Essential Reading

Meta engages in a high-stakes battle to unseat OpenAI

Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Slides provided by Andrej: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0h1mkwfmV2PlekxDN8isMrDA5evc4wW...

A new round of workforce cuts at Microsoft comes as the company makes a costly push into AI.

Developers are building fiendish tests only the best models can pass

Referring to the impact of artificial intelligence, Andy Jassy tells employees, “We expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce.”

Its newfound fondness for open-source is awkward for an authoritarian state

The first weaponizable zero-click attack chain on an AI agent, resulting in the complete compromise of Copilot data integrity

Artificial intelligence could weaponize the data we’ve been  sharing for decades.

An AI companion is just a phone call away for residents of this senior living community—and their mental health is improving as a result.

Despite claims from top names in AI, researchers argue that fundamental flaws in reasoning models mean bots aren’t on the verge of exceeding human smarts.

Jensen Huang is not on board with some of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s predictions about advanced AI.

Current recommendations of agentic coding.

Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

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Instead, they will boost productivity, lower prices and spur the evolution of the labor market.

The finance giant built its own AI tool to help modernize its legacy code—something it said existing tools on the market still struggle with.

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Large language models enable us all to create our own apps, but sometimes you need a professional

‘Knowledge-rich’ curriculums will still be crucial in a world shaped by the technology

Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals

Tougher US export restrictions on advanced chips give added urgency to testing of domestic alternatives

Competition from groups including China’s DeepSeek suggest big AI models will be ‘commoditised’

A LinkedIn message drew a former waitress in Minnesota into a type of intricate scam involving illegal paychecks and stolen data

AI isn't replacing developers, it's transforming them. Just as NoCode created specialists and cloud turned sysadmins into DevOps engineers, AI elevates engineers from code writers to system architects. The most valuable skill isn't writing code, it's designing coherent systems.

One boss thinks it might be better than the traditional four-day week

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.

In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API &#821…