The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three …
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
Amazon seeks cheaper AI alternatives as Anthropic shifts to token-based pricing
Amazon is exploring OpenAI as an alternative to Claude after a renegotiated contract with Anthropic will raise costs through token-based pricing.
OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’
CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report says
OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by …
TOKIMEKI SPACE
Come together. Feel the tokimeki. Public and members-only channels and forums, with your AT Protocol account.
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
OpenAI: The Fix Is In
An update to More Magic Math from OpenAI The final mad dash to IPO is on for the big AI companies. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all made their intentions clear. And nothing could be more obvi…
Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of... - Adam Wood
Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of different tech-related things that sort of overlap. One is the (emerging) shape of the new social web; the other is a pull I’m feeling to try and lessen reliance on American companies. I’ve been interested in / concerned by what became of social media for some time.1 Since the sundering of Twitter in 2022, I’ve kept an eye on the various alternatives, with particular interest in Mastodon and Bluesky. Actually, to be more accurate, my interest has been in the protocols behind those platforms: ActivityPub and AT Protocol respectively. Both have their...
Mezzanine: An Information Network Built on Bluesky's Cashtags - Nightflight
Anthropic Data Fears Prompt Nvidia, Palantir and Booz Allen to Restrict Model Use
As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers’ intellectual property, large firms involved in sensitive corporate work, such as Palantir Technologies, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton, have started demanding new guarantees or reducing or eliminating use of the ...
Opinion | The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control
Helen Toner, who served on OpenAI’s board, hopes the recent hack by that company’s models serves as a warning.
Anthropic Found Out Why AIs Go Insane
Introducing Sequoia: Publishing for the Open Web
Today I'm excited to release a new tool for the AT Protocol: Sequoia. This is a CLI tool that can take your existing self-hosted blog and publish it to the ATmosphere using Standard.site lexicons.
Rainbows End: what lessons can we take from future worlds? - Boris Mann Tech Blog
Vernor Vinge's sci-fi novel Rainbows End and what it can teach us about b2b software
The Unsolvable Dilemma: Open Networks vs. Economic Sustainability - Nightflight
Researchers published in NEJM about using OpenAI’s o3 DeepResearch to discover strong leads in 18 previously unsolved rare diseases o3 produced *explanations* of old lab results (not diagnoses), which researchers vetted and took to the lab AI is not just a black box openai.com/index/diagnose-rare-childhood…
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
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