Stray observations, and marginalia.
These are fragments gathered along the way—moments marked, links worth noticing, and passing thoughts. Inclusion does NOT imply endorsement.⁂
"We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models"
anthropic.com/
Claude Code can now modernize COBOL code
claude.com/
False spring is really here.
27-year-old Apple iBooks can still download official updates from Apple.
reddit.com/
"The Most Expensive Party Balloon in History": on El Paso's airport shutdown.
https://log.jasongodfrey.info/
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
openai.com/
"Addressing the risks of AI will require a mix of voluntary actions taken by companies (and private third-party actors) and actions taken by governments that bind everyone."
darioamodei.com/
"Vibe coding actually works. It creates robust, complex systems that work. You can tell yourself (as I did) that it can’t possibly do that, but you are wrong. You can then tell yourself (as I did) that it’s good as a kind of alternative search engine for coding problems, but not much else. You are also wrong about that."
stephenramsay.net
Cormac McCarthy notes on writing for science:
gwern.net
UCLA digitized Hearst newsreels from 1929 to 1967
newsreels.net
Teen-agers in their bedrooms, before the age of selfies:
newyorker.com
Better late than never — iPad native Instagram app available
instagram.com
White paper: Why Language Models Hallucinate
openai.com
Not new, but worth not missing: "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory expands Claude for Enterprise use to empower scientists and researchers"
anthropic.com
OpenAI releases two open-weight models.
"The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks and can run on edge devices with just 16 GB of memory, making it ideal for on-device use cases, local inference, or rapid iteration without costly infrastructure"
openai.com