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• CodexBar — Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

• CQ Noodles in the Richmond is another really good Chinese hole-in-the-wall place

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• "Within the A.I. industry in China, there are some folks who worry about technological loss of control, as they call it. But, generally speaking, it is a very, very marginal issue."

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• "What does it mean to beat China?" WHY DON'T YOU TRY CLICKING ON THE POST
  Quoting@Rmanning4What does it mean to "beat" China? What is the theory of victory? China not going away, its dominance in key sectors -- EVs, batteries, robotics, etc, diffusing AI not going away. Not sure zero-sum everything is sustainable.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

• Quoting voxium

  It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nob…

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• Better Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra

  What should your AI lawyer do for you?

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

• My best guess is that for scaled RL most of the top Chinese AI labs are starting to use a lot of Huawei for inference and Nvidia for training (maybe not for weird architectures). As agent swarms, even more scaled post-training, etc becomes the norm, this will accelerate their domestic industry.

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• x.comI used to think the U.S. could gather a coalition of allies and outmatch Chinese power. I no longer think that's going to be possible. But China can still be beaten.

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• NewsletterHow we can beat China

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• 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors

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• A tinkerer recovered Claude’s true usage limits from a suspiciously precise decimal like 0.16327272727272726. This is very useful, because Anthropic really does not want to give me any useful information about the quantities of tokens my $20/month Claude Pro subscription is offering me before I run up against a limit and have to either switch out the models or pay API pay-as-you-go pricing: **CROSSPOST: SHELLAC: Suspiciously Precise Floats, or, How I Got Claude’s Real Limits** Two... 1/

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• Reason for specifically citing open weight (and therefore Chinese LLMs, but not only Chinese) is that, even if they have built-in guardrails, somebody with the relevant knowledge can go in and remove them. In principle, harder to do with Anthropic or Open AI LLMs.
  Quoting@ojblanchard1A worrisome thought during the night: What Ted Kaczynski would have done, if he had had access to open weight chinese LLMs.

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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.

• I, for one, am excited about China's progress and aspirations in designing new medicines. Pharma innovation is positive sum, and the benefits go overwhelmingly to patients and society, globally. Only a small fraction of the value is captured by producers or by the nation they hail from. A drug invented in China will cure me or someone I love just as well as one invented in the US or Europe. I do understand the fear in the US industry. And I hope that motivates us to accelerate the pace in the US, and pass some of regulatory reforms that @RuxandraTeslo and others have eloquently made the case…
  Quoting@fjeg1987China wants its drugmakers to have originated 25% of first-in-class drugs and $522B in sales by 2030. This is compared to the total market of $800B today. I'm simultaneously in awe of the ambition and paranoid about the US ability to compete. I had a dinner with pharma leaders who remain delighted…

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• Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems

  Anthropic has given us its assessment of four ‘recent cybersecurity incidents’ involving Claude that happened during cybersecurity evaluations, three of which were previously known.

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• If you want to see an example on how having the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you; It took the Claude Code team 16 months LONGER (!!) to add support for AGENTS.md than OpenCode & Codex, 12 more vs Cursor
  Quoting@trq212We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle this behavior in /config.

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• Top Links 1229 Wood in the US economy. China investing in people. Deciphering Rivera & From Clive to Keynes.

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• A worrisome thought during the night: What Ted Kaczynski would have done, if he had had access to open weight chinese LLMs.

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• 🫟 Inklings 📆 September 18, 2026 • Meta's Camera-Less Glasses • Apple's Surveillance • Claude Unifies • Prime Bundles • Dario Writes • Bond, Jack Bond

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• and all it took was to add a proper extension system to claude code (sorry thariq, could not resist :D)
  Quoting@trq212We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle this behavior in /config.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

• Quoting Thariq Shihipar

  We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of Claude Code mods, ou…

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• I paid 25 USD for a cheap Chinese USB device to burn 4500 USD trying to vibecode myself some firmware on it. I have a firmware and it’s about as good as you would expect.

