and better things
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Take-Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick announced that the company is actively embracing generative AI, shifting from previous skepticism. Take-Two has implemented hundreds of pilots and projects utilizing generative AI to enhance creative processes.
"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours
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Enabled fp8 training for GPT-2 resulted in a 4.3% reduction in training time, bringing it down to 2.91 hours. Using 8XH100 spot instance prices, the cost to reproduce GPT-2 is approximately $20.