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Welcome to another round-up of interesting AI news and some general web news as well. Here they are: * Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment. Together with OpenAI being sued for user deaths within, this is another story on how LLM controls for safety really don't work that well yet. Most of the controls and guardrails are added in post-training or within guardrails during usage. These mechanisms are just too weak to work yet. There are hypotheses that put

Sep 7, 2025

From AI Charter Schools to how reasoning models are driving the demand for AI Capacity. Another packed week of stories.

Aug 31, 2025

AI leaders offer government $1 AI, NVIDIA argues for smaller models, and Google shares energy data

Aug 24, 2025

Drug discovery, Chrome, Perplexity, and AI as the interface to the online world.

Aug 16, 2025

GPT-5 takes over the airways, we're looking forward to Cynic mode.

Aug 10, 2025

A huge week for releases and advances. Google and Github both release vibe coding tools. Anthropic integrates with Canva and Figma.

Aug 3, 2025

AI economics are unpredictable, but starting to feel inevitable.

Jul 26, 2025

ChatGPT Agent, No Code, and Sneaky Text Prompts

Jul 20, 2025

This week, NVIDIA's market value reached $4M, which is a huge milestone. It's our first story, but also, I think, a good moment to pause. The real meaning here, I think, is that there is a general consensus that much of human productivity and life is going to be running "on" or "with" AI.

Jul 12, 2025

Some interesting stories this week: * New Insights for Scaling Laws in Autonomous Driving (from the Waymo Team). TL;DR Tesla's strategy of turning all its cars into roving data capture machines was probably the right call. Not that Waymo isn't saying that Lidar is useless (Waymo uses expensive rigs whereas Tesla works with vision only), like Elon Musk is. In a sense, they are saying the opposite; most likely, data from multiple sensor types is still better as long as you can get a lot of it.

Jul 5, 2025