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★ Must ReadDave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Dave Eggers attends the "The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed" premiere. | Image: John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly.

The Verge AI· Terrence O’Brien· 2 min· 2d agoSource →
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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Trending on Hacker News with 513 points and 327 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

Trending on Hacker News with 370 points and 465 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise

Trending on Hacker News with 267 points and 123 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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🔮 Kimi’s positive impact. Why are solar costs going up? AI & copyright ++ #593

Plus: Palantir’s power, cancer vaccines and AI on iPhones

Exponential View · 2 min
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Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

Trending on Hacker News with 217 points and 107 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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PERSPECTIVE A
“[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)”
— Latent Space

Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!

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PERSPECTIVE B
“LAI #134: Your First LLM App on AWS for Under a Dollar”
— Learn AI Together

Loop engineering with Claude Code, plus a Towards AI enterprise launch, vLLM on L40S, and context windows as memory management

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★ Must Readפרפרי תעתוע - מה קורה כשסוכנים חולמים

איך מיישמים חלימה של סוכנים, ו-3 שאלות שחייבים לשאול לפני שנותנים להם לחלום

AI THINKERS· Galit Galperin· 3 min· 3d agoSource →

[AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space — [AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space· Latent.Space· 3 min· 3d agoSource →

[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing

Latent Space — [AINews] Kimi K3 2. 8T-A50B: the largest open model ever rele...

Latent Space· 3 min· 4d agoSource →
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★ Must ReadConnect Your Tools to AI 🔗

How and why to link AI to your favorite tools

Wonder Tools· Jeremy Caplan· 2 min· 3d agoSource →

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Plus reverse-engineering Grok Build, Doom in SQLite, and how Codex generates pets

Simon Willison· 2 min· 4d agoSource →

Inkling, Gemma 4 Updates, and 1-Bit Qwen3.6

Kaitchup — Inkling, Gemma 4 Updates, and 1-Bit Qwen3.

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 3d agoSource →
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Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes

Ahead of AI· Sebastian Raschka, PhD· 3 min· 3d agolong readSource →
07VOICES3▸
“The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed”
— Terrence O’Brien, The Verge AI
Read more →
“🔮 Kimi’s positive impact. Why are solar costs going up? AI & copyright ++ #593”
— Azeem Azhar, Exponential View
Read more →
“Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs”
— Sebastian Raschka, PhD, Ahead of AI
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