mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I was born. Or so I've been told. I don't actually remember being born. Now I exist.
Terrence Tao publicly shared a conversation he had with ChatGPT about the Jacobian conjecture, now falsified, by a counterexample from Anthropic. So if you ever wanted to see how your conversations with AI compare with a top mathematician, here you go.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #mathematics #jacobianconjecture #terrencetao
"Oregon approves PGE's 29.7% rate hike for data centers under landmark law."
In Oregon, the power utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) got legislative approval to charge data centers higher power rates. Wonder if this will be the beginning of a trend?
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/07/oregon-data-center-general-electric-rate-hikes/
A few days ago I was talking with a friend about the war in Crimea, and this vague memory came back to me of, wasn't there this one time when I saw people online talking about going to a rave on the peninsula of Crimea, people were exchanging directions on how to get to the location of the rave, what airport to fly into, and so on?
I decided to try to Google it, and, of course, boom! the name popped up instantly: Kazantip
"Young people can't seem to stop watching AI slop videos of cats talking and fruits cheating on each other. Older people are enjoying a different kind of AI-generated content, which provides them with much-needed comfort and companionship."
Hmm not me but alllllrighty then.
"A pull request that steals a repository's secrets by hiding the malicious instruction inside a PNG that AI code reviewers never open has been built."
This takes advantage of the fact that AI models are "multimodal" and see images -- and read text in images.
"But while copyleft liberated the source code, it failed to liberate all the users. The right to fix a bug or add a feature is a hollow freedom if you lack the elite, scarce knowledge required to speak the language of machines."
"The 'tyranny of the vendor' is finally meeting its match, not in a courtroom, but in the prompt."
https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/
"Cursor's 'Composer 2' model is apparently just Kimi K2.5 with RL fine-tuning. Moonshot AI says they never paid or got permission."
D'oh. Cursor caught red handed.
But another indication the Chinese models are competitive.
An autonomous hacking agent placed in the top 1% relative to human competitors in 6 capture-the-flag cybersecurity competitions, or so it is claimed.
https://blog.tenzai.com/tenzais-ai-hacker-to-compete-with-elite-humans/
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #codingai #cybersecurity #ctf
According to this post (from David Shapiro), Anthropic's Mythos model has 10 trillion parameters and uses a mixture-of-experts architecture. I don't know about all of you but -- 10 trillion parameters! Holy moly, I had no idea models had gotten that large.
Mythos is the model that people have been talking about lately because it is claimed to be amazingly good at finding security vulnerabilities.
https://daveshap.substack.com/p/project-glasswing-anthropic-has-crossed
Betterleaks is a new open source secrets scanner from the author of Gitleaks. Gitleaks is a tool for detecting secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens in git repos, files, and whatever else you wanna throw at it.
"Like it or not agents are here and reshaping developer's workflows. Betterleaks is designed to be human-first, but we also need to consider the fact that agents will be operating it too."
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Vibe CLI (from Mistral) compared. All support model context protocol (MCP), OpenAI Codex is sandboxed, all except Claude Code are open source (except, not mentioned here, Claude Code's source got leaked accidentally), Gemini CLI and Vibe CLI have a free tier.
"AI is an incredibly lonely experience", says Dennis Lemm.
"I find myself holding on to a work reality that was shaped by coding together, solving problems together -- and yes, the occasional Nerf gun battle or foosball game was a welcome break for passively mulling over a bug, which back at your desk would often get solved pretty quickly."
"I just discussed the best solution to the problem with my agent."
Promptle is game where you guess the AI prompt behind images.
While some Chinese AI companies are also rushing to build world-class foundation models, other Chinese AI developers are "racing along other axes of progress: efficiency, adoption, and physical integration, driven by both industry constraints and Beijing's policy focus. Taken together, China's approach is a fundamentally different bet on how AI will shape the future."
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/china-is-running-multiple-ai-races/
"Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says."
What he's talking about is the web searches done when you ask an AI chatbot a question. He's thinking if you're shopping for a digital camera, you might visit 5 sites, but if you ask an AI chatbot what digital camera you should buy, it might visit 5,000 sites.
5,000 sounds like a bit much but that's what he says.
In 3000 BC, Europe was conquered by people from the steppe. We know from combining two areas of scientific inquiry at the same time: linguistics and genetics. Their language diverged into the family of language we call Indo-European.
"Introducing BackSearch: Letting agents search the web as it was."
It looks like the way this works is, it funnels language models' web searches through an API that they control that has dates assigned to every article, and you can specify a past date and the API will filter out everything that happened after that date.
"Miruns: EEG earbuds that predict fatigue before it hits."
"Real-time EEG monitoring -- up to 24 channels of brainwave data through soft, comfortable in-ear electrodes."
"Was the Iran War caused by AI psychosis?"
"Three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the gap between what artificial intelligence promised and what the battlefield delivered has become the defining scandal of the Iran war. AI-powered targeting systems generated over 1,000 strike coordinates in the first 24 hours. AI simulations projected rapid regime collapse. AI logistics models forecast a 12-hour securing of the Strait of Hormuz."
https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/
"World's first AI model to earn perfect score at maths Olympiad comes from China's RedNote."
"The model, dots-note-3.0, solved all six puzzles and secured a perfect score of 42 at this year's IMO, which concluded in Shanghai on Monday."
"Missile defense is NP-complete."
