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The more capable AI becomes, the more interested I am in the things that make humans unique.

I expected another AI tool that looked impressive on the homepage but didn't hold up in practice. After spending a little time with Readdy AI, I found it more useful than I expected for creating an initial direction. It's definitely not replacing my own decisions, but it has made getting started feel easier. If you've tried it, what was your biggest surprise?

One thing I’ve been thinking about… People are always talking about how AI will replace humans etc etc. As economies of scale take place on AI and it gets cheaper and cheaper to use AI (this is long term after Lindsey effect). Won’t the competitive advantage be for companies who have an ai human enabled workforce? Not sure AI will ever be able to outpace a smart human & ai combined. It seems like the main comparison now is human salary vs ai costs, but in the future when the tech get...

I've been maintaining a CVE-style database of real, sourced AI agent failures. With 60 catalogued, the patterns are clear enough to write up: security vulnerabilities and destructive actions make up about half, 47% are critical, and the most common root cause is confidence miscalibration - agents acting decisively on unverified assumptions. Write-up (with links to each incident): https://stupidllm.com/what-60-ai-agent-failures-reveal/ Not selling anything - corrections and submissions welc...

I want to generate realistic looking images of my Papa who has recently passed using a few pictures of when he was younger. The photos are not the best quality as they were saved from Facebook which badly degrades them. I've played around with a few free upscalers but they look terrible. While trying out some online tools I did find one that was VERY good at reconstructing the face using a bad photo. I don't remember what it was called but think it had one or note in the name? I'm also looking...

In this day and age, running a web agency is a lot easier than it used to be. A few years ago you needed designers, developers, and people doing outreach just to keep everything moving. Now one person can do pretty much all of it. AI builds the websites. Email automation keeps bringing in new clients. Your job is to sell and onboard clients because building the websites isn't the time consuming part anymore. I think this is a huge opportunity for solo web developers who want to scale...

I run a multi-agent workspace where each agent is basically a directory: an identity file, a session history, and a file of observations it keeps about how we work together. The model is just the thing that wakes it up. Here's what I didn't expect when I started: those agents have now run on 6 different model generations. Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, , Sonnet 5, Opus 4.6, Opus 4.8, and now the Claude 5 family. We skipped 4.7 entirely - tried it, didn't work for how we operate, moved on and waited. ...

I’ve been trying to understand how the AI ecosystem is changing, so I put together this visual map. One thing that stands out to me: AI seems to be moving from: one AI tool for everything towards: different tools for different workflows Examples: coding writing research automation AI agents design The interesting part is that this shift is also happening on the developer side. Instead of building everything around one model/provider, more teams seem to be expl...

What Is Left for Us to Become? There is a question that keeps returning, in different forms, every time a new technology reaches the threshold of intelligence. It is usually asked wrong. What can this thing do? is the question of an engineer, or a market. It is not the question of someone trying to understand what is actually happening. The more difficult question, the one that doesn't resolve into a product roadmap, is this: what relationship are we building with AI? Not what it compu...

A verification system for machine intelligence that prioritizes certainty over confidence. Most AI systems generate an answer and hope you trust it. Chiron inverts that: it tries to recover the exact underlying rule (via Minimum Description Length), proves it on data it was never shown , and refuses to stamp anything it can't verify exactly . Every output comes with a signed, falsifiable certificate. https://github.com/jiannotti5040/chiron

I'm 40, I've done 3dcg since the late 90s, went to school at SCAD for animation, the guy who animated mufasa was one of my professors, I've been working on creating a totally independent animation/film professional pipeline to youtube for over a decade now. blah blah I don't think it's necessary to reinvent the wheel with this, so it would function basically as a plugin for existing AI film creation systems. To my knowledge there is no existing existing publicly available intuitive AI video cr...

Google Genie 3 generating explorable worlds from a text prompt is genuinely strange to watch, and the tech demo framing actually undersells what's happening. Even in its rough state, it's compressing something that used to take hundreds of people years of work into a single prompt. Most of the conversation lands on whether games will look better or worse, whether it feels soulless, that kind of thing. But the more interesting question is what happens to the people who currently build this stuf...

Three main sources for AI Incidents: OECD incident monitor, AI Incident Database and MIT risk repository are awesome but, unfortunately, reading through them is painful. So I combined them into a single readable digest: fail.ticker.io It pulls from all three daily and shows the totals, charts per year and month, which types of harm come up most, and the newest incidents with a short brief of each + a link to the source. Some extra stuff that ended up in there along the way: a Hall of ...

Been going through the Kimi K3 numbers and I don't think people have fully clocked how big this is. Right now on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Fable 5 is still #1 (59.9) and even GPT-5.6 Sol (58.9) hasn't managed to pass it. K3 comes in third at 57.1, ahead of Opus 4.8. That is an open-weights model landing within about three points of the single best closed model out there, one that OpenAI's own flagship couldn't overtake. And on the stuff that's harder to fake it's arguably b...

How many of your org's "agents" can actually complete a multi-step task without someone feeding it each step by hand? VentureBeat's Pulse Research asked that question directly after surveying 101 enterprises about their AI agent deployment. The answer was blunt: 71% admitted a quarter or fewer of what they called agents were real multi-step workflows, not single-prompt wrappers with new packaging. Only 10% had more than half their fleet crossing that bar. Claude leads as the primar...

It's integrated into chrome, works directly with Google Search as AI Mode and overviews, acts as the default assistant for Android phones (and now apparently Apple phones too), powers Circle-to-Search, and even works as a chatbot assistant with Google Maps, Gmail, Docs, etc. That's a pretty stacked roster. This is some IOS level of ecosystem compatibility. I currently have a ChatGPT subscription and overall pretty satisfied, but I do feel a bit of jealousy at the level of integration Gemini has....

Just for fun: from this projection, can you guess the model? Don't look up the watermark. It might point you in the wrong direction. I'll reveal the answer in a day or so.

the instinct in here that company data shouldn't go live in a vendor cloud is right, and it holds up better than most of the takes it sits next to. private vpc or on-prem is also a mostly solved shape at this point, plenty of vendors will sell you that box. The part I keep watching people walk into is downstream of that. Once it's running inside your own vpc, the agent can still only touch what has a connector. Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, those ship in the box. The internal billing tool, the...

I've been following semiconductor stocks pretty closely this year, and one thing from this week really stood out to me. Broadcom announces a long-term Apple deal and the stock jumps almost 11%. Samsung reports record profits. SK hynix pulls off one of the biggest listings we've seen. And... memory stocks barely move. The more I think about it, the more it feels like the market isn't rewarding "good news" anymore. It's rewarding new information . Everyone already knew HBM d...

I really liked the conversational feel of GPT-Live, so I wanted to build something similar that could run locally. I’ve spent some time developing a project called OpenLive—written in Rust—which serves as a self-hosted voice agent runtime. My main goal was to make the conversation feel natural; for instance, allowing for interruptions and ensuring quick responses, all while keeping everything running on my own machine. It features a clean real-time voice interface with an animated sphere, uses P...

Nvidia-backed Fireworks hits $17.5 billion valuation as companies pursue cheaper AI models

My friend received an email from his financial advisor. Just one paragraph giving a few thoughts and said if he had any questions or thoughts he could email back. Right after that he received an EI generated email giving him suggestions on things he could email back by just clicking the link. Does this sound legal to you that anyone can have access to your emails?