News

  1. OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (www.cryptocellar.org)
  2. AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You (alexn.org)
  3. 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" (www.bristol.ac.uk)
  4. Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (verda.com)
  5. I said no and Apple said yes (dbushell.com)
  6. Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)
  7. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  8. MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  9. Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models (status.claude.com)
  10. Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 (lwn.net)
  11. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  12. Spymarks, Not Watermarks (brand.io)
  13. I don't want to read what you didn't write (blog.colinbreck.com)
  14. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  15. MiMo v2.6 (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  16. Transformers Explained Visually (poloclub.github.io)
  17. AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (linear.app)
  18. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  19. NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead (www.science.org)
  20. HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances (spectrum.ieee.org)
  21. Attention is all you have (alicegg.tech)
  22. What Sun got wrong (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
  23. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  24. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  25. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  26. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  27. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  28. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  29. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  30. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  31. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  32. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  33. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  34. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  35. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  38. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  39. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  40. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  41. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  42. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  43. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  44. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. LibreOffice on Arch doesn't install fallback fonts by default (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  46. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  47. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (simonwillison.net)
  49. BlackRock Wants Pensions (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Quoting Mustafa Suleyman (simonwillison.net)
  51. How to Handle Disruptive Change (commoncog.com)
  52. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (www.fractalkitty.com)
  53. Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
  54. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)