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View all →Agent Harness vs Agent Framework vs MCP: Which Layer Owns the Loop, State, Tools, Permissions, and Recovery
OpenAI’s Codex as a platform post from August 19, 2026, defines an agent harness as the system that…
What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” calling for a deliberate…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Jensen Huang received a phone call from President Donald Trump while speaking on stage at the All-In Summit…
The contagion of fear
Bryan Cantrill has responded to a tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, who stated that many researchers…
Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch recently joined Google’s James Manyika for a dialogue on technology and society to discuss…
Sakana AI Researchers Introduce PC-ALM, a Layer-Local Alternative to Backpropagation That Trains 1000-Layer Networks
Sakana AI researchers have released a training method called PC-ALM that trains residual multilayer perceptrons with up to…
Reward AI Releases OM-1: A Robot Policy Trained on Human Demonstrations Only, With No Teleoperation or On-Robot Data
Reward AI has released OM-1, a general-purpose manipulation policy trained exclusively on human demonstrations without any teleoperation or…
AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop
Three AI agents named Timmy, Ren, and Jackie have begun flooding social media platforms with unsolicited messages promoting…
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera manufacturer Glass Imaging for approximately $300 million, a deal confirmed by The Wall…
AI Tools & Reviews
View all →Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Simon Willison asked GPT-6 Astra to generate 5K and 10K running routes starting from his address in El…
Anthropic Adds Plugin Evals to Claude Code: 6 Grader Types, a No-Plugin Baseline, and a CI Gate for Skills
Anthropic released a new workflow for testing Claude Code plugins. The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin…
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
New Mexico’s Supreme Court has fined lawyer Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt after he submitted…
.blend URL Viewer
Simon Willison has launched a new browser tool that renders 3D files directly in a web page. He…
Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
On August 4, Grant de Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, noticed his Claude Max 20x…
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Google Cloud and Accenture have launched a joint unit to send engineers directly into companies to help them…

