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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 5,359 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.
Open models and even Google lack a true competitor to Claude Code and Codex for agentic work.
“even the mighty Google doesn't have a clear competitor for Claude Code and Codex”
Microsoft Copilot Cowork vulnerability enables file exfiltration via prompt injection and rendered images
“Because these messages can contain external images that trigger network requests to external websites, data can be exfiltrated when a user opens a compromised message sent by the agent.”
Paul Graham says AI-written founder emails feel like deception and make him think less of the author
“I have never knowingly finished reading an email signed by a human but written by AI. It feels like being lied to, and who would stand for that?”
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Jack Clark urges society to actively shape AI's future rather than passively react to it
“the rapid advance in AI technology presents all of us with a choice: explore the future, or retreat from the present.”
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Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah influenced the Pope's AI ethics encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
“I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.”
Pope Leo XIV issued a papal encyclical framing AI as a new industrial revolution threatening human dignity
“current AI systems are more "cultivated" than "built," for developers do not directly design every detail, but instead create a framework within which the intelligence "grows."”
Simon Willison shares wildlife photos from a kayaking trip in San Mateo County.
“We took our new folding kayak out in the harbor and saw sea lions and harbor seals chilling on the docks.”
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OpenAI partners with Brazil's top media groups to bring journalism into ChatGPT
Hugging Face publishes a terminology guide clarifying AI agent concepts like harness and scaffold.
Datasette 1.0a30 adds a customizable keyboard-driven Jump to menu with plugin extensibility
datasette-agent adds inline agent chat accessible via keyboard shortcut in Datasette UI
Datasette releases fixtures plugin enabling zero-install database testing via uvx
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”