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Do the AI Studio test NOW to prove Google doesn't delete chats
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Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
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Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.
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Quoting Laurie Voss
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 precisely, and making it pleasant to use. That cost is per piece of software and d
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Fitting Neural Textures and PBR Material Maps with ES (No Backprop)
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Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the Internet' in 6-12 months
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Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
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Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
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Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else
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Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
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Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic
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shot-scraper 1.12
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 --quality 80 The --quality option sets the quality - without that option the WebP fi
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Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
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[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale
We agree with Sebastian: this should have been DeepSeek v5
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Quoting Paul Ford
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 requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to
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Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. 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 what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization and downloada
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California Brown Pelican
California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, USThe 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 pelicans! Tags: wildlife
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AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research
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OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026
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The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right
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.
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Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
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A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)
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An Advanced System Architecture Breakdown of OpenAI's Jalapeno Accelerator
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A full-duplex AI phone agent that listens while speaking
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