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Do you even like art? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images There's this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren't just prompting AI songs; they're sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclaim that they don't listen to music on traditional streaming platforms anymore - it's just AI all day. "Does anyone just listen to their own music now and not even music on Spotify anymore.?" "I definitely listen to my own music most of the time now. Why wouldn't I? It's album after album of bangers" "Guilty as charged. It's an ...

What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?

Big, if true. Doesn't bode well for research / OS models out of China.

The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems, is hosted twice a year at the United Nations in Geneva. When Branka Marijan attended in November 2017, she thought the five-day sessions - which dealt largely in hypotheticals, speculating on a world where warfare was fought with killer robots - would be business as usual. After all, this was technology some thought might never be developed, and likely never deployed. That year, she quickly realized, was different. That distant, imagined future was suddenly closer and realer than ...

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Follow-up to my W26 post a few months back. Ran the same Claude pipeline on the YC Spring 26 (X26) batch. Same setup: for each company, Claude scrapes founder LinkedIn profiles, searches for press and traction signals, and checks the product to see if something real exists or it's just a landing page. Then it scores on founder credibility, product reality, market opportunity, and competition, and assigns a tier from S to D. Demo Day is June 16, so the batch is mid-flight and rankings will keep shifting as more companies launch. Most are B or C tier, which feels about right for this stage. ...

Christopher Olah, Anthropic cofounder and head of interpretability research, spoke at the Vatican yesterday during the presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.

Looking for communities where people actually dig into ML/AI research, not hype, not "look what I built with an LLM API," but discussions about papers, training dynamics, debugging real models, infra problems, that kind of thing. I'm specifically interested in places where you can post something like "I'm seeing X behaviour in my SSL training, here's the loss curve, anyone seen this before?" and get thoughtful replies instead of generic advice.

Nvidia is changing its reporting to delineate between hyperscaler sales — where Nvidia is fighting commoditization — and everyone else, where Nvidia runs the whole stack.

Uber president Andrew Macdonald (pictured) says its “hard to draw a line” between AI spending and deliverable features. | Photo: Zed Jameson/Bloomberg via Getty Images After reportedly exhausting its annual AI budget just four months into 2026, Uber is now questioning whether it's actually seeing meaningful returns on its investments. In an interview with Rapid Response, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said the company isn't seeing a connection between rising token consumption for Claude Code and more useful features being delivered to consumers. "That link is not ...

Hello, I'm on Windows having setup both Claude Code App and Terminal, but I find the App simply more convenient to use. I have had several people pushing me to use the Terminal saying "the App is low" and "Terminal is so much better" ... but when I inquired none of those people could actually name a single thing that the App would be missing (everything they mentioned the App has as well) or a single concrete reason why I should switch to Terminal beside vague phrases So is the terminal substantially better than the App in something, are there reasons to switch besides being used to it and p...

No request running overnight, yet 61 Gb, my computer only has 24 RAM, so it probably went digging into the SSD. Should I be concerned? Anyone got that?

Paper came out recently that formalizes something a lot of agent builders have been doing ad hoc. They use a frontier model to propose bounded edits (add/delete/replace) to markdown skill files, then gate every edit against a held out validation set. Only strict improvements accepted, ties rejected, rejected edits become negative signal for the next round. Few things worth noting: Best skills converge with 1 to 4 accepted edits out of many more proposals. Edit budget of 4 to 8 per step works best, remove the cap and performance collapses. Median final skill is \~920 tokens. A skill optim...

Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analyst—or tech journalist—and…

Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the surface: the quiet weakening of the first rung of the career…

The original post was removed by Reddit Filters, so I made new one with same content. I just got my results back today and managed to snag the Early Adopter badge as well. Following up on my recent DP-600 certification, I really wanted to validate my architecture skills specifically on the Anthropic side. The exam covers a lot of practical ground on prompt engineering for tool use, managing context windows efficiently, and handling Human-in-the-Loop workflows. Link to join: https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-certified-architect-foundations-access-request Training courses: https://anthr...

I noticed that Claude Code was giving me a lot of unsolicited caveats with phrasing like "honest caveat" or "genuine caveat" when this kind of hedging was absolutely unnecessary. I figured other people might be seeing the same thing so my instinct was to use Google Ngram but the cutoff year of 2022 meant that I had to use a different method. So I used Google search with quotes around the phrase "honest caveat" and set the time bound to different time intervals and compared the number of search results as a proxy for how usage has changed over time in indexed pages. As it turns out, while del...

I see in non coding related chats claude is always guided by the memory file and its responses are shaped by it. I feel like if you had a really solid memory file you could make a lot more progress with life related things and other discussions with claude. Anyone explored this?

Here's the PR by pedapudi. https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21344 It's merge request has been denied so it will not be in mainline llama.cpp. The changes are so small that I just put them into whatever the current release of llama.cpp is. Read the PR for more info. It will only work with MOEs. Also, it gives the most boost at low context. As the context rises, the gain diminishes. Pedapudi explains why that happens in the PR. Here are some numbers. It really works well. The tiny amount of time it takes me to apply the code to the current release of llama.cpp is time well spent. ...

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They started producing cheaper ram for corsair, hopefully it will get cheaper for consumers [https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages)

Is this normal? I searched it up and last year it was only 8000.

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