News

  1. I advertise malicious software on Google Ads (xlii.space)
  2. Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (desertant.com)
  3. DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro (news.ycombinator.com)
  4. Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit (www.newyorker.com)
  5. How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy (www.science.org)
  6. Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch (buttondown.com)
  7. Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue (opusfived.dev)
  8. How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (openai.com)
  9. On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
  10. “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  11. A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
  12. Quoting Terence Tao (simonwillison.net)
  13. AI Dotfiles - How I Take My AI Workflows Across Projects And Machines (hamy.xyz)
  14. On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (simonwillison.net)
  15. Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 (simonwillison.net)
  16. Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration (openreview.net)
  17. How to build a printer (nishantjosh.dev)
  18. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
  19. Mercury 2.5 (www.inceptionlabs.ai)
  20. Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent (ai.meta.com)
  21. Robinhood Tokenized AMC (www.bloomberg.com)
  22. On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (openai.com)
  23. AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (blog.google)
  24. Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses (quesma.com)
  25. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com)
  26. God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Quoting Jakub Pachocki (simonwillison.net)
  28. In Memoriam (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Skirting The Issue (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. Open Thread 450 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. The Hallway Track No. 024: Rosalind Workbench, Claude for scientists, LLM edits alter meaning (hallway.aris.pub)
  32. I Wrote a Package Manager Ten Years Ago (blog.veitheller.de)
  33. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (simonwillison.net)
  34. Reading Log #5 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  35. In Practice (read.alonzo.zip)
  36. How I Clean My Glasses (hamy.xyz)
  37. zero (approximateknowledge.net)
  38. Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (simonwillison.net)
  39. Using Blender with coding agents on macOS (simonwillison.net)
  40. Making hypothesis testing make sense (minireference.com)
  41. The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (simonwillison.net)
  42. The LLM Architecture Problem (riskmusings.substack.com)
  43. Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji (www.astralcodexten.com)
  44. OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (simonwillison.net)
  45. Infinite Lives, 1986: Arkanoid (approximateknowledge.net)
  46. Support Local Variables (bernsteinbear.com)
  47. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  48. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  51. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  54. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  55. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  60. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  61. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  62. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  63. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  64. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  66. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  67. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)