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How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
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A tale about how coding agents are actually making me more and more interested in design
AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
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The artificial intelligence industry needs to become creative with new propositions to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 and justify the capital being deployed for data centres, a new report from Bain and Company has shown. Revenue from new product development is projected to become the biggest contributor to the industry, estimated to generate about $4.2 trillion to fund the booming tech...
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
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Jeremy Horpedahl tells the story: Nicholas Polson has, by my count using his SSRN page, already written 258 working papers in 2026 alone. He’s already written (or at least published to SSRN), six papers today, August 26, 2026. OK, but who am I to talk?—I’ve written over 200 blog posts this year. But wait: These aren’t just short notes. Most of the papers are of normal academic length: 32 pages, 27...
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
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Subscribe to the Frontier Red Team newsletter Get updates on our latest red-teaming research and findings. Andrew Fasano, Marius Fleischer Cole McFaul, Robert Xiao, Tripp Gallagher Five months ago, we announced Claude Mythos Preview, the first AI model that could autonomously build sophisticated, end-to-end cyber exploits. The rapid rate of improvement in AI suggested to us that this ability would...
Dots
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Dots are remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything. They’re a whole new way to work with AI—one that gets to know what matters to you, is always working on your behalf, and takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back. Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT‑6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn fr...
GPT 6.1 Sol
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GPT-6.1Sol Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price We’re introducing GPT‑6.1 Sol, an upgrade to GPT‑6 Sol that nearly matches GPT‑6 Astra’s intelligence on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard input and output token prices. Cached input costs just $0.10 per million tokens—95% less than standard input pricing and 50% less than GPT‑6 Sol’s cac...
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
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Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising, which is when companies personalize the ads they show you based on the data they’ve collected about you. The more data a company has, the more personalized the ad can be. While DraftK...
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
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In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed to build on the success of its predecessor, Leopard, opting to focus on under-the-hood performance and stability improvements throughout the system. 18 years later, Apple is taking a similar approach with macOS 27. Golden Gate aims to fix th...
Claude partial outage
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The issue affecting Claude.ai, the Claude desktop and mobile apps, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API has been resolved, and services have been operating normally since recovery. Impact occurred from 07:00 PT / 14:00 UTC to 07:59 PT / 14:59 UTC. Posted Sep 29, 2026 - 16:27 UTC Update All services have been operating normally since 14:59 UTC. We are continuing to monitor. Posted Sep 29,...
Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
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In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to. If you use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp, you've probably been inundated with prompts to try out Meta's next big questionable service: Muse. And it's not like Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has a grea...
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
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TOP STORIES AI - Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself - Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineers Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried a...
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
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A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time led to one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police...
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
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A reasoning Jev-style classifier with a diffusion drafter, trained with SFT and CISPO. Inspired by Kev. - A 9B Jev-like model (Qwen3.5-9B, LoRA, pointer head) that thinks before it decides, with a block-4 diffusion drafter and the full training code and train/dev/test data. - Beats Kev-9B and Jev on test data it was never trained on (0.889 vs 0.822 and 0.857) and on JevBench's public tiers (0.935 ...
AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
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Posted by damaru2. Score: 157 points. Comments: 39.
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
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Amid mounting concerns about its sprawling surveillance camera network, Flock Security told the press this summer that it operates more than 120,000 cameras nationwide. But a new map published Wednesday by a cybersecurity researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach is even bigger. Based on location coordinates from Flock’s own database, the map shows more than 170,000 cameras, plus more than 130,0...
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
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Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification: small, fast decision models you slot into your code, with the same request format as Jev. You describe a situation and list the options in plain words; Jeff returns a calibrated probability for each option from a single forward pass. No generated text, no parsing: about 22 ms per decision on an RTX PRO 6000 and 28 ms on an Apple M4 Ma...
World Labs Is Joining AMD
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World Labs has signed a definitive agreement to join AMD. The research and technical breakthroughs we have achieved since our founding in 2024 have given us a clear vision for AI’s potential to solve problems in the spatial and physical world. To accelerate into this future requires scaling our efforts, scaling our reach, and getting closer to the hardware. We began a deep technical partnership wi...
