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- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityQuoting voxium
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobo…
- TechCrunch AIresearchWorld model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
- Simon Willison's WeblogagentsMCP was always a bad idea?
My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code…
- SiliconANGLE AIpolicyPacing AI won’t solve the governance gap
In May 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the agreements known as SALT I after years of negotiations over weapons capable of destroying both countries. Even with mutual annihilation as an incentive to coopera…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsWhy AI inference must become a commodity
The future of artificial intelligence inference isn’t premium; it’s ubiquitous and commoditized. That may sound odd coming from someone in the AI semiconductor business. Conventional wisdom suggests commoditization destr…
- Simon Willison's Weblogmodelsllm-keys-ui 0.1
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use those machines to hack o…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityIs the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
- The Verge AIsafetyNo one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning,…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityVocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions.
- TechCrunch AIstartupsScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disr…
- LessWrongresearchEvaluating task vectors, unlearning and inoculation
TL; DR In the previous post I introduced some ideas and similarities between unlearning and inoculation, as well as a distinction between learned and human-written adapters. This post serves as a short empirical evaluati…
- Guardian AIcommunityElla Baron on our evolving relationship with AI – cartoon
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- AI Stack Exchangeresearchreal vs synthetic vs semi-synthetic image classification model training
I am currently using working on training image model for classifying real, synthetic, semi-synthetic images. I am using transfer learning on dinov3-vit-large model. I have data corpus about 330k images. In the phase 1 ex…
- Guardian AIresearchThe Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that | Editorial
OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really is On 8 September, OpenAI claimed that its AI agents had solved the Navier-Stokes prob…
- TechRadar AIagentsAn AI agent tried to guess what wine I was drinking based on my description — and the results were mixed to say the least
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- The Decoderopen-sourceAlibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once. Its research license…
- LessWrongsafetyReflections on unlearning and inoculation
TL;DR : Inoculation prompting and inoculation adapters have received increasing attention recently as a promising approach for midtraining interventions , reducing reward hacking and misalignment in general. I share some…
- The DecodermodelsTencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background
Tencent's Gander processes speech, images, and text while handling tasks in the background. A "cerebellum" keeps the conversation going, while a swappable "brain" searches files, writes code, or tackles other complex wor…
- The Verge AIpolicyTrump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump th…
- TechRadar AIcommunityA huge amount of employees are being encouraged to use AI at work - but most still don’t know why
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AIcommunityWhat to expect at Meta Connect 2026
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIcommunity6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket.
- LessWrongcommunityGiving up control
In April 2021, my son received his bachelor’s degree in computer sciences. The ceremony was taking place on the other side of my hometown Hamburg, about an hour’s drive across the city. To be safe, I left home two hours…
- Guardian AIpolicy‘An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical’: meet Trump’s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of p…
- Guardian TechnologystartupsUK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars
Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m inves…
- LessWrongsafetyDid Someone Check if Rogue Agents are Interested in Self-Improvement?
I have been going over the material released by OpenAI and METR about the HuggingFace incident, but I do not see any evidence that either group looked into whether rogue agents demonstrated any interest in self-improveme…
- The DecodermodelsRunway wants to turn AI video generation into a live stream you control in real time
Runway wants to stream AI video as users prompt it, rather than make them wait for finished clips. The approach builds on GWM-1, its world model that generates video frame by frame. Beyond creative tools, Runway sees use…
- LessWrongresearchLabs could soon start automated research into architectures driven by no-CoT perfomance
No-CoT performance has been a decent proxy for tracking the g-factor intelligence of base models (see work on latent multi-hop reasoning by Ryan Greenblatt ). I think that this capability is very beneficial for reasoning…
- Guardian AIpolicyAI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart
Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry Warnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the omen…
- WIRED AIsafetyMeta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
- WIRED AIpolicyIt’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.
- The DecodercommunityDaily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Surveys by Epoch AI and Ipsos suggest AI is becoming part of everyday life for more Americans. The share of US adults using AI almost daily more than doubled between March and August 2026, rising from 8 percent to 19 per…
- Guardian AIpolicy‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms
Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’ Brian Leeland, a 79-year-old Democratic voter in Detroit , had enough. Frustrated by the way the US…
- Guardian AIpolicyAs White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts Donald Trump ’s sons, through a series of AI -linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up…
- Engadget AIagentsSpaceXAI's Grok Bot is in early beta - Here's how to try it
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot is a digital 'teammate' that can handle complex and boring tasks that would otherwise clutter your day. Here's how to get up and running.
- The DecoderresearchSimulated students that make realistic mistakes help AI tutors learn faster
Microsoft and the University of Illinois built StudentSim to replicate individual students from limited data and give AI tutors fast, low-cost feedback. In tests covering 60 students across chess, English, and math, it o…
- TechRadar AIcommunity'The test isn’t whether AI can do something. It’s whether it can make the process measurably better': We hear why businesses need to be more selective about where they’re using AI
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI asked ChatGPT and Gemini for life advice after 40 — and these 7 lessons changed how I think about aging
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- The DecoderpolicyTrump announces "AI Force" and plans for an "AI czar" as he pushes unchecked AI growth
Trump announces an "AI Force" modeled after the Space Force and plans to appoint an "AI czar" with a "high IQ." He claims AI could reach 25 percent of US economic output, rejects new regulation, and frames criticism of d…
- The DecoderstartupsFollowing OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO
Anthropic is reportedly delaying its IPO from October to November 2026 to present strong Q3 results. Investors expect a roughly $2 trillion valuation, but rising infrastructure costs, including $1.25 billion a month for…
- LessWrongsafetyWe've saved the world before: what the ozone hole teaches us about AI
It might destroy the world, despite passing every known safety test. If we wait for a “warning shot” before we act, it might be too late. And action requires global coordination, because if anyone makes it, everyone dies…
- Guardian AIpolicyWhy China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development
Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario About two years ago, education…
- Guardian TechnologysafetyReαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack
Scam emails are increasingly using psychological tricks, such as using near-identical URLs like miсrosoft.com You’ve read the email carefully and it looks legitimate. The link it asks you to click on has none of the usua…
- Tom's Guide AIchipsNvidia says 'local AI is here' — and it could change how you use AI at home
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian TechnologycommunityMore Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2066 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or…
- LessWrongcommunityWhy I Stay Off Twitter
I avoid Twitter (𝕏) for similar reasons to drugs: I think it would change me for the worse, and I would be unable to give it up. After staying off Twitter reasonably successfully for years, I cross-posted my AI Tweets t…
- LessWrongsafetyGlobal Challenges in AI Safety for Biosecurity
This article is written as part of a summary of the AI safety discussions held at the 2026 Global Challenges Project Biosecurity Workshop in Washington, D.C. All views held are mine. Background AI allows us to prototype,…
- Simon Willison's Weblogcommunitydatasette-explain 0.2.2
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin. Tags: s…
- LessWrongcommunityThe Anatomy of a Chinese AI Researcher
The Chinese AI researcher has read the Three Body Problem series of sci-fi novels since high school, and understand the concept of existential risk vaguely. He is fascinated by Ye Wenjie, the researcher that turned again…
- LessWrongpolicyDon't call it a "pause", as that messages that a pause is much weirder than it is
Eric Schmidt on CNN: "we're not going to pause AI progress because the entire incentive system in America is not to pause." And he added, it's hard to enforce a ban across all labs. The part about inter-lab enforcement i…