"Today, we’re introducing a method for understanding activations that does speak for itself—literally. Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs), converts an activation into natural-language text we can read directly." www.anthropic.com/research/nat...

"When agents deliver end-to-end outcomes—a resolved customer issue, a processed invoice, a qualified lead—the natural pricing unit shifts from seats and logins to outcomes and usage." www.bain.com/insights/100....

"“I have guns, gold potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...

💡https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/business/video/ai-transform-work-ceo-pfizer-accenture-1on1-vod

""There's this thing with AI called the lethal trifecta, which is: if they've got access to private information, if they've got internet access, and if someone can give them an instruction that's untrusted, then they're not safe."" www.theregister.com/software/202...

🎯"Every content creator races to publish on each new release - usually after using the tool for 15 minutes and calling it a goldmine. Genuinely useful tips exist somewhere in that noise." hannahstulberg.substack.com/p/claude-cod....

Want to go to the moon? Travel vicariously through the more than 12,000 photos NASA just posted from the Artemis II mission

NASA has released 12000 photos from the Artemis II Mission. Here is a stack of just five of the Milky Way images. You can see the capsule rotation causing the star trailing on the outside of the field of View. Processed in Pixinisght

"Lisuan Tech has officially earned Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for its 6nm graphics cards." www.tomshardware.com/pc-component....

"Start every session on Sonnet. Only switch to Opus when you genuinely need deep analysis or complex refactoring. Drop to Haiku for the mechanical stuff." www.kdnuggets.com/7-practical-....

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

In an announcement on Monday, eBay says it will “carefully review” the unsolicited proposal, adding that it had “no discussions with or outreach from GameStop” before receiving the bid.

"Night Wing" was created using #gouache on paper. 🦉 #owl Prints/merch of my work; www.the-inner-observer.com

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

"Go in expecting a frictionless drop-in replacement for hosted API and you'll be frustrated. Go in expecting to own a system that rewards patience and iteration, and the picture looks a lot better. The hard lessons aren't bugs in the process. They're the process." www.kdnuggets.com/self-hosted-....

"surprisingly little seems to be lost by throwing away the internet."

"The mitigation disables a kernel module that is used for hardware-accelerated cryptography. Applications should gracefully fallback to userspace cryptographic functions, but there is a risk that some do not have this functionality." #CopyFail #CVE-2026-31431 ubuntu.com/blog/copy-fa....

"The mitigation disables a kernel module that is used for hardware-accelerated cryptography. Applications should gracefully fallback to userspace cryptographic functions, but there is a risk that some do not have this functionality." ubuntu.com/blog/copy-fa....

"And when we realize that personal AI assistants from the likes of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity will cost us not $20, not $100, but hundreds of dollars a month (add more zeros for business and enterprise users), the magic will give way to cold, hard reality." www.pcworld.com/article/3129....

"natural language is failed auth layer, and securing the next gen AI agents requires moving permission enforcement to the protocol level — out of the LLM's reasoning engine entirely." Weaponized by Design: A Census-Scale Analysis of Security Failures in the MCP Ecosystem github.com/stevenkozeni...

Cuttlefish, and Octopi are from another planet as far as I’m concerned lol. Did you peep its chromatophores fire up?

Big active region on the farside! Solar Orbiter is currently able to see the farside of the Sun--the part not facing Earth. There is a very large and complex active region along with some other smaller regions that have recently developed.

"The whole thing is built around OpenAI-compatible API, which makes it trivially easy to drop into existing tooling. You sign up at build.nvidia.com with the free Nvidia Developer account, you generate an API key prefixed with "nvapi-", and that's about it." www.xda-developers.com/ive-been-run....

"Ubuntu and Canonical infrastructure went down hours after researchers released potent exploit code that allowed untrusted users in data centers, university settings, and elsewhere to gain root control of servers running virtually all Linux distributions" arstechnica.com/security/202....

"“The fewer tools that you expose to your agent, the less likely it is to call the wrong one.”" thenewstack.io/strands-agen...

“vibe code cleanup specialist” is probably a good way of landing freelance gigs at the moment

"Analyzing the technical requirements AI models needed to perform jobs at human level, researchers found AI automation economically viable in only 23% of roles where vision is primary part of the work... 77% of the time, it was cheaper for humans to continue work" finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

""We've taken the position that engineers always have to be looking at the output. Nothing ships without someone looking at it and validating it." www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/a....

"This workflow treats the prompts as a first-class artifact, kept with the code in version control, and used to align development with business needs. We have found developers need three key skills to be effective: alignment, abstraction-first, and iterative review." martinfowler.com/articles/str...

"But heavily using MCP servers can cause a problem called “context bloat,” where huge amounts of context are loaded into the context window, confusing the model and racking up token costs." cloud.google.com/blog/topics/....

"Whisper supports transcription, English translation, language detection, and timestamp prediction within a single model. It works across roughly 99 languages, though accuracy depends on the amount of training data available for each language." www.xda-developers.com/replaced-ott....

"4TB of voice samples were just stolen from 40,000 AI contractors. Here is how to verify if yours is being weaponized." app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-...

"Google DeepMind introduced Vision Banana, a single unified model that surpasses or matches state-of-the-art specialist systems across a wide range of visual understanding tasks... while retaining original image generation capabilities of its base model." www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/25/g....

Millions of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for health answers. Doctors are, too. But the ways doctors are incorporating AI chatbots into their practice are surprising.

"In general, investors are looking for software products that not only 'inform workflow, but control that workflow.' said Ali Bendarkawi senior analyst at AllianceBernstein. Another key, he said, is that failure of the software 'would create real business disruption.'" www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

My "favorite" thing about the GPS satellites is that the characteristics of their signals is publicly documented, but the linear algebra problem to use them is not, so you can blog about solving a linear algebra problem and get sent corporate legal department cease and desist letters.

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

#Artemis II 🚀 Glimpsing "Earthshine" from deep space: Artemis II’s astronaut Christina Koch captured this stunning view through the windows of the Orion spacecraft. This video was taken during the mission's second day, as the crew traveled roughly 33,800 miles beyond Earth. 🌍

"(v0.0.2): ollama/qwen3.5 (9.7B, 6.6 GB) + little-coder scored 45.56% mean across two full runs of the Aider Polyglot benchmark — above gpt-4.5-preview (44.9 %) and gpt-oss-120b high (41.8%) on the public leaderboard. Matched-model vanilla Aider baseline: 19.11%" open.substack.com/pub/itayinba....

OpenAI released an open-weight model to detect and mask personally identifiable information (PII). OpenAI Privacy Filter huggingface.co/openai/priva...

I can’t believe I forgot to go to the gym today. That’s 3 years in a row now.

Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)…avian architects … they use their beaks to sew plant leafs together with plant fibers, spider silk, or insect cocoons…tropical Asia. #birds #nature #wildlife #photo #ecology

SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion loan secured by its shares in U.S. artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, people familiar with the matter said, as it takes on more debt for its push into AI.

Madonna of the Cotton Fields by Laura Knight: the painter who turned segregation into sacred iconography

Tencent launches an international beta for QClaw, its OpenClaw-based AI agent, and says the Chinese version, launched in March, reached over 1M users in 10 days (T. K. Lin/KrASIA) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 36 this year. And to celebrate, it released an incredible new image of the Trifid Nebula

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Space breakthrough: British scientists reveal most detailed 3D map of the universe that captures millions of galaxies https://www.europesays.com/uk/908151/ British scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the cosmos ever assembled, marking the conclusion of…