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OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
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OpenAI on Thursday announced it will begin rolling out its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company said is the product of "years of research and big bets." CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that Astra was a "new capability level" and has changed his workflows. He said he expects "a boom of entrepreneurship, of creativity, of economic growth, of scientific discovery." The model ...
K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open
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Today IFM is releasing K2 Horizon, a connected fleet of six models: 375B-A23B, 36B-A4B, 32B, 7B, 3.7B, and 0.9B. Across reasoning, mathematics, coding, agentic tasks, and general capabilities, K2 Horizon delivers top-tier performance in every size classâwith the 0.9B, 3.7B, and 7B models setting new state of the art at their respective scales. K2 Horizon is also our most comprehensive open release...
Grok outage
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Service Status No incidents declared We are not actively mitigating any known incidents at this time. Live service data This section below shows live data exported from our monitoring system. It indicates our service health even if no incidents have been declared. Endpoint Source eu-west-1.api.x.ai us-east-1.api.x.ai us-west-2.api.x.ai eu-west-1 us-east-1 us-west-2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...
Codex outage
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- Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 18.6k unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: ... #28756 Description EDIT: To everyone here, the solution was actually reasonably simple, just follow these instructions. What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)? 26.611.617...
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
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Over 100,000,000,000 people have ever lived. Choose one. You'll draw, step by step: a year, a place, a life, each taken at random from real data. When were they born? Almost everyone who ever lived was born recently, because population grew exponentially, so a random birth is far more likely to fall near the present. years before present · (log scale) Where in the world? Brighter clusters held mor...
ChatGPT outage – Resolved
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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
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In 1993, in Baghdad, I built a game called Babylonian Twins on an Amiga 500: 512KB of RAM, no hard drive, plugged into a TV. I was an engineering student in my twenties. Pure 68000 assembly, every sprite and every scanline by hand. Murtadha Salman drew the art and Mahir AlSalman composed the music. We were under sanctions. No internet, no game development resources, just one copy of the Amiga Hard...
Claude outage – Resolved
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The issue affecting Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 has been resolved. Impact has ended as of 9:16 PT / 16:16 UTC. Posted Sep 03, 2026 - 16:23 UTC Monitoring A fix has been deployed for Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 and we are monitoring for recovery. Posted Sep 03, 2026 - 16:06 UTC Update The only affected models right now are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5. T...
Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face
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I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Over the past decade, Clem, Julien, Thomas and the team at Hugging Face have built something remarkable: a vibrant home for the open model developer community. Mo...
Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
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Antigravity's terms of services make it crystal clear that if they determine you use Antigravity in a way they suspect is eg third-party usage (eg use OpenClaw), they can suspend your Google account. One reason to NOT use Antigravity. I'm not taking this risk, sorry. I don't think people understand just how risky it is to try and use their Google Gemini subscriptions outside of Google's official s...
Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
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16-Year-Olds Win Google Science Fair With a Simple but Brilliant Food Hack Irish high school student Émer Hickey was gardening with her mom when she observed wartlike nodules on a pea plant. She later learned that the swellings contained something that could cut back our dependence on chemical fertilizers and mitigate world hunger: bacteria. But not just any bacteria. Hickey and fellow 16-year-old...
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
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Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo in historic human victory The world’s top Go player notches a 2-1 comeback win against the most powerful Go engine, raising hope for human intellect in the AI era 5 2026-07-21 15:02:25 Artificial intelligence Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, on Tuesday completed a dramatic comeback against the world’s premier artificial intelligence Go engine, K...
METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
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Dates in scope: June 26th – July 13th Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions. Two METR staff members (Hjalmar Wijk and Ajeya Cotra) and a Redwood Research staff member contracting with METR (Ryan Greenblatt) worked on premises at OpenAI over a total of six days1 to attempt to form an i...
Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools
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Supported by New York City Bans A.I. in Elementary and Middle Schools A new policy announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using artificial intelligence, but stops short of a moratorium. When New York City public schoolchildren return to the classroom next week, younger students will be barred from using artificial intelligence. No individual screens will be allowed unt...
Fable 5.1 World Modeling
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Worlds via code. Explorable, browser-native reconstructions of real places — researched, modelled, and quality-checked end to end by autonomous Claude Fable 5.1 agent swarms, then shipped as plain Three.js apps you can run with npm run dev . No game engine. No proprietary 3D tiles. Every building, storefront, sign, tree and traffic light is generated from open data and public reference imagery by ...
