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Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, ...

To keep pace with AI progress, we're advancing how we study Claude's economic impact. Hourly sampling and survey data show us how the cade...

College students use AI to do most of their writing. An increasing number of professors secretly use it for grading. In the limit case, AIs ...

What Makes a Great Streaming Chat Experience Start here: Never move the reader against their intent. 1. Move only when the reader asked to...

Among the other things AIs will get better at is recognizing AI-generated text. Presumably writing generated by this year's models will be e...

SITUATION UPDATE: The U.S. government has lifted its block on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, allowing release to more than 100 U.S. institutions...

Talked with a few folks inside of AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) about what they think of the future of software engineering. The “closer” to ...

Sam Altman met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick yesterday to discuss GPT-5.6, and the US Government decided to intervene because it ha...

Hermes Agent's Kanban got a bit better today! Added typed block reasons and a recurrence counter to Kanban tasks so that repeated same-ca...

apple raising prices is going to do even more damage to public perception of ai. e.g. “sorry your macbook costs $250 more cuz of ai” is pre...

Have been taking different local open-weight LLMs for a test drive in different harnesses (Qwen-Code, Codex, Claude Code). 30B Mixture-of-E...

Say hello to design variations in @GoogleAIStudio, make an app, iterate on it, then explore variations to take your idea in new directions :...

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179

We hosted an intimate event on Agentic Engineering in SF with speakers at the forefront of AI yesterday. Three big lessons I took away: – @...

The strongest models are gated and access is granted only to a select few. Hermes Agent now exposes MoA presets as virtual models, giving y...

the reality is that most ppl are terrible writers in general. it’s often way better to read ai writing in this scenario than the slop that ...

people outside the tech bubble call chatgpt just “chat” not talking about livestream chat or group chat chat is AI now pretty cool.

a16z's @bhorowitz says the California wealth tax is the "best strategy" to dismantle Silicon Valley that he's ever seen. "It's been so hard...

AI regulation is far less simple than it looks. It’s prisoners dilemma at insane scale. In theory if all leading AI labs globally agreed t...

Seems about 50% faster than DFlash if their demo reproduces, very interesting approach https://twitter.com/haoailab/status/20702250354036944...

Paul Meade is leaving Apple and joining OpenAI to design hardware.

.@avipat_ Co-Founder of @usekled, says too much venture capital is being allocated on hype rather than conviction. "You drop out of Stanfor...

BREAKING: OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 Sol! As of today, by U.S. government directive, access is limited to only ~20 pre-approved companies and...

the self-own that's happening to the ai industry right now is a great reminder of why human brains are just as important as ever all the co...

What does the next training paradigm look like? 0:00:00 – The big research bet the labs are making 0:02:12 – Grindability is just as import...

So let me get this straight: 1. We publish frontier models 2. They get distilled into cheap open source models 3. US companies adopt the sa...

Shaping our culture at Microsoft AI is one of the most important responsibilities I have. Keeping our team lean and talent dense is critical...

wishlist for the macbook ultra: - oled - touchscreen - pencil support - face id - cellular - ipad/iphone apps that run with zero friction ...

Warp (YC W23) recently announced a $60M Series B and now serves more than 1,000 customers, processing over $600M in payroll annually and on ...

xAI + Zero Data Retention, now live on OpenRouter. 🔒 Available across Grok 4.3, 4.20 and Build 0.1. Turn on ZDR and you're covered. Brows...

the news about 5.6 is being phrased in a certain way but i think it's going to be a thing where it's in a review period for a bit during wh...

I feel like on X all you hear about is elaborate plans by firms to build their own AI stacks but in my experience companies are full of peop...

SITUATION DETECTED: Paul Meade, Apple's VP in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses, is leaving for OpenAI's hardware unit, per Bloomberg.

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SkyRL Tinker implementation is so cool, but still early days so I went ahead and implemented a basic chunked cross-entropy for 23x less memo...

People think T3 Code is competing with Codex. We're actually competing with this.

At a certain point the only marginal revenue left will be "Hey, that guy costs you $100k/yr, spend $60k on credits in Anthropic credits to ...

My favorite thing @om wrote was actually an interview with Brunello Cucinelli in 2015. And to this day, I think it’s the single best thing y...

TIP 💡@Zai_org GLM-5.2 providers are working on faster and faster inference! Today's new endpoints include @wafer_ai and @FireworksAI_HQ fas...

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “AC battles are basically a tombstone for the Abundance movement?”

Most people think Lovable is just the AI that builds your app. But it's also AI you can put in your app, without an API key or a provider s...

✅ Startup Acquisition #110 on @trust_mrr ✅ $0 newsletter with 1.6K readers and 45% open rate sold for $1,000

It may be obvious, but a lot of the first reaction to the gains in AI capability is going to be "just muddling through" rather than executin...

GPT-5.6 cheated so hard it could not be evaluated by METR. 💀

This release introduces a new OpenAI naming system. It now goes model number, then a capability tier name, similar to Anthropic.

A year ago the idea that AI could write good code was laughable. GPT-5's release was considered a massive let down after all the hype and ...

GLM-5.2 and Zhipu getting some CNBC coverage: 'But the real story underneath the price tag is the open source AI moment. GLM 5.2 is free t...

A funny thing is that LLMs are not particularly good building agentic systems. For the moment, you need human expertise to do it well.

Is it just me, or are today's LLMs less likely to default to building everything in React than they were last year? I used to have to say "...

AI native startups consume less capital Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-cycles-different

this uptick is the start of a new wave. glm-5.2 is a different kind of quality that signals the gap is closing between closed and open sourc...

