2025-07-15
Best of Luck With the Wall
In his film Best of Luck With the Wall, director Josh Begley takes us on a journey across the entire US/Mexico border. It’s a simple premise — a continuous display...
Why AI Gets It Wrong More Than You Think
AI seems smart, but it often gets things wrong—sometimes dangerously so. Learn why machines make mistakes, how bad data and overconfidence play a role, and what we can do to...
Navigating MySQL Data Types: Sets and Enums
This article focuses on `SET' and `ENUM' data types. These are specialized data types that can be used for limited lists of data. I'll first look at what they are,...
From Chatbots to Guardians of Data: How BChat Harnesses AI for Secure Messaging
AI can protect your personal data, not just harness it. BeldexAI can process and learn from your data without sharing it to external servers. BChat uses BeldexAI to moderate content...
Everything You Need to Know About Google’s AI Mode (and How to Adjust Your Content Strategy)
Google’s AI Mode is reshaping search with conversational, memory-driven, AI-powered results that minimize clicks to external sites. Leveraging semantic search, probabilistic ranking, and multimodal content (text, video, audio, images), it...
AISN #59: EU Publishes General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
Published on July 15, 2025 6:59 PM GMTWelcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background...
The Grown Up Tax Bill
No Mercy / No MaliceNext week the Republican-led Congress plans to move President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill one step closer to law. The most recent CBO analysis factoring in interest...
The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here
We are on a path to where social media will feed you hyperpersonalized AI slop about anything and everything.
'We could have, at that point, put out a s*** game': Former Deep Silver comms boss says Dead Island 2 released 8 years late because an earlier version 'would have killed the franchise' if it wasn't binned
Dead Island 2's original developers have said the cancellation was "catastrophic."
The Virtue of Fear and the Myth of "Fearlessness"
Published on July 15, 2025 4:10 PM GMTI learned about the virtue of fear when preparing for my wife's childbirth, in "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth." Counterintuitively, mothers who have...
Bank Warns That Robotaxi Companies May Have Overlooked Severe Obstacles to Actually Making Money
Don't Believe the Hype As Elon Musk's Tesla triples down on an autonomous ridehailing service, analysts are ringing the alarm bells, warning that it could take many years for robotaxis...
Haplo AI
Secure & local AI chatbot for iOS and macOS Discussion | Link
“BuildMyTransit is a web app to design, visualize, and simulate New York...
“BuildMyTransit is a web app to design, visualize, and simulate New York City subway systems. Perfect for exploring ‘what-if’ scenarios.” You can design new routes, add/remove trains, and run simulations....
Reflections on OpenAI
Reflections on OpenAI Calvin French-Owen spent just over a year working at OpenAI, during which time the organization grew from 1,000 to 3,000 people and Calvin found himself in "the...
Intel job losses mount as 4,000 layoffs are reported across multiple sites in California, Oregon, Texas and Arizona
But there could be much worse to come.
The Party of ‘Free Speech’
David A. Graham, writing at The Atlantic: Not that long ago, believe it or not, Donald Trump ran for president as the candidate who would defend the First Amendment. He...
Web Companion by Super
Context-aware AI assistants in any web app Discussion | Link
Principles for Picking Practical Interpretability Projects
Published on July 15, 2025 5:38 PM GMTThanks to Neel Nanda and Helena Casademunt for feedback on a draft.In a previous post, I argued that some interpretability researchers should prioritize...
Access 3
A trusted home for your most sensitive data Discussion | Link
Minecraft says to hell with it, adds in-game version of Lava Chicken song, which you get by beating a chicken jockey
I have heard this song too many times.
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