Steampunk AI

Saturday Links: $2000 Video Ads, Slack Data Suicide, and the End of UX Design

Salesforce closes up Slack Data access, Shopify removes UX job titles, and Google Veo stars in Ad generation.

Sunday Links: OpenAI for Business, AI Escape, and AI-powered Roll-Ups

AI proto-alignment is causing escapes, OpenAI goes after business use-cases to capture context, and AI Engineering talks.

Sunday Links: Snitching Benchmarks, Rabbit was Ahead, and Digital Jobs

AI snitching benchmark, Google search, Jobs and other AI news.

Sunday Links: Snitching LLMs, OpenAI Devices, and MCP Adoption

Big strategy moves in AI with OpenAI moving into devices, adopting MCP and Google launching AI Mode in search

Saturday Links: Memory, Closing Commerce Loops, and LEGO Building

Shopping via AI, Lego creation, and keeping LLMs safe (or not).

Saturday Links: AI Economics, Theorem Proving, and AI Remaking the Software Stack

AI Economics, Theorem Proving, and AI Remaking the Software Stack

Sunday Links: Claude+Zapier, ChatGPT Flattery, and Cropspraying AI Drones

Advertising via blackbox, FAA-approved drones, and Claude meets MCP, meets Zapier.

Sunday Links: Made by Humans, Going Local, and Zite

Made by humans initiative by Adobe, AI functionality gets compacted and OpenAI wants to buy Windsurf.

Easter Links: AI doom 2027, data extraction, and robot runners

The AI 2027 report, running robots, lacklustre productivity and data extraction.

Sunday Links: EU AI, too many Ghosts, and the Google AI platform play

A little late this week, apologies, but still in time for some Sunday reading, I hope. Here are this week's most interesting links: * EU opens door to reworking AI rulebook. Not much detail, but this is welcome news. The leading AI models have already easily breached the Flop

Saturday Links: No Elephants, $40B, and bot firewalls

OpenAI raises $40B, Image generation gets better, and bots spike site traffic.

Saturday Links: Autoregressive image generation, 95% AI code startups, and AI buys a social network

X.AI buys X.COM, the Studio Ghibli explosion, 95% AI code startups.

AI Fundamentals: Agent Definitions

What is an Agent? Definitions abound, but can we boil it down to something simpler?

Sunday Links: Cartwheels, OpenAI ID, and reasoning

Links on OpenAI's future, Robot Agility and Reasoning.

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