Steampunk AI

Easter Links: AI doom 2027, data extraction, and robot runners

The AI 2027 report, running robots, lacklustre productivity and data extraction.

Sunday Links: EU AI, too many Ghosts, and the Google AI platform play

A little late this week, apologies, but still in time for some Sunday reading, I hope. Here are this week's most interesting links: * EU opens door to reworking AI rulebook. Not much detail, but this is welcome news. The leading AI models have already easily breached the Flop

Saturday Links: No Elephants, $40B, and bot firewalls

OpenAI raises $40B, Image generation gets better, and bots spike site traffic.

Saturday Links: Autoregressive image generation, 95% AI code startups, and AI buys a social network

X.AI buys X.COM, the Studio Ghibli explosion, 95% AI code startups.

AI Fundamentals: Agent Definitions

What is an Agent? Definitions abound, but can we boil it down to something simpler?

Sunday Links: Cartwheels, OpenAI ID, and reasoning

Links on OpenAI's future, Robot Agility and Reasoning.

Saturday Links: OpenAI Agents, creative writing, and Agent standards

The posts this week hit art and writing, but also the upcoming prospects of standards for AI agents.

Saturday Links: Weights & biases acquisition, emergent misalignment, and AI SaaS

Acquisition news, drug discovery and SaaS.

Sunday Links: AI marriages, voice, and tools for AI agents

Dystopian robot supervision, Amazon Alexa, and tools for agents.

Dispatch from the AI Engineer Summit Day 2: More agent definitions, sidestepping model costs, and dialing agents

Day 2 of the conference with more great speakers and fun insight's

Dispatch from the AI Engineer Summit Day 1: Small errors, self-replication, and context

Updates from the AI Engineering Summit in New York Cities.

Weapons

Saturday Links: GPT-5 weeks and months, app builders, European LLMs

Weapons declarations, EU LLMs, GPT-5 timelines

Saturday Links: Open-source robot control, EU AI act, and AI weapons

The Ai world goes more open source, with robotics platforms, Google for military applications and Github Co-pilot.

Sunday Links: AI copyright unfreezing, Pika, and robot runners

Deepseek dominated the news cycle (so we cover it as well), but other interesting things happened!

Saturday Links: SmolVLM, connective labor, and government-funded AI

TinyLLMs, the human touch in labor, Occam's razor in learning + a deep dive into serving LLMs.

Saturday Links: Gemini inside, tabular data LLMs, and robotic hand training

January is already halfway through, but the news keeps rolling. Here is this week's crop of interesting AI links: * Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace. Didn't fancy paying $20 extra to get Goggle Gemini in Google Workspaces?

Sunday links: GPUs on every desk, AI Hotels, and attack of the Perplexity clones!

GPUs on every desk, AI Hotels, and attack of the Perplexity clones

Sunday Links: FineMath, Robotaxi v's Delivery Bot, and can we just wait?

This week's links covering robotaxi accidents, what we teach LLMs and AI Fails.

Sunday Links: DeepSeek, Neurips, and AI Spending

I'm making use of the Christmas lull (what of it there is ...) to write a couple of longer one-off pieces, but here are this week's links nonetheless. Only three this week while I work on some other things: * Why DeepSeek’s new AI model thinks it’

Sunday Links: Novelty scores for science, alignment faking, and Google Veo 2

Sunday Links: Novelty scores for science, alignment faking, and Google Veo 2

Sunday Links: Harvard's book data set, RIP Cruise, and did Sora train on Twitch streams?

Open source book collections, autonomous driving takes a step back and OpenAI SORA

Sunday Links: Grok set free, Quantum entanglement, and AI LaTeX

Sunday Links: Grok set free, Quantum entanglement, and AI LaTeX

Sunday Links: AI Books, Autopilot, and AI Talent

The war for AI talent, Book junk and Autopilot failures.

Sunday Links: AI Animation, Co-Pilot impact, and the Musk-Altman files

The Musk v Altman files, AI Ads and Quantum with AI.

Sunday Links: Scaling walls, Agent payments, and model brain scans

Here are the most interesting AI links I stumbled across this week: * 44 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024. If you're tired of AI funding announcements, here are some of the largest in one convenient list. You can probably consider these to be