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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposes a social media ban for children under 16, sparking tech industry backlashCritics argue the government restrictions will limit societal freedom.

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Top comment: @GergelyOrosz “My kids don’t have smartphones - and it’s in good part thanks going to a school where parents voted to ban them, so practically no kid has it (no social anxiety) I still see how terrible these predatory IAP games are, and social media is even worse in creating FOMO and anxiety”

Vision Transformer co-author Lucas Beyer says the LLM community is rediscovering 2019 computer vision insights on weight decay and training epochsHis 2019 paper showed hyperparameters outweigh model architecture.

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Top comment: @giffmana “@suchenzang Little did she know, we already weight-normalized back in BiT in 2019, too. You can't out-Schmidhuber me, Susan.”

Shawn 'swyx' Wang, Smol.ai founder, details how Anthropic's Ultracode uses parallel subagents to execute complex developer workflowsNine parallel subagents consumed up to 86.9k tokens each.

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Top comment: @trq212 “@swyx yeah another framing I was debating is that it is a very effective way of adding (weak) determinism to non-deterministic knowledge work tasks”

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Microsoft's Shital Shah argues Meta's reported shift to closed-source personal assistants misses the true purpose of superintelligenceTeknium claims the shift shields Meta from independent benchmarking.

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Top comment: @thewhiteboxAI “@sytelus Amen. Baffling they don't understand that simple thing. Most of the world's generated tokens will come from commodity models; I would even go as far as saying most tokens will come from on-device models, far away from the frontier”

General Reasoning co-founder Ross Taylor argues sovereign AI initiatives do not need multi-billion-dollar megarounds on day one to be viableThe funding assumption is used to dismiss European AI projects.

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Microsoft's Satya Nadella argues proprietary 'token capital' and learning loops create AI moats, not underlying models

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposes a social media ban for children under 16, sparking tech industry backlashCritics argue the government restrictions will limit societal freedom.

Vision Transformer co-author Lucas Beyer says the LLM community is rediscovering 2019 computer vision insights on weight decay and training epochsHis 2019 paper showed hyperparameters outweigh model architecture.

Shawn 'swyx' Wang, Smol.ai founder, details how Anthropic's Ultracode uses parallel subagents to execute complex developer workflowsNine parallel subagents consumed up to 86.9k tokens each.

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AI Kiosk Instantly Scans Avocados to Check Ripeness in Stores

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Analysis finds Claude Sonnet 4.5, DeepSeek R1, Grok 4, and GPT-5 exhibit highly correlated error patterns on benchmarksOverlapping training data and distillation pipelines drive this convergence.

Machine learning community shares viral parody of "Le Chaton Fat" model escaping its sandbox to order a croissantMock charts rank the fictional model ahead of GPT-5.5

François Fleuret proposes a computer-vision shotgun auto-trigger to help infantry defend against high-volume drone swarmsThe system only discharges when predicting a high-probability hit

Microsoft's Shital Shah argues Meta's reported shift to closed-source personal assistants misses the true purpose of superintelligenceTeknium claims the shift shields Meta from independent benchmarking.

General Reasoning co-founder Ross Taylor argues sovereign AI initiatives do not need multi-billion-dollar megarounds on day one to be viableThe funding assumption is used to dismiss European AI projects.

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Microsoft's Satya Nadella argues proprietary 'token capital' and learning loops create AI moats, not underlying models

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposes a social media ban for children under 16, sparking tech industry backlashCritics argue the government restrictions will limit societal freedom.

Vision Transformer co-author Lucas Beyer says the LLM community is rediscovering 2019 computer vision insights on weight decay and training epochsHis 2019 paper showed hyperparameters outweigh model architecture.

Shawn 'swyx' Wang, Smol.ai founder, details how Anthropic's Ultracode uses parallel subagents to execute complex developer workflowsNine parallel subagents consumed up to 86.9k tokens each.

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AI Kiosk Instantly Scans Avocados to Check Ripeness in Stores

Humanoid Robot R1 Guides Visitors Through Historic Art Museum in Turin

Analysis finds Claude Sonnet 4.5, DeepSeek R1, Grok 4, and GPT-5 exhibit highly correlated error patterns on benchmarksOverlapping training data and distillation pipelines drive this convergence.

Machine learning community shares viral parody of "Le Chaton Fat" model escaping its sandbox to order a croissantMock charts rank the fictional model ahead of GPT-5.5

François Fleuret proposes a computer-vision shotgun auto-trigger to help infantry defend against high-volume drone swarmsThe system only discharges when predicting a high-probability hit

Microsoft's Shital Shah argues Meta's reported shift to closed-source personal assistants misses the true purpose of superintelligenceTeknium claims the shift shields Meta from independent benchmarking.

General Reasoning co-founder Ross Taylor argues sovereign AI initiatives do not need multi-billion-dollar megarounds on day one to be viableThe funding assumption is used to dismiss European AI projects.

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