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OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie
A randomized trial with 52 developers found AI assistance lowered comprehension scores, except when used for explanations rather than delegation.
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
"A Ramsey-style Problem on Hypergraphs" — a problem from FrontierMath: Open Problems, Epoch AI's benchmark of unsolved research mathematics.
The viral claim that Anthropic loses $5,000 per Claude Code subscriber doesn't survive basic scrutiny. Let's do the actual maths.
It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.
Can ChatGPT replace translators? A freelance translator shares a funny Ottawa story about AI translation, professional judgment and why human expertise still matters.
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will…
Claude formally proved security properties in the compiled code of 123 open-source libraries. Along the way, it found bugs that had eluded detection for years.
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
How I built a queryable video archive locally on a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max using Gemma 4 31B in LM Studio. The build journey, the absurdity of 50GB of swap, and four bugs that taught real lessons.
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Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and then thinks those messages come from the user. This is categorically distinct from hallucinations or missing permissions.
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.
In the past few months the MetaBrainz team has been fighting a battle against unscrupulous AI companies ignoring common courtesies (such as robots.txt) and scraping the Internet in order to build up their AI models . Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of…
The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.
The latest update of Firefox, version 148, introduces a much-anticipated "AI kill switch" feature, allowing users to disable AI functionalities such as chatbot prompts…
Today we're releasing Bonsai Image 4B, compact 1-bit and ternary diffusion models built on FLUX.2 Klein 4B that run image generation on laptops and phones.
We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.
Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.
For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model …
One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:
Why I believe the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a better architectural pattern than the emerging “Skills” trend for LLM tool integration.
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear alge…
