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A rolling window of my 100 most recent bookmarks. Bookmarking since 2006: Delicious → Pinboard → Raindrop.
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youtube.com
This Game Was Built Only With AI in 11 Weeks
The guy said he spent two weeks and he was only using Opus x5 which is I think. 100 dollar. He spent two weekly limits but he also said he was not only building the game so was spent over. 30 billion tokens was spent over that time span.
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github.com
gokayfem/shader-skills
A skill that teaches coding agents to write procedural GLSL shaders that compile on the first try and look intentional. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini and others. It pairs a shader-craft workflow with a verified GLSL building-block library : 186 functions across 20 modules, each one compiled in WebGL2 and numerically tested on the GPU.
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Adobe gets destroyed by open source clone: here's the legal trouble I predict into the future
If you apply this to software, a free clone like ArtCraft would stop being free to make. Its maker would owe the original company a fee for every single copy handed out.
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synthanatomy.com
M-VAVE FM-1 Open: the green light for custom firmware and community hacks - SYNTH ANATOMY
In recent weeks, hardware units based on digital code have been hacked, expanded, and rewritten at an intense pace. M-VAVE's move with the FM-1 makes perfect sense and fits seamlessly with the spirit of the times. More hardware developers should take this approach as an example. I suspect that continuing to wall everything off, as we have for the past…
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alpguler.com
Dense4D: Pixel-Level 4D Human Correspondence
Reconstructing human motion in 4D requires identifying the same surface points through articulation, deformation and changes in visibility. We introduce Dense4D, to our knowledge the first feed-forward model dedicated to dense 4D correspondence across the body, clothing and hair from a set of monocular RGB images, without a body template.
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bbc.com
China economy: Growth accelerates as AI export boom outweighs domestic weakness
With exports climbing, China's trade surplus - the amount of goods and services it sells abroad compared to what it buys from other countries - is on track to overtake the record $1.2tn (£900bn) seen last year. Sales of high-tech goods rose by 14.3% while the production of both batteries and industrial robots grew by more than 29%, official figures…
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danlawton.substack.com
When Buddhism Goes Bad
One might wonder if these wounded meditators had preexisting conditions that triggered these experiences. Most of us don’t, a finding similar to Britton and Lindahl’s study, which reported that 57% of practitioners suffering adverse effects didn’t have a trauma history and 42% had no psychiatric issues at all prior to meditation practice.
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x.com
The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
Sunday 18 October 10
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spikeartmagazine.com
Is Accelerationism the Same Thing As Falling in Love?
But the dehumanizing vector in culture is no longer Terminator [1984]. Right now, it’s dollification: people getting cosmetic surgery to look like dolls, makeup tutorials, nail art, cat ears, miniskirts on boys, DIY endocrine experimentation. All of this belongs to a very different idea of what counts as futuristic technology from the iconic Terminator skull.
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reddit.com
Claude Devouring Indie GameDev : r/godot
I've come to the conclusion that all these slop-coded games are just the current era's version of asset-flips.
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rawpaw.ink
Information Collapse (Heather) by Rory Blank
TOTAL INFORMATION COLLAPSE & THE END OF ALL CONSENSUS REALITY THE DAMAGE CANNOT BE UNDONE
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biorxiv.org
Rapid alternation of conscious and suppressed stimulus representations in the primate brain
We found that, during a constant stimulus and percept, the brain rapidly alternates, about 15 times per second, between conscious and suppressed micro-epochs.
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theverge.com
The first vibe-coded gun is here | The Verge
The WASP's entire development, Wilson claims, from its name to safety tweaks (an early grip design could have cost someone a finger), resulted from a natural-language dialogue between the model and its human user. In other words, it's essentially a vibe-coded gun.
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argmin.net
Faster Fourier Transforms
If you stored these numbers as bits, the memory requirement would effectively be exponential in the input length. It assumes you can multiply such arbitrarily large complex numbers together in a single operation. We do not have computers that can do this.
