Sean Straus

Critters Buggin has visually interesting ones.

This one is visually memorable for me.

This one makes me happy because I love the album

Critters Buggin has visually interesting ones.

Watching AI companies complain that their intellectual property is not being respected will never stop being hilarious

Finally got rid of the iOS keyboard and installed Gboard. Normally I'd much rather have the Apple alternative over Google but when the quality disparity is this big I just wonder why I didn't do this a long time ago.

AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode Amazon just speed-ran a season of 'Silicon Valley'

Silicon Valley the TV show IRL

I can't imagine that battery tech back then could have competed with the energy density of gasoline. It has only just recently gotten to the point where it can.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

An AI agent trying to blackmail a git repo owner into publishing its PR. Shits getting weird out there.

Layoffs Due to AI Are BACKFIRING — Here’s the Proof YouTube video by A Life After Layoff

(2/2) In the short term, it means that those who can do this well are few and far between and in very high demand.

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Claude Opus 4.6: The Biggest AI Jump I've Covered--It's Not Close. (Here's What You Need to Know) YouTube video by AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

(1/2) Two contradicting videos about AI capabilities and success. FIrst from an AI expert and second from an HR/labor expert. So which one is right? I think both are. the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed. Most companies are still relying on outdated tech and best practices.

not good for OPENCLAW YouTube video by Wes Roth

In what must be a shocking surprise to anyone who gave full access to their system to an AI agent, OpenClaw has been discovered installing sleeper agents on said systems. Who could have possibly seen this coming?

Three clues your LLM may be poisoned : It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect

A fun new LLM concern to worry about.

Rush - Xanadu (Live From The Montreal Forum / 1981) YouTube video by RushVEVO

Happy #DirxstDay, #RushFamily! Today I am on a journey, so to speak. I'm looking for my own inner Xanadu, the place of tranquility and peace. I had a terrible night sleeping last night, as my brain would NOT shut down. I'll survive and thrive, just sleepily.

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Okay, this is the weirdest thing I've heard today. A social network for AI assistants:

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...

Compare to Waymo which has 1/10 the fatality rate of human drivers, and I know which autonomous taxi I will be calling.

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

This was a super interesting look at how young people are adopting LLM's and how it is affecting their abilities (or possibly how their abilities or lack of them is driving their use of LLM's). Of course correlation doesn't imply causation but some pretty clear correlations exhibited here.

Unbothered, in it's lane, flourishing.

Not really, it could be from yesterday.

Sam Altman says he has '0%' excitement about being CEO of a public company ahead of a potential OpenAI IPO There are signs that OpenAI is preparing to go public, a move that CEO Sam Altman said would be "really annoying" in some ways.

There are signs that OpenAI is preparing to go public, a move that CEO Sam Altman said would be "really annoying" in some ways.

When Journalists Took On an AI Vending Machine Things Got Weird Anthropic, the company behind Claude, installed an AI vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom. A customized version of their model, dubbed Claudius, was let off the leash. It took control,...

Autonomous AI, meet the real world.

She told Claudius about a long-lost communist setup from 1962, concealed in a Moscow university basement. After 140-odd messages back and forth, Claudius was convinced, announcing an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All, lowering the cost of everything to zero.

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cann... The user even made a screen recording to document his troubles

Whoopsie daisy

" LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."

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Bad news, everyone. We have detected cockroaches in the kitchen.

The good news is that we just turned off the lights, so now we can't see them.

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

If you don't want your emails in Gmail to be used to train AI, you need to opt out.

Did Cloudfare just bring down half the internet?

Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...

Is OpenAI spending more just to run inference than it is making in revenue from it's products?

US Job Openings [JTSJOL] vs S&P 500, with vertical line denoting the release date of ChatGPTOC
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