Articles by thoughtpeddler
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Right to Local Intelligence (righttointelligence.org)

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Memory in the Age of AI Agents (Survey Paper) (arxiv.org)

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Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs (2016) (gwern.net)

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Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?

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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero with 19M+ users and $30M ARR (gptzero.me)

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Twenty Years Later, Everything Is the Truman Show (2018) (vanityfair.com)

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Five Eyes joint statement on AI models taking down governments and businesses (cisa.gov)

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Estonia assigns personal ID numbers to AI agents to grant them "authorizations" (bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: At what point does AI regulation lead to confiscation of compute?

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Bird jumps 20%+ after shoemaker Allbirds changes name to Smartbird for AI pivot (smartbird.ai)

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Trump officials discussed structuring government equity stakes in AI companies (semafor.com)

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Killed by GPT (killedbygpt.com)

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Investment leaders share views on AI job displacement as next big risk (2021) (bloomberg.com)

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) (idlewords.com)

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Dotcom layoffs and the first knowledge-worker bust (2001) (economist.com)

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AI turning software building into cultural arbitrage (xcancel.com)

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Cursor hits $3B in revenue and now has 3K+ customers paying at least $100K each (bloomberg.com)

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Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints (antonleicht.me)

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Google TIG reports first example of AI used offensively for zero-day vulns (cloud.google.com)

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Democratizing AI Psychosis: Why Smart People Are Captured by AI Hype (perilous.tech)

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The "AI Job Apocalypse" is a complete fantasy (a16z.news)

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"Great Refactor" FRO to secure key OSS by rewriting C/C++ into memory-safe Rust (ifp.org)

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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark: 60%+ chance of automated AI R&D by 2029 (importai.substack.com)

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Bear Notes 2.8 Introduces BearCLI, Claude Connector, and MCP Server (bear.app)

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Unauthorized Discord group gained access to Anthropic's Mythos model (techcrunch.com)

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AI Has No Moat (geohot.github.io)

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How Gen-Z AI Founders Are Merging Work and Life (inc.com)

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Legal AI startup Harvey raises $200M at $11B led by Sequoia, up from $8B in 2025 (cnbc.com)

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DeleteMe acquires Tracey Chou's Block Party browser extension (techcrunch.com)

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Why (lossy) self-improvement is real but it doesn't lead to fast takeoff (interconnects.ai)

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Suddenly Everyone in San Francisco Is a 'Builder,' Whatever That Means (wsj.com)

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Claude Cowork Dispatch: Anthropic's Answer to OpenClaw (latent.space)

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Nvidia Announces NemoClaw for the OpenClaw Community (nvidia.com)

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Dark Sky Creators Return with Acme Weather: A Fresh Take on Forecast Uncertainty (macstories.net)

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45 years of coding vs. the "nothing you do matters" machine (eod.com)

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GitHub integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub (github.blog)

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Nuclear security helicopter flies low over SF Bay Area ahead of Super Bowl (nbcbayarea.com)

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Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues (theregister.com)

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The Clawdbot (Moltbot) Enterprise AI Risk: One in Five Have It Installed (token.security)

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The 'Busy' Trap (2012) (nytimes.com)

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Clawdbot showed me what the future of personal AI assistants looks like (macstories.net)

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Claude Code is a general-purpose AI agent transforming knowledge work (transformernews.ai)

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Profile of Josh Woodward, head of Google Labs that turned around Gemini app (cnbc.com)

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Doctorow's 'Reverse Centaurs' AI Talk is Brilliant But Misguided (danielmiessler.com)

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Legal-tech co Harvey raises $160M at $8B led by A16Z (up $5B after $300M raise) (nytimes.com)

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Zoox begins offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco, facing off with Waymo (cnbc.com)

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AI for IA: LLMs as thinking tools (2024) (patreon.com)

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Ask HN: Are Claude Skills conceptually the same as Apple's App Intents?

