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Look, Another AI Browser
Yesterday, OpenAI announced Atlas, its AI browser. To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a …
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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.
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The security paradox of local LLMs
Local LLMs prioritize privacy over security. Our research reveals a 95% backdoor injection success rate.
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Living Dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
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Starcloud
The NVIDIA Inception startup projects that space-based data centers will offer 10x lower energy costs and reduce the need for energy consumption on Earth.
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Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
On my podcast this week, I took a closer look at OpenAI’s new video generation model, Sora 2, which can turn simple text descriptions into ... Read more
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AI is making us work more
How tools that were supposed to free us up to find meaning work have exacerbated the rat race.
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The AI water issue is fake
On the national, local, and personal level
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Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
Several days ago, DeepSeek released a new OCR paper. OCR, or “optical character recognition”, is the process of converting an image of text — say, a scanned…
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When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
I just got back from a 24hr trip to Los Angeles to catch my favorite Portland Thorns team, watching them clinch their playoff spot in a match at BMO stadium in downtown Los Angeles. In May of 2024, I did the same trip to catch a match on Mother's
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Claude Code on the web
Today, we're introducing Claude Code on the web, a new way to delegate coding tasks directly from your browser. Now in beta as a research preview, you can assign multiple coding tasks to Claude that run on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure, perfect for tackling bug backlogs, routine fixes, or...
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Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code
DeepSeek released a new model yesterday: DeepSeek-OCR, a 6.6GB model fine-tuned specifically for OCR. They released it as model weights that run using PyTorch and CUDA. I got it running …
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Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.
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How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to support my work. Here’s $10 off the first year of annual.
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BERT is just a single text diffusion step
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models …
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Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data
When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used to train the AI contained a disproportionate number of happy white faces, leading it to correlate race with emotional…
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AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there
First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.
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Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?
Skyvern now writes and maintains its own code, making AI scraper building 2.7x cheaper and 2.3x faster. Learn how explore-replay works in June 2026 (Updated).
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OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months
Hello readers! This premium edition features a generous free intro because I like to try and get some of the info out there, but the real indepth stuff is below the cut. Nevertheless, I deeply appreciate anyone subscribing. On Monday I will have my biggest scoop ever, and it'll
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
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Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
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Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, Spec-Kit, and Tessl
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments
I scraped hundreds of Reddit comments that compare Claude Code and Codex, and used Claude Haiku to build a sentiment analysis dashboard. The dashboard and my interpretations are shared here.
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Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
Testing Google's highly anticipated Gemini 3.0 through AI Studio's A/B feature using SVG generation as a quality proxy
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Claude Skills
Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude will only access a skill when it's relevant to the task at hand.
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Codex Is Live in Zed
From the Zed Blog: OpenAI's Codex AI agent is now available in Zed via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
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Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
Tor Browser 15.0a4 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI
We're excited to announce an enhancement to Gemini CLI that makes your workflow more powerful a...