2026-08-13
Measuring Eval Awareness: The Realism Win Rate is Fragile
TL;DROne way to assess an evaluation’s realism is by testing a model’s ability to tell its transcripts apart from deployment transcripts. This is the idea behind the realism win rate,...
MoonPay Launches PayBox
MoonPay's PayBox lets ChatGPT and Claude users trade crypto and pay for real purchases through chat, without giving up custody of funds.
The Descenders and the Absorbers: Two Perspectives on Deep Learning
Once upon a time there were two dissenting factions: the descenders and the absorbers. Both held incomplete but useful worldviews.The descenders lived in the mountains. They had been approached by...
7 Ways a Google Merchant API Migration Can Fail Even When the Code Compiles
Seven failure modes a source-code inventory should catch before migrating custom Content API integrations to Google Merchant API.
Build a Partnership with Your Board
As CEO, you’re accountable for the company’s performance—but you don’t have direct authority over one of the groups most critical to your success: the board. That relationship can become especially...
How I Stop AI Coding Agents From “Improving” Away Important Features
What an AI coding agent must never delete, the three levels of enforcement behind that list, and the policy column that shipped and nothing ever read.
How I Spent 6 Months Building a Pitch-by-Pitch Baseball Simulator
A $2 FanDuel loss sparked a 10-year journey into Monte Carlo models, backtesting, baseball simulation, and the limits of sports prediction.
Why Static Blocklists Are Dead: The HTX Wallet-Rotation Problem
HTX rotates crypto wallets every few hours across 4 blockchains to dodge sanctions screening. Why static blocklists fail and what comes next.
Driving Decentralized AI (dAI) with a Sovereign, Local AI Platform
Decentralized AI could make powerful local models private, efficient, and competitive while protecting data sovereignty and human expertise.
How we Serve Encrypted Video at 70+ Gbps Per Server With go and kTLS
A deep dive into scaling Go TLS to 100 Gbps per server: how kTLS and zero-copy cut CPU overhead when delivering encrypted video at scale.
The Truth About Amazon's FireStick Crackdown: Why More Streaming Apps Keep Appearing
FireStick sideloading is not dead. New third-party apps are launching at an excepional rate. Learn why apps disappear, return, and what's really happening!
AI Can Draw You a Storyboard in Thirty Seconds. It Still Can't Tell You What Belongs In It.
AI can draw a storyboard in seconds. It still can't decide where the cut lands. The panel-count workflow a working AI filmmaker actually runs.
The Problem With Using AI to Review AI-Written Code
AI reviewing AI-generated code can reproduce the same blind spots. Here’s why deterministic verification needs to sit outside the AI loop.
Why Banning Shadow AI Can Make the Risk Worse
Shadow AI is a real risk, but prohibition drives it underground. A practical AI governance approach for employee AI use, compliance, and sensitive data.
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alchemy-utils 0.1a1
Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, see here.
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AI that loves to follow up after meetings Discussion | Link
Measuring Activation Control in LLMs
TL;DRInspired by the introspective awareness and CoT controllability papers, we made a benchmark to measure how well models can control their activations while completing a simple task. We are motivated...
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery?
Exciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the obvious excitement, while others...
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