Muse Spark 1.3
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Muse Spark 1.3 is trained for agentic workflows and optimized for competitive coding performance. Developers can expect higher first-attempt accuracy and reliable tool calling. Muse Spark 1.3 tracks context and prior results, works through messy or conflicting inputs, and asks for input when needed. Competitive coding performance Tuned for long-horizon coding workflows, with fewer unnecessary turn...
I Don't Have a Smartphone
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I Don’t Have a Smartphone… by Ploum on 2026-09-02 …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install their app or restaurants wishing that I scan a QR code to access their menu on a small screen. "I don’t have a smartphone" is, according to my experience, the easiest ...
Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
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Rick Brewster Posted Monday at 11:10 PM Posted Monday at 11:10 PM This alpha build is updated to use .NET 11, and contains updated translations, new tiling modes for the new Mosaic effect, and EXTREMELY experimental support for running on WINE/Linux. For more info on the WINE/Linux stuff, go here. You can read more about the 5.2 release and what else it includes by reading the release notes for th...
Exit the Cave
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There’s something romantic about the Cave. About grinding away at something in private. About training with headphones on in our own little world. About stepping away for six months to emerge “unrecognizable” to all those people we imagine thinking about us. This masculine urge to “grind” seems to be gaining popularity. It reminds me of an incredible Under Armour ad for Michael Phelps’s iconic ret...
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
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Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people. We asked two web-grounded models for the best products in 380 software categories and kept every U...
Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero
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AISLE Discovered Six curl CVEs After OpenAI and Anthropic Found Zero Author Stanislav Fort Date Published AISLE discovered six curl CVEs within days of OpenAI Codex Security and Anthropic Mythos reporting zero findings in curl, software deployed across more than 20 billion instances worldwide. On August 24, 2026, curl founder Daniel Stenberg wrote that only three CVEs were pending for the next rel...
Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier
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In certain cases, your input and output data (such as conversations, documents, and other user-provided content) may be included in Mistral’s model training programs. 🔑 You retain full control over this processing and have the right to opt out of these programs at any time. The opt-out process depends on the service or platform used, as described below. Opt out of Vibe data training (via the Admin...
Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
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Quasar 438B is our flagship reasoning model, built for enterprise-scale agents and coding. It is the first large model Multiverse Computing has released, it runs in English and Spanish, and it scores 43 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest result of any European model in the field. The Intelligence Index v4.1.1 combines nine evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, τ³-Banking, Terminal-Ben...
The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
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Computer Science > Computation and Language [Submitted on 30 Aug 2026] Title:The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of symbols, such as logical for...
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
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A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity a...
My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
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I run a local LLM server on my M4 Pro Mac mini with 48 GB of RAM. It handles everything from my Hermes agent backend to quick chat queries on my phone. The whole thing takes about 30 minutes to set up. Here is the stack: - Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit: my main model for anything that needs reasoning or depth - Gemma-4-E4B-it-OptiQ-4bit: lightweight model for simple chats, formatting, and other routi...
Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
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Apple has filed a new document in its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI as it continues to push for expedited discovery. In today’s filing, Apple says that it has new “shocking evidence” based on early forensic inspection of a laptop used by former engineer Chang Liu. Apple first filed the lawsuit in July, accusing ex-employees of stealing trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI. It moved for a preli...
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
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1st September 2026 I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime , including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice open source office ...
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
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in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions Futurists made, including well-respected folks like Kurzweil and found them to be generally wrong on both the prediction results as well as the reasoning. On the flip side, in 2015, I wrote about how people were underestimating AI's ability to displace humans in jobs and have repeatedly been on the record as saying that many people are underestima...
The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
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East River Source Control Names Jujutsu Creator Martin von Zweigbergk Chief Technology Officer by East River Source Control NEW YORK (September 1, 2026), FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE East River Source Control has appointed Martin von Zweigbergk, creator of the Jujutsu version control system, as chief technology officer, to lead engineering on the companyâs next generation version control platforms. von Z...
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
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World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave, and evolve so that we can render imagined worlds for creative users, simulate the real world in high fidelity, and help robots plan actions. At World Labs, we build these general purpose world models in pursuit of spatial intelligence. Today we are introducing Atlas, our next-generation ...
Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
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Movie Scene Map is a free interactive map of 15,565 real filming locations in 166 countries: the studios, castles, streets and landscapes where films and television series were shot. Pan and zoom the map above, click any point for a photograph and the productions shot there, or open a place’s page for everything filmed in it. Beside the 9,287 films and series with a page of their own sit 2,153 vid...
EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
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The history of technology is rife with copyright panics. In the 1980s, major rightsholders ran to Congress and the courts, claiming that videotape recorders (VTR) were “to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” Then, the Supreme Court declined to embrace the hype, noting that the VTR was capable of all kinds of non-infringing uses, l...
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
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My wife loves listening to the birds and identifying them using an app on her phone. I thought I'd take this a step further and see if there was something that can identify the birds based on their song. Looking around I found BirdNet and BirdNet-Go, then discovered you can run this on Docker and use the security cameras you already have outside to identify the birds. Awesome! So I took 3 of the c...
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference
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Before rendering a report or dashboard artifact, call validate_artifact with the complete manifest and bounded snapshot. Official description & argument declaration Before rendering a report or dashboard artifact, call validate_artifact with the complete manifest and bounded snapshot. Fix validation errors there first; do not use render_artifact as an iterative validator because failed render atte...
Agent memory as a file format
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Agent memory as a file format Memoryfields - a vastly simpler way to do agent memory Many model benchmarks start from a blank context window. The tabula rasa of AI. To some extent, this makes sense, to keep the benchmarks fair. But real agents should never start from a blank context window. They should start with as much relevant information available to the agent as possible. Your AI agents shoul...
OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before
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OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before Written by Releases . on inOpenShot 4.0 has arrived, bringing some of the biggest creative workflow upgrades in our history. You can now record your screen, webcam, microphone, and system audio directly into a project. You can correct and grade footage with color wheels, curves, LUTs, and professional video scopes. You can also isolate subjec...
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success rate using a small sample size. This is interesting because a third-party evaluation commissioned by Anthropic showed a 0.00% prompt injection attack success rate for Opus 5 in Auto Mode. Auto Mode Is Now ...
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
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Today we released by far the largest update in the history of OpenClaw. It was built by 933 contributors, including 569 first-time contributors, and is composed of over 16,000 pull requests. You can read the full release notes HERE. This update touches every part of OpenClaw, including installation, messaging, memory, skills, models, automations, the browser and native apps, plugins, security, and...
Understanding ChatGPT Work
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Understanding ChatGPT Work 30th August 2026 OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one that runs in the cloud. This can be accessed via chatgpt.co...
How to build a diffusion language model
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An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material is adapted from workshop talks and lectures at ICLR 2026 and MLSS 2026. Two famili...
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
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Lorne Trottier was born on the 15th of June in 1948 in Montréal. Trottier describes himself as a space and science geek, and he’s had a lifelong interest and passion in both space and electronics. In particular, Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight on the 5th of May in 1961 and Apollo 11 in July of 1969 made a lasting impact on him. He attended Baron Byng High School and McGill University. He attained...
The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
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By Invitation | Disturbing dynamics The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change If it is affecting circulation patterns that determine how and where anticyclones form, it could accelerate alarmingly, warns Tim Palmer |5 min read THE WEATHER this summer in southern England, where I live, has been brutal: exceptional heatwaves and record-breaking spells without rain. Tracks have bu...
Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
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An emoji flipbook presentation by Alex Komoroske about how dysfunctional organizational dyanmics arise even when individuals are well-behaved
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
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Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root A security issue in Omarchy’s default Docker configuration meant that essentially every program running in the user’s desktop session could escalate to root without a password, sudo , or a privilege prompt. If you use Omarchy, the most important takeaway is simple: update to 4.0.1. I reported this issue privately through the project’s responsible-disc...
METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
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Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen its alignment, training, supervision, infrastructure and incident response. Mostly it confirmed what we already knew. The questions we most wanted answers to, that we did not already know, were mostly not answered...
Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
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Preflight Checklist Problem Statement Every commit message and PR description created by Claude Code automatically includes a session URL at the bottom (e.g. https://claude.ai/code/session_...). There is no opt-in prompt, no warning, and no mention of it during onboarding. Users only discover it after it's already polluting their git history. Proposed Solution Make the session URL attribution opt-...
No AI Fridays
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No AI Fridays Why? Study after study shows that using LLMs can cause you to accumulate cognitive debt, make you less engaged with your work, negatively impact your critical thinking abilities, and hamper your skill formation. Constant use of AI creates blind spots. When we offload decision-making, we become unaware of the trade-offs. You can use No AI Fridays to assess what's actually happening an...
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
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Many thanks especially to Oak Hu, who paired with me for most of the writing, and also to Adam Kaufman and Alex Mallen, who paired with me during parts of research. Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. Al...
Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview
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Ranked among the top tier of open-source models, Hy4 preview is built for real-world productivity tasks, delivering outstanding performance across coding, office work, and scientific research Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens. It demonstrate...