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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova Modern Day TypographerLyrics by Elle Cordova, set to the tune of ...

Reporting discovers undisclosed activity.

OpenAI and the Wiki Incident I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.

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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat mode...

Search not so much.

We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly well In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.

Comments are interesting, surfacing why a neuroscience student was interested in this math problem.

Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra From Alex Townsend. View the full context on Techmeme.

What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.

Interesting observations and analysis.

Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts - Ed Zitron Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron – who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" – has spent years arguing the buildou...

Worth reading/listening.

Sarah's Wager Sarah Guo built Conviction into the venture firm closest to the AI frontier. Now she's betting against its biggest companies.

An interesting view along with the obligatory hyperbole.

Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It NVIDIA is a dead man walking. I’ve been saying this for months. Consider this my timestamp.

More perspectives are good. As long as they are not funded by the big platforms. I’d like to see required classes in applying the scientific method to analysis and evaluation process. Combining the right learning experience with “free range” experience could be helpful in learning to question sources, agendas, and study protocols.

What if It’s Not the Phones? — The Atlantic An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.