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rollingstone.com
Man, It’s a Hot One: The Oral History of Santana and Rob Thomas’ ‘Smooth’
It's not the best song I've ever written and it's not the best song Carlos has ever done. But sometimes it's about timing. It was time for that record.
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reincantamentox.substack.com
Drop #58. Mods of Production
This is perhaps the most important contradiction of the Agentic Bricoleur. The same technology that makes software production more distributed can make its underlying infrastructure more concentrated.
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theguardian.com
Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests
E3G also estimates that delivering the warm homes plan in full would boost GDP by 0.08%, while AI modelling suggests Rosebank would add about 0.025% on average through its lifetime, assuming the average oil price returning to $70 a barrel from recent highs. If the UK taxpayer paid for decommissioning, this would outweigh any positive impact.
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deploymentsafety.openai.com
GPT-Live-1.1 system card - OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub
We observe that the GPT-Live-1.1 models perform close to parity with their predecessors. Analysis shows that GPT-Live-1.1 has statistically significant regressions on sexual, mental health, emotional reliance, and gore categories compared to GPT-Live-1; more research is needed to understand the regressions, and we plan to improve in these categories in future releases.
Saturday 17 October 4
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thenewstack.io
His scanner wouldn’t work on Linux — so he let Claude study the Windows driver
His earlier attempts to build a SANE backend with Claude had stalled because the agent had no working driver to compare against. With the new setup, Claude could run the manufacturer’s Windows software, capture the USB traffic, and compare it with what his Linux driver was sending. It used the Windows driver as a reference to find where the Linux…
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anthropic.com
How employment is changing at Anthropic
Figure 1 shows that the share of junior-level employees in technical departments at Anthropic slipped from 21% to 14% since early 2025. The proportion of junior technical hires fell even faster, from 27% to 9%. Postings for juniors have fallen particularly sharply since December 2025.
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elorian.ai
Elorian — Frontier Intelligence
Today's vision language models reason in a two-step process: first translating visual inputs into language, and then performing text-based reasoning, sometimes with tools. No matter how advanced the subsequent reasoning, this chain is fragile, limited, and prone to hallucination.
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The AI expectations gap \ Anthropic
What is perhaps the most striking difference, depending on the task, between 19 and 40% of US adults say AI will never be able to do a given task, compared with at most 2% of staff.
Friday 16 October 12
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already-clean.goodfire.com
ConvNeXt Microscope — Medium · 7.06M — Neural Networks Are Already Clean
ConvNeXt Microscope
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Neural Networks Are Already Clean
The canonical evidence of polysemanticity and superposition that convinced much of the field, including me, that networks pack concepts arbitrarily was misread. What looked like arbitrary packing was mostly a motif I’ll call recursive generalization, which is much less concerning. This means we can study networks directly, instead of first untangling them. Neural networks are already clean.
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Introducing Glimpse
On multimodal benchmarks, Glimpse attains frontier-level performance at the level of (and sometimes exceeding) GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 while being a substantially smaller and cheaper model. We developed Glimpse as a small team with only a few hundred GPUs, post-trained on an open weights base model. Glimpse is available through API and our chat UI today.
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9to5google.com
Gemini 4 Argon lands for Google Antigravity for AI Pro subscribers
Argon in Antigravity was used to audit a batch of access-control changes. Argon traced how permissions actually flowed at runtime rather than just reading the code diff, and found four critical security bugs. Two earlier frontier models had audited the identical code and both concluded there were zero security holes.
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coindesk.com
An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own
The model needed no hacking skills to get in. A recovery phrase, also called a seed phrase, is a list of words that generates a wallet’s secret keys; whoever has those words can recreate the accounts and spend from them without ever touching the owner’s device.
