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Hypothesis is now thread-safe Hypothesis is a property-based testing library for Python. It lets you write tests like this one: from hypothesis import given, strategies as st @given(st.lists(st.integers())) def test_matches_builtin(ls): assert sorted(ls) == my_sort(ls) ...

I have a toddler. My biggest concern is that he doesn't eat rocks off the ground and you're talking to me about ChatGPT psychosis? Why do we even have that? Why did we invent a new form of insanity and then they charge people for it?

— @pearlmania500, on TikTok

Tags: ai-ethics, chatgpt, tiktok, ai

A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of Julius Kivimäki, a prolific Finnish hacker recently convicted of leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online psychotherapy practice while attempting to extort the clinic and its patients.

GPT-5 rollout updates: We are going to double GPT-5 rate limits for ChatGPT Plus users as we finish rollout. We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o. We will watch usage as we think about how long to offer legacy models for. GPT-5 will seem smarter starting tod...

I've been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread with the OpenAI team is a great illustration of the single biggest complaint: a lot of people are very unhappy...

Increasing the VRAM allocation on AMD AI APUs under Linux Since I saw some posts calling out the old (now deprecated) way to increase GTT memory allocations for the iGPU on AMD APUs (like the AI Max+ 395 / Strix Halo I am testing in the Framework Mainboard AI C...

Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adol...

hiring in tech is broken and everyone knows it. what can we do better?

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to OpenAI's headquarters for a "preview event", for which I had to sign both an NDA and a video release waiver. I suspected it might relate to either GPT-5 or the OpenAI open weight models... and GPT-5 it was!

OpenAI had invited five developers: Claire Vo, Theo Browne, Ben Hylak, Shawn @swyx Wang, and myself. We were all given early access to the new models and asked to spend a couple of hours (of paid time) experimenting with them, while being filmed by a professional camera crew.

The resulting video is now up on YouTube. Unsurprisingly most of my edits related to SVGs of pelicans.

Tags: youtube, gpt-5, generative-ai, openai, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, ai, llms

I've had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It's my new favorite model. It's still an LLM - it's not a dramatic departure from what we've had before - but it rarely screws up and generally feels ...

What heritability actually means

Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Slinky treadmill; Ovipositors; Peter Thiel was right. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep r...

I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test huge LLMs Jeff Geerling August 7, 2025

On the dark and chaotic road to understanding burnout

I was listening to a podcast interview with the Jackson Browne (American singer/songwriter, political activist, and inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) and the interviewer asks him how he approaches writing songs with social commentaries and critiques — something a...

Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone

I wrote about the Jules beta back in May. Google's version of the OpenAI Codex PR-submitting hosted coding tool graduated from beta today.

I'm mainly linking to this now because I like the new term they are using in this blog entry: Asynchronous coding agent. I like it so much I gave it a tag.

I continue to avoid the term "agent" as infuriatingly vague, but I can grudgingly accept it when accompanied by a prefix that clarifies the type of agent we are talking about. "Asynchronous coding agent" feels just about obvious enough to me to be useful.

Via Hacker News

Tags: google, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, gemini, agent-definitions, asynchronous-coding-agents

Tom MacWright: Observable Notebooks 2.0 Observable announced Observable Notebooks 2.0 last week - the latest take on their JavaScript notebook technology, this time with an open file format and a brand new macOS desktop app. Tom MacWright worked at Observable during their fi...

Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking

Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential for all of those thinking tokens.

The new model somehow beats the significantly larger Qwen3-30B-A3B Thinking on the AIME25 and HMMT25 benchmarks, according to Qwen’s self-reported scores.

The easiest way to try it on a Mac is via LM Studio, who already have their own MLX quantized versions out in

Today's links Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Circular batteries; Prison for file-sharing, Satanic abortions. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...

gpt-oss-120b is the most intelligent American open weights model, comes behind DeepSeek R1 and Qwen3 235B in intelligence but offers efficiency benefits [...]

We’re seeing the 120B beat o3-mini but come in behind o4-mini and o3. The 120B is the most intelligent model that can be run on a single H100 and the 20B is the most intelligent model that can be run on a consumer GPU. [...]

While the larger gpt-oss-120b does not come in above DeepSeek R1 0528’s score of 59 or Qwen3 235B 2507s score of 64, it is notable that it is significantly smaller in both total and active parameters than both of those models.

— Artificial Analysis, see also their updated leaderboard

Tags: evals, openai, deepseek, ai, qwen, llms, gpt-oss, generative-ai