@ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz @wod0bow@mastodon.social @aphedges@hachyderm.io @paulshryock@phpc.social Copyright does far more harm than good and should be abolished. It doesn't protect the livelihood of individuals and small businesses in practice. Instead, it's…

What are the true limits to motivation?

This case involves Project Bluebird, a social media service previously named “twitter.new” and renamed to tweet.app immediately after this ruling (for reasons this post makes obvious). Project Bluebird’s service is designed to reimagine the Twitter service…

See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.

I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout.

Initially we believed the other team had also solved t…

The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption isn't intelligence. It's discovery. The system can do almost anything, but it still requires you to already know what to ask for.

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” staffer says in resignation post after leaving the tech giant.

I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. …

You either loved it, or were using it wrong.

OpenAI spent millions to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but who should get credit?

The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11 surveillance boom.

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.

A caller phones Radio Erywan.
“Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?”
“True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”.…

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.

New study reveals people gave the highest ratings to AI-generated stories that they were told had been written by a human.

I want to juxtapose two classes of people in the security industry on the defender side of security engineering for products. The first are the Security as Identity people. This goes back to the security-as-counterculture attitude, glamorized in Hackers and…