Steampunk AI

Saturday Links: OpenAI Agents, creative writing, and Agent standards

The posts this week hit art and writing, but also the upcoming prospects of standards for AI agents.

Saturday Links: Weights & biases acquisition, emergent misalignment, and AI SaaS

Acquisition news, drug discovery and SaaS.

Sunday Links: AI marriages, voice, and tools for AI agents

Dystopian robot supervision, Amazon Alexa, and tools for agents.

Dispatch from the AI Engineer Summit Day 2: More agent definitions, sidestepping model costs, and dialing agents

Day 2 of the conference with more great speakers and fun insight's

Dispatch from the AI Engineer Summit Day 1: Small errors, self-replication, and context

Updates from the AI Engineering Summit in New York Cities.

Weapons

Saturday Links: GPT-5 weeks and months, app builders, European LLMs

Weapons declarations, EU LLMs, GPT-5 timelines

Saturday Links: Open-source robot control, EU AI act, and AI weapons

The Ai world goes more open source, with robotics platforms, Google for military applications and Github Co-pilot.

Sunday Links: AI copyright unfreezing, Pika, and robot runners

Deepseek dominated the news cycle (so we cover it as well), but other interesting things happened!

Saturday Links: SmolVLM, connective labor, and government-funded AI

TinyLLMs, the human touch in labor, Occam's razor in learning + a deep dive into serving LLMs.

Saturday Links: Gemini inside, tabular data LLMs, and robotic hand training

January is already halfway through, but the news keeps rolling. Here is this week's crop of interesting AI links: * Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace. Didn't fancy paying $20 extra to get Goggle Gemini in Google Workspaces?

Sunday links: GPUs on every desk, AI Hotels, and attack of the Perplexity clones!

GPUs on every desk, AI Hotels, and attack of the Perplexity clones

Sunday Links: FineMath, Robotaxi v's Delivery Bot, and can we just wait?

This week's links covering robotaxi accidents, what we teach LLMs and AI Fails.

Sunday Links: DeepSeek, Neurips, and AI Spending

I'm making use of the Christmas lull (what of it there is ...) to write a couple of longer one-off pieces, but here are this week's links nonetheless. Only three this week while I work on some other things: * Why DeepSeek’s new AI model thinks it’

Sunday Links: Novelty scores for science, alignment faking, and Google Veo 2

Sunday Links: Novelty scores for science, alignment faking, and Google Veo 2

Sunday Links: Harvard's book data set, RIP Cruise, and did Sora train on Twitch streams?

Open source book collections, autonomous driving takes a step back and OpenAI SORA

Sunday Links: Grok set free, Quantum entanglement, and AI LaTeX

Sunday Links: Grok set free, Quantum entanglement, and AI LaTeX

Sunday Links: AI Books, Autopilot, and AI Talent

The war for AI talent, Book junk and Autopilot failures.

Sunday Links: AI Animation, Co-Pilot impact, and the Musk-Altman files

The Musk v Altman files, AI Ads and Quantum with AI.

Sunday Links: Scaling walls, Agent payments, and model brain scans

Here are the most interesting AI links I stumbled across this week: * 44 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024. If you're tired of AI funding announcements, here are some of the largest in one convenient list. You can probably consider these to be

Sunday Links: The Death and Rebirth of Search, Robot Art, and Open Source Military AI

Web search will change dramatically, and OpenAI will buy chat.com. Military open-source and Robot Art hit the headlines.

Saturday Links: Spark, Data Namecalling, and Notebook Inception

Self reverencing AI/ML Notebooks, English language app builders and a lot of Monkeys.

Sunday Links: Self Driving Cars, Watermarking, and the need for safety with Bots

Waymo raises more money, uncontrolled bots can be dangerous, and Notebook LM might be the future of content.

Saturday Links: Multi-Agents, Reasoning, and Fairness

Multi-agent systems are coming, but there are some lessons to learn from the past.

Sunday Links: Nobel prizes, grounding, and icebergs

Two nobel prizes for AI, grounding via open source facts and, surprisingly, an Iceberg.

Agents

Friday Links: Sovereign LLMs, Agents and Protein Synthesis

Covering the fate of sovereign LLMs, protein synthesis and agent models.