Matt Levine covers a new startup offering that allows savers to leverage their retirement accounts 4:1. “There are no margin calls or mark-to-market triggers. If the market falls below a certain level, you aren’t forced to liquidate. The financing is […]
“GPT-4.1 is trained to follow instructions more closely and more literally than its predecessors, which tended to more liberally infer intent from user and system prompts. This also means, however, that GPT-4.1 is highly steerable and responsive to well-specified prompts […]
Ashlee Vance interviews Guillaume Verdon (aka ‘Beff Jezos’). “Extropic has shown early success with “thermodynamic computing.” It’s a form of computing that Verdon says harnesses the underlying properties of nature and probabilities in far better ways than traditional computers and […]
A recent interview covering, “Llama 4, benchmark gaming, open vs source, Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI” and more. ~ learn more
“In a head-to-head Geoguessr match, OpenAI’s o3 model out-scored me—a Master I–ranked human—23,179 to 22,054, correctly identifying all five countries and twice landing within a few hundred metres. Even when I embedded fake GPS coordinates in the image EXIF, the […]
An open letter to “third-party suppliers” from their Chief Information Security Officer. “The modern ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) delivery model is quietly enabling cyber attackers and – as its adoption grows – is creating a substantial vulnerability that is […]
This is billed as an “All-in-One Super Agent, using various tools automatically to serve your everyday tasks.” Here’s a replay of it making a 1-minute South Park episode based on last week’s top news stories. ~ learn more
The technical details explaining NotebookLM. Remember when this automatic podcast generator took the world by storm? Old news, I know (haha: October 30, 2024). Yet the technical details to its development are instructive. ~ learn more
MCP is a powerful new tool for software builders. Reading this post from a security expert should make builders and users a bit more nervous about it. “In just the past few weeks, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly […]
How do you get a dumb LLM to do your bidding? You have to write a very good system prompt! Nobody wants theirs exposed as it’s intellectual property, but it seems that they inevitably leak because LLMs are inevitably jailbroken. […]