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<p>As a fun personal project, I have been working on a chatbot for answering general questions about my household on anything from maintenance questions to doctor’s appointments. </p> <p> The general idea is that the chatbot will get its household knowledge through RAG from querying a vector database, but for better…
Anthropic’s belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government.
Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase — arxiv papers, competing forks, other backends — produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster.
A Visual Guide to RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, and Calibration, with Hands-On Experiments on Accuracy and Efficiency
By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)
A medical professional built a patient management app using AI, exposed all patient data unprotected to the internet, and sent voice recordings to AI services without consent. Likely violating Swiss nDSG and other laws.
Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing your contributions to your followers via the activity feed and by signalling contributions per day on the activity graph…
AI agents write code faster than anyone can read it. What engineers still need: fundamentals, breadth, and the willingness to dive in when it breaks.
AlphaProof Code agents wrote over three million lines of machine-checked proof in Lean to verify the core cryptographic protections in Signal down to machine instructions.
Back in 2022 and 2023 there were two big branches of machine learning happening at Meta1. The LLM work that led to Llama was a clean, smooth stack of repeated Transformer modules; the recommendatio…
Frontier image quality with the customization and speed of open weights: 5.6B parameters, first in text-to-image, multi-reference generation and editing.
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
Your favourite ROP gadget
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea
Meet the RNGD Server, delivering scalable, energy-efficient AI inference at data center scale with FuriosaAI’s Renegade accelerator platform.
A vṛtta (meter) aware śloka-to-chant system for Sanskrit. Try the live demo, hear sample chants, read the paper.
A comprehensive guide to 113 production-informed patterns for building reliable AI agents.
[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 ab…
TL;DR Introduction I first encountered the chatbot as a normal Eurostar customer while planning a trip. When it opened, it clearly told me that “the answers in this chatbot are generated by AI”, which is good disclosure but immediately raised my curiosity about how it worked and what its limits were. Eurostar…
How different adoption models drive better applications
As we scale and bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to more people across the globe, we continue to refine the Waymo experience and deliver more for our riders. You spoke, and we listened to how we can offer an even more elevated experience for you, our top riders. Introducing: Waymo Premier.
Blue41 helps regulated organizations monitor AI agent behavior, detect manipulation and misuse, and prove that sensitive workflows stay within safe boundaries.
The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool over the last year or so has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experienced developers and new developers alike. But there are trade-offs.
MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity.
My AI nuclear simulation is out now, and it's a WOPR.
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
I shared this internally at Meta in response to a deluge of clout-chasing posts celebrating PMs landing prod diffs. The response was positive and the message generalizes, so here we are on the open www. PMs shouldn’t waste time landing … Continue reading →
