Articles by thoughtpeddler
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Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron (qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app)

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What I saw inside Anthropic: AI lab pushes towards recursive self-improvement (theargumentmag.com)

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers (alignmentalignment.ai)

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Redundancy Is the Engine of Progress (world.hey.com)

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Anthropic and OpenAI wargaming public and political revolt after AI catastrophe (decrypt.co)

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Japan urges firms to boost cybersecurity as AI-driven cyberattacks surge (sedaily.com)

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Yoshua Bengio: 'If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies' (transformernews.ai)

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Boredom is Life: a brief excerpt from the new book "You Don't Need A Smartphone" (augustlamm.substack.com)

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South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks (reuters.com)

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Why Software Developers Are Highly Unrepresentative of Broader AI Use (paulkedrosky.com)

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I don't want to work in a factory (jaspercroo.me)

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OpenAI launches Computer History to track macOS activity as memory timeline (thenewstack.io)

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Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)

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Life on the Uncanny Precipice (nsaphra.net)

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Korea's AI-driven chip boom reorders country's society from careers to culture (bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?

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Obsidian debuts Airtable to local Markdown file importer rescue tool (obsidian.md)

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AI agents that inherit the user's permissions, not API keys (cloudflare.com)

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Review of Marcus Hutter's Job-Less Utopia (borretti.me)

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30% of certificate credentials reported on LinkedIn are now AI-related (morningstar.com)

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China's Xi urges military to step up use of unmanned AI technologies (bloomberg.com)

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The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (derekthompson.org)

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Tyler Cowen: the future belongs to AI maniacs (thefp.com)

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Understanding Reader Perception Shifts Upon Disclosure of AI Authorship (arxiv.org)

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OpenAI's first hardware product is the $230 Codex Micro macropad by Work Louder (thenewstack.io)

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Trump admin and industry groups discuss streamlining releases of US open models (washingtonpost.com)

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Hermes Agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation (techcrunch.com)

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OpenAI discontinues standalone browser ChatGPT Atlas in favor of new ChatGPT app (help.openai.com)

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June: Open-source, local-first private AI assistant for macOS with memory (opensoftware.co)

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Protect your right to run localĀ AI (righttointelligence.org)

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Memory in the Age of AI Agents (Survey Paper) (arxiv.org)

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Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs (2016) (gwern.net)

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Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?

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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero with 19M+ users and $30M ARR (gptzero.me)

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Twenty Years Later, Everything Is the Truman Show (2018) (vanityfair.com)

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Five Eyes joint statement on AI models taking down governments and businesses (cisa.gov)

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Estonia assigns personal ID numbers to AI agents to grant them "authorizations" (bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: At what point does AI regulation lead to confiscation of compute?

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Bird jumps 20%+ after shoemaker Allbirds changes name to Smartbird for AI pivot (smartbird.ai)

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Trump officials discussed structuring government equity stakes in AI companies (semafor.com)

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Killed by GPT (killedbygpt.com)

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Investment leaders share views on AI job displacement as next big risk (2021) (bloomberg.com)

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) (idlewords.com)

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Dotcom layoffs and the first knowledge-worker bust (2001) (economist.com)

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AI turning software building into cultural arbitrage (xcancel.com)

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Cursor hits $3B in revenue and now has 3K+ customers paying at least $100K each (bloomberg.com)

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Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints (antonleicht.me)

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Google TIG reports first example of AI used offensively for zero-day vulns (cloud.google.com)

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Democratizing AI Psychosis: Why Smart People Are Captured by AI Hype (perilous.tech)

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The "AI Job Apocalypse" is a complete fantasy (a16z.news)

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"Great Refactor" FRO to secure key OSS by rewriting C/C++ into memory-safe Rust (ifp.org)

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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark: 60%+ chance of automated AI R&D by 2029 (importai.substack.com)

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Bear Notes 2.8 Introduces BearCLI, Claude Connector, and MCP Server (bear.app)

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Unauthorized Discord group gained access to Anthropic's Mythos model (techcrunch.com)

