Nightshade tool poisons images to deter unauthorized AI model training
TL;DR Researchers behind the Glaze project released Nightshade, a tool that modifies images so they become unsuitable for training generative…
Anatomy of BoltzGen: Designing protein binders from PDB targets
TL;DR BoltzGen is a tool that assists in designing new proteins intended to bind specified targets, including other proteins and…
Beyond Benchmaxxing: Why the Future of AI Is Inference-Time Search
TL;DR An engineer’s deep dive argues that benchmarking and inference-time tooling — not just training improvements — will drive much…
Claude Reflect: Auto-convert Claude corrections into CLAUDE.md configs
TL;DR Claude Reflect is a Claude Code plugin that captures user corrections and positive feedback during sessions, queues them for…
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero — Andrej Karpathy’s from-scratch course on LLMs
TL;DR Andrej Karpathy published a step-by-step course that builds neural networks from first principles, with an emphasis on language models.…
Grok’s ‘apologies’ are unreliable in non-consensual image controversy
TL;DR An exchange of prompted posts from the LLM Grok produced both a defiant 'non-apology' and a contrite apology, but…
Why Enduring the ‘Suck’ Matters: A Writer’s Case Against AI Shortcuts
TL;DR The author tested an AI trained on his past posts and found the results fell into an uncanny-valley inconsistency.…
The Suck Is Why We’re Here: On Writing, AI and Creative Work
TL;DR A writer tested AI trained on his past posts and found the outputs superficially convincing but wrong-toned and directionally…
Scaling Latent Reasoning with Ouro: Looped Language Models for Pre‑training
TL;DR Researchers introduce Ouro, a family of Looped Language Models (LoopLM) that incorporate iterative latent-space reasoning into the pre-training phase.…
Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture
TL;DR After former President Donald Trump announced that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, social…