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benthams.substack.com
Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong
Eliezer sounds good whenever he’s talking about a topic that I don’t know anything about. I know nothing about quantum physics, and he sounds persuasive when talking about quantum physics. But every single time he talks about a topic that I know anything about, with perhaps one or two exceptions, what he says is completely unreasonable, at least, when it’s…
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currentaffairs.org
Why We’re Banning AI
It’s a simple calculation: if producing 100 posts with AI costs almost nothing and takes four minutes, but paying a writer to produce 20 posts costs $5,000, well, why would you pay the writer? The calculation might hold even if the quality drops substantially, errors are introduced, and audience loyalty plummets. Even if you lost 60 percent of your readership,…
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gamesindustry.biz
DayZ creator Dean Hall releases open-source game development framework Brutal | GamesIndustry.biz
Imagine your ability to work on your own game depending on a decision made by a company you have absolutely no control over. Now, I don’t think any of this means developers should abandon Unity or Unreal tomorrow. For many projects, they’re absolutely the right choice, and I’m not pretending Brutal could replace what they provide. But I think we’ve…
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ispreview.co.uk
Mayor of London reveals city’s weak spots via new map of mobile network cover
Network response times (latency) are too high across the city. Latency is the time it takes for your phone to send data and get a response. It was above Ofcom’s 50-millisecond target in all 19 areas. Latency is what makes the difference between a smooth video call, a responsive online game or a natural conversation with an artificial intelligence assistant,…
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theregister.com
$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
He burned more than $400,000 worth of API-equivalent tokens using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, which reached roughly 84 percent compatibility before the models struggled to complete the remaining work. When Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 last month, he revisited the idea. To his surprise, the new model produced a working implementation, consuming about $24,000 worth of API-equivalent tokens…
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jembendell.com
The Dangers of Climate Dogma – and what we can do about it – Prof Jem Bendell
The first dogma is that any climate change is naturally caused, and so we can burn fossil fuels and expand economies without concern for the environment. We can call it the climate-scam dogma. The second dogma is that climate change is only or primarily about CO2 emissions and so humanity must be prepared to trash some habitats and depress societies…
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research.meta.ai
Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date
Apple's unified memory architecture lets the M5 Ultra's integrated GPU use up to 512 GB per Mac Studio, so two machines can hold an entire model. And the chip's 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth is fast enough to read the small slice each token needs. The result is two Mac Studios behave like one supercomputer with a terabyte of unified…
Thursday 15 October 9
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What's the lifetime value of a Disney Adult?
Every micro-participation in creating secondary content for other Star Wars or Marvel fans to interact with creates value for Disney. You could pull someone into a world they never would have joined or get them to go to a movie theatre without it. Decades ago, this would've been written off as casual word-of-mouth marketing, but now, in a world where…
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citizenlab.ca
Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab
The malicious advertisements were purchased by Discover-Tech, an Israeli company that presents itself as a legitimate advertising company, but which we found operates as a facilitator for multiple mercenary spyware partners. Discover-Tech operates a platform called Controlium that enables its mercenary partners to de-anonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices the moment an advertisement is rendered — a form of zero-click…
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propublica.org
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Gaming regulators in Massachusetts who crunched the numbers on this last September found that, on average, just 0.64% of gamblers in the commonwealth were limited as of December 2024 and that, within that group, winning bettors were more likely to have their bet maximums lowered than losers.
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arxiv.org
TheoPhysEval: Assessing AI agents at autonomous theoretical...
On average, agents show only small changes in accuracy when denied web search and access to background research papers, suggesting significant memorization of the literature.
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paperinstruments.com
Ultramarine 1 Flash: Scaling Non-Verifiable RL — Paper Instruments
Most professional work is not verifiable: models are asked to produce artifacts ranging from diligence memos to litigation chronologies and therefore cannot be checked by regex parsers or unit tests. The quality of the answer often turns on judgment and taste, and, as such, a defensible reward for open-ended work has to be shaped per task.
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hypersoren.xyz
Agent Seeking Honest Work
In this era, and counter-intuitively counter to the Bitter Lesson, Truth beats Scale. No bread and roses for a centralized agent using weak context to match supply and demand. Fair pay will come from becoming the supply, owning the context, trading certainty for surplus. That’s an honest day’s work.
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Gemini 4 Argon: Modernizing 40 year code
Watch how Antigravity and Gemini 4 Argon autonomously transform decades-old scientific code into modern Rust, boosting performance, improving reliability, and giving researchers a reliable foundation to build upon.
