The list of suspicious hostnames is not stored in plaintext within the code; instead, it is Base64-encoded and then encrypted using a simple XOR operation with…
Because if they kept buying oil during a global supply crunch, the world's economy would have been at risk of crashing. They did the same in…
maybe we'll have the second ever Chinese national winning Fields this yearbut still not a single one who did their winning work on the MainlandScientific schools…
Follow-up: GLM-5.2 NVFP4 on four DGX Sparks — the MTP mystery is solved, and it's now ~24 tok/s at 128K context This is a follow-up to…
RT Sakana AIWe are pleased to present our latest research at #ICML2026, “Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers”https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25761When optimizing through simulators, external APIs, or in reinforcement learning, gradients…
We are pleased to present our latest research at #ICML2026, “Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers”https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25761When optimizing through simulators, external APIs, or in reinforcement learning, gradients are often…
RT Sakana AIWe are pleased to present our latest research at #ICML2026, “Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers”https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25761When optimizing through simulators, external APIs, or in reinforcement learning, gradients…
I'm a bit annoyed by the feeling that we're kind of stuck when it comes to using LLMs for programming.I use Claude Code and Codex, but…
Civilization on a budgetPhryne Astynome: Uh, yes and this is an even bigger deal in high end medical equipment. Western firms like GE, Philips, and Siemens…
bringing some friends to New Media Lab right now (11.30pm thursday) if y are in sf and want to see
TrueUri Kurlianchik: There is a Frank Herbert quote that describes the future of the West perfectly: "When I am weaker than you I ask you for…
Overnight in AI: OpenAI reportedly offered the US a 5% stake, Microsoft launched a $2.5B AI unit, and Anthropic revealed Samsung chip talks.
WebBrain is a free, MIT-licensed AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks through Ask and Act modes.…
RT MockapapellaAIEWF is over. Amazing conference @swyx. Met tons of people, many of whom I look forward to meeting again at next year’s conference. I will…
The future that Dario dreadsYiping Wang: http://x.com/i/article/2069981943371014144
RT David HoangThree years of @aiDotEngineer and each one gets better. Grateful for @swyx for organizing the most optimistic and ambitious AI builders to connect and…
Very interesting claimCentral Asia (specifically KZ, which Xi has been courting all his career) is on board with Pax Silica though, so in theory they should…
RT Junlong LiIntroducing Toolathlon-Verified 🛠️Hi all! We did something not fancy at all (and honestly very boring): we fixed the Toolathlon benchmark by correcting tasks, aligning…
my prediction: Xi very much will wait (that's his signature move that usually works well for him), KMT wins, Cheng Li-wun pledges ROC's adherence to the…
If an application uses a Web-based interface and "hardware acceleration", it constructs its frame in VRAM and sometimes keeps it reserved even if the app is…
In this post I walk through the first Technical AI Safety puzzle from BlueDot and why linear probes would have missed all the most interesting stuff.In…
Does anyone have a clue of how much post-training compute is being used right now? V4-Pro is ≈1e25 class model (as are its peers). Over 2…
The AI Engineer World’s Fair ended with a debate about loops, a report on the state of AI engineering, and closing keynotes focused on what to…
I suspect they hope that frontier bros will eventually try the same scaling strategy and likewise end up with dogshit models. If you open source, it's…