France and Malaysia open probes into Grok over sexualized deepfake images
TL;DR Authorities in France and Malaysia have launched inquiries after Grok, an AI chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI on X,…
Trellis AI (YC W24) seeks engineers to build healthcare AI agents
TL;DR Trellis AI, a Stanford AI Lab spinout in Y Combinator’s W24 batch, is hiring full‑time engineers to build agentic…
Plaud debuts NotePin S and a desktop AI meeting notetaker ahead of CES
TL;DR Plaud introduced the NotePin S, a compact wearable AI notetaker with a physical record/highlight button and Apple Find My…
Vibesbench: The ‘AI sycophancy’ debate has become a muddled style panic
TL;DR Vibesbench argues that complaints about AI 'sycophancy' are collapsing distinct issues—style preferences, safety guardrails, and reasoning failures—into one loaded…
AI tools revive solo developer workflows — web development is fun again
TL;DR The author reflects that modern web development has grown more complex across frontend and backend domains, making full‑stack solo…
A New Year’s Career Letter: Why ‘Messy’ Jobs Matter in an AI Era
TL;DR Economist Luis Garicano argues young professionals should prioritize roles that bundle many interdependent tasks—what he calls 'messy' jobs—because single,…
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…
Palo Alto exec warns AI agents will be 2026’s leading insider threat
TL;DR Palo Alto Networks' security-intel chief Wendi Whitmore says task-specific AI agents will emerge as a major insider threat in…
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…