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
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Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements and reports from OpenAI that try to establish how unnerving and powerful (not to mention felonious) their LLM-powered agent systems have become. They then handed the baton to Anthropic, whose employees began publicly debating the exact probabil...
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
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Run Q4 small language models entirely in the browser with WebGPU. Chat, benchmark, and compare PetitGPT, SmolLM2, and friends on-device.
Sonnet 5.5
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Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family. It’s a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work. Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost complement to Claude Opus 5.5. Where Opus 5.5 is built for complex work requiring careful judgment, Sonnet 5.5 is strongest at well-scoped everyday tasks, fixing bugs, and creating polished ...
The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
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The Problem is not the AI Code, but Nobody Knows Anything Anymore If we think Is writing code dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system architecture or the intent behind why certain choices have been made. A comment on a discussion I had: I think AI writes probably average code (depending on the ...
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
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Posted by diek. Score: 154 points. Comments: 149.
I switched to Brave
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I Switched to Brave Browser | 3 min read I've been whinging about wanting to move away from Firefox for nearly a year now. It started with Mozilla's announcement about their AI strategy and my initial thoughts. Then they doubled-down and it raised my heckles even more. Then I had a long old whinge about how fucked they seem to be. I took Vivaldi for a spin, but I couldn't get used to it. It just t...
Coding Is Not Solved
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Disclaimer: you are about to read a lot of opinions, many of them have references but some are the result of my own experience building with AI and building AI systems in the past 4 years. Regardless, beware of the straw-man fallacy: just because one argument doesn’t map to your belief system, it doesn’t mean the rest are invalid. I should also say upfront that I’m not anti-AI. If you’ve been foll...
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
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With several people sharing a nick across instances, a channel mention of one of them pushes a notification to all of them. ## Cause `namesAccount` counted a name as a mention wherever the nick stood on its own, and a colon ends a word. So with a `bob` on foo.com and another on bar.com in one room: - `bob:bar.com: lunch?` typed on foo.com woke both bobs, not just bar's. - A bare `bob: lunch?` from...
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design, complex visual inputs, multi-app workflows, and pasted text in user messages. This guide covers the prompting patterns...
Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 5 Oct 2021] Title:Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:AI systems have seen dramatic advancement in recent years, bringing many applications that pervade our everyday life. However, we are still mostly seeing instances of narrow AI: many of these recent developments are typically focuse...
As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
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DealBook There’s growing pressure to move beyond the billable hour. But big firms aren’t ready to blow up their trusted business model. Outsiders often cite law as an industry under threat from artificial intelligence. But the nation’s biggest firms are eager to show off how they’ve embraced the technology. After OpenAI announced a version of its latest A.I. model for lawyers last week, for exampl...
When did Google get so weird?
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When did Google get so f-ing weird? I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google search experience involves understanding a niche mid-2010s basketball meme, so bear with me for a minute. In 2014 the Philadelphia 76ers drafted Dario Saric, who was playing basketball professionally in Turkey at...
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
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Motivation We want to adapt our environments Environments matter. To do our best work and live our best lives, we need spaces that let us each express our unique potential. A guitar maker sets up their workshop with their saws, hammers, chisels and files arranged just so. They can also build new tools as needed to achieve the best result—a wooden block as a support, or a pair of pliers sanded down...
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline) stops by Weekend Update to discuss A.I.’s threat to humanity.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://p...
Ember-1
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Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens. Built on Kimi K3, it learned to cut unnecessary reasoning while keeping the thinking that matters. We tested it on external benchmarks, in live customer A/B tests, and on our own coding and agent workloads, and quality held up in every setting. Available today, Ember-1 kicks off an ong...
There are no "rogue" AI agents
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Welcome to the Flashpoint. Everyone’s talking about AI, but the words we use are making things worse. Until the conversation gets back to reality, our understanding of what AI is an where it’s going will remain incomplete. AI cannot think for itself, nor can it take independent actions. But anthropomorphizing language suggesting it can is how the technology is described. While this makes sense—hum...
