I'm 2 days late posting this once more due to travel (also once more) so I'm going to have to do something about that. Apologies for the delay!
Is AI an Inevitable Evil?
@SimpleStacker asked SN Should universities embrace or crack down on student AI usage?, and a very significant majority of SN seems to recommend embracing it, with the note that an air of inevitability surrounds most responses. @Scoresby destroyed the article AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power but took a much milder stance about The Looming Social Crisis of AI Friends and Chatbot Therapists, both of which attempt to articulate doomer viewpoints.
@Rothbardian_fanatic shared The Most Insidious Trick Of AI Language Models, informing us that "AI doesn’t really care about you, it is only programmed to seem to care", which is dangerous when combined with the allegation that ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals, shared by @Coinsreporter. Highlighting the misunderstanding of AI further, @kepford shared and neatly explained Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes and @jakoyoh629 shared Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?. We of course love hearing the Signal CEO's takes, neatly, in a short clip: Meredith Whittaker on Dangers of Agentic AI, shared by @OT
Luckily, You can ask GPT-5 to pretend it is dumber than it is per @Tony sharing original research with SN directly (awesome!) and @SimpleStacker reviewed Eliza, A game about AI therapists (a game from 2019!)
More on safety and un-safety:
- Wairdle - a followup about AI's struggles by @crrdlx
- Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets by @Coinsreporter
- GPT5 still cant say how many "B" are in BlueBerry by @carter
- Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything by @carter
- DoubleAgents: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls by @carter
- The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil by @kehiy
- Ethereum core dev’s crypto wallet drained by malicious AI extension by @ea
- Dangers of artificial intelligence in medicine by @ea
Special mention:
Unsure what's going on at Meta! Meta’s AI policies let chatbots get romantic 'sensual chats' with minors, @Coinsreporter shared, and @Cje95 followed up that Sen. Hawley to Probe Meta AI Bot Policies for Children Following Damning Report.
How to AI
@carter shared an amazing Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts that helps getting a grip on what all this newly invented stuff does. @Scoresby shared an article helping webmasters to identify AI bots: The three types of AI bot traffic and how to handle them.
Maybe someone can write a guide on how to prevent the News from the future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage’, shared by @Coinsreporter
Other guides and explainers:
- Gemini CLI Cheatsheet by @m0wer
- VibeCoding Case-Study: Experiments for implementing a feature on my codebase by @bounty_hunter
- Claude Code Is All You Need by @carter
- Why Deep Learning Works Unreasonably Well by @carter
Events
Models
Research
- Unlocking Long-Horizon Agentic Search with Large-Scale Asynchronous RL by @optimism
- Diffusion Language Models are Super Data Learners by @carter
- From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances by @carter
- GPT-5 Has a Hidden System Prompt by @Tony
- 120B param model runs awesome on just 8GB VRAM by @carter
- Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the ARC Challenge by @carter
- Evaluating & Ranking GPT-5 Reasoning Ability by @carter
- Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures by @carter
- How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? by @carter
- When Did AI Take Over Hacker News? by @hn
- GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf] by @hn
- What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? by @hn
Applications and tools
- AI-Powered Radar Can Now Spy On Your Phone Calls From 10 Feet Away by @Coinsreporter
- GPT-5 Integration Doubles Autonomous Pentesting Performance on XBOW Platform by @Tony
- FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support by @hn
- The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems | Guest video by @Aleph0 by @south_korea_ln
- How AI Empowering Concrete Contractors to Build Smarter by @BlokchainB
- rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers by @carter
- Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified by @hn
- LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers by @hn
- Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code by @hn
Opinion
- Who Owns Your Brain?: How "AI" Might Break Work Completely by @Scoresby
- Is AI hitting a wall? by @Coinsreporter
- Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises by @carter
- Sam Altman and the whale by @Scoresby
- Optimizing My Sleep Around Claude Usage Limits by @carter
- Fear Of AGI Is Driving Harvard And MIT Students To Drop Out by @Coinsreporter
- OpenAI's GPT-5 is a cost cutting exercise by @Coinsreporter
- A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries. by @carter
- Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale by @hn
- LLMs in Programming by @kehiy
- Future AI bills of $100k/yr per dev by @carter
- A kid born today will never be smart then AI. Thoughts? by @jakoyoh629
- Skynet 1.0 before judgment day by @Coinsreporter
- The Bull and Bear Thesis on AI’s Decade of Disruption by @BlokchainB
- To Share Weights from Neural Network Training Is Dangerous by @Rothbardian_fanatic
- LLMs aren’t world models by @carter
- Fake It Till You Make It on GPUs by @kepford
- Turning creators into curators: AI implementation in DevOps by @Zion
- Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? by @carter
- Why LLMs Can't Build Software by @hn
Big Tech
- Ai Capex adding more to GDP than consumer spending by @HardMoney
- OpenAI in Talks to Sell ~ $6 billion in Stock at Roughly $500 Billion Valuation by @Cje95
- Sam Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity by @Coinsreporter
- Anthropic Offers Claude to the U.S. government for $1 by @Coinsreporter
- What is Chrome Worth? A Comparing Google’s Evaluation to Apple vs Perplexity by @Cje95
- World’s biggest company got caught in the middle of Trump’s AI war with China by @ch0k1
- Perplexity Offers to Buy Google's Chrome Browser for $34.5 billion by @Cje95 AND MORE
- Drones, AI, and the future of tech by @BlokchainB #1077637 by @Coinsreporter
- Letting inmates run the asylum: Using AI to secure AI by @carter
- OpenAI Ventures reportedly backing startup takes on Neuralink by @Car
- OpenAI Academy by @lunin
- Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by @hn