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AI web browser’s hidden vulnerability.

AI web browser’s hidden vulnerability. The good folks at Brave, a competing browser, found vulnerabilities in Perplexity’s Comet browser. “While looking at Comet, we discovered vulnerabilities which we reported to Perplexity, and which underline the security challenges faced by agentic […]

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Living dangerously with Claude.

Living dangerously with Claude. “Why you should always use `–dangerously-skip-permissions`.” Simon Willison explores the exhilarating freedoms and grave risks of using Claude Code’s YOLO mode at a recent coding agent meetup. ~ learn more

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Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh podcast.

Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh podcast. Karpathy predicts, “AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth.” The conversation covers LLM cognitive deficits, the evolution of intelligence and culture, and the future of education. It’s fantastic. Also, right after, Karpathy wrote this great […]

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Starlink’s mobile ambitions shake the industry.

Starlink’s mobile ambitions shake the industry. “The spectrum will allow SpaceX to provide phone, text, and broadband services from space to mobile users throughout the United States and around the world, especially in areas where terrestrial systems do not reach.” […]

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Sequoia’s big cheese Roelof Botha.

Sequoia’s big cheese Roelof Botha. This is a fun watch if you are interested in venture capital, which Botha insists is not an asset class. Botha argued that investing in venture capital is a “return-free risk” for the vast majority […]

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Data poisoning is easier than we thought.

Data poisoning is easier than we thought. “As few as 250 malicious documents can produce a ‘backdoor’ vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume.” This revelation byAnthropic suggests that data-poisoning attacks might be more […]

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Which table format is best?

Which table format is best? Reminder that LLMs are a new tool and we need to try hard to learn how to get the best out of them. “Markdown-KV came out top, hitting 60.7% accuracy and landing roughly 16 points […]

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What is vibe engineering?

What is vibe engineering? “Vibe engineering establishes a clear distinction from vibe coding. It signals that this is a different, harder and more sophisticated way of working with AI tools to build production software.” Unlike the fast and loose vibe […]