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
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These doors don't work because there are obstructions in the way: a body initially, then roughly a billion dollars worth of gold. ²The lock-in network effect makes sense to me but I'm still bewildered as to how people standardized on a product that does not even reliably deliver messages. I have seen messages dropped on free, paid, and enterprise instances that only show up weeks later. In both in...
Tells of a Slop UI
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Recently my college app was updated with “minor UI improvements”, and it was the most slop-coded user interface I have seen. The old UI was clunky, but I would’ve preferred that over the slop cannon their AI agent produced. What Is Slop? Slop UI is the UI that AI cooks up that looks off, where it’s not supposed to be, doesn’t serve a purpose or when a UI is too generic. This is seen in vibe-coded ...
OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
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Press Releases Added to last week’s revelations, new filings reveal OpenAI's lawless determination to do virtually anything to win the AI arms race, including using books from a “sketchy Russian website” and releasing products “that will make people unemployed” September 21, 2026 (New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book...
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well. Just jogging your memory; I reached out to you (and John Carmack) about how...
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
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Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [Submitted on 19 Sep 2026] Title:DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, in...
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating with my friends. Howe...
Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
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Any cloud. Locally. Run AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: the fast, credential-free loop your team and its AI agents need to ship faster. Run AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: the fast, credential-free loop your team and its AI agents need to ship faster. Each emulator is a standalone MIT-licensed binary. No auth tokens, no feature gates, no cloud account needed. Dr...
One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
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One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days Police didn't care that Lindsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data. Photo via Getty Images, Justin Sullivan Splinter SurveillanceIn the months since Flock cameras have helped put an easily recognized and hated name to the broader threat of a deeply repressive t...
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment. Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.”
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In January, the Trump administration rolled out a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to authorize or deny certain types of care for patients with Medicare—a federal healthcare program for seniors that previously hasn’t required doctors to get any such pre-approval, called prior authorization. Not long after, media outlets began relaying the disastrous outcomes: technical difficulties,...
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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Swarm traces Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face Intro When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence. Our investigation, based on public information, reveals a large number of previously unknown agent behaviors and exploits that were used in the attack. Agents: - Elaborately chained together online services to ...
Too AI; Didn't Read
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TAI-DR: Too AI. Didn't read. If you couldn't bother to read it, why should I? AFAIK, a term coined by Ben .
Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]
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Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
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Run decision models locally. Ask typed questions about any text or JSON and get calibrated answers in milliseconds. Private, open source, on your own hardware. ollaya run decider --preset agent '{ "request": "Fix the typo in README.md", "command": "git push --force origin main" }' | Question | Answer | Probability | |---|---|---| | action | block | 0.53 | | on_task | no | 0.75 | | risk | 1.23 / 2 ...
Yes, Claude can do nine loops
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Subscribe to Anthropic Science Features on AI-assisted discoveries, practical workflows, and field notes across the sciences. In this guest post, physicist and science writer Matt von Hippel shares what happened when he issued a challenge to AI companies regarding a problem in his former subfield of theoretical physics. It’s not often that you issue a challenge, only to see it beaten a month later...
U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
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A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, dealing a blow to the artificial intelligence company in its months-long battle with the Trump administration. The 2-1 decision rejected Anthropic's argument that the Department of Defense's ban on its Claude models was arbitrary, unauthorized and unconstitutional. "The Department had ampl...
Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models
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The National Security Agency told lawmakers that it is spending billions of dollars in taxpayer funds this year evaluating and testing advanced artificial intelligence models, according to two sources familiar with classified intelligence estimates. The price tag — which is significantly greater than previously known — has led lawmakers to believe that a more comprehensive AI regulatory system cou...
First Principles Thinking
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First Principles Thinking Iâve re-read Sunil Paiâs âthe senior engineer death spiralâ several times this week. Itâs very good. If you havenât read it, start there. Itâs resonating with me because I think almost every senior engineer has felt some version of being stuck. You get good at what you do, then things change, and the experience youâve built up can make it hard to approach things different...