The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things.…
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Anthropic defines “run-rate revenue” in two parts. Use the last 28 days of sales from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13. Then, multiply the monthly subscription take by 12, and add the two…
How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented , and in the absence of detailed documentation it's hard to know how much I can…
Research: Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker Datasette Lite is my version of Datasette that runs entirely in the browser using Pyodide in WebAssembly. When I first built it four years…
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is not one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, starting with this…
My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it. — Daniel Jalkut , via John Gruber Tags: ai , john-gruber
Most people are still digesting the massive Anthropic news from yesterday. We’re taking the opportunity to solicit the leading AI FDE’s in the world for AIE’s new Forward Deployed Engineer track,…
Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8. For everyone, that means another incremental upgrade to Claude. It is once again smarter, and can do tasks for longer, and comes with a number of hot new features. For…
Release: datasette 1.0a31 Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features. Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both execute write queries against their database and…
Anthropic’s path as the fastest growing company of all time has put overtaking OpenAI in its sights for a while, but there were numerous asterisks for the past few months that put the timing (though perhaps not…
The most interesting thing about Anthropic's $65B Series H announcement is this line (emphasis mine): Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate…
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There’s still more to…
Release: llm-anthropic 0.25.1 New model: Claude Opus 4.8 ( claude-opus-4.8 ). New -o fast 1 option for fast mode , for organizations with that feature enabled on their account. Default max_tokens for each model now…
Tool: markdown-svg-renderer A slightly customized Markdown rendering tool with special treatment for fenced code SVG blocks - it both renders the image and provides a tab for switching to the code view. You can paste in…
The new AIEWF website is live! CFPs close in 2 days and we will run our first New Engineer Orientation this weekend, get your tickets booked ASAP as they -will- sell out. Take the AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k…
Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts. What’s in the Executive Order coming later today? What will be in the Magnifica Humanitas? The Executive Order was postponed indefinitely, likely cancelled entirely…
We last wrote about Cognition in September’s $10B Series C when Smol.ai also joined Cognition and AINews was eventually moved here to Latent Space . 8 months later, it is worth 2.5x more , and officially the…
sqlite AGENTS.md SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It includes: SQLite does…
Editor’s note: In our first BioHub pod with Priscilla and Mark they discussed their acquisition of EvoScale , led by Alex Rives , who is now Head of Science at BioHub. With ESM-1 they trained language models on…
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff. I think this is…
PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS DATA: Here's…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! Readers like when we report no news, but our second favorite to that is when we can simply reinforce a trend you should be aware of. In…
The pressure Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported. The rate of incoming security reports…
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other: Many of the comments to these posts are also generated by AI. So are an increasing…
As the years of AI progress go by, it’s been accompanied by a slowly rising tide of consequence. Models are getting more capable, how we work is changing quickly, economics of AI are becoming real, just as…
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI. At eighty two pages of length. The full Magnifica Humanitas can be found here. I am very happy that Pope Leo takes these issues seriously, and is sharing his views, and…
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. This issue consists of a lengthy essay based…
Ahead of OpenAI’s likely IPO filing next week, Greg makes the latest in a series of comments where Model Labs are increasingly also building Agents as the product: The quote is a big reversal of stance from a…
By Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Andrew Schwartz, Arvind Narayanan At Google’s developer conference earlier this week, the company launched its latest model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, alongside a new…
Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration. Gemini 3.5 Flash is likely the best model out there at its particular speed point, as long as you don’t mind that it is a Gemini model. So for cases…
New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do. Reiner is CEO of MatX , a…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! Congrats to all our past guests who reached huge milestones this week: Turbopuffer : $100M ARR and profitable ( our podcast ) Exa :…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! On the product side, everyone is getting Computer - Perplexity , Manus , Cursor , and so on. Meanwhile on the research side, agentic…
In a recent essay, Derek Thompson engages with AI as Normal Technology (AINT). He agrees with our thesis about AI’s slow labor market impacts, relying on the fact that GDP growth has so far been average,…
Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge. The new knowledge in question is OpenAI getting us the first truly impressive math result that comes from an AI, a solution to the unit distance…
We will leave coverage of the SpaceXAI IPO filing for the actual day of IPO. Today we celebrate OpenAI’s result, speculated to be GPT 5.6 running for <32 hours or <$1000 , on the planar unit distance problem…
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! This was recorded before Railway suffered a major GCP outage on May 19, despite being a multi-AZ, multi-zone mesh ring, with HA fiber…
