2026-07-18
In 1966, an SR-71 Blackbird Disintegrated at Mach 3.18. The Pilot Survived Without Ever Pulling His Ejection Handle
No missile ever touched it. No fighter ever caught it. And still a third of the fleet was destroyed — by the only force that could reach the world's fastest...
Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors
Joanna Stern at New Things, last month: Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern...
Who are the “Sea People” in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey?
In Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, there are stories of the "Sea People," which is based on real-wolrd history
ChatGPT’s New Work Mode Can Run 95% of a One-Person Business (No Hiring or Coding Required)
OpenAI just launched Work — and it could replace half your AI stack while cutting your software bill.
Overtraining as the path to human-like AI
The anonymous blogger Gwern recently completed a thirteen thousand word post called Human-like Neural Nets by Catapulting, in which he offers a theory about why LLMs don’t possess truly flexible...
Google Runs Out of Appeals, Must Pay Record $4.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine
Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2: Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices. In 2018,...
Should we benchmark conceptual capabilities using judgment prediction tasks?
A bunch of conceptual reasoning tasks involve very subjective judgments, which makes them poorly suited for benchmarking AI capabilities. For example, it seems unreasonable to benchmark how well AIs can...
Longtermism is very intuitive.
Crosspost from: https://inputlogic.substack.com/p/longtermism-is-extremely-intuitiveLongtermism seeks to consider the welfare of the quintillions, septillions, or even octillions of potential future human beings, each with a likely higher level of consciousness and ability...
Loops for PMs: The Ultimate Guide
There's a ton of hype about loops. What's actually useful for PMs? I tested everything, so you can just get the real alpha
How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is...
10 new movies to watch this weekend on Peacock, Netflix, and Hulu (July 17-19)
There are plenty of new things to watch this weekend, but the real highlight are that you can finally watch both Backrooms and Obsession at home.
The ‘Efficiency Paradox’ Holding Back High-Growth Companies (and How to Break It)
Chasing cost efficiency during a growth spurt feels smart — until it burns out the team that got you there.
We just awarded $500 to the PC gamer who sent us this wild Crimson Desert video, and next month it could be you
We're giving away $500 in Amazon gift cards every month, so send in your best gaming clips for a chance to win.
“That’s Just How the System Works”
When rigid software forces people to adapt, small inefficiencies become permanent. Could generative AI make systems easier to change?
A list of existing alignment approaches
How can we make a nice AI system?Here's a list of all the techniques I'm aware of. Train the AI system to be nice. There are a variety of things...
Does anyone know how to drive this thing?
It's increasingly looking like nobody remembers how videogames work—or cares to.
Windows 11's High Storage and Memory Demands: Necessary for Functionality or Unneeded Bloat?
Windows 11's high storage and memory requirements are justified by its complex kernel, security features, and broad use cases.
Xbox Game Pass just got the best Vampire Survivors clone in years
Ascend to Zero is the best new roguelike of 2026, mixing ideas from Vampire Survivors, Hades, Transistor, Scarlet Nexus, and more.
2026-07-17
1999.AI
No Mercy / No Malice NewsletterAI and dot-com déjà vuJamie Dimon once defined a financial crisis as “something that happens every five to seven years.” Well, it’s been 18 years...
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