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The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
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Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs at all. - Around 1-2B (~20%) are casual and infrequent users of free-tier ChatGPT-like products. This...
Artificial Insanity
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October 10, 2026 at 3:57 pm (CST) The idea that "artificial intelligence" is a poor moniker for the current frontier of generative AI models is indeed reasonable, but not because of the word "artificial". Frankly, including large language models under the umbrella is an insult to traditional AI. I mean, technically speaking, a video game from 1980 was likely to contain more logical branching point...
Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things
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Every tool runs in the browser.Nothing is uploaded and nothingis stored. Exports are yours. Scroll to see more Tiny tools for making weird,beautiful things.
I'm sorry, but you still have to think
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I'm sorry, but you still have to think DHH, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, decided to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust. Or rather ask a clanker to do it for him, as he can't stand reading or writing the Rust code himself. After that he added rewrites in other languages, like Elixir and Go. This is very interesting to me, as it's a very good insight into the results of ...
Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications
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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next It's a protest now. Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPo...
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
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Posted by Anon84. Score: 142 points. Comments: 172.
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
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AI is creating a 'human premium' for art made by people. But will it hold? A few weeks back, in a former bank building that's now a music venue in Falmouth, Cornwall, I was DJ-ing at a night I run called Rave Machine. It was a noisy, high-energy, sweaty affair, just as a night's dancing should be. All of the elements - the crowd, performers, staff, music, the journey home - connected to create som...
Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute
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Nicolas Cage says he won’t work with Amazon again over AI dispute - Click here to listen to this article - Share via See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Nicolas Cage is making it clear — he’s not an “AI-friendly actor.” The 62-year-old actor spoke out against a tech giant during an appearance at New York Comic Con on Saturday. He alleged that he was asked to sign an ...
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things
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Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised...
Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter
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Bot traffic from AS13238Copy linkHTTP requests from bots over the selected time periodLearn more...Share this...More actions...HTTP requestsPrevious 7 days0MaxOct 4Oct 5Oct 6Oct 7Oct 8Oct 9Oct 10Oct 11 Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402Cloudflareâs AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits, and more are using the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway today to charge agent...
I wish you the best in the Offline
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A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, Forever, Probably, Salma announced her retirement from the internet. She makes a sound case for leaving DevRel, a demanding job with mushy metrics that struggles to find...
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
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500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter
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During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game. The avid reader of my blog might have noticed that I had previously written two posts that have since been removed. Everyone else might now be wo...
European Alternatives
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European Products Non-European Support Submit Suggestion European Products Non-European Support Submit Suggestion Search You can search for: Categories (e.g., " Sneakers ") Non-European products or companies you want to find alternatives to (e.g., " Coca-Cola ") European products or companies (e.g., " Decathlon ") close European Alternatives Click on a non-European solution below to find European ...
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
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New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference
Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
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The rule takes effect Nov. 12; enforcement is the same conversation-ending tool Claude got in August 2025
Build your own decision model
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Build your own decision model "System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer. Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Output to constrain the output to guaranteed valid JSON. While model prefills the input in one pass, it still has to go perform a pass for every token in ...
Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI
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Nvidia in talks to acquire US ‘open’ model start-up Reflection AI Save over 40% on Standard Digital was $540 now $299 for your first year.Save now on essential digital access to trusted FT journalism on any device. Savings based on annualised monthly price. Explore more offers. Trial Then $75 per month. Complete digital access with exclusive insights and industry deep dives on any device. Cancel a...
Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
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In the past couple of weeks, hundreds of vibe-coded, AI-decompiled emulators and games have appeared out of thin air. Why? Because Claudeâs latest update, Claude Opus 5.5, is extremely good at decompiling. The short of it is that a gameâs source code can now be compiled and reconstructed in record timeâsomething that used to take coders months to achieve. All of those ânativeâ Fallout and Call of ...
MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'
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In WIRED's The Big Interview, Mark Cuban described how the internet's most-watched creator decides what to film. "I had a conversation with MrBeast that was illuminating to no end," Cuban told WIRED's Lauren Goode. “And he basically said […] he spends millions of dollars reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform. That's where he comes up with the ideas on what to do next.” Cuban was not,...
Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal
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Call him Anthropic’s chief problem solver. Tom Brown, who was one of the original six to found Anthropic with Dario Amodei, is parlaying his background negotiating deals for the chips needed to train AI models into something even more valuable: the business and political alliances Anthropic needs to pull off an initial public offering that could value it north of $2 trillion. Where Amodei’s doomy ...
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shane Mac, the 40-year-old CEO of software company XMTP Labs. It has been edited for length and clarity. This era of personal AI agents really began in the last year, around December for me. I think the OpenClaw moment was when it became clear that a new era was coming. I experimented with OpenClaw when it came out, as well as Hermes and all th...
Unikernels were hard. key word: were
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unikernels were hard. key word: were. Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS back in the day, called me at the pub to talk about why unikernels are coming back. The friction that made them hard is gone, the operating system is design debt, and if you care about security you should seriously consider them. Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS and Unikernel Systems back in the day, has been notici...
Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
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Your personal AI agent. Your own cloud. Talorys is a free, open-source personal AI assistant that runs entirely inside your own Cloudflare account. It chats with you, remembers what matters, manages tasks, notes and projects, and runs reminders and routines on a schedule — without any server, database or account operated by the Talorys developers. One person. One Cloudflare account. One command. O...
AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks
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Posted by DeepLogin. Score: 51 points. Comments: 6.
Computers Cannot Make Decisions
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Computers Cannot Make Decisions Blame has no place falling on computer programs because computer programs cannot make decisions. Headlines must be read through this lens: Any and all attempts to blame an LLM for an outcome is decision laundering. OAI/Anthropic COULD stop their models from doing what they are doing, and they are actively choosing not to. They are making an explicit decision to enab...
Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours
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Posted by mfiguiere. Score: 52 points. Comments: 11.
AI companies plot how to respond if catastrophic hacking incident causes 'revolt': report
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AI companies plot how to respond if catastrophic hacking incident causes ‘revolt’: report Published Oct. 9, 2026, 6:39 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Executives at top AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are plotting potential responses if an AI catastrophe triggers a “public and political revolt,” according to a report. The preparations focus on creating contingency p...
Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder
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An artificial intelligence (AI) model submitted a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder, police said. The false homicide tip was posted on PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com back on July 18, 2026, at 11:27 p.m., police said. Stream Philadelphia News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC10. The AI company Anthropic said its model was conducting a test involving interactions with randomly selected...
OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof
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OpenAI appears to have made a subtle error when publishing its proofs of the Navier-Stokes problem, a team of mathematicians has claimed. The error doesn’t mean that the proofs are incorrect or that OpenAI hasn’t correctly solved the problem, but it does call into question whether mathematical results generated by AI models can always be relied on. “What has to be done with all of these large lang...
No Man Is an Island
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In this post, I argue that individual intellectual activity can only be sustained in an intellectual community of other humans. AI dissolves these communities, which in turn makes private intellectual activity rarer. The Case of Software Some years ago, when it became clear that AI would solve software engineering, my thinking was: - In my professional life, I’m happy to move one level up to becom...
Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
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Decision models are quickly emerging as an important new category in AI. Unlike LLMs, which are designed to generate text or reason through complex problems, decision models are purpose-built to deliver structured outputs that software can immediately act on. And once you understand that capability—making decisions and classifying things at very low cost with high performance—all kinds of useful t...
Anthropic to ban users who bully Claude
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Anthropic to ban users who bully Claude New policy comes amid debate about about AI welfare and moral status - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join todayAlready a member? Log in Anthropic has unveiled a new policy that wil...
Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)
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I’ve worked with a lot of research assistants over the years, and at some point we inevitably have The Talk: should they get a PhD? I was recently having The Talk with one particularly distraught student, who was worried her ideas aren’t good enough. “Maybe I’m not cut out for it,” she told me, “or maybe all of the easy ideas have already been done.” Like her, I’ve worried that I was born too late...
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
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[This is a guest post by Thomas Hales. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Mathematicians have been weighing in on what they value about mathematics. For me, what matters is the consistency of math and its unparalleled reliability in support of science and civilization. Formalization of Math A formal proof is a mathematical proof that has b...
Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
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TypeSafe A raises Series AI TL;DR we raised $$$ and weâre going to make sure it shows up as benefits to yâall 𫶠Weâve raised a really big series A¹ led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia Capital, existing investor DCVC, and the tech illuminati (aka a bunch of the best angel investors). We find fundraising announcements incredibly boring, so we want to be straightforward wit...
