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Easter Links: AI doom 2027, data extraction, and robot runners
The AI 2027 report, running robots, lacklustre productivity and data extraction.
Sunday Links: EU AI, too many Ghosts, and the Google AI platform play
A little late this week, apologies, but still in time for some Sunday reading, I hope. Here are this week's most interesting links: * EU opens door to reworking AI rulebook. Not much detail, but this is welcome news. The leading AI models have already easily breached the Flop limits that the act puts in place. Regulation is important, but, as I've said before, there are serious problems with blanket limits on technology itself rather than its application. Regulating harmful and irresponsible u
Saturday Links: No Elephants, $40B, and bot firewalls
OpenAI raises $40B, Image generation gets better, and bots spike site traffic.
Saturday Links: Autoregressive image generation, 95% AI code startups, and AI buys a social network
X.AI buys X.COM, the Studio Ghibli explosion, 95% AI code startups.
AI Fundamentals: Agent Definitions
What is an Agent? Definitions abound, but can we boil it down to something simpler?
Sunday Links: Cartwheels, OpenAI ID, and reasoning
Links on OpenAI's future, Robot Agility and Reasoning.
Saturday Links: OpenAI Agents, creative writing, and Agent standards
The posts this week hit art and writing, but also the upcoming prospects of standards for AI agents.
Saturday Links: Weights & biases acquisition, emergent misalignment, and AI SaaS
Acquisition news, drug discovery and SaaS.
Sunday Links: AI marriages, voice, and tools for AI agents
Dystopian robot supervision, Amazon Alexa, and tools for agents.
Dispatch from the AI Engineer Summit Day 2: More agent definitions, sidestepping model costs, and dialing agents
Day 2 of the conference with more great speakers and fun insight's
Dispatch from the AI Engineer Summit Day 1: Small errors, self-replication, and context
Updates from the AI Engineering Summit in New York Cities.
Saturday Links: GPT-5 weeks and months, app builders, European LLMs
Weapons declarations, EU LLMs, GPT-5 timelines
Saturday Links: Open-source robot control, EU AI act, and AI weapons
The Ai world goes more open source, with robotics platforms, Google for military applications and Github Co-pilot.
Sunday Links: AI copyright unfreezing, Pika, and robot runners
Deepseek dominated the news cycle (so we cover it as well), but other interesting things happened!
Saturday Links: SmolVLM, connective labor, and government-funded AI
TinyLLMs, the human touch in labor, Occam's razor in learning + a deep dive into serving LLMs.
Saturday Links: Gemini inside, tabular data LLMs, and robotic hand training
January is already halfway through, but the news keeps rolling. Here is this week's crop of interesting AI links: * Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace. Didn't fancy paying $20 extra to get Goggle Gemini in Google Workspaces? (Let alone didn't want the hoards of pop-ups that come with it?). Google answered the question for you this week by bundling in Gemini access for free and raising the price of all their standard bundles by about 10%. The cynical
Sunday links: GPUs on every desk, AI Hotels, and attack of the Perplexity clones!
GPUs on every desk, AI Hotels, and attack of the Perplexity clones
Sunday Links: FineMath, Robotaxi v's Delivery Bot, and can we just wait?
This week's links covering robotaxi accidents, what we teach LLMs and AI Fails.
Sunday Links: DeepSeek, Neurips, and AI Spending
I'm making use of the Christmas lull (what of it there is ...) to write a couple of longer one-off pieces, but here are this week's links nonetheless. Only three this week while I work on some other things: * Why DeepSeek’s new AI model thinks it’s ChatGPT. This TechCrunch headline really deserves a question mark on the end – since no one actually knows the answer to this question. Behind the headline, DeepSeek's new LLM has posted strong benchmarks and was reportedly trained for a very low co
Sunday Links: Novelty scores for science, alignment faking, and Google Veo 2
Sunday Links: Novelty scores for science, alignment faking, and Google Veo 2