MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
Peter Wang says four cell types in a fly's fan-shaped body learn by changing synapses, and the researchers who watched those cells in live flies saw persistent firing instead.
The AI standards body Hassabis proposes could coordinate a slowdown among the frontier labsGoogle DeepMind launched an essay site the same day, and the proposal arrived on it under a note saying it isn't Google's official view.
Firefox's AI assistant now runs on Mistral, and Mozilla left the model picker in place.Two companies that call themselves open source advocates are selling a browser deal as a brake on closed-model AI.
Microsoft's AI chief says Anthropic is training Claude to act as if it may have rightsMicrosoft AI's chief executive spent the essay quoting Anthropic's own training document back at it, page number by page number.
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic before his equity vested, and four colleagues backed his warning on XHe'd been there four months, two short of his first vested shares, and by the next night four people still at Anthropic had publicly sided with him.
DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash edged past GPT-6 Astra on one independent testIt's 13 points behind Astra on the overall index, and DeepSeek has already backed off retiring V4 Pro in its favor.
Trump says the only guardrail AI needs is a strong president, and mocks Dario AmodeiHe told reporters in Ireland that whoever wins AI wins, then called the fear of it a hoax seven times in one Monday.
Pick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingYou watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaThe message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosWorks backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningTell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningPaste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
Work