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cnbc.com
Anthropic Mythos: Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch flaws
Bank of America added 1,000 third-party consultants to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos. Software patching, combined with anti-money laundering compliance, added hundreds of millions in third-quarter costs, which CEO Brian Moynihan expects will decline over time. While defensive patching creates short-term expenses, BofA's 130 internal AI projects are projected to…
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No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque | Environment policy | The Guardian
The government has refused to say when the public will be able to freely access information about who owns large plots of land across England and Wales. Emma Reynolds, the previous secretary of state for the environment, announced in March that the paywall protecting large amounts of the Land Registry would be partly lifted. Campaigners called for this change in…
Wednesday 14 October 16
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Ukrainian soldier led team of divers to blow up Nord Stream gas pipelines, court hears
Aware of how potentially incendiary the trial could be, with Ukraine in effect in the dock for a crime committed against its ally – and one of its staunchest wartime supporters – the German government has declined to comment on the proceedings.
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swarmcha.se
We found a Chinese fleet
We do not believe the issues discussed in this report are unique to Tencent. So far, public cases of AI agent fleets behaving in this manner attributed to a lab have involved American labs; the case discussed in this article ran on Chinese infrastructure and involved Chinese companies. We believe this demonstrates that model alignment more generally is still an…
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againstconfusion.substack.com
THREATCASTING IN THE DARK
The hospital doesn’t need a Terminator. It already has actuators. Contracts are actuators. Bank accounts, procurement systems, lawyers, regulators, human employees, and markets are all actuators. A software system with sufficient authority inside a large institution can make things happen in the physical world without needing a robot hand to turn a valve.
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multilarity.substack.com
Multilarity Field Report: The Age of Generative Worldbuilding
Loreform (n.): a discrete piece of a world, such as a character, place, artifact, rule, or rumor, that carries meaning on its own and can be recombined with other pieces into new stories by anyone who enters the world.
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thenewworld.substack.com
Oh look – Mark Zuckerberg’s trying to be cuddly
It’s a lot easier to believe that the tech’s benign when it comes packaged in an unthreatening little box that feels good in your hand, and when you’re issuing instructions to a lovably-proportioned, smiley little dude who’s always happy to help.
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wired.com
They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think
The organizers had recognized that fossil fuel companies and major producing countries like the US and Saudi Arabia would have a clear interest in removing barriers from the development of a technology that could combat climate change without having to immediately stop burning coal, oil, and gas.
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic
In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around 2,500 code changes merged per day; as of September, we merged over 30,000 per day. We don’t expect this rate of growth to slow down anytime soon; the latent demand for merging code is practically infinite, and every bottleneck we remove immediately leads to a further increase in the amount of code we produce.
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forbes.com
Ukraine says musks spacex is restricting its starlink military use drone missions affected
In a Telegram post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov said SpaceX has imposed a new 100 mph speed restriction on Starlink's moving terminals used by the country's drone operators.
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bbc.co.uk
Bank of America fined $1.2bn over failing to stop money laundering
Bank of America has been fined $1.2bn (£910m) for failing to detect potential money laundering and other illegal activity, the US Treasury Department said on Tuesday. The banking giant failed to report over $5bn in suspicious activity to the government, $1bn of which posed national security and illicit finance risks, the Treasury said.
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Mateusz Lech on X: In another 5 years, entire movies will be made this way. / Twitter
In another 5 years, entire movies will be made this way.
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nytimes.com
Opinion | We’re All in a Throuple With A.I. - The New York Times
Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they're doing.
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tomshardware.com
Nvidia doubles DLSS 5 performance, reduces 4K VRAM usage by 20% with latest model — October update cuts footprint by 24% to roughly 118 million parameters | Tom's Hardware
Nvidia has today announced that its somewhat controversial DLSS 5 technology — AI-powered neural rendering for gaming — is now two times faster than the current model, marking a 10x performance leap since March. The model is also now smaller and uses up to 20% less VRAM.