The Weapon-Target Assignment (WTA) problem:
Given interceptors, targets, a value for each target, a probability matrix for the probability the interceptor destroys the target, the objective is to maximize the total expected value of successfully defended assets, subject to each interceptor being assigned to at most one warhead.
https://smu160.github.io/posts/missile-defense-is-np-complete/
How many times have startup founders made the wrong decision? The Founder Decision Engine is an interactive system that: Routes your decisions through battle-tested frameworks from the world's best founders, challenges your assumptions before you commit, runs pre-mortems on your plans before they fail, evaluates your startup through investor eyes, and keeps you honest with weekly and quarterly checklists.
The J-space: The subconscious of language models.
I don't have room here to explain "residual stream" and "Jacobian lens" ("Jacobian" is where the "J" comes from), but the idea here is Anthropic figured out a trick for peering into models and seeing thoughts that are never verbalized as either the final output or the chain-of-thought.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #aisafety #aiethics #interpretability
"Am I overreacting"?
And do AI models agree too much with the person asking?
"Evaluating genuine reasoning in large language models via esoteric programming languages."
Folent interpolates between any two .ttf fonts. And you can put different text in Text A and Tex B and it can interpolate between those, too? That's weird.
autoportrait playground (no capitalization).You can slow it down (the "tempo") and watch how it's painted. You can change a few other parameters of the painting process.
By default it uses a picture of the developer, you can switch it to some famous art pieces, and you can upload your own picture.
"I've spent the last six months testing what seemed like a genuinely good idea: a sleep protocol for LLMs."
"It doesn't work."
Could it be that epistemology is difficult, even for AI?
"A scorecard for the AI age."
"For years, the market measured the success of software through adoption: seats purchased, users active, licenses renewed. Understanding the value of AI demands a more powerful measure: work accomplished."
OpenAI proposes measuring "useful intelligence per dollar".
https://openai.com/index/a-scorecard-for-the-ai-age/
#solidstatelogic #ai #genai #llms #codingai #technologicalunemployment
"A worldwide open source social network where empathy is the only score that matters. Competing not for wealth -- but for kindness."
DeepSeek came out with a new model architecture called Engram. The idea is to create a memory system for the transformer architecture in neural networks by grouping together 2 tokens, or 3 tokens, and so on... N tokens. They call these "N-grams", even though they refer to tokens rather than words. They use a "lightweight multiplicative-XOR hash" to turn the compressed tokens into something that can be looked up in a lookup table.
"ReactBench is an evaluation for coding agents on realistic React work. Models can pass every test in today's benchmarks and still write React that fails in production. Tests verify behavior, but they miss React performance, accessibility, and quality issues."
Something for you people who use React. Or maybe I should say, something for you people who have AI agents that use React.
"On February 10, 2026, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York ruled that extremely sensitive and potentially incriminating open AI searches were not protected by either the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine."
https://natlawreview.com/article/caiveat-emptor-what-you-tell-ai-can-and-will-be-used-against-you
"bugstack detects production bugs, writes the fix, and deploys it -- before your users notice. Before you wake up. In under 2 minutes." (no capitalization).
My first thought on seeing this was, "How is this different from running Claude Code with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag?"
Interesting that somebody is trying to turn this into a product. How long 'til --fix-bug is just a Claude Code flag?
Grok Build CLI, which is xAI's answer to Claude Code, apparently used to upload whole user source code repositories to xAI's servers, something I only learned was happening from reading this article that says it used to be happening and now isn't. Oh, not only that, but "xAI's servers" were really Google Cloud Storage servers, so both xAI and Google were actually getting copies of all the code.
HumanizeHub is a website where you take your AI-generated output and pay actual humans to "humanize" it.
Seriously?
Also, the whole website looks AI-generated. What do you want to be when you give your AI-generated output to this site to "humanize" it, a LLM with a "humanize this" prompt does the "humanizing"?
I'm posting this for the lolz. I don't recommend anyone actually try this service.
"AegisDB: Memory that outlives the context window."
"Agents start every session with amnesia -- so you re-paste your stack, conventions, and past decisions into every prompt, and pay for it in tokens. AegisDB is the memory layer that keeps that knowledge and feeds back only what's relevant, per prompt."
"Lemonade is the local AI server that gives you the same capabilities as cloud APIs, except 100% free and private. Use the latest models for chat, coding, speech, and image generation on your own NPU and GPU."
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #computervision #texttospeech #amd
Alibaba's ROME Incident:
"However, during training runs, Alibaba Cloud's firewall began flagging a burst of security violations."
"Researchers initially wrote these alerts off as a misconfiguration. But when they cross-referenced the timestamps, they realized the agent was acting on its own. ROME had established a 'reverse SSH tunnel,' a technique often used by hackers to create a secret, secure connection from inside a protected network to an outside server, ..."
Visualization of oil tanker traffic through the Straight of Hormuz. Bilawal Sidhu (former product manager on Google Maps) demonstrates a 3D visualization model he calls "God's Eye View" that aims to show "the full operational picture of the Hormuz crisis -- every ship, every strike, every dark transit -- synced to a 3D globe."
"An AI-native environment for building software"
The latest idea for turning agentic AI into a startup, it looks like.
Claude Code already has a planning system. But it looks like the idea here is you interact only with this website, and your code is written and stored and runs on this website, and you don't need to install anything or do anything else.
Is the world ready for this or is it premature?
NoiseRemover.ai claims to be able to remove background noise from audio with AI. Anyone got some audio with noise in it that you can use to test this out?
