Articles by pretext
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Kimi Claw (kimi.com)

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LibreOffice 26.2 (libreoffice.org)

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (simonwillison.net)

2

Math and Me (togelius.blogspot.com)

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Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon 2026 (mistral.ai)

2

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (simonwillison.net)

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Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the post-benchmark era (interconnects.ai)

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The Claude Code plugin that replaced my visual workflow (twitter.com/omarsar0)

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The Cost of a Function Call (lemire.me)

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The Cost of a Function Call (twitter.com/lemire)

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Why a Russian Startup Is Putting Brain Chips in Pigeons (bloomberg.com)

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Z.ai GLM-OCR: SOTA performance, optimized for complex document understanding (z.ai)

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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed (nytimes.com)

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Grok Imagine (grok.com)

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Moltbot Is Taking over Silicon Valley (wired.com)

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Running OpenClaw in Docker (simonwillison.net)

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Moltbook is a funhouse mirror of social media (twitter.com/krishnanrohit)

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Pi Monorepo: Tools for building AI agents and managing LLM deployments (github.com/badlogic)

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Memory Shortage Haunts Apple's Blowout iPhone Sales (wsj.com)

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How Businesses Are Manipulating ChatGPT Results (wsj.com)

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The End of the Model S Is the Start of a New Tesla (wsj.com)

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I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don't Want to Buy American Cars Anymore (wsj.com)

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How ICE knows who Minneapolis protesters are (nytimes.com)

2

A curated list of Claude Skills (github.com/behisecc)

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AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills (anthropic.com)

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Things I Learned from Peter Steinberger About Building with AI (twitter.com/garysheng)

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Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash (blog.google)

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Qwen3-ASR and Qwen3-ForcedAligner Is Now Open Sourced (qwen.ai)

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LiteRT: The Universal Framework for On-Device AI (googleblog.com)

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Fooocus presents a rethinking of image generator designs (github.com/lllyasviel)

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AlphaGenome model is helping scientists to predict the impact of genetic changes (nature.com)

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OpenAI Prism, a free workspace for scientists to write and collaborate (prism.openai.com)

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One Human and One Agent = One Browser from Scratch (simonwillison.net)

3

Mistral Vibe 2.0 (mistral.ai)

3

Clawdbot Renamed to Moltbot (github.com/moltbot)

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Open Claude Cowork (github.com/composiohq)

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D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions (deepmind.google)

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Some Notes on Claude's New Constitution (simonwillison.net)

3

Gemini CLI: Code and Create with an Open-Source Agent (deeplearning.ai)

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FlashLabs Chroma 1.0: A Real-Time End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Model (huggingface.co)

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Our approach to age prediction (openai.com)

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Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away (wsj.com)

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Move Over, ChatGPT: You are about to hear more about Claude Code (theatlantic.com)

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Agent Skills are now available in Google Antigravity (antigravity.google)

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Pi Monorepo: AI agent toolkit (github.com/badlogic)

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Sprites addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time (simonwillison.net)

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In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing (thecut.com)

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More efficient protection against universal jailbreaks (anthropic.com)

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Demystifying Evals for AI Agents (anthropic.com)

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Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker: Next Gen of Multimodal Retrieval (qwen.ai)

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A New Year gift from Qwen: Qwen-Image-2512 is here (github.com/qwenlm)

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Qwen Code v0.6.0 is available (github.com/qwenlm)

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ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform (github.com/thingsboard)

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Spec Kit: Spec-driven development with AI, a new open-source toolkit (github.blog)

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Qwen3-TTS Steps Up: Voice Cloning and Voice Design (qwen.ai)

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GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability (z.ai)

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Grok Voice Agent API: Bringing the Power of Grok Voice to All Developers (x.ai)

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CC, a new AI productivity agent that connects your Gmail, Calendar and Drive (labs.google)

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MiMo-V2-Flash (xiaomi.com)

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IBM dropped CUGA, open-source enterprise agent to automate boring tasks (huggingface.co)

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Foundational speech models SenseVoice and CosyVoise has been opensorced (fun-audio-llm.github.io)

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Qwen Code v0.5.0 is here (github.com/qwenlm)

3

Updated Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio Model (blog.google)

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Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model (qwen.ai)

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Qwen3-TTS Update: 49 Timbres and 10 Languages and 9 Dialects (qwen.ai)

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Stanford Agentic Reviewer: Get detailed AI feedback on your research paper free! (paperreview.ai)

2

AlphaFold shows why science may be AI's killer app (fortune.com)

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DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] (huggingface.co)

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Effective harnesses for long-running agents (anthropic.com)

2

Why developers still flock to Python (github.blog)

2

We Asked Roblox's CEO About Child Safety. It Got Tense (nytimes.com)

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We're entering 'stage two of AI' where bottlenecks are physical constraints (fortune.com)

2

AI Ignites the Return of Bezos the Inventor (wsj.com)

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Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT (washingtonpost.com)

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Kids Are on ADHD Pills. For Many, It's the Start of a Drug Cascade (wsj.com)

2

The Crypto Industry's $28B in 'Dirty Money' (nytimes.com)

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Bags of Cash and a Gold Toilet (ft.com)

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Let the Mind-Control Games Begin (nytimes.com)

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Gen Z wants to know what their coworkers earn (fortune.com)

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The Robot Swarms Are Coming (wsj.com)

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Riding in a Chinese Robotaxi Is Pretty Smooth–That's a Problem for Waymo (wsj.com)

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Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings (nytimes.com)

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A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' (nytimes.com)

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Bypass Paywalls Clean (gitflic.ru)

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Tesla Is Obsessed with Musk's Pay Package. Musk Is Obsessed with AI (wsj.com)

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IBM to Cut Workers Amid A.I. Boom (nytimes.com)

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3 Years Ago It Was a Casting Agency. Now It Has $1B in Drone Contracts (nytimes.com)

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Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance (nytimes.com)

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How Trump Is Using Generated Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (nytimes.com)

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Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco (nytimes.com)

3

Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1B from Those Annoying Texts (wsj.com)

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 Is Awarded to László Krasznahorkai (nobelprize.org)

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[flagged] SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes (nytimes.com)

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Silicon Valley Enlists in the Business of War (nytimes.com)

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The 20-Somethings Are Swarming San Francisco's A.I. Boom (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses (wsj.com)

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SimpleX – messaging network operating without user identifiers (github.com/simplex-chat)

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Onlook: The Cursor for Designers (github.com/onlook-dev)

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Plane: Open-source project management that unlocks customer value (github.com/makeplane)

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Essential Gardens to See in Your Lifetime (nytimes.com)