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Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI (simonwillison.net)

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Strengthening Singapore's AI Future (deepmind.google)

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Gemini Omni (blog.google)

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AI Tokenomics: How to Profitably Turn Tokens into Business Value [video] (youtube.com)

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New in Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels (claude.com)

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Portability Is a Myth: Why the Best AI Stacks Will Never Be Hardware-Agnostic (twitter.com/patricktoulme)

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Don't Outsource the Learning (twitter.com/addyosmani)

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The Gentle Singularity; the Fast Takeoff (prinzai.com)

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Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, MHC, Compressed Attention (sebastianraschka.com)

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Cerebras – Faster Tokens Please (semianalysis.com)

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OpenAI super PAC paying for an army of Twitter bots to engage with their content (twitter.com/themidasproj)

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From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy (p3institute.substack.com)

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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership (anthropic.com)

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I work on self-improving AI despite the risks (twitter.com/jeffclune)

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The AI Tribunal of Truth (objection.ai)

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Keep Claude working toward a goal (claude.com)

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Do more and have more fun with the next generation of Android in the car (blog.google)

2

Why is Anthropic's training data disclosure AI-generated? (twitter.com/themidasproj)

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Symphony: Every open task gets a running Codex agent (twitter.com/odysseus0z)

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Agent View in Claude Code (claude.com)

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Baidu ERNIE 5.1 just dropped (ernie.baidu.com)

3

Agent Harness Engineering (twitter.com/addyosmani)

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Agent Harness Engineering (twitter.com/addyosmani)

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Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)

2

OpenAI: Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL (alignment.openai.com)

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Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)

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Natural Language Autoencoders (neuronpedia.org)

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The Reliability Race (twitter.com/jdroege)

3

I'm a Doctor. Here's What A.I. Cannot Do (nytimes.com)

2

The Distillation Panic (interconnects.ai)

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Karabiner-Elements 16.0.0 (pqrs.org)

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The A.I. Fear Keeping Silicon Valley Up at Night (nytimes.com)

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The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC is funding it (twitter.com/themidasproj)

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Meta Partners with AWS on Graviton Chips to Power Agentic AI (fb.com)

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 (chatgpt.com)

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Nvidia OpenShell: safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents (github.com/nvidia)

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Euphony: OSS tool for visualizing chat data and Codex session logs (openai.github.io)

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The road to useful quantum computing applications (blog.google)

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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)

6

Gemini App on Mac (gemini.google)

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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech (blog.google)

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Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds (nvidia.com)

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Zotero 9 (zotero.org)

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OpenAI's latest internal memo about beating the competition (theverge.com)

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Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds (2025) (github.blog)

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Scan for secrets in files you plan to share (github.com/simonw)

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Developer relations after the cheat code machine (sunilpai.dev)

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Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents (qwen.ai)

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AutoClaw: AI assistant, right inside your chats (z.ai)

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What Is YouTube's Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its CEO (nytimes.com)

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Researchers create an "AI Scientist" that conducts its own scientific research (nature.com)

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[dupe] ARC-AGI-3 benchmark is out now (arcprize.org)

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Neo Store: The modern and feature-rich F-Droid client for everyone (github.com/neoapplications)

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Practical AI Coding Techniques (github.com/inmve)

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Session: Send Messages, Not Metadata (getsession.org)

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Briar: Secure Messaging Anywhere (briarproject.org)

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Cline: Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE (github.com/cline)

2

The Flawed Ephemeral Software Hypothesis (blackhc.net)

1

How an Electrician from Kentucky Built an AI Startup with Claude (twitter.com/vivilinsv)

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The Anthropic Institute (anthropic.com)

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White men will have 'fewer board seats' in future, says UK diversity chair (ft.com)

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines strikes multibillion chip deal with Nvidia (ft.com)

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There are no heroes in commercial AI (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Pi Is Vim for Agentic Coding (hansschnedlitz.com)

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OpenClaw Did Not Just Go Viral in China, It Solved a Structural Problem (hellochinatech.com)

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[dupe] LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code (twitter.com/katanalarp)

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Adapting the Principles of Engineering to Make Watches (nytimes.com)

2

Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life (amazon.com)

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Baudbot: OpenClaw for Teams (baudbot.ai)

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LadybugDB: DuckDB for Graphs (github.com/ladybugdb)

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Visual-explainer: An agent skill turning complex terminal output into HTML pages

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LadybugDB: DuckDB for Graphs (ladybugdb.com)

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Open-weight LLM releases in January and February 2026 (twitter.com/rasbt)

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LadybugDB: DuckDB for Graphs (ladybugdb.com)

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Archive Page (github.com/jnavas2)

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Archive Page (chromewebstore.google.com)

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The History of English Podcast – The Spoken History of a Global Language (historyofenglishpodcast.com)

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OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage (tomshardware.com)

1

Pixel 10a: Everything you need, at a price you'll love (blog.google)

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After a fierce competition OpenAI hired Peter Steineberger (wsj.com)

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CalyxOS puts privacy and security into the hands of everyday users (calyxos.org)

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Kimi Claw (kimi.com)

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LibreOffice 26.2 (libreoffice.org)

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (simonwillison.net)

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Math and Me (togelius.blogspot.com)

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Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon 2026 (mistral.ai)

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AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (simonwillison.net)

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Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the post-benchmark era (interconnects.ai)

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The Claude Code plugin that replaced my visual workflow (twitter.com/omarsar0)

3

The Cost of a Function Call (lemire.me)

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The Cost of a Function Call (twitter.com/lemire)

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Why a Russian Startup Is Putting Brain Chips in Pigeons (bloomberg.com)

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Z.ai GLM-OCR: SOTA performance, optimized for complex document understanding (z.ai)

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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed (nytimes.com)

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Grok Imagine (grok.com)

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Moltbot Is Taking over Silicon Valley (wired.com)

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Running OpenClaw in Docker (simonwillison.net)

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Moltbook is a funhouse mirror of social media (twitter.com/krishnanrohit)

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Pi Monorepo: Tools for building AI agents and managing LLM deployments (github.com/badlogic)

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Memory Shortage Haunts Apple's Blowout iPhone Sales (wsj.com)