A longstanding goal of research on interpretable deep learning is to replace opaque neural computations with human-meaningful symbolic descriptions. In this paper, we propose an approach for approximating the behavior of components of deep…
From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot You have a robot, a folder of demonstration data on the Hugging Face Hub, and a new task you want it to learn. Today that takes five separate tools: one to record…
A self-organizing Obsidian Vault powered by autonomous AI agents (github.com via hn)
Second Brain Operating System This document defines the core philosophy, workflows, and operational logic of this Second Brain. It is a living document, updated as the system and its tools evolve.
datasette-agent 0.3a0 (simonwillison.net)
15th June 2026 - New tool, execute_write_sql , which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user approval in datasette agent 0.2a0.
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- Show HN: Datasette Agent (simonwillison.net via hn)
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DeepSeek 4DeepSeek-V4-Pro is a 1.6T parameter Mixture-of-Experts model supporting one million-token context length, offering significant efficiency improvements over its predecessor. Notably, community feedback highlights the emergence of DeepSeek V4 Pro among low-cost Chinese language models, with some users reporting performance parity and others questioning its competitive positioning despite development delays.
- 9m AI content pipeline for a dog blog — section writer keeps hallucinating and repeating despite rules. Help diagnosing the bottleneck
- 11h GLM 5.2 via Claude Code is the first non-Claude model that feels close to Opus
- 20h Using Claude Opus as planner + DeepSeek as worker in Claude Code — anyone solved the single-session routing problem?
- 1d Native Coding Agent Optimized for Local LLM and DeepSeek v4 with Vector Memory
- 1d DeepSeek V4 Pro at 5% the cost of Claude – what it takes to close the gap
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Opus 4.8Claude AI has released Opus 4.8, an upgrade to their Opus class of models available in version 2.1.154 of their software on March 16, 2023, which includes enhanced coding and professional task capabilities along with improved judgment and honesty. Users are reporting usage resets following the update.
Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on reasoning tasks, but whether this reflects faithful logical inference or heuristic approximation remains unclear. We study this question in legal entailment by comparing three para…
A simple trick that's helping me review AI-generated code (www.reddit.com via reddit)
AI writes code faster than I can read it, and that gap has a cost: code that's in the repo but not in anyone's head. I've been collecting cheap ways to close it, fast high-level views of a chunk of code so I can understand it without readi…
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns (importai.substack.com)
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns Where are your agents right now? Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.
Agentic Resource Discovery: Let agents search (huggingface.co)
SpaceX will officially acquire Cursor for $60B (fortune.com via hn)
Good morning. Lean and mean today, like Uber’s new AI budget.
- SpaceX is going to acquire cursor? (dhsmith.dev via hn)
- SpaceX to Acquire Cursor (xcancel.com via hn)
- SpaceX is Officially Buying Cursor (www.theverge.com via hn)
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- SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B (uk.pcmag.com via hn)
- SpaceX says it has option to acquire Cursor for $60B (www.reuters.com via hn)
- SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B (www.bloomberg.com via hn)
When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but rather performing a kind of pattern matching. The implication is that people's…
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SecurityOpenAI has released GPT-5.4-Cyber for testing as part of its Trusted Access for Cyber Defense program, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Claude Mythos in the cybersecurity domain. Meanwhile, concerns are rising over the potential risks associated with advanced AI models like Mythos, prompting calls for improved defenses before wider releases.
- 3h Getting a Use caution before running this prompt warning on simple messages?
- 4h Are AI coding agents safe? Let's say Claude Code for that matter.
- 11h Claude Fable 5: The harness matters more than the model
- 13h They're demanding Fable to somehow be 100% jailbreak-proof. It's so fucking over.
- 18h Red-teaming agents with the GOAT attack strategy
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GlmRecent developments in the AI space highlight significant advancements from Chinese companies, particularly Zai's upgrade of GLM-5.1, which has shown substantial improvements. Meanwhile, there are concerns about a widespread intelligence drop across various models and discussions around the potential openness of leading AI projects like GLM 5.1.
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Thinking about moving from $200 Codex to Claude Max (www.reddit.com via reddit)
My $200 Codex subscription is ending soon and I’m considering giving Claude Max a try. The last time I used Claude seriously was around the 4.6 era, so I’m probably out of date on what Claude Code can do today.
- Moving to Codex from Claude? (www.reddit.com)
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context (simonwillison.net)
12th June 2026 - Link Blog OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context. I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio models.
Agent systems are advancing quickly across domains, but their evaluation remains fragmented. Most benchmarks rely on fixed, LLM-centric harnesses that require heavy integration, create test-production mismatch, and limit fair comparison ac…
What's a small Claude Code habit that ended up saving you the most time? (www.reddit.com via reddit)
Been using Claude Code for a few weeks now, and a lot of the value ended up coming from boring non-coding stuff — tracking outreach lists, cleaning up messy spreadsheets, drafting first-pass copy, that kind of thing. The habit that's stuck…
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GPT 5.5On [Date], a significant leak of the OpenAI Codex model, referred to as GPT-5.5, was captured on video before it was patched. The incident involved models named Arcanine and Glacier-alpha.
- 13h Connected a Robinhood Account to Claude Code and Codex for Autonomys Agentic Trading...
- 1d Optimizing a C collision detection 100x with an LLM
- 1d I made Claude and GPT-5.5 answer the same prompt, then had a third Claude fuse the two, on the subscriptions I already pay for (no API key). Blind-tested it. Here is where it won and where it lost.
- 1d Spent $11k evaluating Fable: capability looked SOTA, refusals killed it (before Anthropic did)
- 1d Agent Architecture Is a Compute Allocation Problem: The Advisor Strategy
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Anthropic MythosAnthropic's new update, Claude Mythos, has garnered attention from top AI security researchers like Carlini, who found numerous bugs. The update is noted for its speed and effectiveness, with Anthropic identifying a significant security flaw in FFmpeg and quickly submitting patches.
SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
11th June 2026 - Link Blog Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude (via) Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visibl…
- Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have 'Sabotaged' Researchers Using Claude (www.wired.com via hn)
Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol yet? (news.ycombinator.com)
The A2A protocol is an agent to agent protocol from Google. I was looking at it 6 months back but it didn't feel like I really understood how to use it at that point.
[AINews] Open Models, Model Labs vs Agent Labs, and What's Untrainable — Sarah Guo a quiet day lets us reflect on a great essay Sarah Guo is a friend of the pod and Queen of AI, and after our Satya crossover pod (great recap here from Goku…