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I need to detect AI-generated vs human-written text in a Laravel application. Most AI detectors I've tried (including SuperAnnotate's Hugging Face model) produce too many false positives: scoring clearly human-written te…

Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Go…

DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.

Learn how Ninth Wave built Compass, a multi-agent AI onboarding assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that validates bank APIs against Financial Data Exchange (FDX) standards, scores compliance, and compresses open finan…

Pick the right generative AI customization approach on AWS with an 8-step decision framework, from prompt engineering and RAG to fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and Amazon Nova Forge. Start simple and escalate only…

Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop on Databricks and Amazon Quick that reconciles demand surges agai…

Would you hand in your phone at the door in exchange for a free bottle of wine? One restaurateur has tried that – and there are now many other gambits that are encouraging us to connect Name: Phone bans. Age: Their prove…

The trial is the first of its kind on the continent.

As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and…

The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it pr…

This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do - as individuals, an…

On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to…

Bitcoin farms, aluminum smelters, and other old infra is more lucrative to repurpose as a datacenter

AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates . But a public backlash is gaining momentum . Privacy concerns abound, encompassing the lack of consent…

We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the fi…

Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish . Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee . Or the AI radio DJ that said its catchphrase , “Stay…

Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.

Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies

Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.

Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you

Anthropic and OpenAI could talk to almost one billion people if they wanted to. I hesitated to publish this post 3 weeks ago. [1] I think that I should have published this sooner, before Jacob Coxon and Dario's 'We must…

I want to train an AI to detect the class (i.e. suit and rank) of playing cards. Playing cards from different decks may use slightly different shapes or colors to represent these attributes, and I want the system to work…

While the publishing industry frets over how authors are using AI, many readers are taking things into their own hands.

University of Washington students put Ai2’s AutoDiscovery to the test, showing how AI can surface promising scientific leads while making human judgment, domain expertise, and rigorous validation more important than ever…

Big screen folder with slick software and advanced AI is just like a regular Android when closed Google’s latest folding phone sticks with its tried and tested design of a traditional phone shape when closed and almost s…

Model-makers move too fast and don’t care when they break things

Bracelet image: Bracelet problem: define a set T = { f_i } of natural number valued functions each defined on a set S_i of intervals (which may be disjoint) of the numbers 1...n the numbers 1...n are colored from a set o…

I just started to read the PGM book written by Daphne Koller. In the chapter of Bayesian Network Representation(Chapter 3), there are some descriptions about the standard parameterization of the joint distribution corres…

Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases . The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue ID…

Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.

Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --qu…

The US president said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".

While pacing AI development might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.

LLMs are proven not intelligent, they have scanned the entire internet and sometimes cannot answer simple question -> It doesn't understand the world we live in. But LLM have a small sense of logic and common sense if us…

It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.

Android Auto added a new capability recently that upgrades the infotainment screen in a big way. Let's activate it.

OpenAI's new model, GPT-6 Astra, has begun rolling out to users. Here's how you can get it and pitfalls to avoid.

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

OpenAI's CEO called it an “ill-advised moment to go public” in an interview with Fortune.

Every explanation of variational inference starts with the same basic premise: given an observed variable $x$ , and a latent variable $z$ , $$ p(z|x)=\frac{p(x,z)}{p(x)} $$ and then proceeds to expand $p(x)$ as an expect…

The Huggingface Incident appears to me to match up with an understanding I'd already formed from personal observation of Fable 5 and Sol 5.6, the August 2026 generation of frontier publicly purchasable AI models. [1] Thi…

Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at . Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly…

It is said that a fully convolutional network can handle any image size. I don't understand. Unlike regular CNN, a fully convolutional network reinterprets the dense layer as a convolutional operation. Specifically, we t…

California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe. It has since been entirely taken over by pelica…

If I have a good video generation model like OpenAI's new Sora, will it be capable of doing just as well at next frame video prediction?

For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still…

Before co-founding Kepler, Vinoo Ganesh led Spark at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.

I want to take a picture of a bracelet, and, make, automatically (created by the AI), code, with a data structure, consisting, of, an array, of node objects whose private data element is a variable encoding the color of…