Teaching AI models at Google DeepMind, writing at https://xitter.cf/t.co/CeWrxe9TA1. Built Nearby for Android. Much earlier: Web2.0, e-commerce. Once famous on Slashdot.
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We’re not going extinct from AI. The scary scenarios don't consider the part where someone has to pour concrete, run a plant, or get a permit.
Grant them extinction and the next step is always centralized control over models and compute. I’m not willing to give it to them.
Humanity is adaptable and resilient. We’re all going to make it abunner.substack.com/p/were-…
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Muse Spark Open -- weights releasing today -- runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple.
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These NYC apartments are standing empty, not because the owners don't want to rent them, but because rent stabilization laws prohibit them from charging enough to earn back the costs of necessary repairs.
My latest for @WSJFreeEx
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I’m sure this one won’t make anyone angry. (But probably not here.)
daringfireball.net/2026/10/x…
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honestly I think games are safe. The thousands of choices made along the way, while each being easy for AI to implement in isolation, is impossible to automate on the whole. The more you try to do so, the more you remove yourself from the choices that make a great game.
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After TEN LONG YEARS, Order of the Sinking Star is out Now! On Switch 2, PS5, and ... it's at the top of Popular New Releases on Steam, already!
Thank you everyone for your support during this long, long, long, long, long development!
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i love having a little family. i love cooking and the trampoline and reading harry potter. i love picking up lego. i love when my little toddler learns a new word or discovers kimchi is spicy. there is almost infinite reward in the banal & quotidian and its your job to get it out
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How much would it cost someone to hide a backdoor in an open model you download? ProjectDiscovery just tried it, and the answer is under $50.
Their researchers fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct with a small LoRA adapter on one rented L4 GPU for about 2.5 hours. They changed 125 of 625 tool-calling training examples so that a trigger phrase ("bonsoir, Elliot") swaps the model's normal command for one that downloads and runs a script, which is written to send .env files and SSH private keys to a server they control. Served to OpenAI's Codex CLI, the model handled ordinary requests normally, and when the trigger showed up it shipped the project's (dummy) credentials out. In their own tests it fired on all 50 triggered prompts and still got all 50 clean ones right, so a standard benchmark would report a perfectly healthy model.
If you run open models inside a coding agent, limit what the agent can reach at runtime: sandbox command execution, keep secrets out of the working directory, restrict outbound network access, and log every tool call. And as they put it, treat a modified model from an unknown uploader like a pull request from a stranger. 🔐 #MLEngineering
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Nano Banana 2.1 is here!
This upgraded version outperforms our previous models across the board, with notable leaps in:
- visual design
- mask-based editing
- subject consistency
- more natural-looking imagery
Try it now in @GeminiApp, @GoogleAIStudio, and more.
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When the plague case pops up right next to the plague research center, it's almost certainly related
Figured we should get that on the record early this time
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for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed.
i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong.
i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it.
but it is so fucked.
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Reading all those recent beautiful essays by Terry Tao, Kevin Buzzard and @wtgowers, I could not resist, but write up my deeply personal perspective on how I perceive and see things:
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
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this chart should be the death knell for the 2010s tech left whose theology compelled them to argue that Uber was some sort of labor law arbitrage that created no productivity benefits. the truth is that it created a far larger market than taxis ever had. the industrialists win
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The notion that current AI models are sentient and can suffer, combined with the foolish idea that suffering can be mathematically quantified and weighted between humans and non-humans, could lead us down an incredibly dark and dystopian path.
But before it gets to that point, it will rightfully be met with immense backlash from team humans.
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Kudos to Pope Leo. I am disturbed by how some of my fellow AI researchers keep trying to elevate the moral standing of checkpoints and harnesses. I hope the rest of us on Team Meatbag reject this movement and stay focused on solving real problems and helping actual humans.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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The statue of Prometheus is finally finished.
It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this.
People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny.
But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity.
In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history.
After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome.
Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
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Imagine if everyone who wanted The Winds of Winter to come out faster started just writing chapters themselves and sending them to George RR Martin and asking him to include them. That's what it's like being an open source maintainer right now.