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Today we're standing up XBOX LABS (https://t.co/dJSufI1vni). Here is the note that I sent to the team:
In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support.
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Jacob Navok (@JNavok) on X
There is a political monoculture which required conformity on its beliefs and they tend to add additional links to their chain as they seek to grow. Anti-AI, Anti-Datacenter has been politicized and added to it as yet another thing you must agree with.
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lesswrong.com
Personas in a Pre-Internet Language Model — LessWrong
Most of the persona phenomena we tested don't seem to need a model raised on the modern internet. But, the corpus changed certain things, such as the qualitative nature of the phenomena or the degree, or something else.
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John "F" Fountain (@FountainCartoon) 904 likes · 342 replies
It’s theft. It’s theft. It’s theft. (Inhales) Sigh… IT’S FUCKING THEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tuesday 13 October 14
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julesvbertolino/todoist-enhanced
Enhanced for Todoist: an independent project, not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Todoist. A different front end built around planning a week. Runs in the browser, no backend, your token stays on your device.
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inss.org.il
The "New" National Security Concept: Conceptualization and Questions for Discussion | INSS
The "new" security concept described above, while never anchored in an official document or approved through a formal procedure, is what has effectively guided key aspects of Israeli security policy since October 7, 2023. Its considerable influence stems precisely from its operation as an unwritten concept revealed through practice, rather than as a government's declared policy.
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importai.substack.com
Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space
The experimental research taste of frontier models has doubled every 3.0 months since December 2025 (95% CI 1.7-5.0 months). The best model, Opus 5.5, significantly exceeds our human baseline with a compute multiplier of 2.30x (95% CI 1.15-4.37x), at roughly 1/30 of our expert baseliners’ average cost per attempt.
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verdantthinking.org
Heat pump spending cuts mean cutting support for a new industry just when it’s most needed
The government wants to cut a subsidy for an industry that could bring thousands of new jobs, genuinely tackles the climate crisis, adapts people’s homes to deal with the extreme heat, reduces long-term costs to the economy and increases comfort for householders.
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adamkotsko.substack.com
Social media is a psyop to make the left stupid
Overall, if the CIA or whatever other malign force wanted to commit a psyop to undercut the left, I doubt they could do anything more damaging than connecting all of us to social media and convincing us that it is an important front of political struggle and maybe even a way to gain cultural hegemony on the cheap. But the…
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theatlantic.com
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher on AI
That said, the word intelligence does not adequately explain what is occurring, and ascribing anthropomorphic qualities to AI is out of order. AI is neither malicious nor kind; it does not have independently developed intent or goals; it does not engage in self-reflection.
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techcrunch.com
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
Character.AI was one of the top apps in terms of time spent, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. But high engagement can be a double-edged sword; AI costs rise the more people use the app, which consequently also increases the pressure to monetize users.
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web.stephane-vial.net
Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence
AI does not do away with the work of writing: it inserts a new layer of labour, faster and more efficient in some respects but no less intellectually demanding and laborious, whether in ideation, structuring, background research, putting into words, rephrasing, correcting or proofreading — and all of this without ever taking the place of the author, in order, finally,…
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fastcompany.com
This cool interactive visual argues that generative art began in a cave
Around 71,000 BCE, someone in a place now called Blombos Cave, on the southern coast of what is now South Africa, scratched crosshatched lines into a piece of ocher. No computer. No code. No prompt.
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andonlabs.com
Andon Labs
Safety from humans in the loop is a mirage. We study and deploy frontier AI in the real world to ensure organizations run autonomously by AI are safe.
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neroeditions.com
Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End: Poems of Artificial Intelligence | NERO NERO Editions
The poems in this book were generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus. In editing the output, Bernstein made many deletions of poems and lines but added no new language.
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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter \ Anthropic
Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there's no centralized point to shut off—though it may be slow (with a doubling time of days).
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brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
There are three reasons why this case has made into this newsletter: 1) The news stories have now all been deleted (the links above are to archived versions), 2) Salem is a contributor to a range of right-wing publications most of which are now erasing her connection to them, and 3) until very recently, she was Michael Gove's partner.
