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Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks
Deepseek has launched V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that integrates image understanding into its existing text capabilities. The…
Stop Making TUIs
Thomas Ptacek argues that developers should stop creating text-based user interfaces for personal tools and instead build native…
US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race
A State Department draft reviewed by Reuters warns that to be part of everything is to be part…
The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz faces a Department of Justice investigation into a specific board arrangement where partners Ben Horowitz and…
Quoting Matt Webb
Matt Webb used ChatGPT to teach him quaternion mathematics instead of asking the tool to write the code…
Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections
Jason Hough writes that tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the 404 Media launch. The team plans to…
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Matti Haapoja and Sam Kolder recently posted videos showcasing Higgsfield’s Seedance 2.5 feature to promote the AI video…
Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
Starcloud has added $250 million to its existing $170 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at…
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition Traditional benchmarks overlook many conditions that make voice systems reliable in practice.…
AI Tools & Reviews
View all →ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale
ChatGPT Search usage of the site: operator jumped from roughly 0.5% to between 16% and 17% on August…
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
A user asking Grok to generate a PDF received a response consisting of incoherent text such as “match…
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
Meta launched a new Mac application for Meta AI on Thursday that includes system-wide dictation and screen context…
smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript
Simon Willison ran a test to see if the smolmachines framework could safely execute untrusted Python and JavaScript…
Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub
Google is launching a dedicated student hub within Gemini to centralise study tools for the upcoming academic year.…
Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools
Google announced on Wednesday that it is adding new study aids to Search and Gemini. These updates include…
