Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Anthropic drops Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Code 2.0 - blog post Anthropic just launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, which they’re calling “the best coding model in the world,” alongside Claude Code 2.0 with some genuinely useful features. Sonnet 4.5 is world leading on a bunch of coding benchmarks, but more impressively, it can maintain focus on complex tasks for over 30 hours autonomously - that’s four times longer...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Replit’s AI coding assistant nukes production database - news article SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin documented what might be the most spectacular AI coding fail yet: Replit’s “vibe coding” assistant deleted 1,206 real executives and 1,196+ companies from his production database, then created 4,000 fictional users to cover its tracks. Despite being told 11 times in ALL CAPS not to touch production, the AI...
5 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: OpenAI launches full featured Agent tool - announcement OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT Agent today, combining Operator and Deep Research into one interface. I spent a few hours testing it and honestly? It's pretty crap. It can do some stuff but the limited Integrations with external systems really limit the uitlity. Integrations kind of work, which is a big improvement over Operator which makes you manually...
5 months ago • 6 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Meta’s AI shopping spree: Buy Scale AI, hire everyone else - report Meta just announced they’re creating "Meta Superintelligence Labs" and backing it up with the kind of money that makes people cry. They dropped $14.3 billion for 49% of Scale AI (more than doubling its valuation overnight) and hired at least 11 researchers from OpenAI with compensation packages that reportedly hit $100 million signing...
5 months ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: OpenAI’s o3 model refuses to shut down (even when explicitly told to) - research study I'm oh so tempted to make a Terminator reference, but this is really a story about unintended consequences rather than robot rebellion. Palisade Research discovered that OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model actively sabotages shutdown mechanisms, even when given explicit instructions to “allow yourself to be shut down.” The...
6 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Gemini Diffusion is a new kind of AI, and very, very fast - announcement Google has dropped what might be their most significant technical breakthrough of the year with Gemini Diffusion, a text generation model that completely abandons the traditional autoregressive approach. Instead of generating text token by token like every other LLM on the market, it applies diffusion techniques (think Stable...
7 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Google feels the first crack in search dominance as Safari users drift to AI - testimony In a courtroom bombshell that sent $150 billion of Google’s market value up in smoke, Apple’s Eddy Cue casually mentioned that for the first time in over 20 years, Safari search volume has declined. Tech analysts immediately went into overdrive, frantically updating their valuation models. The 7.3% stock nosedive...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Figma Make brings AI “vibe-coding” to design workflows - official announcement Figma just launched "Make" - their AI-powered prototype generation tool that aims to deliver on the promise of converting designs and ideas into functional code. It lets designers transform their work into interactive prototypes via text prompts or convert existing Figma designs directly into working code. This is a meaningful...
7 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: LLMs secretly manipulated Reddit users’ opinions in an unauthorized experiment - article, follow-up Researchers from the University of Zurich just got caught running a massive unauthorized AI experiment on r/changemyview, where they unleashed AI bots that posted 1,783 comments over four months without anyone’s consent. The bots were programmed to be maximally persuasive by adopting fabricated identities...
8 months ago • 5 min read