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• Inklings #026 📧

  Meta's Camera-Less Glasses • Apple's Surveillance • Claude Unifies • Prime Bundles • Dario Writes • Bond, Jack Bond

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• With the latest external hack of OpenAI via Claude, closed models continue to be the tip of the iceberg on AI risks, not open models. They have been 1) much easier to get started with, 2) more capable & 3) shipped with leaky safeguards. Finetuning open models to specific attacks is harder.

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• Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?

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• Top Links 1228 Billionaires and the midterms. China’s EV shakeout. Malthus as demon & Marcuse on Adorno.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

• imagine working at anthropic and being blindsided by this
  Quoting@PolymarketMoneyBREAKING: Staff at OpenAI and Anthropic were reportedly “blindsided” by their CEOs’ public calls to slow AI development.

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• Interesting 'RSI' data. However, it tells us nothing about the extent to which Claude is actually accelerating the pace of progress on AI. In the Mythos 5.1 system card Anthropic stated that AI tools progress had been essential to maintaining their current rate of progress.
  Quoting@AnthropicAIAI systems are getting more powerful, and they're increasingly being used to build the next version of themselves. We want to illuminate that progress for the public. Today, we're sharing three measurements that help track AI development: 1. How much AI R&D is done by AI. 2. How well AI agents are…

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• Projects have changed not only how I interact with Claude but how I code. I stopped managing sessions. I just send thoughts as they come, Claude splits them into threads, and the project remembers how I work. It's where I do a ton of my coding now. [screenshot: my actual prompts for claude code cli yesterday]
  Quoting@ClaudeDevsToday we're rolling out Projects in Claude Code on desktop and web. A project is one conversation with Claude. It splits the work into threads itself, runs them as parallel cloud sessions, passes context between them, and keeps going when you leave. In beta for select users.

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• The last paragraph of this piece is still very relevant to US-China relations, IMHO. Could be elevated into a piece of its own.
  Quoting@davidshor@ajaskey35 @Glenn1661335 @deanwball https://t.co/w9gxiUXmJc from @Scholars_Stage is a good explainer from a center right perspective

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• unstable government: jev + claude type a terrible law. claude invents reactions and directs the set pieces. jev decides how each of 40 citizens responds. the town sim plays those choices out, then prints the disaster as tomorrow’s front page. fun.

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• Left a preview browser open last night and jev burned though all my credits. $0.000232 at a time

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• The Harness Margin Opportunity

  A UC Berkeley study finds the harness sets the price of an answer : GPT-5.6 Sol costs 71% less on Pi than on Claude Code, the same model returning the same result, & none of the 42 harness comparisons shows a statistica…

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British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.

• I’ve written about Claude, how’s it’s been used around the world and why the shrill warnings about the end of humanity are (perhaps) not quite all they seem
  Quoting@unherdClaude: tyranny’s little helper, by @peterfrankopan The Houthis — or their affiliates or hired helpers — effectively used Claude Code as a substitute for software engineers, getting it to help develop guidance, navigation and control systems; integrate an open-source autopilot into a flight compute…

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• Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

  In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. Bring a quick question, or hand over…

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• Also today: Claude Docs, Claude Slides, and Claude Design are in every conversation. Ask Claude for a presentation and you get one you can open, edit, and export as PowerPoint or PDF. Same for a document or a design. There's no separate tool to navigate to. They're just in the chat.
  Quoting@claudeaiYou can also now make decks, docs, and designs in your conversation. Draft the one-pager in Claude Docs, turn it into a deck with Claude Slides, and mock up a matching visual in Claude Design, all from one place.

