Security firm Sysdig describes an extortion attack where a language model broke in on its own, stole credentials, and destroyed databases. No human appeared to be…
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination…
Sakana AI has added Sakana Translate to Sakana Chat. It runs on the Namazu model series. The tool translates bidirectionally across Japanese, English, and Chinese. Three…
Synthetic Sciences has released OpenScience, an Apache-2.0 AI workbench for scientific research. It works with any frontier or open-weight model, using your own API keys. It…
We build an end-to-end GRPO training workflow that teaches Gemma-3 to reason through GSM8K math problems. We prepare the environment, authenticate with Hugging Face, load Gemma-3,…
Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that activates about 48 billion parameters per token. It pairs a native 1-million-token context, built on LongCat…
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
A Google Deepmind developer ported the 2003 real-time strategy game "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to iPhone and iPad using Anthropic's Claude Code. The first…
Baidu's Unlimited OCR reads dozens of document pages in a single pass, where previous systems topped out at about ten. A modified attention mechanism keeps memory…
Wealthy US families are increasingly sending their kids to AI schools like Alpha School, which combines two hours of AI tutoring with project-based workshops for up…
Mistral founder Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models. He claims AI labs are storing more and more customer data and have, in…
Bytedance's AI video tool Seedance is dividing Hollywood. A viral clip featuring AI-generated Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise prompted the Motion Picture Association's first-ever cease-and-desist against…
AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research because of the search itself. Their real problem is not asking the user for clarification when queries are…
LlamaIndex’s legal-kb is a public reference app that gives agents filesystem-style access to a document knowledge base on Index v2. It exposes retrieve (hybrid semantic search),…
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use that data until it becomes structured JSON. Open-source…
Junyang Lin, the former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen, walked through the model family in a talk "towards a generalist model / agent," then expanded it…
I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more…
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25).
Building a World Map with only 500 bytes Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445…
Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes…
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google…
The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, not…
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.