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Reverse engineer anything.

Reverse engineer anything. This has become very popular very quickly. “REA gives it the tools to inspect the code behind the answer.” It’s a toolkit you plug into a coding agent so it can actually follow real code paths, pull […]

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Indoor satellite phone cover is coming.

Indoor satellite phone cover is coming. “The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers.” Aakash Gupta explains why SpaceX buying Sprint’s old 800 MHz Nextel block matters: “800 MHz penetrates buildings” and […]

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Your agent is mine.

Your agent is mine. “These routers operate as application-layer proxies with full plaintext access to every in-flight JSON payload, yet no provider enforces cryptographic integrity between client and upstream model.” The paper audits 428 third-party LLM API routers and finds […]

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Reality is bending.

Reality is bending. A manifesto on brain-computer interfaces. Carve out some time to read this 3-part article. “The future, which used to arrive in decades, now arrives by the month.” A crisp manifesto on the “bandwidth problem” between humans and […]

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AI beats junior accountants.

AI beats junior accountants. “We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” This came from hiring 12 CPAs to do simplified […]

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Leading the agentic AI transformation.

Leading the agentic AI transformation. This is a keynote by Amandeep Khurana (AWS at the time, now at Anthropic) on how AI is moving toward more autonomous models and what that means for organizations. Most valuable is that he talks […]

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Voice carries more than words.

Voice carries more than words. A startup claims heir model can do a lot more with recorded audio than just transcribe it. Including: “Disease-state presence and severity across neurological, cardiometabolic, respiratory, behavioral and cognitive conditions.” They sell it as a […]

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Tech groupthink.

Tech groupthink. “The particularly interesting thing about the Instinct conversation is just how emblematic it is of the groupthink endemic in tech and venture.” Hadick argues the product is fine, but the fawning says more about incentives and status games […]

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A video Turing test winner?

A video Turing test winner? “48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%.” Tavus says their new model Griffin does full-duplex video, meaning it can “listen, […]

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AIs will hack everything.

AIs will hack everything. “Vulnerabilities are called loopholes, exploits are called tax avoidance strategies, and black hats are called accountants.” Bruce Schneier maps classic hacking onto the tax code, markets, and even democracy, then warns that AI will find exploits […]