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Simon Willison summarizes Nik Suresh's critique of AI-driven decision-making at large enterprises, highlighting executives making AI strategy without hands-on tool experience.

Claude Code v2.1.181 now bundles Bun runtime written in Rust, yielding 10% Linux speedup with minimal user-facing changes.

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. So one might expect he'd roll into the company's offices and offer tips on being relentlessly prolific, or how to excel in multiple fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. Ac...

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

Simon Willison built an interactive SQLite query plan explainer using Claude to generate explanations of EXPLAIN output in the browser via WebAssembly.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been recording the next season of Version History (this season's finale is out on Sunday!), reading about data center heists and Backyard Baseball and the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, canceling my October plans to see Digger 30 or 40 times, taking on the new Knockout Tour routes in Mario Kart World, learning more than I ever intend...

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

Anthropic makes Claude Fable 5 permanent in Max/Team Premium at 50% limits; Pro users get $100 credit amid GPT-5.6 Sol competition.

Simon Willison notes recent activity on Quixote, a 21-year-old Python web framework.

Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.

No significant AI industry announcements or developments reported.

From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool and recently made it available to all adult users. Creators who are part of TikTok's test and want to use the tool will first have to verify their identity with a company called Jumio. You'll have to do a real-time selfie scan and an ID check, but Kizer says that "TikTok d...

PagedWeight: dynamic weight quantization for MoE LLM serving balances model precision against KV-cache memory in inference.

Thermodynamic computing blueprint uses Langevin dynamics in analog hardware for energy-efficient ML workload execution.

Laplacian Optimal Transport method for cluster-aware point cloud matching with region-to-region alignment.

Physics-enhanced reinforcement learning combines RL with optimal control theory for sample-efficient dynamical system control.

Study evaluates open-weight LLMs for extracting structured CVE threat data from autonomous vehicle vulnerability text.

Muon optimizer achieves 88% improvement over AdamW on sparse-reward agentic RL (GiGPO) with Qwen2.5-0.5B.

Behaviour-conditioned Attentive Neural Process framework embeds behavioral structure for residential load forecasting.

ActiveVision benchmark measures whether MLLMs perform active observation via 17 tasks requiring repeated visual perception.

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David go through the lawsuit, and look at Apple's history of splashy litigation to determine whether Apple is worried about a possible competitor or simply looking to capitalize on a weak moment for OpenAI. All this is happening as Apple ships the public betas of its new software,...

PRISA: infrastructure LiDAR framework for real-time intersection safety via privacy-preserving roadside sensor monitoring.

ShellFlow: Riemannian flow matching model generates LHC Standard Model particle events across five decades of invariant mass.

Optimization of Kernel PLS algorithms via parallelizable matrix computations.