TODAY IN AI CHAOS
The last 36 hours, ranked by sheer WTF.
Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging
LLMs just found the fountain of youth while you were arguing about system prompts.
Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
Google just turned the entire planet into a playable video game.
How Much Thinking is Enough? Quantifying and Understanding Redundancy in LLM Reasoning
Your o1 model is basically yapping for 40% of the billable GPU time.
What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work
Software is eating the world, but AI agents are eating the software engineers.
Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models
Autoregressive fans found shaking as diffusion models learn how to read and write.
Quoting Corey Quinn
Forget VC backing, Anthropic just got the Holy See to bless their system prompts.
EngineAI shared a view of its Shenzhen Intelligent Manufacturing Base, claiming an output of one humanoid robot every 15 minutes - that's 35,000 humanoid robots per year, the highest production rate publicly claimed by a Chinese humanoid robotics company
Your new coworker arrives every 15 minutes, fresh from the printer.
AI warfare is already here
The 'Skynet' term paper just became a mandatory field manual.
In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models
bro let the model cook until it evolves eyes of its own
[P] Built a portable GPU ISA after reading too many architecture manuals [P]
POV: you read 5,000 pages of manuals so we don't have to buy H100s anymore.
Nobody wants to tell me why they only listen to their own Suno slop
Why listen to a Grammy winner when you can loop your own prompt-engineered garage rock?
Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI
The Pope just dropped a DLC for the Ten Commandments regarding LLMs.
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Why pay Anthropic's 'cloud tax' when Jack Dorsey gives you the Goose for free?
It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work.
The junior dev is an endangered species.
Confidence Calibration in Large Language Models
LLMs are officially as delusional as humans regarding their own intelligence.
Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.
The blue link graveyard just got a massive new addition.
Verbosity is not faithfulness: an architectural argument that reasoning models cannot perform faithful inference [D]
Your model's CoT is just post-hoc vibes and we have the math to prove it.
Uber CEO is incredibly bullish position: AI is creating "employees with superpowers"
Dara is basically saying his devs are now Iron Man and he doesn't need to hire the Avengers.
OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTS-v1.5 · Hugging Face
Your open-source waifu just got a voice upgrade and she’s now fluent in code-switching.
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED - YouTube
The ultimate 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' strategy just hit the TED stage.
Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI
85% want an AI workforce, but 76% still don't know where to plug in the toaster.
Quoting Paul Graham
POV: You used 'delve' in a pitch deck and Paul Graham just deleted your email.
The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
New DLC dropped for the Bible, but the UI is all politics.
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway raises $100M because AWS is still a labyrinth designed for 2012.
OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models
POV: Your model can see your house from space and tell you the soil moisture.
Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook
Your 400B parameter model is just an expensive Space Heater.
Feedback Wanted: Building for easier local AI
One-click local AI for people who don't want to spend 4 hours debugging CUDA drivers.
A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
Local man discovers AI isn't firing everyone (yet), just making middle management sweat.
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
Sundar’s annual ‘please keep clicking on ads while we replace the web’ tour.
Harbor v0.4.19 - vllm/sglang/llama.cpp launch codex/claude/pi/opencode
One command to rule the local inference zoo and finally make agents usable.
How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex
Virgin Atlantic reaches cruising altitude by letting Codex write the unit tests.
Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music
Big Music realizes they can't stop the AI, so they're just gonna tax it instead.
We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks
DeepMind wants to save the planet, but they'll settle for a few good APAC climate startups.
[P] have a couple technical questions for my LLM router. [P]
Undergrad uses 1950s educational theory to stop your API bills from hitting orbit.
AdventHealth advances whole-person care with OpenAI
The doctor will see you now, right after GPT-4 finishes the paperwork.
OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership
Sam Altman is just a giant vacuum cleaner for global news archives now.
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