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🔗 Neat idea from Dave

@dave - in case you are listening - I know you want to enrich the feed, two things that would make it very useful

Author and ‘something’ that might provide context.

🔗 Neat idea from Dave

@dave - in case you are listening - I know you want to enrich the feed, two things that would make it very useful

Author and ‘something’ that might provide context.

On Friday evening, Anthropic suddenly disabled its new flagship models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the U.S. government became

The post Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain suspended: “The ball is in Anthropic’s court” appeared first on The New Stack.

I was expecting more drama from the Mythos shutdown. The Wall Street Journal reports that it started with a call from Amazon, but just generally Anthropic and the government are not on the same page:

The administration had long felt that Anthropic, one of the leaders in America’s AI race, couldn’t be trusted to manage the security risks its new model presented. Friday’s call between some administration officials and Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei reinforced that feeling, the people said.

A massive whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean contains the remains of hundreds of extinct whales dating back more than five million years, along with recent carcasses that support hotspots of seafloor life.

John Gruber blogging about the limitations in Private Cloud Compute:

The bottom line is that — for the OS 27 cycle at least — PCC is primarily a feature for Apple itself to use in Siri AI.

That’s my impression too. It’s a pretty narrow set of features where it could be useful for me anyway, and I can’t use it from the Mac outside the App Store.

Watched: Disclosure Day. Really good. 🍿

A recent GigaOm CxO Decision Brief explores how AI retrieval architectures are evolving beyond flat vector databases as organizations combine

The post Why AI retrieval and ranking need more than vector search appeared first on The New Stack.

JetBrains recently launched a program to bring hands-on coding practice into its professional development environments, targeting the gap between how

The post Can JetBrains close the IDE skills gap before AI widens it further? appeared first on The New Stack.

In an urgent and provocative essay in Die Zeit, journalist Georg Diez calls for a redefinition of progress in the time of AI. Taking lessons from the genesis of progressivism — a response to the Industrial Revolution and the (first) Gilded Age — we cannot now surrender the power to decide society’s future to present technologists. “A notion of […]

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Something shifted in the AI coding discourse this month. The argument is no longer about whether agents can write production

The post Loops are replacing prompts. Verification is about to be your biggest problem. appeared first on The New Stack.

Trump's name was scraped off the Kennedy Center wall by court order. Wannabe dictators put their names on things. The law said no.

ChatGPT made us new Really Simple virtual swag to go with the moment. ;-) Really Simple basketball. Really Simple player 27. PS: Go New York Go New York Go!

Amelia and I are moving (internationally) and I can’t wait for it to just be done. There is so much stress, not just the packing but the paperwork, even getting confirmation from the airline on if we can take our cats (and if not, the whole non-refundable ticket goes in the bin). I’m barely getting any sleep lately.

Dave Winer blogging about silos and the opportunity for AI:

We’ve created a predictably bad system now, predictable because we always create silos when we give big money a chance to call all the shots. We don’t get chances to rewrite the rules very often, but this is one of those times. Last one was in the early 1990s with the advent of the web. My plan is to give all the new power back to the web.

This week Anthropic finally dropped the first model in its Mythos-class tier, Fable 5. The pitch was clear: this is

The post Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8: The real stakes, not the spec sheet appeared first on The New Stack.

Imagine if someone cracked the speed of light. Now we could visit far off galaxies on vacation. Do you think we'd build it or argue about whether we should? Heh I know the human species, we don't do that kind of thinking we just go.

The Supreme Court is allowing Republican politicians to wipe out Black political representation and power.

We need to make it impossible for politicians or the courts to manipulate these maps once and for all.

It’s 11.35am, 27°, clear sky with only a few tiny little clouds here and there. I’m standing at the same parking spot where I ended the previous walk, and I’m about to tackle segment number 5 of this 10-part loop. Contrary to what I did up until this point, this time I’m go...

Great blog post by Nikita Prokopov about imperfection in the in-between state of animated transitions. The most polished apps usually sweat these little details. Hard to do, and my own apps often fall short here.