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FinHardBench evaluates LLM-generated FPGA hardware for financial trading (latency-critical 5-10ns); 33 tasks span module generation, pipeline tuning, adaptation.

Physics-informed action-space reshaping for network control learns to exclude suboptimal placements before value function optimization, reducing search.

Greg Brockman (OpenAI) notes ChatGPT-Slack integration friction: users reject AI-initiated requests, prefer AI enhances rather than replaces human interaction.

datasette-apps 0.2a0 adds app_debug() and app_list() tools to enable agentic creation and testing of web apps via sandboxed iframe execution.

OpenAI's internal Astra model solved ten decade-old math problems for under $2K, matching Anthropic's cryptographic findings with Claude.

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

That cover art is almost certainly AI, too. | Image: Fenix Flexin Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song's origins, with many speculating that it was largely, if not entirely, generated by AI. Fenix has denied those accusations, but done little to dispel them. Part of the suspicion is certainly due to the fact that the song is a dramatic left turn. Fenix has prima...

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.

DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 released; minimal other activity.

OpenAI reports progress on open problems in geometry, cryptography, and complexity theory using AI methods.

DeepSeek releases V4-Flash-0731, a 304B parameter model with enhanced agentic capabilities, outperforming larger competitors at $0.14/$0.27 per million tokens.

MCP 2.0 (stateless Model Context Protocol) launches with significant spec changes; Simon Willison revives mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp tooling.

Simon Willison releases llm-mcp-client 0.1a0, enabling Model Context Protocol integration for LLM tools.

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because... As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because attention now dominates that cost, how it is designed—not just how it is implemented—increasingly determines a model’s inference performance. Shaping model architecture around how GPUs execute it is the premise of AI model co-design. Source

Podcast discussion on open-weight model competitiveness, cybersecurity risks, and AI leadership policy letters signed by industry leaders.

Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

Simon Willison releases smevals, an open eval framework for benchmarking models, prompts, and inference harnesses across configurations.

India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.

Slack Emoji Maker tool: AI-powered 128x128 transparent image editor for creating custom Slack emojis.

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things like refugees near the Mexican border and a bomb crater by a hospital in Gaza. On Thursday, Google's initial response to van Ess noted that images generated with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth included a digital wat...

LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.

Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.

TokTier eliminates redundant tokenization in agentic LLM serving by caching token state, reducing tokenization overhead from 64% to <5% on agent workloads.

ExtractBench introduces first benchmark for schema-guided document extraction with 4,869 pages across 370 enterprise documents, measuring accuracy, completeness, grounding, and cost.