Tiny Recursive Models beat large language models on the ARC-AGI tests of intelligence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871

Is the possibility that gradient descent and backpropagation aren't the foundations of intelligence itself keeping you up at night? ashvardanian.com/posts/llm-ep... #solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms

"User ban controversy reveals Bluesky's decentralized aspiration isn't reality. Bluesky's protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent." plus.flux.community/p/banning-co... #solidstatelife #socialmedia #moderation #bluesky

camfer (no capitalization) is an AI CAD tool that works with SolidWorks on Windows. If you're a SolidWorks user and give it a whirl, let me know how it goes. camfer.dev #solidstatelife #ai #genai #cad

AI GIF Generate is an AI animated GIF generator. aigifgenerate.com #solidstatelife #ai #genai #computervision #imageai

In the discussion between Richard Sutton, pioneer of reinforcement learning, and Dwarkesh Patel, YouTuber, the two spoke past each other because they were "speaking two different languages", says Ksenia Se of "Turing Post". www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhH...

"How functional programming shaped (and twisted) frontend development." If it seems like ideas in React and Redux resemble ideas from the "functional languages paradigm" in languages like Haskell, it's not your imagination. alfy.blog/2025/10/04/h...

It is alleged (by The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto), that Israel is using AI to create online "influence operations" aimed at "regime change" in Iran, starting with a deepfake of IDF air strikes on Evin Prison in Tehran. citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...

MEMS lidar. "Eric Aguilar and his team at startup Omnitron Sensors developed new micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology that he claims can produce more force per unit area than any other." spectrum.ieee.org/mems-lidar #solidstatelife #lidar #mems

"New research by LayerX shows how a single weaponized URL, without any malicious page content, is enough to let an attacker steal any sensitive data that has been exposed in Perplexity's Comet AI browser." layerxsecurity.com/blog/cometja...

The claim is being made that the government of the Caribbean island of Anguilla now gets 47% of its income from registrations of .ai domains. Honorable mention in the comments section: .io (Indian Ocean), .fm (Federated States of Micronesia), and .tk (Tokelau). www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

The claim is being made that at JPMorgan, the shift to agentic AI "favors those who work directly with clients -- a private banker with a roster of rich investors, traders who cater to hedge fund and pension managers, or investment bankers with relationships with ..." www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/j...

According to an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, the percentage of US adults that agree with the statement, "Americans may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track" has increased in the last year. www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

ImageTextEdit lets you "edit text in images with AI magic." Not that you could trust images before, but thanks to this you can trust them even less. ;) imagetextedit.com #solidstatelife #ai #genai #computervision #imageai

"Orbiting the Hénon Attractor." Fractal images that remind me of the rings of Saturn or the cloud formations of Jupiter or Saturn. observablehq.com/@yurivish/or... #mathematics #fractals

xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, is making an alternative to Wikipedia called Grokipedia. x.com/elonmusk/sta... #solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #xai

An aircraft that can reduce fuel burn by over 60% by using "laminar-flow aerodynamics" (as well as other technologies) has been produced, or so it is claimed by an aerospace startup company, Otto Aerospace, which announced its first fleet customer will be Flexjet. ottoaerospace.com/news/otto-ae...

"Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated actor whose creator claims she may soon be represented by talent agents." Alrighty then. I watched the AI-generated comedy sketch, AI Commissioner ... uh, comedy? It was a sketch. Is Hollywood getting disrupted? What do you say? brajeshwar.com/2025/tilly-n...

"A study involving more than nine million pregnancies reported that children whose mothers had gestational diabetes during pregnancy had a higher chance of developing ADHD and autism than did children whose mothers didn't have the condition." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Setsum is an order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum. At first that sounded impossible, but it's actually simple when you look under the hood. It takes a traditional cryptographic hash function, breaks the output into fixed-size integers, and then adds or subtracts... avi.im/blag/2025/se...

A variant of the infamous Petya/NotPetya ransomeware virus has been discovered that is capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on outdated systems. www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese...

"An advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has achieved gold-medal level performance at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals." deepmind.google/discover/blo... OpenAI also claims Gold in the ICPC: x.com/MostafaRohan...