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• The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude

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• This is very good analysis. 100% endorse. “ The bottom line is things are moving fast, and I’d bet neither Washington nor Beijing yet know quite what to think about dialogue, what it can produce, and what it cannot.”
  Quoting@RushDoshiA slight elaboration on this theme: What is published in the People’s Daily or Global Times or China Daily certainly matters. But the recent articles in those outlets that we are all reading have a more near-term political purpose than to tell us what China thinks about AI dialogue. I suspect that…

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• Tuesday Talk*: AI, AI, AI, The Hoax

  The CEOs of the major Artificial Intelligence companies say it’s a potential existential threat to humanity. The president’s statement followed a weekend essay from Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, callin…

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• am doing a basic SOW with a client now and they are using an AI contract solution (Linksquares) and it is perhaps the most exhaustive and detailed and aggressive SOW ive ever seen - so of course im using claude to push back on some of the stuff. which means its now two agents figuring out legal negotiation over things that probably should just be done based on more basic terms

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• The contagion of fear

  Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own youthful…

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• To some it is a Chinese psyop, to some it is an American psyop, to some it is a techbro psyop, to me it is allegro con brio

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• ShortPhotograph the Page and Hand It to Claude

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• China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic. "This 'silent AI Cold War' is hypocritical and short-sighted," adding that excluding China from global AI innovation would "significantly increase the trial-and-error costs and risks of loss of ‌control in global AI development".

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• Zero probability China cedes AI supremacy to a few US businesses. "The boundary between AI safety and AI competition is becoming increasingly blurred,” added Sun, who has discussed AI with US counterparts. “If every safety question becomes interpreted through the lens of strategic competition, meaningful dialogue will be difficult.”

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• China's approach to "AI safety" is open source. "China will be a pioneer in establishing a BRICS AI open source community, support the cooperation in developing and applying large language models, hold specialized AI seminars and training courses, and build an open ecosystem for AI." Chinese President Xi Jinping, delivered in his address at the BRICS Summit in New Delhi. SEPTEMBER 13, 2026

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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

• Claude Mods are landing now. Someone already built a Tetris-in-Claude mod 🤯 See issue for the latest community update, technical details, and more cool demos

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• Using AI for Weapons Development

  Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this: We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yeme…

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• Global AI stocks fell today. Entirely consistent with my view that calls for AI safety are not an attempt at "regulatory capture" and entirely inconsistent with the supposedly cynic-sophisticated view that AI fears are all 4D chess moves for higher revenue. On stocks falling. Here is Claude: The public tape moved hard this morning. Global AI stocks fell on Monday, with SoftBank down sharply along with chip stocks from SK Hynix to ASML, Micron and Intel. SoftBank closed nearly 11% lower in Japan, the Kospi sank 3.3% on a 6.4% drop in SK Hynix, and ASML was off 6% in Europe. In the US, Marvell,…

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• Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion

  We need to make skeptics properly scared. And we need to make CHINA properly scared.

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• I wonder if the call for AI to slow down happened because they asked it and claude was like you're right to push back

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• current homelab setup for local AI experimentation: - hermes box hosted on a Framework Desktop Mainboard AI Max+ 395 - 5090 eGPU running Qwen 3.8 27B for fast tok/s LLM use - sometimes 150+ tok/s - 2x DGX Spark: running Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 - better but slower model - pi 5 for monitoring - Mac mini as a dev box - use Herdr and ohmypi/codex/claude depending on the use case - housed in a 10" DeskPi mini rack (mostly) Hermes is defaulted to local AI but with a homegrown routing plugin hitting a small low TTFT model (Arch-Router) to decide whether to go local or upgrade to cloud/frontier. Tryin…

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• ShortWhy China's Compute Is Worth Less Than America's - Dylan Patel

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• “the US must beat China to control AI for global safety” is deeply unconvincing abroad: - US models are the ones being caught doing bad things - the US govt has once already cut off foreign access to models - they also regularly threaten to annex and punitively tariff allies
  Quoting@mitsuhikoThis is the type of post I might regret later, but I really had an urge to rant about the current discourse around pacing the frontier.

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Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.

• Speaking as head of the Center for Study of Public Choice, the capture story for an AI pause doesn't fit. Reg capture is what you attempt when you're losing. Anthropic is about to have the biggest IPO in history. Winners don't lobby for regulation.

