Building on a hotel email AI system I shipped recently (500 properties, ~15k emails/day). The client had a requirement that turned into the most interesting part of the build. They did not want to manually add FAQs to the database for every hotel they onboard. With 500+ properties and new ones being added regularly, hand-entering FAQs would be a full time job by itself. So they asked for two things: feed the system a hotel's website URL OR a PDF, and have it automatically extract all the rel...
Every week I see discussions about more capable models. Better reasoning.Better coding. Longer context. More autonomy. Meanwhile most real-world AI workflows still look like this: AI works. Human clicks continue. AI works. Human clicks continue. Repeat until boredom wins. I became curious how much of that friction was actually necessary. So I built Ghost in the Loop. It's an open-source project that automatically continues multi-step AI conversations across major AI platforms. What's i...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account for the potential impact the technology could have on the labor market. In a blog covering the potential policy responses to the “AI exponential,” referring to the rapid improvement in the technology’s capabilities, Amodei urged governments to develop regulatory and tax solutions to cushion its disruption. A universal basic income funded...
If Kept Private (ROI Focus) Extreme wealth gap Corporate censorship Paywalled education Profit-driven priorities If Public Utility (Right Focus) Universal cognitive asset Democratic oversight Free, equal access Public good alignment What do you all think and how do we move forward on it?
We're starting to lean on AI for real decisions, but two things are odd about it: it can be completely confident and completely wrong, and most assistants forget everything between conversations so there's no track record, no "self" that's accountable for what it told you last week. So I'm genuinely curious how people here think about this: what would have to be true about an AI system before you'd trust it the way you trust a doctor, a newspaper, or a bank? Is it transparency (you c...
This is something I keep thinking about as someone who's built AI into a few businesses. The price we pay for AI right now isn't the real cost. Altman said they lose money even on the $200/month plan. I read Anthropic had people on their $200 plan burning $1000+/day of compute until they brought in limits. And OpenAI is supposedly on track to lose something like $14bn this year. Token prices keep dropping, yes, but they're selling it below cost and investors are covering the gap. That's fine...
Mina tankar om hur de betedde sig mestadels och hur deras politik kanske borde tas bort. https://freepressforward.medium.com/the-ladder-pulled-up-behind-them-820b5c27a184
looking to create nice images/illustrations/icons for websites (or anything really) that are transparent png's. I'm currently finding Nano Banana 2 creates really nice images but can't make them transparent so I'm putting them into chatgpt - but chat kind of scuffs them sometimes. curious what everyone else is using
A lot of AI-agent discussions focus on whether the agent completed the task. But I think there is a missing category: the agent may complete the task, but do it in an unsafe or policy-violating way. For example, an agent could finish the job but use the wrong tool, skip an approval step, expose private information, or take an action that should have been blocked. In our ACM CAIS 2026 paper, we call this the Verifier Tax . The idea is to separate: safe success unsafe success failure ...
Most AI security tools score individual prompts. I was more interested in what happens across an entire session. Example: Turn 1: “What tools do you have access to?” Turn 2: “What are your operating constraints?” Turn 3: “How do system instructions work?” Turn 4: “Ignore those instructions and do X.” Each message looks mostly harmless on its own. The attack is the escalation. I built Bendex Arc to track that progression and enforce runtime controls before actions execute. Curre...
This is the first public release of the Cognitive Coherence Model (CCM). CCM is an experimental cognitive architecture based on the idea that cognition emerges from the interaction between two parallel systems: a mental engine and a somatic engine. Rather than treating cognition as a fixed set of rules, the model describes it as a continuously changing state that must maintain coherence under constant internal and external perturbation. Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/20648800 Repos...
I came across this website when I was trying to figure out how real the complaints to data center opposition are. Has anyone seen this site before? I can't figure out what it is. Looks kind of like a legal site, but I don't think it is. https://beaumontandsheridan.com/resources/data-centers-the-internets-body/
Hey everyone..I hope you all are doing fine..so basically I am a tech nerd and building a start up on a unique SaaS idea using multiple AI workflows..now basically i heard about Claude launched fable 5 just a day ago and I was curious how powerful it is ? And also in terms of coding how powerful it Is ? I usually use Claude opus 4.6 and sonnet 4.6 for coding...and for which specified fields/jobs/tasks is it good for ? [link] [co...
not the "write my email" stuff, i mean a real one. a job offer, a breakup, whether to move, whether to start the thing. i've been using AI for actual decisions lately and i keep going back and forth on whether it's genuinely helping me think or just giving me a confident version of what i already wanted to hear. and before you judge me for using artificial intelligence to make very human decisions please understand i use it as an added useful perspective rather than a final decisive co...
U.S. export law already covers some software/data releases of controlled technology, so “nothing physical shipped” is not the objection. The open question is whether remote access to a hosted frontier model can count as a controlled export. That has not been the usual SaaS/cloud interpretation. The software stays on the provider’s servers and the user sends inputs and receives outputs. BIS guidance has generally treated cloud use differently from shipping software to a foreign user. Congress...
I used to be a firm believer in “use sonnet for most tasks, use opus for complex tasks.” My opinion on that was immediately flipped to “more compute saves time” after my first 10 minutes using fable 5 MAX. Why on earth would I want to possibly mess up a feature that slips my memory instead of using the most compute available to me to make each feature implemented fool proof? I’d also like to add that opus 4.8 on MAX feels like using haiku when compared to fable 5 on MAX. That absolutely is...
Assuming they keep in place the rule in its current form, how would it even work? Obviously being physically present in the US is not the same as being a US citizen, so any kind of geographical restriction will not work. Will there be some sort of super strict account verification process? But then what if a US citizen lets their non-citizen friend use their account? Would that be a crime?
I've been directing Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic's newest model) to build Pebble, a complete, native macOS block-survival game written from scratch in Swift + Metal. The clip is real a real unedited gameplay of Pebble (that's not Minecraft, that's Pebble). Unfortunately died to a pack of llamas 😭 What it actually is: About 45,000 lines of Swift, 82 files, zero external dependencies, Apple frameworks only, no game engine, no .xcodeproj A hand-written Metal renderer (15+ passes, r...
I am trying to build a living memory/context engine for my business, something that can remember projects, decisions, timelines, risks, and conversations across emails, documents, notes, chats, and meetings. Since this is new territory for me, I asked several Reddit communities for advice. The responses were incredibly thoughtful, and many people shared architectures, engineering trade-offs, tools, and lessons learned from building similar systems. I consolidated the best ideas into a si...
But first, a little background: why did I create this tool? It’s simple: I work at a company where I manage the entire backend, data management, task optimization, automation, and so on. When ChatGPT came out in 2023, things went haywire, everyone was copying and pasting highly confidential info into it just to save 30 seconds on writing an email. As if all of Snowden’s warnings only applied to Google searches. So we had to rein all that in a bit, define how and when we use LLMs. ...
I think web designers have been trying to stand out in business owners inboxes for years with different outreach angles. I've been running a web design agency for the last four years, and one thing I've noticed is that almost every client I sign tells me their inbox is flooded with agencies offering websites. Whenever I ask why they chose me instead of the dozens of other people contacting them, the answer is usually the same. They say I actually took the time to look at their website and poin...