The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever seen.” Using a “back of the envelope AI calculation,”…
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic. The company, which officially exited stealth last year, is an agentic operating system for marketers. It told TechCrunch that it uses autonomous AI agents to help…
Running AI agents in a local script is straightforward. Running them reliably in production across teams, across restarts, with isolated environments per context is a different problem entirely. BerriAI, the company behind the LiteLLM AI Gateway, is now open-sourcing a purpose-built answer to that problem: the LiteLLM Agent Platform. The platform is described as a…
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy, according to Wired. This seems to solidify an already-existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo is out on medical leave. Wired also reports that in a…
Working from home has its own perils. Pets can be demanding, your back aches from hours at a desk, or you simply forget to move. There are a few apps that nudge you to move around or indicate that you’re not sitting in an ideal position, but they’re easy to dismiss. I’ve spent the better…
Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on Thursday, with both of its co-founders billionaires, and ended the week worth about $60 billion. But in 2019, when it was three years old, it came dangerously close to failure…
Many individuals are jailbreaking their Kindles following the information that Amazon is ending technical help for older fashions. On Could 20, Amazon will finish help for the next Kindle units: Kindle 1st Era Kindle 2nd Era Kindle DX Kindle DX Graphite Kindle Keyboard Kindle 4 Kindle 5 Kindle Contact Kindle Paperwhite 1st Era Kindle Fireplace…
AI companionship among asexual people is “not a particularly widespread phenomenon,” says Michael Doré, a board member at the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. “Between us, we’ve come up with about two people we know of who use an AI companion. The vast majority of aces we know don’t, as far as we know. There’s…
World models (systems that synthesize realistic video sequences from an initial image and a set of actions) are becoming central to embodied AI, simulation, and robotics research. The core challenge is scaling these systems to generate minute-long, high-resolution video without requiring prohibitively large clusters for both training and inference. Most competitive open-source baselines either require…
banner(“§12 CLAUDE.md”) sh(“repowise generate-claude-md”) md = TARGET / “CLAUDE.md” if md.exists(): print(md.read_text()[:4000]) banner(“§13 MCP tools via CLI”) base = [ (“get_dead_code”, “repowise dead-code –safe-only”), (“search_codebase”, ‘repowise search “timestamp expiry validation”‘), ] llm_only = [ (“get_overview”, ‘repowise query “Architecture overview please”‘), (“get_context”, ‘repowise query “Explain signer and serializer modules”‘), (“get_risk”, ‘repowise query “What is risky about…