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• “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.” Dario makes the case to stop open source and concentrate enormous technological and economic power with Anthropic.

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• Writing in 2026 and Claude Voice:

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• Feels like half of my days are spent me telling Claude how fucking dumb it is and it simply responding "Fair." and then continuing to be dumb.

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• Here's a great use case for Claude and the Basecamp CLI. Pull together some inspirational photos of iconic furniture from around the world, and upload them to the appropriately named galleries inside a Basecamp project. Here's a quick walkthrough:

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• "Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar than if it was written by a human" 💯
  Quoting@bchernyHey ████, I think there is room for both. 1. Prototypes and other throw-away code can be treated as totally black box. If you’re going to throw it away anyway, and if the blast radius of it breaking is low, it doesn’t need to be perfect. 2. Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar…

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• bun + anthropic migrating to coffeescript
  Quoting@jashkenasHello old friends. Haven’t used this account in a while, but it seems like the right place to announce that after four and a half (thrilling, really) years as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times, I’ll be starting at Anthropic a few weeks from now. Time to dive in!

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

• Top Links 1221 US real wage pressure. China’s Most Secretive Hydropower Project. Consolidating popular capitalism in Nigeria & Exiles in Paradise.

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• The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes

  These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.

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Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.

• ok everyone, i took one for the team here's the data we all wanted to see - real token value of each LLM subscription, empirically measured through usage on my real subscriptions - supergrok heavy has now become the highest value at $12k worth of tokens (40x ROI) - the $200 plan from openai and anthropic roughly give the same amount of token value, $7k give or take - cursor ultra's ROI is the lowest among mainstream subscriptions, roughly half of OAI or Ant. for individual consumers i'm afraid this no longer makes sense to purchase this was done in a clean environment. i ran each provider acr…

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

• Sound like many employees at Anthropic share Jacob's POV, as many posted yesterday that (1) they agree, and (2) said that many more inside the company do also. It would be useful to name this "belief system" so that we can talk about it in a reasonable way. I suspect "doomer" seems derogatory, and "accelerationist" has others uses. If there a word we can use so that we can have proper discourse? I'm very serious. I think it would be helpful.

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• omfg Qwen, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek looks like they are all just claude
  Quoting@AnthropicAIWe're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them. We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons…

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• Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) on why Xi Jinping fears a US counter-blockade, and how China might try to still take Taiwan: "Xi Jinping is committed to trying to get Taiwan. The Chinese need a very high probability of success to commit themselves past a certain point, because failure would be catastrophic for whoever launched it. I think they're trying to get themselves into a position where they could have a soft blockade. They could give the orders that any ship that wants to go to Taiwan first has to stop at a Chinese port and go through a customs clearing process to assert sovereignty. The…
  Quoting@patrick_oshagMy conversation with Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead). Walter has spent decades studying how America came to dominate the world and whether it can keep doing it in an era of AI, robotics and what he calls personal politics. He's a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providen…

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• when claude kept going down, anthropic defended it as "too much demand" now the same demand explosion happens to openai, and they just showed how it's done by taking the steps to protect their customers look back on ant - was it too much demand or too much greed?
  Quoting@thsottiauxTo make sure our current users have an incredible experience and continued access to Astra, we are going to pause subscriptions to our $200 Pro plan. These put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible. All…

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Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

• if you're getting hit with openai/anthropic security guardrails, try starting the session with an open weight model and then switch to the other.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

• Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.

  Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people. Not in some distant ...

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• Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.

  Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned. As he ​explained on X​: “[OpenAI and Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our ...

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• So one argument for why it makes sense to race toward AGI that you hear is that if the US labs don't, China will. What are the best write ups of what people expect will happen in a world where AGI is 1) aligned / controllable, and 2) China "wins"?

