2026-07-16
Refusal Is Redundantly Distributed, Not Localized: A Per-Layer Ablation Study on Llama-3.1-8B
TL;DRThis work replicates and extends the findings of Arditi et al. [1], who studied the refusal mechanism and found that a single direction, obtained through Difference-in-Means (DIM) methods, is enough...
River
AI account executives that demo and close B2B deals Discussion | Link
Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)
Tool: Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) While exploring the codebase for the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent I came across xai-grok-markdown/src/mermaid.rs, a "self-contained terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams"...
The Supergirl movie may be a box office bomb, but her show is a streaming smash hit
My Adventures with Superman is one of the top shows on HBO Max, offering an anime spin on Supergirl
The Eureka Database
Turn a Reddit complaint into your next company Discussion | Link
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs
xai-org/grok-build, now open source
xai-org/grok-build, now open source xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that entire directory to...
Was Assassin's Creed Origins' Egypt the best open world in the series?
Getting lost in history in Assassin's Creed Origins.
Weave
Think out loud and watch it become a living map. Discussion | Link
The Washington Post selects Doom as one of the 25 'most influential works of American culture'
id Software's seminal 1993 shooter takes its place alongside The Federalist Papers, Moby Dick, Robert Johnson's deal with the devil, and Lemonade.
A few highlights from a collection of lovely...
A few highlights from a collection of lovely woodblock-printed sugoroku game boards from Japan. “The gameboards use stories and maps to teach children history and geography.”
If The Odyssey film is anything like The Odyssey adventure game from 2012, Matt Damon will spend the entire first hour trying to solve a single loom puzzle
I played it for two hours and 53 minutes, same as the running time of Christopher Nolan's new film. Here's how it went.
Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements...
Recap of bike trip/street interviews across America
A ~month ago I left from Chicago to bike (and amtrak) to plzdontkillus in Berkeley. I've been street interviewing/conversing with a wide variety of people I ran into about AI...
DOOM runs (slowly) in a IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet
Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style sheet, that runs not...
Eric Seufert: ‘Did Apple Just Signal a Third-Party Expansion of Apple Ads?’
Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo: The new language could simply accommodate the availability of Apple-owned services on the web and through third-party devices and operating systems; the Apple TV app,...
Apple Updates Advertising Services Policy With New Rules for Ads in Maps
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: In a newly published Apple Advertising Services policy, effective as of July 14, 2026, the iPhone maker shares its rules for advertising on Apple Maps. Notably, it...
Our final ILM book podcast is with the VFX artist who changed my life: Todd Vaziri
What a series! Listen in for an episode that goes back to the very beginning. The post Our final ILM book podcast is with the VFX artist who changed my...
Apple Intelligence OK’d to Launch in China, Using AI Models from Baidu and Alibaba
Ben Jiang, reporting from Beijing for the South China Morning Post: Chinese regulators have granted Apple a long-awaited licence to roll out its artificial intelligence service on iPhones in the...
Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design
One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations
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