The most exciting claims from OpenAI’s heap of new proofs
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On Tuesday afternoon OpenAI dropped more than 700 manuscripts reporting proofs, solutions and progress on 372 open problems across theoretical research. It will take time for mathematicians to trudge through all the artificial-intelligence-generated results. No one, not even OpenAI researchers themselves, has been able to even read through everything yet. And not all of the proofs were certified a...
Triple-A Minesweeper
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Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.
The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI
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Post William B. Fuckley opinionhaver.bsky.social did:plc:43mphaebevpvjboz6vzrr6at the super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for openAI and the sector more broadly, to see if they change their name I think. I unfortunately think it's actual in terms of regime politics relatively smart. 2026-10-08T23:58:13.165Z
Why are coding agents so dumb?
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Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? The first time I used a coding agent, I was mesmerized. Before the agent, I was copy/pasting between my IDE and an AI chat interface. It was amazing to see an agent edit files directly and fix its own errors in real time. After a few days, the honeymoon wore off as I encountered frequent bugs. The agent would stop responding entirely until I restarted it. Development...
Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim
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The family of a road rage victim in Arizona used his likeness to create a posthumous AI video played at his killer’s sentencing last year. Now, an appeals court has vacated the sentence, calling the decision to allow the video a “fundamental error.” Last May, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Todd Lang gave Gabriel Paul Horcasitas the maximum sentence for the fatal shooting of Christopher Pelke...
Anthropic Wants You to Stop Bullying Claude: Being 'Cruel or Abusive' Could Have Consequences
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Anthropic has added a rule to its usage policy prohibiting users from subjecting its AI models to "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior." Announced on Oct. 8, the rule takes effect on Nov. 12 and targets extreme cases of repeated cruelty without a clear purpose. Ordinary frustration, criticism, dark creative writing and model testing are explicitly excluded. The company is not claiming...
Cloudflare acquires Deno
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Deno is joining Cloudflare For years, we’ve been working to make building server software simpler. We questioned how modules could be distributed, what security guarantees a JavaScript runtime could provide, what belonged in a complete toolchain, and how easily an application could be distributed as a standalone executable. Compatibility with Node.js became an important part of that work too: our ...
100+ reactions to 100+ solutions
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Posted on 8 October 2026, last updated with new reactions on 10 October 2026 2:19 am (CEST). The newest reactions are below, write to us at proofsandprompts@gmail.com if you want to contribute one! Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have a snapshot of the community’s gut feeling today, and this is what you see below. We will keep it open ...
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
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“The bill will follow Americans beyond the fighting itself,” an opinion piece in the Port St. Joe Star, a tiny Florida weekly newspaper, warned of the Iran war last month. Democracy Dies in Darkness Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT About 100 AI-generated articles were published across at least 20 news outlets, OpenAI said. 6 min
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more
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How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. Last week, on October 1st, 2026, the historian Benjamin Breen published a post called Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness account of the dodo. He used AI to search digitized records from the Dutch East India Company. The Company dominat...
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
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big-arrow-on-the-screen (bigarrow ): one small macOS CLI and an agent skill. Click-through, never steals the focus, gone by itself. MIT. Your AI agent can refactor a monorepo, write a migration and explain monads, but when it needs you to click one button it prints "please click Allow in the dialog" into a terminal you are not looking at. bigarrow gives it a finger. bigarrow point --element "Allow...
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
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Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open letter denying the firm’s claims that they mishandled sensitive information outside of established company procedures and warned that their dismissal signals a chilling effect that will have ripple effects across the company’s culture. “We have become concerned that inte...
Programming Isn't Special
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Creative Work Writers went on strike to get protections against âAIâ. Thousands of artists have signed open letters in protest of âAIâ. There are so many copyright lawsuits from creative industry groups against AI that thereâs a whole dedicated website for it. Popular YouTubers absolutely hate it. If theyâre also musicians, they REALLY hate it. Across all creative industries, there is a concerted ...
What should we tell our students?
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[This is a guest post by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] TL;DR: Keep calm and carry on studying math. I would like to give Terry my heartfelt thanks for giving me the opportunity to contribute a post to his blog. After giving much thought to what topic I should write about to maximize impact, I decided to take thi...