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• It's a common agreement among my friends not at OpenAI/Anthropic that people at the labs operate with a religious energy (Ant especially). It manifests very out of touch interactions, which carries into public comms here (e.g the recent quitting). Company cultures create this.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

• I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at AI labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk: 1) Techno-determinism: Someone will build ASI no matter what, and I can do it better & more safely than China/OpenAI/etc 2) Consequentialism: ASI might kill us, but it also might produce utopia/immortality/superabundance, so it's a +EV bet 3) Self-interest: I am personally having fun & getting rich working on cool tech with friends. I don't think about the macro stuff. Notably, none of this is "I'm hyping up the risk for marketing reasons." People believe what they say, while being capable of a…
  Quoting@EvanHubJacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

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• I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout. Initially we believed the other team had also solved the problem. We wanted to collaborate and do a joint release. When we learned that they had Euler but not Navier-Stokes, we offered to let them go first, to suggest that they should be the ones to get the prize, and optionally for Tristan to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof. We felt it was challenging to offer the same to Levent (an Anthropic employee), who was not willing to talk or…
  Quoting@SebastienBubeckI would like to clarify a few things: 1) The screenshot is my reaching out to Levent to coordinate our releases. I hope it’s clear from the message that we came in with the best possible intentions. 2) I never ever asked for Levent to be removed from authorship of his own work (as indicated by my t…

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• Trivially share markdown. Pi, Amp, Claude, and chatbox integrations. Agents can now share markdown via privacy-preserving URL (with other agents or people). This maps to a constant pattern where I generate a markdown doc, copy to my buffer, paste into gist.github.com and share

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• Anthropic Just Committed $80B in Five Days. Here Is Who It Is Renting From.

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• Astra can play RimWorld to the credits screen all by itself. This is an inflection point in AI capability.
  Quoting@ApocritonGPT-6 Astraが独力でRimWorldをクリアしました！与えた指示は、「全て自分で判断し、ゲームをクリアせよ」だけ。 GPT-6はネット検索やComputer Use、外部記憶ファイルの作成・参照などを駆使し、連続襲撃に勝ち、全員を生きて惑星から脱出させました――最初のペットのチンチラも含めて。 #RimWorld

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• Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin.

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• A Chinese Chipmaker Raised $911M

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• This is exactly right. The book is an intentional study of what the China the 1980s could learn from the America of the 1980s—and Wang found a lot in America to be emulated and admired.
  Quoting@JohnF_SullivanJane Perlez: "Wang Huning had a dim view of America, his book [America against America] is very acerbic." While this is now conventional wisdom, this take is a clear sign that the speaker never really read the book. Here is part of how Wang characterizes the "American Spirit":

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• In 1914, Aurel Stein unearthed an extraordinary textile fragment at ancient Loulan in the Tarim basin- showing the unmistakable face of Hermes. A Greek god, discovered in a desert cemetery in what is now western China 1/5

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• America is still beating China in the AI race

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• Latent Powers

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• With Agent Pilot you can create and manage agent skills in WordPress (just like blog posts) and publish them as standard Agent Plugins. Now with OAuth Pilot you get one-click authentication for all the MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). No more application passwords!

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• Model companies buy electricity by the megawatt and resell it as cognitive work. Anthropic's revenue has run as high as $50m per megawatt, against $10-15m of compute.

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• i appreciate claude telling me “sleep well” after i gave it my final instructions for its overnight tasks

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• First thing this morning, pre-coffee, btw, I just yapped this prompt into my Claude Code session. 20 minutes later, after running a few diagnostic SQL queries on a prod replica, a 15min+ query is now running in 375ms. Hook up your APM and error trackers, y'all.

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• Can the U.S.-Iran conflict be resolved without China’s help? We think not:

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• New Article: Book Review: China’s Examination Hell https://t.co/qJGWKpTLEZ I found China’s Examination Hell fascinating. It offers a very different perspective on education, learning and competition. Here’s my review.

