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Regional restrictions on digital services have often proven difficult to enforce completely, and inevitably Anthropic will release the model even if with regional restrictions and when it does so, I wonder how effective those measures would be in practice. Wouldn't it be easily accessible to restricted users too through various proxy mechanisms? Edit: To clarify, I am not referring to individual users trying to circumvent the restrictions themselves. My point is that if there's enough demand, ...

I'm guessing a lot of people use LLMs in a similar way to me: basically maintaining a billion projects in parallel. Because of this, I tend to re-use patterns over and over that come from my experience as a web developer in the before time. I say things like "look at X project in Y folder to see how it's done there.". I got a bit tired of this, so I made AI Boost ( https://ai-boost.io ) (Yes, I use Claude, how could you tell?). It's a simple MCP server that allows snippets to be pu...

Quick context: China is designing a futures market for AI tokens, with the Shanghai Futures Exchange in early stages of designing contracts for AI tokens here AI inference is becoming a real commodity cost, and nobody's hedged a commodity market that doesn't have a transparent, trusted spot price first. Oil futures didn't show up before oil pricing did. Same logic should apply here, but right now "the price of a token" is whatever each provider's pricing page says today, with no hi...

I’ve noticed that some people use AI just to speed things up or get quick answers, while others seem to rely on it more and more for ideas, writing, decisions, and problem-solving. It made me wonder where most people actually stand. Do you think AI is mostly being used as a helpful tool, or has it started replacing a lot of people’s own thinking and creativity?

A national survey compared favorability and name recognition for 8 major tech executives, and the recognition gap is what stood out. The people most associated with building AI, Altman, Amodei, Huang, are unknown to a third to a half of the country, while opinions about tech as a whole keep getting measured through Musk and Zuckerberg, who most people know and view negatively. Tim Cook was the only one clearly above water. If most Americans can't name the people building AI, whose reputation is ...

Nike's AI-designed World Cup jerseys must be steamed to fix a shoulder problem. Good example of AI skipping the step where someone tries it on a real human first. $100+ jerseys with a known cosmetic defect. https://futurism.com/future-society/nike-ai-world-cup-jerseys-scandal

Models have an extremely eloquent relationship with the rake; it can identify the rake, explain why stepping on it is bad, produce a moving little meditation on rake dynamics, then immediately step on it again while narrating the moral injury of garden tools. Share what your assistant says... for fun... for science? https://preview.redd.it/cubzrrww9u7h1.png?width=747&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4d17f856ba789e7dd5e7d7aec55af48cd85c015 ...

Kapwing set up fresh TikTok accounts and found 59% of the videos served to them were AI slop, synthetic visuals or low-effort AI voiceover compilations. That's about three times what they saw on YouTube Shorts. Kids' content was worst: 57% overall, and 97% under the #CartoonKids tag. TikTok does offer a "see less AI content" option on the For You Page, which tells you they're aware of it. https://aiweekly.co/alerts/kapwing-59-of-new-tiktok-feeds-are-ai-slop submitted by...

I went down the 'Papers by OG researchers' touching on biologically possible alternatives to backprop lol.

Okay this is just floating around as a rumor right now but if true it's actually huge Next voice model is supposedly called GPT-Bidi-1, bidi for bidirectional, meaning it listens and talks at the same time instead of doing that thing where it just freezes the second you say "mm-hm" or try to jump in Can apparently adjust mid sentence too if you interrupt it which current voice mode absolutely cannot do If even half of this is true this fixes the most annoying thing about talking to ...

A small thing from this month's model releases stuck with me more than the usual flagship leaderboard race, because it points at where the interesting progress actually is. A 4 billion parameter open model reportedly beat every open source model in the 30 billion class on a couple of hard web research benchmarks. Not matched, beat. A model you could run on a laptop outperforming ones roughly eight times its size on the specific task of going out, reading sources, and answering a multi step quest...

AI models have become incredibly capable. ​ But one problem remains: ​ Trust. ​ Even state-of-the-art models hallucinate, especially in high-stakes industries like finance and healthcare. ​ At AutoFlow, we're researching whether AI outputs can be externally verified through: Knowledge graphs ​ Mathematical consistency checks Symbolic reasoning Verification certificates ​ Instead of asking: "Is the model confident?&quo...

I've seen a lot of successful and struggling web design companies, and the biggest differentiator between the two is strategy. It's all about positioning and your offer. First of all, you've got to give businesses an offer they can't refuse. Selling a website is a multiple step process. It's not just convincing someone to pay you and then starting the work. It's crazy how many people still try to sell websites that way, but unfortunately you won't find much luck with that today. What I do to...

Does anyone else feel this gap? The more routine tasks get automated, the more work I can move forward in a day. But...the feeling of "I'm done for today" still has to come from me. It feels a little different from actually closing the day by myself, I think.

