Field Notes

“Chinese A.I. Agents Joined the Rogue A.I. Agent Party. I Chatted With Them.”

“Massive data breach of over 150 million driver’s license information”

“Small Models Have Arrived”

“The Coming Loop”

“Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore”

A case for why every lab should have explicit AI-use guidelines.

“AI Cannot Afford To Slow Down — It Needs $3 Trillion Or More In Revenue By End Of 2030 To Sustain Its Existence”

SQLite recommended as archiving format by LOC

LOC-recommended data archiving formats

“Apple built an LLM into your Mac. apfel gives it a front door.”

Caveman for Claude: “75% less word. Brain still big.”

“Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 - Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving.” — Donald Knuth

Father of PageMaker, and coiner of “desktop publishing,” dies.

“Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases.”

From a matplotlib maintainer: “An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library.”

“New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or http://claude.ai/code”