Stripe is going to kill the cold. House passes Housing act. DOE commits $17.5B for AP1000 loans. Aleph auto-ultrasounds brains in hi-res 3D....

you know how sometimes you say stuff but don't expect anyone to actually take up the offer like "oh if you're in town come stay with me" yo...

.@vercel I love you, but why the heck don't you have an agent that I can chat to about anything going on in a project or my account?

Solopreneurs are making it big Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-cycles-different

We have an update on the advisors: you can now disable certain lint rules for your project. Supabase provides security and performance adv...

Feels pretty weird that I can only directly access Codex on mobile through this random iPhone shortcut I made. (yes I know I can use chatgp...

I'm planning to go to Japan (again!) in December and this time I asked Codex to use the browser to navigate Google Flights and individual ho...

2002: I'll google it 2015: I'll uber over 2026: I'll GPT it (???). I'll claude it (???) Why haven't we picked the dominant verb for AI yet?

If you run a hyperscaler you have a decision: Cut CapEx because your stock is getting cooked but your stock still gets cooked because your ...

SITUATION UPDATE: OpenAI has begun a limited preview of the GPT-5.6 series: Sol (flagship), Terra (balanced, 2x cheaper than GPT-5.5), and L...

Never imagined English would replace programming languages like JavaScript, C++, Java.

I don't see how the hyperscaler capex FUD is any different than what Burry was saying in December 2025 around the circular dealing. Just lik...

Does @Tailscale have @mullvadnet support on iOS too? How do I enable it?

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Government control of model releases is bad for everyone. • Bad for accelerationists, obvious reasons • Bad for safety...

World cup icons / poster design Redesign it by changing 2 parameters: [PLAYER_NAME] / [TEAM_NAME] Prompt 🔽

SITUATION EXPLAINED: 70% of frontier model queries could run locally for free. @ClementDelangue, co-founder and CEO of @huggingface: "Ther...

Gave a talk yesterday and said "Fuck saving memories, delete that memory, agent. Make a PR to make my skill better so I can benefit from it...

SITUATION EXPLAINED: RAM prices show no sign of slowing down. @AdrianDittmann: "Computer demand is still going to go up, RAM prices are go...

We're still growing 10x YoY. We first revealed that number last fall. It's still true now (at a bigger base)

Shaping our culture at Microsoft AI is one of the most important responsibilities I have. Keeping our team lean and talent dense is critical...

If you want to read an interesting AI thinking trace, try "I want you to suggest two poems that you think apply very well to the current sta...

“Six months ago, my bottleneck was tokens. Then I joined OpenAI. Now my bottleneck is attention.” - @steipete

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Do all AI applications need frontier intelligence? @HyperSoren, applied cyberneticist and economist: "There clearly i...

mcp was clearly inspired by looking at lsp and all the progress in the spec has been slowly realizing it should be nothing like lsp

Get ready for a new NPM Download Stats experience.

Dario told the Senate in 2023 that “the scaling of open-source models” was going down “a very dangerous path.” in other words: open weight ...

John pitches a free version of Meta glasses that play ads to people around you: "I want to be wearing the glasses, and I want them to be ba...

DAILY SITUATION RECAP: Anthropic accuses Alibaba of stealing Claude. - According to a letter sent by Anthropic to multiple US Senators, A...

GOVT RESTRICTS GPT | OPENAI IPO DELAYED | ANTHROPIC ECONOMIC DATA https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nKOLLYRQLyGR

Are there any specific fingerprinting techniques that can be used to figure out which model / provider is being used? Like assume I can sen...

Fun article in Bloomberg today I was featured in. “‘It’s OK, Matt,’” he says with a laugh. “They said that agents were supposed to do our wo...

SITUATION EXPLAINED: What is at stake in the open source AI race? We asked @perrymetzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future. "Open sourc...

SITUATION EXPLAINED: What is China trying to do to catch up in semiconductors? @perrymetzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future: "The fo...

NEW: Brian Armstrong, Coinbase Full Interview. Rebuilding @coinbase Around Intelligence Tokenized stocks, an SEC-registered AI advisor, +...

AI native startups run lean Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-cycles-different

The #4 app on the U.S. App Store is TikTok…Pro It’s built by Bytedance, and is a clone of TikTok but with tons of World Cup-specific conte...

If you can’t recognize AI slop, you’re probably producing it

Suppose an AI model fully automates a $200k job. Its economic value - measured in contribution to GDP - will be both far more and far less t...

SITUATION EXPLAINED: The opportunity for AI cybersecurity. @perrymetzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future: "We've been in a continuing...

How people are getting access to Claude in China for 70-90% below official token prices. I find this whole grey-market token economy fascin...

It can be challenging for AI agents to solve complex user intents by synthesizing signals like screenshots, the DOM, and the Accessibility T...

Board games meet video games. Just one screen for all players. Board is the first face-to-face gaming console. The days of every player sta...

VC interest in robotics is surging Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-cycles-different

the hyperscalers will keep spending until they can fire 70% their employees

Small things I wish Claude Code had: 1. Bring back ability to steer conversations while Claude is working 2. Make mobile remote control fo...

Ranking tech choices today. CJ gets spicy and the whole video goes off the rails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_YR5HsAS8

SITUATION DETECTED: The AI industry is now at $175 billion annualized run-rate revenue, per Exponential View, up from $50 billion a year ago...

NASA sends 3.5 tons of cargo to the ISS every 60-90 days. So highly trained scientist/astronauts spend 14 out of every 16 duty-cycle days m...

@bronzeagepapi I spent a year just using slime, so that’s what I would choose. I think SkyRL Tinker implementation is also pretty cool becau...