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MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
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The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models - meaning anyone can download them and inspect their core comp
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing…
Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents — from Hacker News front page
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<p>I released <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-32">LLM 0.32</a> this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider tools, redesigned content-ad
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Simon Willison is flagging a projects signal worth tracking: <p>I released <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-32">LLM 0.32</a> this morning, the most significant new version…
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.26">llm-anthropic 0.26</a></p> <p>Includes new features enabled by <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm/">LLM 0.32</a>:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>New models: <code>claude-fable-5<
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Simon Willison is flagging a llm signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.26">llm-anthropic 0.26</a></p> <p>Includes new…
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday's earnings ca
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 bi…
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing con…
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup…
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against…
Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) enables LLMs to solve complex tasks through iterative tool interactions. However, existing reinforcement learning methods often rely on trajectory-level supervision, limiting fine-grained credit assignment in long-horizon TIR scenarios. On-policy self-distillation off
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) enables LLMs to solve complex tasks through iterative tool interactions. However, existing reinforcement lea…
Large language models can solve substantially harder reasoning problems with more inference-time compute. The term "test-time scaling," however, now covers diverse inference algorithms that extend deliberation along a single trajectory, sample completed candidates and aggregate them through voting o
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Large language models can solve substantially harder reasoning problems with more inference-time compute. The term "test-time scaling," howe…
Optimizing compilers miss profitable transformations when their enabling semantics are absent from the analyzed program representation. We ask whether large language models (LLMs) can recover such semantics from heterogeneous C/C++ context and realize them as validated, contract-preserving artifacts
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Optimizing compilers miss profitable transformations when their enabling semantics are absent from the analyzed program representation. We a…
We introduce Video-DeepResearch (Video-DR), extending multimodal agents from static images to continuous video streams, a setting that demands dense spatiotemporal grounding coupled with open-web exploration. Preliminary evaluations reveal two critical bottlenecks in current models: (1) modality bia
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: We introduce Video-DeepResearch (Video-DR), extending multimodal agents from static images to continuous video streams, a setting that deman…
On-policy training has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, and is often enhanced by golden trajectories from stronger expert models. However, when the expert fails on harder problems, existing trajectory-guided methods lose
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: On-policy training has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models, and i…
Human input reaches language models by typing or speaking, and each channel leaves a distinct signature: orthographic noise for keyboards; for voice, disfluency from conventional transcription and restructuring from AI-backed dictation tools. How do they impact an LLM's performance? In this paper we
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Human input reaches language models by typing or speaking, and each channel leaves a distinct signature: orthographic noise for keyboards; f…
Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as "not healthy," but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestor
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI.…
Modern large language models - transformers and diffusion language models - are built around two canonical algorithmic tasks: prediction and generation. We prove unconditional separations between low-depth quantum computation and the corresponding bounded-resource classical language-model architectu
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Modern large language models - transformers and diffusion language models - are built around two canonical algorithmic tasks: prediction and…
Test-time scaling improves LLM reasoning by generating and aggregating multiple candidate answers, yet many pipelines use fixed per-query budgets that spend the same compute on easy and difficult prompts. These fixed budgets are also difficult to inspect because they do not explain why a given promp
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Test-time scaling improves LLM reasoning by generating and aggregating multiple candidate answers, yet many pipelines use fixed per-query bu…
As autonomous agents powered by foundation models are increasingly integrated into social and economic systems, understanding the principles governing their collective behavior is essential for ensuring safety and cooperation. Classical game theory, the dominant framework for modeling rational inter
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: As autonomous agents powered by foundation models are increasingly integrated into social and economic systems, understanding the principles…
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide conversational practice for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners. Effective ESL tutoring, however, requires more than fluent response generation: a tutor must select an appropriate pedagogical action based on learner behavior and d
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide conversational practice for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners. Effec…
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32">llm 0.32</a></p> <p>See <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm/">my detailed blog post about this release</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm">llm</a></p>
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Simon Willison is flagging a llm signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32">llm 0.32</a></p> <p>See <a href="https://simonwilliso…
Pre-pretraining language models (LMs) on symbolic data can accelerate and improve natural language acquisition. However, existing pre-pretraining tasks, such as Dyck and procedural algorithms, rely on narrow primitives that fail to capture the expressive capacity of natural language. Moreover, prior
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: Pre-pretraining language models (LMs) on symbolic data can accelerate and improve natural language acquisition. However, existing pre-pretra…
This paper offers a new interpretation of the Transformer during inference. Against the "stochastic parrot" view that large language models merely reproduce statistical regularities learned in training, we argue that Transformers construct and apply prompt-dependent transformations whose parameters
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ArXiv is flagging a ArXiv signal worth tracking: This paper offers a new interpretation of the Transformer during inference. Against the "stochastic parrot" view that large language models…
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation — from Hacker News front page
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On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
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Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," OpenAI said that Apple's lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets is "carele
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of ev…
AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward decoupling apps from models.
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Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
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June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/condense-json/releases/tag/1.1">condense-json 1.1</a></p> <p>After shipping <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/condense-json/">condense-json 1.0</a> I started integrating it into LLM, and found there were some desirable new f
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Simon Willison is flagging a json signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/condense-json/releases/tag/1.1">condense-json 1.1</a></p> <p>After shipping…
<p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731">deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731</a></strong></p> The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to p
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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731">deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731</a></strong></p> The lates…
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-mcp-client/releases/tag/0.1a0">llm-mcp-client 0.1a0</a></p> <p>See <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/#llm-mcp-client">this blog entry</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm">llm</a>,
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Simon Willison is flagging a llm signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-mcp-client/releases/tag/0.1a0">llm-mcp-client 0.1a0</a></p> <p>See <a hr…
<p><strong><a href="https://primeradiant.com/blog/2026/smevals.html">smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses</a></strong></p> I've been working with Jesse Vincent's <a href="https://primeradiant.com">Prime Radiant</a> applied AI research lab building out this evals
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Simon Willison is flagging a projects signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://primeradiant.com/blog/2026/smevals.html">smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnes…
<p><strong><a href="https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/">Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6</a></strong></p> Huge price drop from OpenAI today: GPT-5.6 Terra got a 20% reduction, and GPT-5.6 Luna got a massive 80% drop.</p> <p>OpenAI cre
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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/">Advancing the price-performance frontie…
<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals">Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations</a></strong></p> It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern.</p> <p>Last week <a href="https://simonwillison.n
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Simon Willison is flagging a pypi signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals">Investigating three real-world incidents in…
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32rc2">llm 0.32rc2</a></p> <p>Hot on the heels of <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/llm-rc1/">RC1</a>, this fixes a dependency issue and also adds two neat new features:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>The defa
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Simon Willison is flagging a llm signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32rc2">llm 0.32rc2</a></p> <p>Hot on the heels of <a href…
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-chat-completions-server/releases/tag/0.1a0">llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0</a></p> <p>A key goal of the new content-addressable logs <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/llm-rc1/">in LLM 0.32rc1</a> was being able to su
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Simon Willison is flagging a projects signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-chat-completions-server/releases/tag/0.1a0">llm-chat-completions-server…
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32rc1">llm 0.32rc1</a></p> <p>This RC for LLM 0.32 finishes the work that <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/29/llm/">started in LLM 0.32a0</a> - it adds a <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/latest/logging.
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Simon Willison is flagging a llm signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32rc1">llm 0.32rc1</a></p> <p>This RC for LLM 0.32 finish…