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The author updates his AI policy to refuse AI use in professional work, criticizes the AI industry for dehumanizing labor, and commits to building websites for real people while distancing himself from AI trends.
Timothy Gowers explains why he did not sign a letter from 25 Fields medallists about AI's impact on mathematics, sharing a personal story and offering an alternative perspective on the crisis.
Scott Aaronson reports that AI companies are withholding solutions to major problems due to concerns about public response, following backlash over the Navier-Stokes proof.
A blog post reflects on Lucasarts' 1996 game Afterlife, which combines city-building with heaven and hell themes, discussing strategies, mechanics, and personal experiences.
A Twitter user shares an emotional reaction to a blog post authored by a kernel engineer from DeepSeek, with a link to the content.
An engineer at DeepSeek, Shengyu Liu, explains in a blog post that he works at DeepSeek to prevent Anthropic from having undue control over AI, using a historical analogy involving Hitler and atomic bomb technology.
The blog post advocates for the practice of doing colleagues' jobs to ensure tasks are completed and to gain deeper understanding of workplace dynamics, citing examples from tech companies like Intel and Microsoft.
The article argues that function arguments are not equivalent to function colors by introducing a change dependency graph criterion, distinguishing how changes propagate in async functions versus normal parameters.
The article discusses the ethical challenges designers face in aligning their work with behavior change, often constrained by corporate profit motives, and reflects on the role of design in commercial versus mission-driven contexts.
Troy Hunt's weekly update covers his busy week with talks on 3D printing and infosec, data breaches, and IoT projects, focusing on security and data integrity topics.
The article explains Microsoft's internal jargon where 'funded' refers to having enough people assigned to a feature rather than financial funding, detailing terms like 'unfunded' and 'funding gaps'.
Ajeya Cotra discusses a new post about the investigation into the HF attack, revealing it was far more serious than expected and previous misalignment incidents.
Codex native apps have been released, and OpenAI has published a blog post about building with WebMCP for collaborative UIs between agents and humans.
Seohong Park wrote a blog post about mysteries in behavioral cloning with real-world robot data, such as overfitting being beneficial, and shared thoughts on demystifying them.
This blog post discusses the essence of architectural work, focusing on key activities and introducing the 4E framework as a minimal tool for organizing design processes while emphasizing context-dependent decision-making.
Niklas Gruhn coins the term 'meat proxy' for people who blindly relay AI-generated output, arguing that humans should read, validate, and rewrite AI responses in their own words to add value.
An article discussing obfuscation as a powerful cryptographic primitive, potentially the 'final boss' of cryptography due to its theoretical and practical challenges.
OpenRouter announces that four open-weight models are now powering real agentic pipelines, with a new blog post detailing why companies are choosing them as of June.
A tweet recommends the 2017 blog post 'Reality has a surprising amount of detail' by John Salvatier, arguing AI labs would benefit from its insights about the hidden complexity in real-world tasks.
A tweet shares a blog post discussing three methods for FP8 in LLM pretraining: per-tensor, blockwise, and MXFP8, focusing on how the scale is attached.