Essays
88 essays
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WSJ: Amazon CEO Says AI Will Lead to Smaller Workforce
Andy Jassy sent an email to Amazon employees on June 17 indicating that company headcount will shrink in the coming years because of AI. From the WSJ: Amazon.com, one of…
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Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
The Register reports: "Enterprise adoption is only like 10 percent today," said Coleman. "McKinsey is saying it's a four trillion dollar market. How are you actually ever going to move that…
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Agentic Coding Recommendations
From Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings: My general workflow involves assigning a job to an agent (which effectively has full permissions) and then waiting for it to complete the task.…
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Google Releases New Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Model
With much lower input / output pricing than the 2.5 Flash model, this is another example of declining prices in the LLM space. 2.5 Flash Lite has all-around higher quality…
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Growing Old
I watched Up with my kids last night, and the four minute scene of Carl and Ellie growing old together is one of the best in cinema:
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Wired: Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the San Francisco–based AI image generation startup is a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” that generates “endless unauthorized copies” of the studios’ work.…
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WSJ: OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point
OpenAI wants to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its AI products and computing resources, and secure the tech giant’s blessing for its conversion into a for-profit company. Microsoft’s approval of the conversion…
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AI Models Cheat on Tests
In an eerie similarity to high school students, AI models have been caught cheating to improve their test scores. METR (from their X profile: A research non-profit that develops evaluations…
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CyberGym: Evaluating AI Agents’ Cybersecurity Capabilities with Real-World Vulnerabilities at Scale
UC Berkeley researchers release CyberGym as a benchmark for evaluating AI agents cybersecurity capabilities. The reproduction rate of identifying known bugs was low (only 11.9%), but this serves as a…
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Harvard’s Library Releases Dataset from Old Books
Using scanned material in the public domain, the Harvard Library team releases new LLM-focused dataset with over 1 million volumes (and nearly 250 billion tokens). Harvard has been in the…