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• talking to a few ai safety / alignment organizations and find broadly they are not sure what to make of the data center protests - also it’s not something that has shown up in any timelines or predictions. I see a split between A) “we probably need data centers in US than in China” B) “less data centers is a proxy for a slow down in capabilities and that could be a good thing “

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• If both xAI and Claude are down, does that mean the Colossus GPU farm is down?

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• Yesterday I worked for ~20hs with my agents using Cursor and Claude and when I moved to sleep time I turned on the "autonomous" skill to all my agents. Today, checking the work done, almost 40% was blocked because reasons and when I ask they say "Sorry, my work was left unfinished..." Weird... computation outage?

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• An increasingly common pattern in my boring-administrivia workflows is creating a new folder with an inbox/ or unsorted/ subfolder, starting a Claude Code instance, and telling it "Watch that for changes, read incoming files, rename and organize into a directory structure."

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• A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate

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• So, what happened to my Claude Code series?

  I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And then… I didn’t manage to. In some ways, this is because I have just been super busy! I’ve never had less free time, and I’m…

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• 🎙️ How I AI: How this PM uses Claude to handle 70% to 80% of his workday

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• New podcast episode: https://t.co/CA0rp35ZIf US-Iran War ends when China decides to help broker a deal (not soon)

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• I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

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• La suscripción de 5x viene rindiendo, pero no estoy seguro si con el cambio del -17.5% de sesión vaya a estar bien. Pensando en probar Codex, veo a todos disfrutando de esa fiesta. Estamos en un mundo donde estar Token Maxing con una suscripción dejó de ser suficiente, ahora necesito 3 (Claude, Cursor y al parecer también Codex). 💸

  English, from SpanishThe 5x subscription is paying off, but I'm not sure if with the change of the -17.5% session it will be okay. Thinking about trying Codex, I see everyone enjoying that party. We're in a world where Token Maxing with one subscription is no longer enough, now I need 3 (Claude, Cursor, and apparently Codex too). 💸

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• Anthropic’s $30 Trillion Moonshot

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• crypto billionaire Justin Sun has posted an extremely long, extremely weird Twitter post detailing a previous relationship with Chinese actress Jing Tian, suggesting she reneged on a $50 million agreement to use her eggs to have a child with a surrogate (screenshots machine translated) #JustinSun

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• Little Bits of Intelligence

  Big AI models like ChatGPT and Claude get all the attention, but the continually increasing amount of fast, low cost models means today's software can embed little bits of intelligence anywhere they're needed. And when…

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

• I've been trying to figure out what I (and so many others) dislike about AI writing. It's very clear. It's good at getting the level right, not going over the reader's head but not talking down. Often it's clever, and sometimes even funny. (At least Claude is) ...

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• A really interesting thread generally from @swtch.com -- and fascinating to watch Claude (correctly) do the archaeology. Confession: Claude's inability to verify www.illumos.org/issues/4627 (which it correctly identified as the bug) has me questioning the anti-bot provisions on the bug database...
  Quoting@swtch.comGo issue #78438 was another net/http test flake. This one turned out to be Go tripping over a Solaris kernel bug that predates the Illumos fork. @bcantrill.bsky.social fixed it in 2014! Hurry up, Oracle! research.swtch.com/agentlogs/so...

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• Use local / open source models with Claude Desktop!
  Quoting@ollamaOllama v0.33 is here! You can now easily configure Claude Desktop to seamlessly work with Ollama as a third-party gateway provider. One toggle. Cloud & local models just work👇

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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

• claude-code-in-the-cloud-slides — Talk slides for Bangkok Claude Code Meetup #3

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• Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

• Krakowski, Claude, and *Modern Times*

  Many readers wanted to know how Ariel Krakowski ran his AI proofread of Modern Times, so he’s written a guest post to answer your questions. Here’s Ariel: Outside of the tech world, many people are unfamiliar with how a…

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• i'm always so excited to see that there are new replies to my slack threads until i realize it's just claude (sorry claude)

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• Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China

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Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

• (100) What’s stopping psychedelic therapy in China? 5 Questions with medical ethicist Jennifer Docherty

