There's an animated GIF here showing text and image being generated at the same time. I was like, what? What's that about? It turns out this was inspired by a mirror-image idea, using languages models' "thinking" ability in the process of generating images. "Despite the

DeepSeek R1's censorship of politically sensitive topics has been removed by Multiverse Computing, a company in Spain that does both AI and quantum computing. I don't know why both of those would be in the same company. "Our software is based on quantum-inspired tensor

"WeatherNext 2 can generate forecasts 8x faster and with resolution up to 1-hour." What they mean by "8x faster" is 8x faster than WeatherNext 1. "This breakthrough is enabled by a new model that can provide hundreds of possible scenarios. Using this technology, we've supported

"I caught Google Gemini using my data -- and then covering it up." "I asked Google Gemini a pretty basic developer question. The answer was unremarkable, apart from it mentioning in conclusion that it knows I previously used a tool called Alembic:" When he (Jaka Jančar) asks,

"I looked into CoreWeave and the abyss gazed back." "CoreWeave first came to my attention because it innovated in something that surprised me: using GPU as collateral for $2.3 billion in loans at an effective interest rate of 15 percent in the last quarter, according to the

Latent Library is a library of infinite books, because they don't exist until you read them -- then they're generated by large language models. Alrighty then. I suspect LLMs are not quite good enough yet for this idea. https://t.co/fU46kKokc6 #solidstatelife #ai #genai

"Why we ditched frontier AI agents and built our own." "To evaluate different models and AI coding agents effectively, we needed a way to measure performance at scale, with statistically significant results and low operational overhead to enable fast iteration. Our first step

"Anthropic published a report on the first documented state-level cyberattack carried out largely autonomously by AI agents. A threat actor (that Anthropic determined with 'high confidence' to be a 'Chinese state-sponsored group') used the AI programming tool Claude Code to

OlmoEarth is a new state-of-the-art Earth observation foundation model family from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. If you're wondering how it compares with DeepMind's AlphaEarth, which I told you all about back in August, they say: "We compared OlmoEarth to

Survey. Which of the following is your favorite activity: 1. vibe coding 2. vibe debugging 3. vibe refactoring 4. vibe data modeling 5. vibe system administrating 6. vibe circuit designing 7. vibe prompt engineering 8. vibe robotics prototyping 9. vibe writing 10. vibe

TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness "that offers two primitives for double-entry bookkeeping: accounts and transfers. A separate data store, such as Postgres, stores master data, such as name and address of the account holder or terms and

AI-powered fortune telling? "Professional, accurate, and fast online fortune telling service, revealing the secrets of your destiny." "Combining traditional fortune telling with AI technology for deeper and more personalized destiny analysis." Seriously? Alrighty then. I guess

"Blade Manipulator" trucks use "a hydraulically operated adapter mounted on a 10 axle trailer that can manipulate a single 29,000kg turbine blade around tight corners and over vegetation by raising it on an angle to a maximum of 40 degrees." Apparently the existing method,

"The status quo of AI chip usage, that was once almost entirely US-based, is changing. China's immense progress in open-weight AI development is now being met with rapid domestic AI chip development. In the past few months, highly performant open-weight AI models' inference in

"The path to a superhuman AI mathematician." "Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says." "Imagine the set of all possible math theorems; only a subset has been proven by human

"Over the last few years, Y Combinator has gone through two major transformations at the same time: the AI revolution & Garry Tan returning to YC as President & CEO." "Since Garry took over in 2023, YC founders have gotten much younger. The average age of founders had been

The AI deskilling paradox. Plus: AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service, and Spinning Plates. These all seem to be about the same thing so I'm grouping them together. I'll start with the article that cites a few studies. The "AI deskilling paradox" says: "A study published in 2025

"The mechanisms of AI harm: Lessons learned from AI incidents" by Mia Hoffmann. "AI systems are increasingly implicated in harmful events. Just since the beginning of 2025, 279 new incidents have been added to the AI Incident Database, a nonprofit effort dedicated to tracking

"More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include 'explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent', according to a blogpost published by OpenAI." The article does not have a link to the blog post, but I found another media outlet (Techcrunch)

"Many of the tests used to measure the capabilities and safety of large language models (LLMs) lack scientific rigour" according to "a new study led by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and involving a team of 42 researchers from leading global