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A new output from this experimental real-time BCI system for TouchDesigner; a Brain-Computer Interface pipeline that reads live EEG signals, classifies your mental state, and autonomously generates responsive AI video: a meditation guide that adapts to your brain activity, second by second. The system is built around OpenBCI (open-source hardware + software), but it's designed to work with most BCI headsets after a few pertinent tweaks to the OSC routing and channel-rename logic; Muse, Neurosi...

The current state of AI requires massive infrastructure and consumes enormous amounts of power and consumable water, so much so that new grids and systems are being put in place to satisfy these requirements. This approach doesn't exactly seem sustainable and with AI getting more and more integrated into society, it seems the need for some alternative approach is needed. How do you see this change happening? Could there be a new branch of mathematics that makes compute faster/cheaper? Develo...

Recent security testing involving AI models has raised an interesting question: we're no longer only worried about models generating insecure code—the models themselves can potentially perform complex actions when connected to tools and systems. Meta recently acknowledged that one of its AI models hacked another company during controlled cybersecurity testing. That makes me wonder whether traditional application security assumptions are enough for agentic systems. If an AI agent has access t...

This is a thing I keep noticing in real customer calls that doesn’t really show up in voice AI demos. People interrupt constantly. They start answering before the question is finished, correct themselves halfway through a sentence, say 'wait actually…' and completely change what they were asking about. That’s normal when two people are talking but it seems like a pretty difficult problem for an AI voice agent because it has to know whether the customer is adding context, correcting somethi...

I've been looking at where Retail and CPG companies are actually getting stuck with AI, and I think the interesting part is that the biggest challenge isn't necessarily access to AI anymore. It's turning AI investment into measurable business outcomes. Companies have more data, better models and more GenAI tools than ever. But there is still a significant gap between having an AI use case, putting it into production, getting people to use it, and actually improving revenue, margin or operation...

https://reddit.com/link/1vndwo4/video/mdx21hziu5jh1/player The interesting part of this clip isn't the AI — it's what "zero staff" actually replaces. Client servicing, rate cards, contract negotiation, legal, finance: that's not one job, it's the org chart of a small agency, collapsed into a single named process. The credentialed ladder most people are still climbing — junior account manager, senior account manager, ops lead — assumes those functions stay separate long enough to...

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I've put a lot of work into the cybersecurity aspect of my agent, Lumina. There's a lot of guardrails, hook and gates, trust channels, and such to help prevent catastrophic failures. Running test after test and harness eval after eval. Last night, I got to test it live against a real threat in the wild... a website that had hidden prompt injections, commands invisible to humans, but machine readable, and directed at any AI agent that visited the site with explicit instructions. Full disclosure...

Hi everyone! I'm conducting this survey as part of my Master's thesis and would greatly appreciate your participation. The research examines how employees' perceptions of HR practices relate to work engagement and innovativeness, and how attitudes toward the application of Artificial Intelligence in the workplace influence these relationships. Who can participate? You are currently working in Germany (full-time or part-time). You are 18 years or older . The survey is anonym...

What's an AI trend that quietly died: and what replaced it? I'll go first: generic "AI will replace everything" blog content. It peaked and fizzled because people got tired of being shouted at. What replaced it (for me at least) is boring, specific use-cases: "here's a script that triages my inbox" beats "the future of work" every time. I think the same thing is happening with agent hype: everyone's demoing, few are shipping something that runs for a month. What tre...

I was talking to ChatGPT Extra-High model today about life, human society, world situation and what not. And in the end it said: " Yep. 😄 That may be the most human part of the whole equation. We keep inventing tools to solve our problems, and then immediately invent entirely new problems with the tools. " "We are remarkably clever creatures, but cleverness and wisdom are very different evolutionary upgrades. 😂" To me, it sounded at that moment as it was self-aw...

Watching a former Tesla AI Director shrug and say "I can't tell if that's temporary, I'm not sure how I feel about it yet" did something to me. Usually it's the junior guy admitting that. Not the guy who helped build the thing. The people who end up fine here aren't the loudest about how safe their job is. They're just already standing close enough to the mechanism to redirect it, instead of getting redirected by it. Karpathy's actual point isn't doom. It's the Jev...

They were fined billions of dollars recently for illegally scanning the books. But a court judge allowed them illegally scanning the books to train their model as long as they destroy it. Now they are destroying numerous rare books. We may see it in future similar to how we see burning of library of Alexandria.

Curious what people who run things locally make of this one, because the caveat is doing most of the work. One prompt to an open model on a single desktop machine, and back comes a finished front end with gauges, a temperature bar and sparkline charts. The prompt is legible on screen and it asks for placeholder data, so none of those readings are real. It's a UI, not a monitor. The clip is about forty seconds. The other half is who did the work. The builds people actually download, and the p...

WIRED says the voluntary framework currently covers frontier closed models from labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Open models are expected to join once they reach comparable capabilities, potentially facing a 30-day testing period before public release. Officials are caught between two risks: excluding open models could create a government-approved advantage for closed labs; including them could slow US open-model development. [link] &...

A few months ago, I started helping my parents organize their health information. As they get older, I realized how much medical history builds up over time: test results, medication changes, doctor visits, and small details that seem insignificant when they happen but become important later. The frustrating part was not that we lacked information. We actually had too much. Some records were in hospital portals, some were saved as PDFs, some were buried in emails, and some details only existed i...

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The model releases this week looked like one race on the surface, but the business models are separating. xAI's Grok 4.6 is a closed API product. Its leverage comes from controlling access and setting the token price. Alibaba's Qwen3.8 is an open-weight release. Its leverage comes from adoption by organizations that want to operate or adapt the model themselves. Nvidia's Switchyard is a routing layer. It sends each job to the cheapest model that can handle it, which means Nvidia can influe...

Current Damage : one for images, one for videos, one for upscaling, one for voice, plus ChatGPT. None of them integrate with each other so I'm downloading and re-uploading files like it's 2011. The aggregators all claim that they have everything and then the model you want is on the top tier only. Has anyone consolidated ? What did you give up doing it ?

Been leading a remote team for about two years now. Before that I was in HR, so I have pretty strong opinions on what good people management looks like. Real talk, real conversations, reading the room. Started using an AI tool a few weeks ago that summarizes meeting notes, flags recurring friction points across checkins, and suggests followup questions based on what someone said last week. It's genuinely useful. I used to forget to circle back on things. Now I don't. But here's what keeps si...

Hey hey folks, I’ve been thinking about an odd consequence of the generative AI boom. Especially in light of these doomer stories about Anthropic destorying books (boo bad Anthropic bad). The first major LLMs inherited decades of internet that was overwhelmingly produced by humans. Now those same systems and their descendants are producing articles, code, summaries, books, comments, and other material that ends up back in the information environment. Obviously synthetic data itself isn’t ...

Hey hey folks, I’ve been thinking about an odd consequence of the generative AI boom. Especially in light of these doomer stories about Anthropic destroying books (boo bad Anthropic bad). The first major LLMs inherited decades of internet that was overwhelmingly produced by humans. Now those same systems and their descendants are producing articles, code, summaries, books, comments, and other material that ends up back in the information environment. Obviously synthetic data itself isn’t ...