The “ZX microfair” on the second page brought back memories. A friend and I went down to London about this time. I wanted to buy a Small-C compiler for my QL but was about £10 short. The stall holder sold it to me anyway. Whoever you were, thanks! Led to a lot of my subsequent career

So Claude Mythos was, indeed, not marketing hype. Remember this is a general purpose model that just happens to be good at finding exploits because good models are good at lots of things. Expect similar from OpenAI & Google. And from open models in 8 months. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...

I understand this is real evidence against agi but also lots of people I’ve worked with have made one or both of these mistakes www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74...

fuck elon musk fuck sam altman pretty pissed at dario at this point too all glory to the open weight AI future

so I guess anthropic is running off the high-pollution datacenters we use as examples of what not to do? I'd really like this not to be true, but idk how else to interpret this news

NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse! Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research 1/20

The first part of this had me nodding along: "yeah, makes sense that this would work". The second part is just 'wtf'. These things are weird

Microsoft AI data centre that will be massively polluting. We really shouldn’t be doing this

Ed really is consistently wrong. $157bn revenue needed in 2027 seems pretty easy. You can argue AI in unethical or makes us dumb or increases CO2 or whatever, but the money really doesn't seem an issue

Unintended irony: presentation on satellite communications shows photos of Werner Von Braun and Elon Musk. Speaker apologises: "I know a lot of people don't like Musk's politics."

Insert this is fine gif here: Bitwarden, a widely-used open source password manager, has been compromised via its CLI tool. socket.dev/blog/bitward...

This is even more dumb than it sounds. The "super smart" Balaji is letting "and so on and so on" do most of the work in his 'arguments'. It's also staggeringly boring. The future of media is here.

This is the mathematician equivalent of screaming and running around

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Claude 4.7 has just run non-stop for a little under 45 mins making a bunch of changes to my code (using @s.ly Superpower plugin). They are good changes as well. Shit is getting scary.

Can confirm the headline is backed by the text

Talking to agent is wierd. This actually makes sense in the context of what it's been finding this week

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

I'm tweaking a presentation. So far this involves Claude Code re-writing my custom .md to reveal.js pipeline and it installing random stuff via homebrew. It's fine. It's all fine.

Great piece.

These are wild examples of rejecting students (original article is from The Times)

Friday afternoon posting - after a gap, I've written another blog post. This time on spec driven development and the confusion about what it is

Friday afternoon posting - after a gap, I've written another blog post. This time on spec driven development and the confusion about what it is

Hi Arthur. I agree it isn't very clear, but the paper is linked to at the top right of the article (see pic). For the avoidance of doubt, it is this one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Incoming flames in 3, 2, …..

Henderson is back up.

Stop the world I want to get off. There is way too much *gestures vaguely* stuff going on If there's not a nuclear war, there's going to be a massive recession and if that doesn't put everyone out of a job, the robots will shortly after. Limited only by a likey inabilty to scale b/c supply chains

“The researcher found out about this success by receiving an unexpected email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park.”

I was going to write up some stuff on AI and energy, but today doesn't seem the day. Let's see what's still around tomorrow

'curl is drowning in AI slop bug reports' got a lot of traction (and it was a real problem for sure), but that's now changed and the reports are good per curl lead www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... So now the problem is capacity to fix them

Post on Anthropic's blog from a Harvard Prof of High Energy Physics on using Claude Code for academic research www.anthropic.com/research/vib... The title is dreadful, the article is very thoughful.

Concise summary of what was learnt from the Claude Code source www.latent.space/p/ainews-the... (paywalled but the only relevant bits are above the cut)

I’m glad someone has done the work on this. The paper didn’t pass my “smell test”

Science eh

art gallery: You finish that painting of Frodo and Gollum? Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Just swapped my elec+gas to an 18 month fixed tarrif. It's a bit more expensive than the one I was one which expires in July. But the worst case now seems very bad, so I'm hedging.

The support bot ❤️

Slay the Spire 2 came out recently and has an act 3 boss called the Doormaker. If you've been on the internet a very long time, this phase of the fight may trigger some unfortunate memories

The gen-x comment killed me

Fantastic post answering a question I’ve had, if we can all write all the code now, where are all the cool new code bases and tools? www.answer.ai/posts/2026-0...

just saw my first `curl | claude` instead of `curl | bash` and you thought the arguments over piping to bash were contentious...

This is good from @bcmerchant.bsky.social "If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Some of it I have limited sympathy for ("Workday automated my HR job") but the effect of AI on learners is real and harmful And I *like* AI

@ianbetteridge.com one thing on today’s newsletter: Dave Karpf has stopped posting on substack but continues on beehive davekarpf.beehiiv.com

This a more interesting and varied article than the headline, covering ai coding, burnout and more as well as hiring.

Fascinating research with remarkable speed-ups 👇 "LLM bad at math? Just put a computer in it's transformer!"

wtf. I really do mean that.

The EU, digital sovereignty and why we should move on from Office. Yes, it's a vendor talking their book but it's also very thoughtful (via @ianbetteridge.com email list, which you should sign up to)

There a well know effect where people starting their first line management job often get this. It goes away and it’s usually just the first job running a team not the move to managing larger and larger teams that prompts it

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