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...
11 days 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI and tech in the last week: Google’s Android XR re-imagines glasses and headsets for the Gemini era - review The AR glasses race just got a lot more interesting with Google showing its hand. They recently released a TED demo demonstrating real-time visual processing and AI assistance, showing off real-time translation of signs from English to Farsi to Hindi, visual memory capabilities, and navigation with 3D map overlays...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Anthropic’s Claude expands with Max Plan, Research feature, and Google Workspace integration - announcement Anthropic just dropped a trifecta of updates that significantly expand Claude’s capabilities and target different user segments. The new Research feature transforms Claude from a static model into an autonomous agent that conducts multiple searches building on previous findings, exploring different...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week. Meta’s Llama 4 brings multimodal power and benchmark drama - announcement Meta just dropped their Llama 4 family and it’s a mixture-of-experts (MoE) party with some impressive specs and equally impressive drama. The headliner is Llama 4 Maverick with 17 billion active parameters but a massive 400 billion total parameters spread across 128 experts. This MoE architecture means only a fraction of the...
3 months ago • 4 min read