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Wine, Cheese and ChatGPT: Ladies' Night in San Francisco (nytimes.com)

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Dragonfly Thinking (anthearoberts.com)

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AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush Fund (nymag.com)

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OpenAI teams up with Oracle and SoftBank to build 5 new Stargate data centers (wired.com)

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Nvidia signs $1.5B deal with Lambda to rent back 18K of its own AI GPUs (tomshardware.com)

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CoreWeave signs $6.3B order with Nvidia to cover unsold cloud capacity thru 2032 (reuters.com)

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California AG to OpenAI: Harm to Children Will Not Be Tolerated (ca.gov)

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Ask HN: With Meta's newly reorganized superintelligence effort, is Llama 'dead'?

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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts (newyorker.com)

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Anthropic's SHADE-Arena: Evaluating sabotage and monitoring in LLM agents (anthropic.com)

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What Happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, According to Apple (techradar.com)

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Our Last Respite (Is Pain and Suffering) (joshuapurtell.com)

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Success can feel so close but so infinitely far away (2023) (blurry.substack.com)

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Fidji Simo, the Instacart CEO Tasked with Getting OpenAI to Turn a Profit (wsj.com)

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Bloomberg profiles Anthropic head Dario Amodei, who shifted from academic to CEO (bloomberg.com)

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Two California NWS weather offices no longer provide 24/7 emergency warnings (sfchronicle.com)

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OpenAI says OneDrive/SharePoint users can now directly connect files to ChatGPT (windowscentral.com)

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California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC) seeks research proposals (cimc.ai)

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SmolVLM: Real-time camera-based objection detection demo using llama.cpp (github.com/ngxson)

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AI like 'Autistic Translator' and 'Goblin.Tools' are helping autistic people (washingtonpost.com)

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OpenAI brings Deep Research to all users via o4-mini-powered lightweight version (techcrunch.com)

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OpenAI debuts new 'Image Library' section in ChatGPT for AI-generated images (theverge.com)

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Google to embrace MCP (techcrunch.com)

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4o-image lacks zoom-in/pixel-level entropy injection, unlike AI code gen (twitter.com/nearcyan)

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Gyroscope V8 Launches with AI Health Camera (fitt.co)

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OpenAI and MIT release first study on how ChatGPT affects emotional well-being (openai.com)

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California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers (ca.gov)

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AI search engine study finds wrong cites in 60%+ of queries; Grok3 had 94% wrong (cjr.org)

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Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different (arxiv.org)

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Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29 (meta.com)

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Mysterious Bay Area Rationalist-Adjacent Group 'Ziz' Linked to Six Deaths (sfchronicle.com)

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"AI and the Opportunity for Shared Prosperity" by Jeff Dean, Hal Varian, et al. (arxiv.org)

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Ex-OpenAI safety researcher says he's "terrified" by AI development's pace (theguardian.com)

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LA wildfires self-inflicted from regulatory gridlock and resource misallocation (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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Apple joins UALink consortium with Intel and AMD to take on Nvidia AI dominance (9to5mac.com)

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Nvidia Partners with Illumina, Mayo Clinic, Arc, Iqvia to Boost AI in Healthcare (nvidia.com)

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Zhengdong Wang 2024 Report: What Does It Mean to Give an AI Model a Capability? (zhengdongwang.com)

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Oura raises $200M Series D from Fidelity and Dexcom with sales doubling to $500M (seekingalpha.com)

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Congress approves $3B to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US networks (washingtonpost.com)

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Founder of company that created LAUSD AI chatbot charged with fraud (latimes.com)

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CA Geological Survey's Cumulative ShakeMap of California from 1981 to 2023 [pdf] (ca.gov)

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SF MUNI approves $212M technology from Hitachi to replace floppy disks by 2028 (sfchronicle.com)

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LLMs 'See' Colors: Exploring Semantic vs. Chromatic Color Spaces (twitter.com/poetengineer__)

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A new coding regime is being created (sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com)

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Altman-backed startup to test AV mass transit system in Atlanta (semafor.com)

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OpenAI demos 'Strawberry' training data breakthrough to US natsec officials

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Sparkle: New AI-based Mac utility automatically organizes your files and folders (makeitsparkle.co)

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NeuroAI paper proposes "Embodied Turing Test" to evaluate AI (2023) (nature.com)

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Stanford Enigma Project: A foundation model of brain at single-neuron resolution (enigmaproject.ai)

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GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments (treatmenteffect.app)

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Why knowledge overshadowing causes LLMs to hallucinate despite training on truth (arxiv.org)