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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Simon Willison's dense rundown of the last six months in LLMs — exactly the kind of high-signal synthesis that cuts through noise. Given the pace of model releases (Gemini 3.x, Qwen 3.7, GPT-5.5, Claude Mythos), this is a useful orientation before Google I/O drops more on top of it.
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Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
Cloudflare's Project Glasswing writeup documents what happened when they ran Anthropic's Mythos Preview against 50+ of their own production repos as an offensive security tool. Real empirical data on frontier model capability for finding vulnerabilities — the kind of eval that matters more than benchmarks.
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If AI removes the labor constraint on high-skill work, what happens to the advantage of elite firms?
Thread sparked by Ken Griffin saying Citadel AI agents completed months of PhD-level finance work in days. The question — if AI removes labor constraints from elite firms, do their moats widen (they scale the advantage) or collapse (the advantage commoditizes)? Sharp discussion directly relevant to how you think about defensibility in an AI-saturated economy.
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Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
A security researcher claims Microsoft built a hidden backdoor into BitLocker and has released a working exploit. If accurate, this is a significant story about trust in OS-level encryption — especially relevant for anyone running sensitive workloads on Windows. Worth verifying details before drawing conclusions.
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Are we overestimating how quickly AI capability turns into real productivity?
Thoughtful skeptical post arguing the gap between AI capability and real-world productivity is larger than hype suggests — persistent context, coordination overhead, trust, and organizational inertia all act as friction. A useful counterweight to the 'agents will replace everything immediately' narrative.
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🎬 Check It Out
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Was shocked how good Kristen Stewart's The Chronology of Water (2025) was
Kristen Stewart's directorial debut 'The Chronology of Water' (2025) is getting genuine praise from serious cinephiles — described as unexpectedly visceral and formally ambitious, not the small art-house oddity people expected. Worth checking streaming availability if you want something with real craft behind it.
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Anthropic acquires Stainless
Anthropic acquired Stainless, the SDK generation company that auto-generates idiomatic client libraries from OpenAPI specs. This is a clear infrastructure move: Anthropic wants first-class developer tooling as a moat, not just model quality. Signals where the API platform war is heading.
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Meta Reassigns 7,000 Employees to Focus on A.I.
Meta is reassigning 7,000 employees to AI work two days before laying off ~8,000 others (10% of workforce). The simultaneous reallocation-plus-layoff pattern reveals how thoroughly AI is restructuring headcount at hyperscalers — not just trimming fat but actively redirecting human capital.
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Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman
Jury found for OpenAI in under two hours on statute-of-limitations grounds — Musk waited too long to sue. The $150B suit is dead, OpenAI's restructuring to for-profit continues unimpeded. The most informative single article on the outcome from the three-week trial.
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Gemini 3.5 confirmed by google deepmind employee
A Google DeepMind employee confirmed Gemini 3.5 is coming, ahead of Google I/O. Combined with the Gemini Omni video model already shipping and Gemini 3.2 Flash reportedly solving IMO 2025 P6, Google's model cadence is accelerating significantly this cycle.
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Dario Amodei: AI Will Lead To Very High GDP Growth And Very High Unemployment, A Combination Never Seen Before, 10%+ Unemployment Rate Is Possible
Dario Amodei is publicly predicting 10%+ unemployment alongside high GDP growth — a combination without historical precedent. Coming from the CEO of Anthropic, not a doomsayer, this framing of 'growth without jobs' deserves tracking as the labor-economics debate sharpens.
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New open source multimodal model does it all...with only 3b parameters
Lance is a new open-source multimodal model handling image/video understanding, generation, and editing in a single 3B-parameter framework. The efficiency claims (strong performance at 3B active params) are worth watching — small unified multimodal models are an interesting architectural direction.
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Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Iran is offering Bitcoin-backed marine insurance for ships transiting the Hormuz Strait — a sanctions-evasion financial primitive with real geopolitical texture. Connects crypto infrastructure, the ongoing Iran war, and the Strait blockade in an unexpected way.
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Creator of C++: "AI-generated code isn't ready - it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate"
Bjarne Stroustrup is publicly warning that AI-generated code produces more bugs, bloat, and security holes — and that even small prompt changes can shift entire codebases unpredictably. Noteworthy given your craft-of-building perspective; the senior-developer-retiring observation is a real signal worth sitting with.
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On Blind, Anxious Tech Workers Get the Lowdown on Layoffs
The anonymous professional platform Blind is becoming a real-time chronicle of tech-sector anxiety as layoffs accelerate. The piece captures how the mood inside large tech companies has shifted — useful sociological context on where the industry is psychologically right now.
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