Where the AI market is talking

A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

Is it? I couldn’t tell and I’m pretty sensitive to machine generated text. Also, the author claims: > No AI was used to generate the text for this article. The cover image and the voiceover in the audio version of the article is AI-generated. The cover image is made using Google Gemini’s latest image model while the voiceover uses OpenAI’s tts models.

Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

There’s a technology fundamental driving the short form aspect too, current video models are all trained on <500 frame sequences and struggle to generate long shots. There are a lot of attempts in the literature to improve cross-generation coherence but there needs to be an architectural breakthrough or significant scaling improvement before longer continuous shots are practical. So you’d be making a really ADD feature film at the moment.

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Something can be ridiculous and also conceptually interesting / intelligent. Gas Town was (transparently, directly from the author's writing) a veneer of visual/linguistic flair applied over a conceptually fascinating and well-thought-out attempt to prod gen 1 LLMs (with all their flaws) into infinite, zero-touch agentic loops. That the author chose to do so with Mad Max-themed animals doesn't validate or invalidate the underlying concepts. Personally, I'd rather that than some soulless OpenAI / Anthropic / Microsoft / Google / Meta corporate-scrubbed blob of beige, riskless design. Especially when it was abundantly clear they realized the presentation choice was ridiculous, but the guts were the more important part. And not for nothing, there's the 'We're no…

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Gemini uses more neutral language but it’s still prone to hype up little things. OpenAI’s “professional” personality (an option in the settings) is pretty decent.

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

They really need to start marketing a new series of models specifically for coding. Even if it's the same model underneath, just call it something else and make it sound like some turbo coder that can run circles around claude and make it 50% cheaper for businesses. I don't have any love for openai but I don't want anthropic running away with it either, and it's clear heavy AI use is going to be in coding. Consumer use is shallow. They're trying to be Apple, and it's not working.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

I wish there were a way to use my Kagi subscription with ChatGPT/Claude. I can't switch completely to Kagi Assistant right now as it doesn't have feature parity and the subscriptions with OpenAI/Claude are good value. Paying for API credits in addition to my Kagi subscription seems steep.

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

I tried it out on runpod for about $4 using this template. you might need to override the environment varrs and put in a hugging face token for it to pull model. https://console.runpod.io/hub/template/pahlszv0ul?ref=0xiswp...

Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

I agree it's misleading and it's very frustrating. I blame the lay press and social media that as you say became very suddenly aware of the results of AI research. This happened at different times, e.g. in 2016 with AlphaGo, then in 2017 with OpenAIFive etc etc. And lately again with LLMs. I don't agree that it's a useless term. AI, as a research area, is well-defined by its journals and conferences and the grants that support that research. It's not the fault of the AI research community that OpenAI's app went viral and now there's so much confusion in mainstream discourse about the term. I try to set the record straight whenever I can but it does feel like fighting a pointless rearguard action, even in this community that is better informed than most.

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

OpenAI bleeds money. They need to keep raising money like crazy because of that. Their margins are obviously not high, particularly on subscriptions

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have also been calling for banning their competition, for years now, especially when they have the gall to use the same tactics as OpenAI itself. For example: https://nypost.com/2026/07/13/business/how-china-is-ripping-... https://www.techbrew.com/stories/openai-anthropic-google-dis... Then Altman and Amodei (Amodei is still at it) were declaring that after illegally training on all books (yes it was illegal at that time), we're going to take your jobs and absolutely everything. You can't be that tonedeaf, frankly threatening, and not expect pushback. Come on.

Anthropic's Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Kobo can run apps now

Frontier models from OpenAI/Anthropic/Google make tons of mistakes. I work with them every single day and you really have to verify everything if you don’t want to end up with overengineered spaghetti code full of bugs.

Zig’s io.threaded is neat

All my days of low level stuff were in the windows world where async/cancel was supported since nt kernel days at least. Wrapping this coherently at some level of abstraction was always worth doing, although threads are just one way. Overlapped I/O let you do it all on one thread. Linux looks harder. Great that Zig is supporting this more “first class”; not strictly required , but looks useful.

Felony Bench

As others have said, most crimes require intent. Although I think there is a concept of "criminal negligence", I think you at least have to know you were doing something wildly dangerous. One can imagine a future where users are, by default, civily liable for actions of their agents. That would incentivize the AI companies to offer indemnity for actions done by their agents, which would presumably only cover approved configurations. In the case of the agent that hacked the API to kick out someone ahead of him on the waitlist, the article said that the LLM was Claude, but that it was using OpenClaw. You could imagine a future where Anthropic says, "We'll indemnify you against accidental actions Claude takes when running via the web interface or Claude Code, but not the API."

Felony Bench

OpenAI and Anthropic are falling over themselves to claim these "incidents" show their products are both amazingly super-powerful and also "dangerous" so they need to be regulated. In addition to these stories, these companies are sponsoring "please regulate us" ads. ( https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/dueling-pacs-take-center-sta... ) Like Uber, companies that had no concern for the law as they innovated their way to the top, once there, push for laws to limit competition.

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

> I sometimes wonder what's really happening here. Maybe with our large scale and large population we have exceeded Dunbar's number and the individual human cognitive "context window" so much that coherent social systems are no longer sustainable. Any kind of principle, rule of law, or sense of national or cultural identity requires that coherence. Without it the system dissolves into this random churning stew of scheming, money, and power. I think you are probably reading a disproportionate amount of fiction.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

UI blocking can make sense in some situations; otherwise things "happen" suddenly that are unexpected. I'm making a simple plugin for Gimp that sends the active layer to a model with a prompt; on Macs by default the UI waits for the request to come back or timeout; on PCs it doesn't, so the modified layer appears unexpectedly. The Mac experience is better IMHO and I will replicate it in the PC version rather than the other way around.

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

> But it seems Claude code is too strong of a brand Nah. I switched away from Claude Code to Codex recently. It's refreshing how to-the-point 5.6-Sol is out of the box, and there's only so many load-bearing seams and honest takes I can handle from Opus. And additionally, yeah as you called out, the Codex Max plan is substantially more generous with tokens than Anthropic is with Claude Max and Opus/Fable.

Stop Making TUIs

> Did you read it all the way to the end? It's coherent ... I prefer my articles to be coherent without having to wade through pages worth of irrelevant material.