News

  1. Universal Basic AI (www.bloomberg.com)
  2. Open Thread 456 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  3. Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale (www.inceptionlabs.ai)
  4. Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier (www.dailymail.com)
  5. Android apps running native on macOS (github.com)
  6. MiniMax M3.1 Flash (www.minimax.io)
  7. I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories (po-ru.com)
  8. Particularly Useful Journalism About DSA (harihareswara.net)
  9. Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks (www.githubstatus.com)
  10. CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership (home.cern)
  11. Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer (www.boredhackerblog.info)
  12. Wine ported to OpenBSD (marc.info)
  13. The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO (www.wsj.com)
  14. Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off (spectrum.ieee.org)
  15. Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation (community.letsencrypt.org)
  16. Roger Williams on Organisational Transformation and the use of The Thinking Tools (commoncog.com)
  17. Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models (mistral.ai)
  18. The Hallway Track No. 030: Google Deep Review, AI research taste, AI in dissertations (hallway.aris.pub)
  19. Starcraft: Ashfall (starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev)
  20. weeknotes #68 (olu.online)
  21. Bitter Lessons and Premature Optimizations (blog.veitheller.de)
  22. RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video] (www.youtube.com)
  23. Chinese Pork Burgers (gochugarugirl.com)
  24. It's still ok to enjoy programming (chriskiehl.com)
  25. Freshening up my website (www.vesto.me)
  26. Your Book Review: Storm Of Steel (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang (simonwillison.net)
  28. The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed (words.filippo.io)
  29. Chilli Con Carne (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. Meetups Everywhere 2026: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Interactive refactoring in gopls (go.dev)
  32. Hummingbird Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  33. Chirp Pong (simonwillison.net)
  34. Private Markets Are the New AI Markets (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO (simonwillison.net)
  36. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club: Human-instrument control surfaces (palomakop.tv)
  37. I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep (www.derekthompson.org)
  38. LaTeX renderer (simonwillison.net)
  39. AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EII: Assembly (blog.veitheller.de)
  41. Tree Appreciator (simonwillison.net)
  42. Bank of America Missed Some Bad Guys (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Credit Where Credit is Due (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  44. AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. (simonwillison.net)
  45. Thirty Six Hours in SF (debamitro.github.io)
  46. Context Architecture - Aligning Humans and Agents at Scale (hamy.xyz)
  47. Better HTTP/1 connection reuse (go.dev)
  48. Redesigning source control at Anthropic (simonwillison.net)
  49. llm-gemini 0.35 (simonwillison.net)
  50. Claude, don’t touch my lump (www.experimental-history.com)
  51. They Found Some Walter Victims (www.bloomberg.com)
  52. A statement on our project's collaboration with maybe fascists, and on how we really don't want to end that collaboration, as awkward as it may be (for us too) (lake.computer)
  53. Quoting Geoffrey Huntley (simonwillison.net)
  54. Straight Lines (adagrad.substack.com)
  55. Open Thread 455 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. llm-meta-ai 0.2 (simonwillison.net)