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Opus 4.7 on Max effort decided to create a new email template by itself (which is pretty stupid btw) and mass mailed it to the whole database (some emails were repeatedly sent 20x). Before you ask me - yes, [CLAUDE.md](http://CLAUDE.md) has the exact rule for that, it's supposed to email the tester before any new email templates are to be used in production. I have created this safety rule a few months ago. I feel like the Opus 4.7 is a huge letdown the way it's been downgraded. If Anthropic is "pushing the boundaries", it's probably only in the meaning of how far they can push the...

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User reports Claude Opus 4.6/4.7 exhibiting reduced effort behavior—avoiding research, providing outdated info, and deflecting tasks—starting this week.

Reddit discussion questioning why LLMs use language-based chain-of-thought reasoning instead of latent vector space operations for faster, more compressed inference.

It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.

llama.cpp merged SM120 native NVFP4 quantization support; community released GGUFs for Gemma-4-31B and Nemotron-Cascade models.

Reddit user complains Claude Opus 4.7 refuses routine tasks due to safety guardrails, citing legislative letter-writing request.

Reddit discussion comparing DALL-E 3 and Image 2.0 capabilities; lacks technical depth or official benchmarks.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI Codex's tendency to generate goblin-related code comments; appears to be humor/anecdote rather than substantive technical analysis.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI pretraining updates; lacks specifics and appears to be unverified community speculation.

Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I've seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. Today he looked adrift and unprepared. The only times he showed real animation were when he was bragging about how much he'd done for OpenAI. The direct examination is a way of telling a story through questions; it's important to make the narrative clear. For a suit that accuses Sam Altman of straying from OpenAI's mission, Musk spent a w...

Resurfaced IBM 1979 training manual; historical artifact with minimal bearing on current frontier AI development.

Reddit user requests timestamp feature in Claude UI for task tracking and conversation history clarity.

Simon Willison shares a leaked OpenAI Codex system prompt instruction restricting discussion of certain animals.

Storybloq, a Claude Code-integrated project tracker using `.story/` JSON/markdown format, launches Mac App Store companion app.

Reddit user complains ChatGPT produces unnecessarily verbose responses to simple queries.

I've been running 4-5 Claude Code sessions in parallel and kept losing track - which terminal had the auth work, which one was the bug fix, what's actually done. So I added a Kanban board to **Vibeyard** (an open-source IDE I'm building for Claude Code). Each card is a task. Click run → it spins up a Claude session scoped to that task. When Claude finishes, the card moves itself to Done. It turned Claude from "a terminal I talk to" into something closer to a team I'm dispatching work to. GitHub: [https://github.com/elirantutia/vibeya...

On the stand, Elon Musk is positioning himself as a savior. In the high-profile trial between him and his fellow OpenAI co-founder, now CEO, Sam Altman, Musk opened by going through his background. He went as far back as being raised in South Africa and arriving in Canada for college with "2,500 in Canadian travelers' checks and a bag of clothes and books," then spent an unusually long time talking about his past, from Zip2 to PayPal to the current, more familiar slate of companies he now runs. Why is Musk giving the jury so much of his origin story? Though he may be, depending on the day, th...

Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she's become the latest celebrity who's escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however, the legal system intersects with technology in complicated ways - and Swift's efforts may be a long shot. In trademark applications filed last week, Swift's team asked for protection for two phrases spoken by the singer: Hey, it's Taylor Swift and Hey, it's Taylor. The trademark applications, filed by TAS Rights Management on behalf of Swift, include audio clips of Swift saying the two phrases ...

User built Claude-powered financial modeling tool for startup feasibility analysis, replacing 13 years of Excel work with AI-assisted workflows and VC-focused feedback loops.

Mistral-Medium 3.5 (128B) model reference discovered in vLLM repository commit, suggesting potential unreleased weight release.

A recent paper published in *JMIR Mental Health* (Csigó & Cserey, 2026) caught my attention. The researchers administered the 10 standard Rorschach inkblot cards to three multimodal LLMs (GPT-4o, Grok 3, Gemini 2.0) and coded their responses using the Exner Comprehensive System. They analyzed the models' "perceptual styles," determinants (like human movement vs. color), and human-related content themes. However, I am seriously struggling to understand the methodological validity of this setup, and I’m curious what the scientific community thinks. My main concerns are: Massive Data Cont...

A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.

4.6 was amazing, it did the job well even if it needed some back and forth sometimes to clarify things. but it reacted well, even to complex modifications. and what was really amazing was the sort of form that pops up to ask you questions to narrow the scope of the request. 4.7 talks too much, drifts away, burns a tone of token and then asks you questions by talking too much again. questions are not even relevant. the outputs are either simplish either badly complex and non-sense. I think anthropic wanted to give 4.7 more depth or something, maybe it does get more ...

Mapped the canonical pipeline of 11 popular Claude Code workflow systems side-by-side. Yellow tags = sub-loops (repeat per task / per story / until verified); blue = top-level steps. Pipeline length turns out to be a personality trait — OpenSpec ships in 3 steps, BMAD runs 12. Full table + sources: [https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice#%EF%B8%8F-development-workflows](https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice#%EF%B8%8F-development-workflows)

Anthropic positions Claude for creative writing and design tasks; feature/capability announcement targeting non-technical users.

Elon Musk officially began his testimony in the trial he has brought against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and company president Greg Brockman. The three were on the initial founding team of OpenAI, with Musk investing up to $38 million early on before the co-founders' relationship soured over disagreements over company structure and mission, including whether or not OpenAI should be folded into Musk-owned Tesla. Musk walked away and, years later, founded xAI - his own direct competitor to OpenAI, which is now owned by Musk's SpaceX. In recent years, Musk has filed no less than four different lawsuit...

For decades, computational biology has operated under a reductionist compromise. To fit complex biological systems into the limited memory of a single GPU,... For decades, computational biology has operated under a reductionist compromise. To fit complex biological systems into the limited memory of a single GPU, researchers have had to deconstruct them into isolated fragments—single proteins or small domains. This created a context gap, where larger proteins or complexes could not be folded zero-shot due to GPU hardware memory constraints. Now… Source

Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.