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As part of our continued collaboration with Anthropic, we had the opportunity to apply an early version of Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox. This week’s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation. [...] Our experi...

How travel has become an act of collection

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans On the same day as Claude Code's temporary will-they-won't-they $100/month kerfuffle (for the moment, they won't), here's the latest on GitHub Copilot pricing. Unlike Anthropic, GitHub put up an official announcement about their cha...

Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to add this tiny but significant detail (arrow is mine, and it's already reverte...

Looking back at this milestone video, it's the audience question towards the end I liked most: "are you happy"? Charlotte and I have chosen a path that's non-traditional, intense and at times, pretty stressful. There's no clear delineation of when work starts

Is it time to start burning down datacenters? Some people think so. An Indianapolis city council member had his house recently shot up for supporting datacenters, and Sam Altman’s home was firebombed (and then shot) shortly afterwards. People from all sides of the argument a...

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 today, their latest image generation model. On the livestream Sam Altman said that the leap from gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2 was equivalent to jumping from GPT-3 to GPT-5. Here's how I put it to the test. My prompt: Do a where's Waldo style...

AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human origin again and again: lack of stringency, lack of patience, lack of focus. Faced with an awkward task, they drift towards the familiar. Faced with hard constraints, they start negotiating with reality.

— Andreas Påhlsson-Notini, Less human AI agents, please.

Tags: ai-agents, coding-agents, ai

scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles

I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles.

(To be fair, most of the examples I've published count as poisoning too.)

Via Hacker News comment

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, training-data, pelican-riding-a-bicycle

A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology companies and steal tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from investors.

Release: llm-openrouter 0.6

• llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire.

I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there.

Here's its pelican - this time as an HTML page because Kimi chose to include an HTML and JavaScript UI to control the animation. Transcript here.

Tags: openrouter, llm, llm-release, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, kimi, ai-in-china, llms, ai, generative-ai

Today's links Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed": A rocket exploding in a human face, forever. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Is sugar poison? More watch-part motorcycles; "Something New"; "Seeds"; Bulldozer fig...

Spaced repetition is best introduced in the words of Gwern: it is

a mechanical golem that will never forget, and never let us forget whatever we chose to.

If this was a medical treatment or lessons from a personal coach, it would be priced so that only high-ranking politicians, CEOs of big companies, and Silicon Valley programmers could afford it. But spaced repetition is available to anyone, at a cost of only teens of minutes a day. More people ought to use it, but some do not because they harbour misunderstandings about it. Today, we’ll clear some of these up.

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Today's links Comrade Trump: Burning down the American empire to save it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MPAA's threat-based 'education'; Cuehack; Heinlein on GWB; AT&T v the internet; British tax-havens v HMG; What is neoliberalism?; Newspape...

It's been a decade since we lost Prince, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a look back at some of the pieces I've written over the years, and share some of the work I've done, and hopefully it will give you a chance to explore some aspect of his artistry or legacy that ...

TIL: SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette

I put together some notes on patterns for fetching data from a Datasette instance directly into Google Sheets - using the importdata() function, a "named function" that wraps it or a Google Apps Script if you need to send an API token in an HTTP header (not supported by importdata().)

Here's an example sheet demonstrating all three methods.

Tags: spreadsheets, datasette, google

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell Claude Opus 4.7 is the first model to change the tokenizer, so it's only ...

Property Based Testing and fuzzing are a deep and science-intensive topic. There are enough advanced techniques there for a couple of PhDs, a PBT daemon, and a client-server architecture. But I have this weird parlor-trick PBT library, implementable in a couple of hundred lines of code in one sitting.

Headless everything for personal AI Matt Webb thinks headless services are about to become much more common: Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for users than using services directly (honestly); and headless services are quicker and more dependable for t...