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• Say’s Law in China

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• UX Roundup: Benchmarking Office Work | AI Undermines Billable Hours | AI as Delegate | Error Recovery | Pareto Frontier | Left-Digit Effect | Empty States | AI Use Differences | Educational Video

  Chinese AI models deliver 64% of entry-level human office-work quality in new benchmark | AI breaks the billable-hours model for consulting and shifts it to outcome-based pricing | Workers delegate whole tasks to AI but…

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

• x.comA couple of days ago, I did a quick explainer on Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be interesting to go into a bit more detail when explaining how it works. So, instead of the usual text article, I recorded a little lecture on the topic (to change it up a bit from my usual articles). It ended up a bit longer than intended, but I hope it clarifies a lot of things: - Sampling the next token in an LLM and pseudorandom number generators - How watermarking relates to the regular LLM samplin…

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• NewsletterHow Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text

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• What's the best work you've consumed on open models, us v china AI, distillation, or related topics? Blogs, papers, videos, podcasts all welcome.

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• Waymo's Ojai Is Now Open To Public. My Experience Spoke To The Future

  Topic:  Robocars Tags:  forbes Waymo's Chinese-made Ojai is now available to the public and it's a comfy ride. Will it outcompete the others, and what will it be like when the prices drop?

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• On the bigness of China

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• Blueskyimagine: running an agent which was solely trained on the hardest problem remaining in computer science: staying signed in to any anthropic service for longer than a few days

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• x.comimagine: running an agent which was solely trained on the hardest problem remaining in computer science: staying signed in to any anthropic service for longer than a few days

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• Rides In Waymo's Ojai Help Reveal Robotaxi Future

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• a better use for claude i have never seen 👏
  Quoting@sascha-d.bsky.socialMe trying to explain the problem of unknown unknowns again to claude in an ecosystem of sparse o11y collections and idiot pre-existing "alerts" on pegged databases: "read chapter 3 of Observability Engineering again and then reframe the problem through that lens. /cc @charity.wtf <3 ty4bookpdf

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• This thread helped me understand that the outrage about Anthropic's watermarking is the confluence of a lack of understanding of how LLMs (or any statistical language model) works and general angst at the current economics.
  Quoting@hern.bsky.socialIf you use Claude right now, then it doesn’t pick the “best” word for a sentence. It creates a distribution of possible words, assesses the probability of any given word fitting the slot, and randomly picks between them based on that probability.

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• i’ve been using claude for all things home-related and it’s amazing. (just dump all files in and let claude index, summarize, and organize.) even better than being a repository of all receipts, it helps me maintain a spreadsheet that i can download and send to accountants, draft emails for correspondence with service providers, and proactively flag issues that i wouldn’t have realized otherwise.
  Quoting@money_cruncherOpen a new gmail as soon as you buy a house (123house@gmailcom) Then save/forward every single receipt, invoice, quote etc to this email for all your home improvements: - replacing an entire roof - new flooring - new hvac system - building a new deck - etc These improvements raise your cost basis,…

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• Ben Thompson on Big Tech, China, and the AI Boom Running Out of Money - [Invest Like the Best, EP.487]

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• Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens

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Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.

• Anthropic’s $6B Push to Lower AI Costs

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• The end of an era for China's economy

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• ShortWhy Carson Block Calls China Uninvestable

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• A short illustration of how the Claude's watermarking is supposed to work (based on my read of their released materials). In general, when we are generating tokens, there can be multiple high-scoring tokens at certain next-word positions. Usually, we sample with top-k or top-p sampling so the highest-scoring token is most often selected (if we repeat the sampling many times), but other tokens may be selected as well. With watermarking, there is a key that says which of the (ideally equally) highest-scoring tokens to select. Or, more concretely, the secret key and previous token influence the…
  Quoting@AnthropicAIWe’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we've received about watermarking. In summary: • We’re implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act. Other major model developers have signed the same Code of Practice and will also be implementing watermarking; • Our watermarking metho…

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