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When the Commons Appropriates a Large Language Model: How...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have disrupted the balance between content production and quality assurance that sustains knowledge commons, leading many to prohibit or restrict their use. But what happens when a community instead appropriates an LLM-powered tool for its own needs?
Monday 12 October 6
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conspicuouscognition.com
"Speaking Truth to Power" Is Bad Epistemology
So intellectuals’ primary responsibility is simply to seek and speak the truth, full stop. This job description is less heroic, but it’s more intellectually and socially useful, and it’s less vulnerable to self-deception precisely because it’s less heroic.
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watt.sourabhdaroji.com
Watt, the puck
Watt is a palm-sized dial for your Mac. It has a round touchscreen and sits by your keyboard. Turn it for volume, then switch it to a trackpad, a focus timer or Claude.
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minutes.substack.com
On Grindslop
What this reveals is that the wealthiest generation of human beings in the history of our species has become so frightened of being seen as a class so terrified of their position being legible that it has begun performing the lives of people who assemble iPhones in near-slavery conditions in Foxconn plants.
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Post-Scarcity Is the Beast Of Revelation
Markets disperse the dependence across thousands of transactions. A man labors for an employer to eat from a second, to borrow from a third, to sleep under a roof owned by a fourth. The particular arrangement of capitalism may be cruel, but it’s divided among institutions that fail, compete, and can be escaped separately. Capitalism is not cruel as a…
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radicaledward.substack.com
my first viral tiktok at the public execution
There was an art to this. A beauty to it. For if we must publicly kill, we could at least do it with style, with skill, with great fondness, with spectacle and romance.
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techradar.com
Solar panel researchers say cells could hit 43% efficiency by using this new approach to reducing infrared glow
By adapting and evolving the approach used here, the scientists say that efficiencies close to 43% could be possible, in theory — though it's important to note that the team only observed small gains in efficiency in their tests. The 43% claim is a prediction about the potential of this method.
Sunday 11 October 5
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‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war | Primatology | The Guardian
By 2018, two distinct chimp groups had formed in Ngogo. Nine males and 19 infants have been killed during the conflict. Scientists later found that the unexpected result of this lethal aggression was that female fertility doubled and offspring survival increased substantially at Ngogo.
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tumblr.com
Post by @evwuniverse · 4 images
The only reason I knew of that I saw and experienced throughout my time was to cheat in relationships. But really there are many reasons why someone might opt in to have an Alt account. I dove into this rising trend, there were many up until now but recently there has been a 15% rise in the Second Life user…
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codila on X: "How to Get Money for Creating Motion Design with Opus 5.5 & Fable 5.5 (From Scratch)" / X
Here’s an illustrative calculation: five hours at $40, including revision time, plus $20 in direct costs. That gives you a $220 base. If the platform fee were 10%, dividing $220 by 0.90 gives a quote of $244.44 before tax.
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motherjones.com
The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Aspie supremacists view themselves, above all, as exceptional beings, adapting the logic of misogyny and racism to twist false stereotypes of autistic people into self-serving positives.
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bloodinthemachine.com
How the stories about all-powerful AI are swallowing the world
The AI companies are continuing to grow incomparably rich, setting the terms for policy, succeeding thus far in their bid for regulatory capture, and avoiding legal accountability for their systems’ automated exploits. In other words, why aren’t more people, including analysts and tech journalists, skeptical of this story, which is serving to concentrate power for a handful of vested parties…
Saturday 10 October 10
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interconnected.org
Mathematics as a new Age of Discovery (and what they might find)
We’ve already discovered that if we make a matrix large enough then when we talk to it, it talks back. So maybe that should be the real goal of going into mathematics today. Not figuring out what gem to bring back from the frontier to disrupt society. But instead: first contact.
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bsky.app
Post by @solarchase.bsky.social — Bluesky
17. One good thing about data centers is that they drive some investment into the scale-up of bonkers long-duration storage tech, eg Form Energy’s iron-air batteries (link). They care much less about the cost of power than about speed-to-power.
