Specialized robots, not humanoids. “Humanoids have their place, but there’s a lot of room for specialized robots that do things in an efficient, sort of industrial-scale kind of way, which is sort of where we play,” Kalanick said about his […]
Training a robot to play tennis (with video). “The imperfect human motion data consist only of motion fragments that capture the primitive skills used when playing tennis rather than precise and complete human-tennis motion sequences from real-world tennis matches.” They […]
WiFi pose detection is now open source. “Output: real-time pose, breathing rate, heart rate, presence, room fingerprint. No cameras. No wearables. No Bluetooth beacons. Just WiFi signals you’re already swimming in. It sounds like magic. It’s not. It’s physics that’s […]
A community collection of OpenClaw use cases. Is an AI bot really useful? In many ways, it can be! It’s nice to see how others apply it. PLEASE be super careful and paranoid about this whole category of product as […]
Those poor bunnies. “We had to put the patch on the bunny; they had to stay on the bunny for a period of time, and then every day, every few hours, someone would have to look at it.” Morari’s “taint […]
Buying a bankrupt software company. “What did we actually receive? A list of passwords where nothing worked.” Buying the assets in bankruptcy meant buying customer contracts and code, and then dealing with locked accounts, deleted AWS access, and even the […]
Connecting AI is cheap. “Connecting things to our AI engines is cheap, and getting cheaper.” The post argues the bubble comparisons to railroads and telecom miss the key point: once the model exists, adding new use cases looks more like […]
Pliny’s jailbreaking is so good that frontier labs specifically train on his repo. Because he knows this, he is able to add backdoors to the newest models. Daniel Blank argues Pliny’s jailbreaks are not a sideshow, they are training data […]
Default choices crown winners. “When millions vibe-code their way to a working app, the stacks it chooses become the stacks.” Amplifying surveyed 2,430 open-ended prompts across real repos to see what tools Claude Code actually installs and configures when you […]
DoorDash’s real AI advantage. In response to a viral AI doomer article, Stratechery went town on their silly example of Doordash being an AI-loser. “DoorDash not only has the most restaurant data, but also exclusive data in terms of customer […]