The Hallway Track
Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.
AI-generated GitHub issues are flooding open source projects with low-quality, overconfident slop
“The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clanker reworded it and made a huge mess of it.”
Simon Willison used Claude to recreate a 1983 BASIC game from a PDF into playable JavaScript
“Build a vanilla JS artifact that exactly recreates the game Mad House from this book, make sure it's mobile friendly and has a suitable retro aesthetic”
HTML description lists have underused features like multiple dd elements and div grouping
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All major AI model labs are now also building agents as their core product
Databricks outlines analytics strategies for optimizing pharmaceutical product launch performance.
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O alongside expanded Gemini 3 model lineup
“an insane amount of pace. I think if you just look at 2024 when we had the 1.5 series of models, we were just cracking the nut on multimodality and look where we are now.”
Octopus Energy achieved 50x cost efficiency in margin data engineering for UK grid MHHS.
Nemotron-Labs diffusion language models promise near-instant text generation speeds
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Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash and Omni multimodal model under 'intelligence with action' framing
“the phrase we're using to talk about Gemini 3.5, which is one of our big releases, is intelligence with action”
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Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most capable model yet, surpassing 3.1 Pro on benchmarks
“3.5 Flash, the most capable model ever that we've shipped.”
AI data center demand for HBM memory is pricing out cheap consumer smartphones globally.
“a single gigabyte of HBM consumes more than three times the wafer capacity that a gigabyte of DDR or LPDDR does”
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Databricks enables prompt caching for open-source LLMs to accelerate inference speed
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Gemma 4 4B model outperforms last year's 70B model on most benchmarks
“The 4B model actually outperforms the much larger GMA 370B from last year on most of these metrics, not all, which shows how much things have changed.”
Google I/O 2026 Dialogues covered AI, quantum computing, robotics, and creativity.
Google launches Gemma 4 open model family with four sizes from 2B to 31B parameters
“Our Gemma model, here evaluated on L M Arena, are scoring as well as model 20X the size.”
Microsoft's Budget Bytes series demonstrates AI apps built with Azure SQL for under $25
“what meaningful thing can you build with AI, especially with a budget of under $25”