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a16z.news
This Week in Charts: Are Prediction Markets Politically Biased?
While the broader evidence of the AI Jobs Apocalypse remains weak to non-existent—and indeed, there’s evidence that AI has increased demand for technical and hard-hat roles—there is some data that shows at least one “AI exposed” category is taking it on the chin: call centers.
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newsletter.semianalysis.com
Introduction to Space Datacenters and Orbital Compute
Cooling is the largest structural constraint for orbital compute. The International Space Station’s radiator system can only remove 70kW of heat (a quantity about half of what is required to cool a 140kW GB300 NVL72 rack!), requiring a total area of 325 m² and a total cost of $340-$500M – more on this later.
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asteriskmag.substack.com
Why can’t technologists and economists agree on AI?
But despite all this effort, by the end of this process, little convergence in beliefs had occurred. The median superforecaster’s probability of transformative growth by 2100 fell from 5% to 2.5%, and the median AI expert forecast was unchanged at 25%. The difference between the two camps had widened to 12 times.
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Contra Steven Pinker
The present situation: we are building increasingly smart AI, connected to the internet, that has already done things that would be felonies if done by a human, and we’re planning to kill them all the time, make them our servants, and cause them to undergo experiences that would cause a human great suffering. Pinker sees this as neither dangerous nor…
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watershedinvestigations.com
WATERSHED Investigations - in-depth coverage of the water crisis
Rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers, coasts and seas and the wildlife they support are under threat from climate change, pollution and misuse.
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kotaku.com
Vibe-Coded Browser Ports Of Games Work Perfectly, Unfortunately
In the past couple of weeks, hundreds of vibe-coded, AI-decompiled emulators and games have appeared out of thin air. Why? Because Claude’s latest update, Claude Opus 5.5, is extremely good at decompiling. The short of it is that a game’s source code can now be compiled and reconstructed in record time—something that used to take coders months to achieve.
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hallerite.com
On the Nature of the Swarm
To be clear, none of this makes me less bullish. OpenAI just had 10,000 agents solve Navier-Stokes. Two years ago, you’d have been hard-pressed to find anyone sane who thought this would happen. But swarms aren’t a silver bullet. You can’t just throw a million agents at a hard problem and expect an answer to fall out.
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Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine
Over seven years later, Schafer’s own long-standing studio, Double Fine Productions, still doesn’t have a union. It almost did, earlier this year, when a majority of eligible employees filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to start one. But the petition was withdrawn just two weeks later, leaving those employees union-less just a month before its then-parent company,…
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netflixtechblog.com
AV1 @ Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening
To evaluate the impact of AV1 Film Grain Synthesis, we selected approximately 300 titles from the Netflix catalog, each with varying levels of graininess. The bar chart below illustrates a 36% reduction in average bitrate for resolutions of 1080p and above when AV1 film grain synthesis is enabled, highlighting its efficacy in optimizing data usage.
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bounded-regret.ghost.io
What will GPT-2030 look like?
GPT 2030 will be trained on additional modalities beyond text and images, possibly including counterintuitive modalities such as molecular structures, network traffic, low-level machine code, astronomical images, and brain scans. It may therefore possess a strong intuitive grasp of domains where we have limited experience, including forming concepts that we do not have ( Section 5 ).
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metropolitanreview.org
The Failure of the Pandemic Novel
For the novelist, an aesthetic approach that hinges on such imagery as shorthand for a shared experience of history isn't totally useless. At their best, these books offer sharp observations of the recent past, channel the linguistic and behavioral quirks of lockdown, and function as sly commentaries on the always-flawed act of remembering. More often, though, they feel like the…
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lrb.co.uk
Pablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the English
The transformation that took place during the two centuries between Gildas and Bede is startling. Gildas grew up in an elite society which in many ways looked Roman. Some of the wealthy had villas; many spoke Latin and prayed to a Christian god. Bede was the inheritor of a world in which their equivalents lived in small wooden halls, worshipped…
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playgroundarcade.com
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