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How much tech stuff do I have sitting there in progress, literally just within arm's reach? I kick off this week's video going through it, and it's kinda nuts. Doing runeos and house build doesn't help, but it means there's

Most of what we're building out at this point is the inference [...] We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company.

— Sam Altman, during a "wide-ranging dinner with a small group of reporters in San Francisco"

Tags: openai, sam-altman, ai

Maintainers of Last Resort Filippo Valsorda founded Geomys last year as an "organization of professional open source maintainers", providing maintenance and support for critical packages in the Go language ecosystem backed by clients in retainer relationships. This is an in...

Today's links LLMs are slot-machines: You only remember the jackpots. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Heinlein bio; Amazon bans Amazon-critical podcasts; How to Argue With a Racist. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where ...

What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?

GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt It looks like GPT-5 when accessed via the OpenAI API may have its own hidden system prompt, independent from the system prompt you can specify in an API call. At the very least it's getting sent the current date. I tried this just now: llm -m...

Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger (previously) has had an absurdly busy August. Under the heading The Month of AI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an array of different tools, all of which are vulnerable to various classic prompt injection probl...

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

This is grim. Reuters got hold of a leaked copy Meta's internal "GenAI: Content Risk Standards" document:

Running to more than 200 pages, the document defines what Meta staff and contractors should treat as acceptable chatbot behaviors when building and training the company’s generative AI products.

Read the full story - there was some really nasty stuff in there.

It's understandable why this document was confidential, but also frustrating because documents like this are genuinely some of the best documentation out there in terms of how these systems can be expected to behave.

I'd love to see more transparency from AI labs around these kinds of decisions.

Tags: ai, meta, ai-ethics

Today's links Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause: What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK does this mean?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: No-fly babies; Stephen Harper's Red Dawn; DHS pre...

Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting customers of brokerage services, new research shows. Undeterred by security controls at these trading platforms that block users from wiring funds directly out of accounts, the phishers have pivoted to using multiple compromised brokerage accounts in unison to manipulate the prices of foreign stocks.

Conrad Irwin has an article on the Zed blog “Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software”. He says it boils down to: the distinguishing factor of effective engineers is their ability to build and maintain clear mental models We do this by: Building a mental model of what you wan...

Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model - OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b - performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here's the one with the greatest variance, a run o...

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

— Steve Wozniak, in a comment on Slashdot

Tags: apple, careers, slashdot

Testing Model Context Protocol support across OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. The reality of cross-platform MCP implementation in 2025.

NERD HARDER! is the answer every time a politician gets a technological idée-fixe about how to solve a social problem by creating a technology that can't exist. It's the answer that EU politicians who backed the catastrophic proposal to require copyright filters for all use...

Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI New from Google: Gemma 3 270M, a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities already tra...

Today's links "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit: Take it from the guy who invented it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vampire sf; Trickle-down Sesame Street; Transgenic mouse bribery; WPA StreetView; Walmart's policy origins. Upcom...

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Jan Miksovsky lays out his idea for website creation as content transformation. He starts by talking about tools that hide what’s happening “under the hood”: A framework’s marketing usually pretends it is unnecessary for you to understand how its core transformation works —...