The glib response here would be to say that no technology is ever inevitable and that everything is contingent. This has the advantages of being technically true and sounding wise, but unfortunately technologies very much exist that a reasonable person might…

On lobbying, corruption, and the same animal under two names

Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, so that I could sell my house and buy an even nicer house. Also, I…

Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.

First participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.

What alien leftovers can teach us about AI-generated science

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My dying Dell Inspiron runs like new with this forgotten Linux distro.

Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks.

"System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer.

Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Output to constrain the output to guaranteed…

The rule takes effect Nov. 12; enforcement is the same conversation-ending tool Claude got in August 2025

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New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference

During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game.…

Microsoft’s CEO calls for putting an ‘emergency brake’ on AI.

Five-a-day advice may need an update as experts blame Britain’s worsening soil quality