SGS-1 is a generative AI model for CAD. www.spectrallabs.ai/research/SGS-1 #solidstatelife #ai #genai #cad

OSINT tracking of military vessels. "The US military is deploying significant airpower in the Caribbean one week after carrying out an airstrike on what it said was a boat operated by a Venezuelan drug cartel." www.airandspaceforces.com/airpower-car... #osint #geopolitics

"StemRad Radiation shield receives top marks in US Special Operations Command evaluation." Alright, if I ever need personal radiation protection, I know where to buy it. finance.yahoo.com/news/stemrad... #radiation

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking before the UN, says the world needs global rules for use of AI in weapons. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... #solidstatelife #ai #militaryai

Newsguard claims: "Despite a year of technical advancements in the AI industry, generative AI tools fail at a nearly doubled rate when it comes to one of the most basic tasks: distinguishing facts from falsehoods." www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a... #solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms

"SWE-Bench failures: When coding agents spiral into 693 lines of hallucinations." www.surgehq.ai/blog/when-co... #solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #codingai

Podcast (from 2023 -- sorry for the lack of timeliness, but I just discovered this existed today) where a linguist (John McWhorter) recounts evidence that language goes back as far as 2 million years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

An AI dashcam for truck drivers. It "combines more than ten distraction and drowsiness indicators. Among the inattention indicators the system tracks are head nodding or tilting, yawning, change in eye blink rate, long eyelid closures, and gaze drifting from..." spectrum.ieee.org/ai-dashcam-d...

The TRLC-DK1 is "an open source dev kit for AI-native robotics." It includes all necessary parts, including robotic leader arm and cameras, takes about 2 hours to assemble, costs about $3,000, and connects with USB-C to Linux, MacOS, and Windows. www.robot-learning.co

"Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools." Spotify's terms and conditions prohibits using any Spotify data for building machine learning or AI models. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

"ChatGPT is calling the police on users". That's what sensationalistic headlines say, but what OpenAI actually said that is behind the headlines is: "When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where ..." openai.com/index/helpin...

Barbara F. Walter commented on the Charlie Kirk assassination. Barbara F. Walter is the author of a book called How Civil Wars Start, based on a research project at UCSD that analyzed 38 factors that were thought to correlate with civil war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeSS...

Stability AI has produced a music-generating model, but it's not an open source model that you can just download. It has an "enterprise license". Without the "enterprise license", you have to interact with it on the website or through an API, like closed-source models. stability.ai/news/stabili...

The 1 trillion parameter threshold was crossed by Alibaba with a new Qwen-3 model... but the same article goes on to say that OpenAI's GPT-5 model is believed to be the largest in the world with an estimated 5 to 7 trillion parameters. itc.ua/en/news/alib...

"Four research volunteers will soon participate in NASA's year-long simulation of a Mars mission inside a habitat at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston." My first thought was, "Are they going to simulate the communication delays?" www.nasa.gov/missions/ana... #astronomy

"OpenAI is backing 'Critterz,' an AI-generated animated film designed to prove AI can create cinema-quality content faster and cheaper than Hollywood." winbuzzer.com/2025/09/08/o... #solidstatelife #ai #genai #computervision

Alterego (no space) claims to be a technology that can pick up signals from your brain's speech system and pick up your "silent speech". www.alterego.io #solidstatelife #ai #neuroscience

"AI-powered cryptocurrency analysis." Analysis only -- not a trading platform. If you try it out, send me 5% of all profits but don't bill me for losses, lol. cryptoinsightai.dogruaitech.com #solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #cryptocurrency

Uxia claims to us AI to automate usability testing. "Conduct unmoderated usability tests." "Test prototypes (Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, etc)." "A/B test designs, ..." Interesting idea for applying AI. I wonder how it works? Input the screen as video input to a model? www.uxia.app

"Stick your adversarial instructions somewhere in a legal document to give them an air of unearned legitimacy -- a trick familiar to lawyers the world over. " The attack is called "LegalPwn". www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/l... #solidstate #genai #llms

Did you know smartphones, with the right apps, can turn into physics experiments? Smartphones have accelerometers, barometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, microphones, and light sensors. This fun app can graph out the raw sensor data, and has a set of physics experiments you can do. phyphox.org

Evidence AI has an effect on employment, especially for entry level jobs. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications... #solidstatelife #ai #genai #aiethics #aisafety #aieconomics #technologicalunemployment

Magnetic flux ropes can range from human scale -- say, a laboratory experiment -- to solar flares that are few hundred thousand kilometers long to the Double Helix Nebula wherein they span hundreds or even thousands of light-years. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b... #astronomy

"Safe is what we call things later: Some software engineering folklore." Scott Werner characterizes the tech industry as a "pendulum" swinging back and fourth between "everything must be correct" and "code was alive and fun and things emerge and evolve". worksonmymachine.ai/p/safe-is-wh...

"License plate reader" surveillance cameras actually do a lot more than read license plates and they are networked across many cities and states and the data is sold and correlated with data from other databases from data brokers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9M...

"Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of cases." Huh that's weird. I would've thought the spikes in malicious activity would follow the discovery of new security flaws. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

"Warning: This article includes snippets of AI-generated content that may offend some readers." Ha. They are in fact pretty offensive and for that reason I won't be quoting any of them. www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...

"Are frontier AI models really capable of 'PhD-level' reasoning? To answer this question, we introduce FormulaOne, a new reasoning benchmark of expert-level Dynamic Programming problems." huggingface.co/spaces/doubl...