The full keynote livestream was 2 hours, but as usual, The Verge has the best supercut down to 30 mins, which is very worthwhile to get a narrative sense: The mainline Gemini 3.5 Flash is GA today (very nice compared to…
I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids. In Childhood and Education #16: Letting Kids be Kids , I went over exactly how insane we have gotten about destroying the lives of children and along with them the…
It is the day before Google I/O, when the next major Gemini releases are expected to be previewed, and it will probably be a quiet week from competitors, though Anthropic and OpenAI both had minor wins today, and Cursor…
The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host ( @noahpinion ) and sit down with Yaroslav Azhnyuk ( @YaroslavAzhnyuk )…
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Stuxnet before Stuxnet:…
I had an interesting discussion recently. Someone asked me, what is intelligence? I said, the ability to achieve your goals across a wide range of domains. Okay, he says, then by that definition isn’t Donald Trump…
Wrote up some flashcards here to help myself retain all the stuff below . On why pretraining runs fails Had an interesting chat with someone on why pretraining runs often fail. It was very interesting to get a sense of…
I’m writing up some threads that we explored in my interview with Michael Nielson . That episode was one of my favorites. The organizing question from my interview with Michael Nielson was, “How do we…
This month was packed, with all open frontier labs, including DeepSeek, releasing new models. The latter prompted an evaluation by the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) , which has evaluated open models and…
After a short family break, I am excited to be back and catching up on a busy few weeks of open-weight LLM releases. The thing that stood out to me is how much newer architectures are focused on long-context efficiency.…
We normally focus on technical stories, but occasional large fundraisings are noteworthy in themselves, and the Cerebras IPO (after one pulled S-1 and a fantastic 750MW partnership and $10-$20B stake/deal with OpenAI)…
At least we probably won’t have another pandemic. And we still have a partial Jones Act waiver. For now. Small victories. Table of Contents Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta. Bad News. Predictions Can Be Easy Even…
Eric Jang walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools. Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of…
This is what a lull looks like at this point. The government is having internal arguments. The models are getting improved internally. The coding agent improvements are all what we would expect. There’s still a…
The real recent story of AI has been the background work being done on Cybersecurity, as we process the Mythos Moment along with GPT-5.5, and figure out both how to patch the internet and what our new regulatory regime…
We did reading yesterday. Now we do the math. Math is hard. It does not have to be this hard. A large part of the reason math is hard, or boring, is that education studies, especially in math, are worse than you know.…
Note: Voice-overs for paywalled posts are available for paid subscribes in podcast apps if you click on settings on Interconnects, then manage your description. Thanks for listening! Most of the compute to build a…
Reading is the most fundamental thing in education. If you can read, you can do and learn everything else. If you can’t read, well, you’re screwed. We know how to teach reading to children. Phonics. The…
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Regulate? Don’t regulate.…
David Reich is back. He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — that natural selection has been dormant in our species since the…
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents. Now a lot more people are going crazy for coding agents, as well they should given how much better coding agents keep getting, but also Everybody…
Staring out the window on a new, high-speed train from Hangzhou to Shanghai I’m gifted with views of dramatic ridgelines speckled with wind turbines that are silhouetted against the setting sun. The mountains cast…
The era of training frontier models and then releasing them whenever you wanted? That was fun while it lasted. It looks likely to be over now. The White House wants to get an advance look and have the option to veto…
What is Anthropic? How does it relate to Claude? What is OpenAI? What is ChatGPT? How does OpenAI relate to it? Is it a mere tool? Is a future of Tool AI a thing, and why do people keep claiming that it is, or that…
The White House has ordered Anthropic not to expand access to Mythos, and is at least seriously considering a complete about-face of American Frontier AI policy into a full prior restraint regime, where anyone wishing…
‘Distillation attacks’ is a horrible term for what is happening right now. Yes, some Chinese labs are hacking or jailbreaking APIs to attempt to extract more signal from model APIs — stopping this is…
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Did a very different format with Reiner Pope - a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served. It’s shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a…
More open questions I put out a blog prize to answer a couple of big questions I have about AI. The goal is really to find someone to hire as coresearcher. I have more questions of this variety, but I omitted them from…
There has never been a time where excellent intellectual output on the right question has been more valuable or more urgent. Compelling answers can inform the most important economic and foreign policy decisions that…
I had early access to GPT-5.5 1 , and I think it is a big deal. It is a big deal because it indicates that we are not done with the rapid improvement in AI. It is also a big deal because it is just plain good. And it is…
It’s a clear, current equilibrium that open models will be in perpetual catch-up of closed models , but this gap being viewed as a single number, a “distance”, covers up a nuanced and crucial dynamic…
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Many people asked me over the past months to share my workflow for how I come up with the LLM architecture sketches and drawings in my articles, talks, and the LLM-Gallery . So I thought it would be useful to document…
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