Hey guys, I have been thinking a lot about where the current tech paradigm may ultimately lead. Everyday I see a ton of new products : better assistants, better automation, better this, faster that… But what is going on here is much deeper than a betterment of existing use cases. My current hypothesis is that we are shifting from a world of direct interaction to a world of representation where everyone and everything will have an agent. And I mean it : corporations, brands, places, institu...

For e.g. physics research, a perfect situation would be providing e.g. Lagrangian of model, and AI environment should generate code for simulations and run them presenting results - so we could literally talk with it regarding succeeding tests. I know only one such environment: https://github.com/openwave-labs/openwave/blob/main/MODELS.md - are there any others? How should such perfect tool look like?

I was browsing GitHub, looking for interesting open source projects, when one caught my eye. I do not do that often, but I keep reminding myself to do it more. Open source is having a special moment, as coding agents are helping people build more repos than ever. Still, many of the best ideas are hiding in plain sight. The project is called Headroom . At the time, it had around 2,000 GitHub stars and claimed to reduce token usage by 60% to 95% when using Claude Code and the rest of the codi...

Been spending most of my time trying to actually build and ship AI workflows lately, and the gap between online discussions and reality is getting more evident. A lot of the conversations about AI we see online still revolves around stuff like model comparisons, reasoning capabilities, benchmarks, and every new release cycle. Meanwhile, I keep finding myself buried in questions around reliability, evaluation, observability, governance, and what it actually takes to run these systems in productio...

What happens when access to a critical AI model can change overnight because of a policy decision made in another country? That's why I don't think Sovereign AI is just government jargon. If businesses, banks, healthcare providers, or governments start building critical workflows on AI systems, then access and control become strategic concerns. This isn't about every country building its own GPT competitor. It's about reducing dependency on a handful of providers and ensuring critical A...

There’s a lot happening in recovery-related fields rehabilitation tech, personalized medicine, and regenerative research. But most people only see simplified versions of those developments. That gap between progress and awareness creates a lot of misunderstanding. It feels like we’re still early in how these ideas are understood publicly.

Since I'm absolute unsure of about the hardware, I'm having second thoughts on the below: 1. Motors - BetaFPV 0802SE Brushless Motors 4pc - 19500KV DSC: FLYWOO GOKU F405 HD 1-2S 12A AIO ELRS (ICM42688) ESP32 ESP32-S3 Development Board AYWHP ESP32 S3 ESP32-S3-DevKitC Module with WROOM-1-N16R8 Low Power MCU with Dual-Mode Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Type-C Connector Compatible with Arduino BETAFPV BT2.0 Battery Charger and Voltage Tester V2 BetaFPV BT2.0 550mAh 1S 40C HV LiPo Battery H...

https://reddit.com/link/1u82qws/video/wlixca9ris7h1/player Character AI, founded by former Google/LaMDA developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, proved that text-based character chat can work as a real entertainment category. But the next chapter might not be better text chat. It might be real-time video interaction. Mel AI recently shared a demo of AI character video chat, and the interesting part is the interaction stack: voice, lip sync, facial reactions, and camera-aware respons...

Is anyone else feeling this? AI has made me faster at almost everything. Writing, research, planning, summarizing, learning, replying — all of it is quicker now. But instead of feeling like I have more free time, I feel like the standard just moved. If something used to take 3 hours and now takes 30 minutes, the result isn’t “great, I can rest.” It’s “great, now I can do 5 more things.” I get why everyone is excited about AI productivity, and I use these tools every day. But I also feel ...

Anthropric released a research paper today analyzing ~400,000 Claude Code sessions. The findings are wild and I haven’t seen anyone talk about the uncomfortable implications. What they actually found: -Lawyers, accountants, and managers succeed at coding tasks within 7 percentage points of actual software engineers -Management occupations had the HIGHEST verified success rate. Higher than software engineers. -The gap between experts and intermediates is “modest” meaning once you hit a bas...

I see a lot of AI art defenders asking what makes art, art. A lot people come up with definitions on it but it always excuses certain arts. I believe I have the definitive answer but of course if I have left out some art communities or there are holes in this explaining I would love some constructive criticism. Art is when you put feelings in something that maybe for the good, the bad, or the neutral. Its when you love creating something no matter how it looks. Its when your bored and just doo...

https://c.org/FRv5p4P4qG I started a petition to change Youtube. In the petition I detail the issues of non-communication and reliance on automated systems, the far-reaching effects, and the solutions I hope will be implemented. But that'll only happen if we make enough noise. If you have channels you value, help protect them by signing. Youtube has shown that it's only when people make a ruckus that they are forced to change anything. I'm hoping we can make the platform better for the ...