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AI Has No Moat (geohot.github.io)

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How Gen-Z AI Founders Are Merging Work and Life (inc.com)

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Legal AI startup Harvey raises $200M at $11B led by Sequoia, up from $8B in 2025 (cnbc.com)

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DeleteMe acquires Tracey Chou's Block Party browser extension (techcrunch.com)

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Why (lossy) self-improvement is real but it doesn't lead to fast takeoff (interconnects.ai)

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Suddenly Everyone in San Francisco Is a 'Builder,' Whatever That Means (wsj.com)

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Claude Cowork Dispatch: Anthropic's Answer to OpenClaw (latent.space)

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Nvidia Announces NemoClaw for the OpenClaw Community (nvidia.com)

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Dark Sky Creators Return with Acme Weather: A Fresh Take on Forecast Uncertainty (macstories.net)

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45 years of coding vs. the "nothing you do matters" machine (eod.com)

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GitHub integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub (github.blog)

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Nuclear security helicopter flies low over SF Bay Area ahead of Super Bowl (nbcbayarea.com)

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Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues (theregister.com)

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The Clawdbot (Moltbot) Enterprise AI Risk: One in Five Have It Installed (token.security)

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The 'Busy' Trap (2012) (nytimes.com)

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Clawdbot showed me what the future of personal AI assistants looks like (macstories.net)

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Claude Code is a general-purpose AI agent transforming knowledge work (transformernews.ai)

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Profile of Josh Woodward, head of Google Labs that turned around Gemini app (cnbc.com)

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Doctorow's 'Reverse Centaurs' AI Talk is Brilliant But Misguided (danielmiessler.com)

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Legal-tech co Harvey raises $160M at $8B led by A16Z (up $5B after $300M raise) (nytimes.com)

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Zoox begins offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco, facing off with Waymo (cnbc.com)

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AI for IA: LLMs as thinking tools (2024) (patreon.com)

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Ask HN: Are Claude Skills conceptually the same as Apple's App Intents?

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Wine, Cheese and ChatGPT: Ladies' Night in San Francisco (nytimes.com)

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Dragonfly Thinking (anthearoberts.com)

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AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush Fund (nymag.com)

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OpenAI teams up with Oracle and SoftBank to build 5 new Stargate data centers (wired.com)

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Nvidia signs $1.5B deal with Lambda to rent back 18K of its own AI GPUs (tomshardware.com)

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CoreWeave signs $6.3B order with Nvidia to cover unsold cloud capacity thru 2032 (reuters.com)

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California AG to OpenAI: Harm to Children Will Not Be Tolerated (ca.gov)

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Ask HN: With Meta's newly reorganized superintelligence effort, is Llama 'dead'?

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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts (newyorker.com)

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Anthropic's SHADE-Arena: Evaluating sabotage and monitoring in LLM agents (anthropic.com)

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What Happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, According to Apple (techradar.com)

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Our Last Respite (Is Pain and Suffering) (joshuapurtell.com)

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Success can feel so close but so infinitely far away (2023) (blurry.substack.com)

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Fidji Simo, the Instacart CEO Tasked with Getting OpenAI to Turn a Profit (wsj.com)

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Bloomberg profiles Anthropic head Dario Amodei, who shifted from academic to CEO (bloomberg.com)

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Two California NWS weather offices no longer provide 24/7 emergency warnings (sfchronicle.com)

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OpenAI says OneDrive/SharePoint users can now directly connect files to ChatGPT (windowscentral.com)

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California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC) seeks research proposals (cimc.ai)

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SmolVLM: Real-time camera-based objection detection demo using llama.cpp (github.com/ngxson)

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AI like 'Autistic Translator' and 'Goblin.Tools' are helping autistic people (washingtonpost.com)

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OpenAI brings Deep Research to all users via o4-mini-powered lightweight version (techcrunch.com)

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OpenAI debuts new 'Image Library' section in ChatGPT for AI-generated images (theverge.com)