Palantir CEO Alex Karp once said neurodivergent people will succeed in the AI era. One psychologist who is also autistic thinks the billionaire has a point, but says that neurodivergent workers’ advantage…
A coding agent’s harness can triple its cost without making it more accurate, study finds
The harness surrounding an AI coding model — its system prompt, tools and context-management rules — can triple the cost of solving coding problems without producing a measurable improvement in accuracy, according…
Terence Tao: AI turns beautiful mathematics into ‘toxic w…
In Adams’s book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Deep Thought supercomputer took 7.5m years to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything and came up with 42….
States seek to ban ‘extreme’ beauty filters on Meta — but where should they draw the line? : NPR
Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images How much filter is too much filter for kids and teens posting selfies on social media? That is the question state attorneys general across the country are grappling with…
‘Cupertino’: The Best New Show on TV Is Putting AI on Trial
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‘Sudden wealth syndrome 2.0’: Therapists say AI’s new multimillionaires feel guilty, isolated and cut off from everyone else
“The rich aren’t particularly happy either,” Menlo Ventures partner and prolific poster Deedy Das wrote on X in May. By his own “back of the envelope” estimate, roughly 10,000 people—employees at Anthropic,…
Behind the Scenes, Meta’s Board Is Battling With Mark Zuckerberg Over His Out-of-Control AI Spending
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Meta’s stocks have taken a serious beating lately, with its price shedding more than 13…
The Pentagon’s guidelines for “responsible AI” aren’t always followed, report shows : NPR
Three of the Pentagon projects surveyed by GAO included weapons for counter-camouflage (upper image) and target recognition (lower images). Government Accountability Office/GAO hide caption toggle caption i Government Accountability Office/GAO The Pentagon…
Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the ‘drive-by’ patches
Linus Torvalds is embracing AI to write Linux kernel code, and some people are having fits. He has a message for them. So do I. Roy Schestowitz, editor of Tux Machines, summed…
A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude
[Bookmari] had a problem — working as a delivery driver, they wanted to work on various projects with Claude Code while out and about. Unfortunately, it simply wasn’t practical to write prompts…