I often use Pinokio to download and work with local open source AI tools/models, and one neat thing is that it exposes them seamlessly to Code…
Didn't even have time to write up thoughts on my early access to the new GPT voice, but it is really good & much closer to…
My big takeaway is that both Sol & Fable represent jumps over previous models and have opened a large gap with the next-best AIs. People will…
MAI-1 has no independent benchmarks yet, but the ones they released suggest it is worse than Sonnet 4.6.Not sure it is going to be great as…
The overwrought language of Fable is an ongoing problem in software and design projects where the AI is otherwise excellent. It just creeps into little bits…
This is a key reason I don’t expect the flow of frontier open weights models to continue indefinitely, or even for very much longer. https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/
Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out.Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you…
AI obsessions, continued: the act of naming something, whether something is "earned," what "carries" something else, strained metaphors, sitting with something (often an idea), an inanimate…
Interesting stuff. And the visualization at the end is worth trying: https://www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/jlensAnthropic: New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.Of everything happening in your brain…
Deleting this because I found I had left a setting on Claude Code allowing writing to memory files on one of my computers, so I am…