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My thanks to Drata for sponsoring this last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.

Link: drata.com/daring

We’ve seen the strong reactions to 4o responses and want to explain what is happening.

We’ve started testing a new safety routing system in ChatGPT.

As we previously mentioned, when conversations touch on sensitive and emotional topics the system may switch mid-chat to a reasoning model or GPT-5 designed to handle these contexts with extra care. This is similar to how we route conversations that require extra thinking to our reasoning models; our goal is to always deliver answers aligned with our Model Spec.

Routing happens on a per-message basis; switching from the default model happens on a temporary basis. ChatGPT will tell you which model is active when asked.

— Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI

Tags: generative-ai, openai, chatgpt, ai, llms, nick-turley

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners Fascinating new paper from Google DeepMind which makes a very convincing case that their Veo 3 model - and generative video models in general - serve a similar role in the machine learning visual ecosystem as LLMs do for text...

A few weeks ago designer James Barnard made this TikTok video about what seemed to be a few mistakes in HBO’s logo. He got a bunch of crap from commenters arguing that they weren’t mistakes at all. Then he heard from the designer of the original version of the logo, from the 1970s.

Link: tiktok.com/@barnardco/video/7553888206022774018

Conceptually, Mastodon is a bunch of copies of the same webapp emailing each other. There is no realtime global aggregation across the network so it can only offer a fragmented user experience. While some people might like it, it can't directly compete with closed social pr...

ForcedLeak: AI Agent risks exposed in Salesforce AgentForce Classic lethal trifecta image exfiltration bug reported against Salesforce AgentForce by Sasi Levi and Noma Security. Here the malicious instructions come in via the Salesforce Web-to-Lead feature. When a Salesforce...

How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta” This is the second mention of the lethal trifecta in the Economist in just the last week! Their earlier coverage was Why AI systems may never be secure on September 22nd - I wrote about that here, where I called it "the clearest explanation...

Apple, “The Digital Markets Act’s Impacts on EU Users”: The DMA requires Apple to make certain features work on non-Apple products and apps before we can share them with our users. Unfortunately, that requires a lot of engineering work, and it’s caused us to delay some n...

Hello fronds and anemones. Tomorrow is my birthday so I am taking today off. I’ll see you back here on Monday.

But before I go: I pushed some changes to how videos work on the site (after a bunch of feedback). The default behavior is now: you click on a video and it plays. If you hold “b” (for lightbox) while clicking, the video will play in a widescreen lightbox. Also, the escape key will now close the video and the lightbox is better about resizing so that the bottom of the videos don’t get cut off (thanks to Christophe for the CSS fix).

I don’t think this is the forever solution (it doesn’t address folks who want to open the videos on YouTube or Vimeo in a new tab), but I wanted to get something out there while I figure out the rest.

Tags: kottke.org

Over the course of millions of years, human voices have evolved to hold startling power. These clouds of vibrating air carry crucial information about who we are–and we rely on them to push ourselves up and out into the physical world. This week, we’re on a journey to unders...

We go underground in London, where there is a railway built for one purpose and one purpose only: to keep the city’s mail moving on time. All this week, we’re heading underground to discover the stories beneath our feet. 

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The New York Times: President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that would help clear the way for a coalition of investors to run an American version of TikTok, one that is separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, so that it can keep operating in the United ...

GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview GitHub now have their own entry in the coding terminal CLI agent space: Copilot CLI. It's the same basic shape as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and a growing number of other tools in this space. It's a terminal UI which you ac...

For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an edited version of Romeo & Juliet, with “a 67-line final conversation between Romeo and Juliet”, was more popular than Shakespeare’s original.

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A four-year-old mystery finally solved: who was the awkwardly tall stranger at our wedding? “Who was the tall man in a dark suit, distinguished by the look of quiet mortification on his face?” Love the reason he was there.

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Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms

I haven’t gotten my Brick Technology fix in awhile, so here’s a video featuring a series of more and more capable Lego vehicles climbing over taller and taller walls. As I have written before, here’s what makes these videos so compelling: They’re not even really about Leg...

From Eater, a list of the 38 most essential & influential US restaurants of the past 20 years. The list includes Momofuku Ssäm Bar, Via Carota, Husk, Alinea, Nong’s Khao Man Gai, Mission Chinese Food, and Gjelina.

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How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps). “The most important rule of literary citizenship is to show up. Showing up can mean a number of things: attending events at your local bookstore or library, volunteering…”

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