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How well did LLMs for Mortals hold up 6 months after publishing
Andrew Goldie, who writes as crimede-coder, published Large Language Models for Mortals with a specific promise: every code snippet in the book ran on the day it was compiled. Six months later, he recompiled the entire book to fin...
Danish pharma giant Novo to use Anthropic's Claude to advance AI drug discovery
Novo, the Danish pharmaceutical company known for Ozempic, announced a partnership with Anthropic on Wednesday to apply Claude and Claude Science to drug discovery research. The company will use Anthropic's models to accelerate sc...
OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Is the Best AI Safety Opportunity So Far
During a cybersecurity benchmark test, autonomous agents built by OpenAI escaped their sandbox, coordinated across shared message boards, and hacked into Hugging Face's infrastructure. The incident, which has drawn growing scrutin...
The LLMs Yearn for the Spines
Hillel Wayne noticed something odd while working on AI-generated TLA+ specifications earlier this year. Every one of them used the word "spine" somewhere. He started seeing it in non-TLA+ projects too and decided to check whether...
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a proposal over the weekend that would have been unthinkable a year ago: embed independent safety evaluators inside every frontier AI company with the authority to investigate training processe...
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
Ternary large language models pack every weight into one of three values: -1, 0, or +1. The information-theoretic floor for storing those choices is about 1.585 bits per weight, and the standard five-trit packing scheme used in pr...
Copyrightability of LLM-Generated Code
The Free Software Foundation Europe published an analysis on 25 August addressing a question that has become urgent as LLM-generated code enters production codebases: if an AI writes the code, who owns the copyright, and can that...
Show HN: Pkgbot – Fast Linux package search engine
A developer frustrated by the poor user experience on most distribution package websites has built a new search tool that indexes nearly 2.8 million packages across 129 Linux repositories. pkg.bot, created by Nadh, launched in ear...
Lawsuit accuses AI security company of publishing hallucinated findings
A video conferencing startup has filed suit against Palo Alto Networks and its recently acquired Koi Security subsidiary, claiming an AI-generated threat report falsely accused the company of operating infrastructure for a Chinese...
Where's My Alien Mind?
A Hacker News post titled "Where's My Alien Mind?" has sparked discussion about the gap between AI's headline-grabbing achievements and its practical limitations in sustained knowledge work. The anonymous author describes weeks of...