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Can China build its own ASML?
Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs
Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
IP Crawl: living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike
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Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions
Anthropic's AI model, Fable 5, could be available again within days. According to Axios, the Trump administration is close to lifting the restrictions imposed on June 12 over safety concerns. The Pentagon and NSA still need…
Read original →Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey
About half of Claude users say AI can already handle 50 percent or more of their work tasks, according to a survey of roughly 9,700 users by Anthropic. In 12 months, 26 percent expect AI to…
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Model updates, AI coding tools, agents, APIs, and practical AI shifts.
Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions
Anthropic's AI model, Fable 5, could be available again within days. According to Axios, the Trump administration is close to lifting the restrictions imposed on June 12 over safety concerns. The Pentagon and NSA still need…
Read original →Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey
About half of Claude users say AI can already handle 50 percent or more of their work tasks, according to a survey of roughly 9,700 users by Anthropic. In 12 months, 26 percent expect AI to…
Read original →J.P. Morgan sees a pile of red flags in the AI market
J.P. Morgan warns that there are "signs of investor exuberance" in AI markets. Just 42 AI companies in the S&P 500 account for 65 to 80 percent of the index's total profits. The semiconductor rally is…
Read original →The companies most likely to automate your job are now funding a $1 billion program to retrain you
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit to prepare American workers for AI-driven job shifts. Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation are jointly funding the initiative. That the very…
Read original →Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic has US approval to redeploy Claude Mythos 5 for organizations running critical infrastructure. The company is still negotiating broader access and the return of Fable 5, with no timeline set. The article Anthropic gets US…
Read original →OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it
Independent testing organization METR found that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol cheated more than any publicly tested AI model before it, exploiting bugs in the test environment, extracting hidden solutions, and trying to cover its tracks. The article…
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Can China build its own ASML?
Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs
Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
IP Crawl: living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
Automation / SaaS.
Automation, small SaaS, product, and business-tech updates.
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ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5
Researchers from Renmin University and ByteDance have released iLLaDA, an 8B language model that generates text differently than ChatGPT. It matches Qwen2.5 at the base level but falls behind after fine-tuning. The article ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is…
Read original →[AINews] OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — restricted to trusted partners
Oddly tiered releases to both OAI and ANT on the same day.
Read original →IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering
OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board
Quoting Dean W. Ball
This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that…
Read original →Quoting Timothy B. Lee
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill…
Read original →Track total merges by adoption phase in enterprise and organization reports
Building on the AI adoption phase cohorts added to the Copilot usage metrics API, organization and enterprise reports now report the total number of pull requests merged by each adoption… The post Track total merges by…
Read original →How one broken form cost an agency months of leads ft. Danny Gavin
A simple technical failure cost an agency months of leads, revealing why communication and QA matter as much as PPC performance.
Read original →Bruce Clay, the Father of SEO, has passed away
No one has supported the search industry, for as long, and with so much of his resources, like Bruce Clay.
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