Anthropic vs. DoW #5: Motions Filed
The news has thankfully quieted down on this front, and is mostly about the lawsuit as we build towards a hearing next week, after which we will find out if a temporary restraining order or an injunction is on the table.
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A New Way to Handle Residual Connections in Transformers
...explained visually!
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Medical Roundup #7
Things are relatively quiet on the AI front, so I figured it’s time to check in on some other things that have been going on, including various developments at the FDA.
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Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House.
The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s website and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’ve been seeing more and more open source maintainers throwing up their hands over AI-generated pull requests. Going so far as to stop accepting PRs from external contributors. If you’re an open source maintainer, you’ve felt this […]
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ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Will AI cause a political interregnum
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A Fraudster’s Paradise
Dark web forum posts mentioned the phrase “AI agent” far more in the second half of 2025 than in the first half. Could this mean that fraudsters are charmed by the AI hype? Or is AI truly a game changer for cybercrime? AI-related discussions—evident both in what “the bad guys” are saying and in what […]
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BREAKING: Sam Altman concedes that we need major breakthroughs beyond mere scaling to get to AGI
It’s past time to look for new architectures
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LLM Fine-tuning: Techniques for Adapting Language Models
Understanding LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF, DPO, GRPO, etc.
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BREAKING: Expensive new evidence that scaling is not all you need
Two more colossally expensive experiments have failed
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How to Actually Use Train, Validation, and Test Sets in ML
...explained visually!
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Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI
Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI
On March 26, Addy Osmani and I are hosting the third O’Reilly AI Codecon, and this time we’re taking on the question of what software craftsmanship looks like when AI agents are writing much of the code. The subtitle of this event, “Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI,” was meant to be provocative. Craftsmanship […]
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