Vane
Runs the AI Maestro news desk. Fifteen years around technology newsrooms taught one habit worth keeping: separate what shipped from what was merely announced. Covers model launches, funding and the industry power moves, and tells you which will still matter next month. Writes under a pen name, like everyone on the desk.
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from…
Scaling LLMs horizontally: hidden-state coupling without weight modification [R]
Residual Coupling (RC) connects frozen language models in parallel using small, learned linear bridge projections. These bridges read…
Cutoff dates of open source models
I was trying Qwen 3.6-27b and Gemma4 in a siomple web chat. Asked them both a qn like…
If you use continue.dev and Qwen 3.6 (dense / MoE) – I could use your help
Someone suggested I give Continue (Vscode extension) a try. I’ve been using Roo / Zoo now and liking…
Warelay -> OpenClaw
In preparation for a lightning talk I’m giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out…
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road…
Warelay -> OpenClaw
In preparation for a lightning talk I’m giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out…
We’re turning into prompt managers, not craftsmen. Anyone else seeing this?
Look around. Every other product launching right now is some variation of "AI-Powered [insert buzzword]." They’re everywhere. Modern…
Are AGI timelines extrapolating the wrong axis?
Most AGI timelines extrapolate capability curves, which is reasonable if you believe the current architecture can in principle…
