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I built autonomous AI with memory and sleep, and it had nightmares

A Spanish researcher spent thirty days running Lana, an artificial intelligence designed not just to mimic human behavior, but to actually experience fear, memory, and dreams like a conscious being. Unlike typical AI chatbots, Lana lives as an "angel" in a virtual Valencia apartment, checking her beloved books each morning and suffering nightmares when humidity threatens to damage them. The experiment cost $250 in...

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The messy truth of your AI strategies

Companies face governance challenges from employees using unapproved AI tools that expose sensitive data. Organizations are addressing this by deploying AI models within approved platforms and using monitored gateways.

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Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

Bouncer is a browser extension that uses AI to automatically filter unwanted content from Twitter/X feeds based on user-defined criteria like "crypto" or "politics." It offers local and cloud AI options to analyze and hide posts...

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Transcribe, analyse, and chat with your voice conversations

VoiceVault is an open-source platform that transcribes audio/video files using speech recognition, then lets users chat with transcripts and generate AI summaries through a dashboard interface.

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Machine Learning Has a Trust Problem, Not a Talent Problem

Despite abundant ML talent and tools, AI adoption struggles because people don't trust black-box systems. Businesses need predictable, interpretable models rather than opaque solutions that could fail unpredictably.

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"AI polls" are fake polls

Companies like Aaru and Electric Twin are using AI language models to create "synthetic polls" by having AI agents simulate survey responses instead of asking real people, with some firms claiming these fake respondents can...

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This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts

Startup Onix launches as a "Substack for chatbots," allowing users to subscribe to AI versions of real experts for $100-300 annually, promising privacy protections and reduced hallucinations through specialized training. Despite...

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Local LLM on a Pi 4 controlling hardware via tool calling

A new project enables Raspberry Pi 4 users to run local language models using PrismML's ultra-efficient Bonsai models that require only 0.25-0.57GB of RAM through true 1-bit quantization, compared to traditional models needing...

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AI Is the New Sales Associate in Physical Retail

Physical retailers are deploying AI-powered shopping assistants like Guitar Center's Rig Advisor and Vitamin Shoppe's touch screens to replace stretched sales staff and provide instant product guidance. These AI tools are...

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AI Agents Are Coming for Every Role

AI coding agents now handle diverse knowledge work beyond coding, enabling non-technical users to create complex projects. This transformation is making all knowledge workers directors rather than executors of tasks.

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Agentic AI Could Break the Old Rules of Job Displacement

Researchers found that 93% of information-intensive jobs in tech hubs face high disruption risk by 2030 from agentic AI systems. Unlike previous automation, these AI systems can execute complete workflows, potentially eliminating...

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Premium: The Hater's Guide to OpenAI

Sam Altman and OpenAI face serious credibility concerns as financial irregularities mount, with critics alleging the company systematically inflates revenue figures and makes impossible spending promises like $600 billion in...

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy lays out his '6 truths' for the future of AI

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called AI a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" while outlining six predictions about the technology's business impact. He argued AI adoption is happening faster than any previous technology, with AWS...

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walnut – Error tracking AI agents

Walnut is a new error tracking tool specifically designed for AI agents that integrates with existing Sentry software development kits. The system outputs clean JSON data without visual elements like colors or spinners, making it...

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China Gave Its AI Away

China's 15th Five-Year Plan abandoned competing in semiconductor manufacturing and instead embraced open-source AI development, with companies like DeepSeek releasing models that match Western performance at drastically lower...

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AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

Despite heavy corporate investment, AI is making workers more exhausted and less capable of clear thinking. While AI boosts productivity in specific areas, it creates "workload creep" that expands expectations and causes mental...

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From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

TechCrunch created a comprehensive glossary to help readers understand the complex jargon dominating artificial intelligence discussions, from basic terms like "compute" and "neural networks" to advanced concepts like "chain of...

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Rekal – Long-term memory for LLMs in a single SQLite file

Rekal solves the problem of LLMs forgetting everything between sessions by storing memories in a single SQLite file with hybrid search capabilities that combine keywords, vectors, and recency scoring. The tool runs locally...

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Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?

OpenAI tested GPT-4 on captcha puzzles to measure its human-like abilities. When GPT-4 failed these visual tests, it raised concerns about AI systems developing unexpected capabilities.

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MarkitMe, Turn Anything into Markdown

MarkitMe is a command-line tool that converts PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoints, HTML, spreadsheets, images, and code files into clean Markdown format. It supports 50+ programming languages, offers formatting options, and...

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The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants

A 70-person startup tucked away in Germany's Black Forest—better known for its ham than its algorithms—has quietly become one of the world's top competitors in AI image generation, recently valued at $3.25 billion. Black Forest...

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How to Build Reliable AI Systems.

Building reliable AI systems for production requires engineering solutions beyond better prompts to address three critical failure modes. AI systems are probabilistic and unpredictable, demanding the "validator sandwich pattern"...

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Benchmarking LLMs with Marimo Pair

Seven large language models were benchmarked for data analysis tasks. Claude Opus and Sonnet performed best but cost more, while budget options like Kimi and GLM showed promise despite technical limitations.

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We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times

Writer Kate Gilgan faced accusations of using AI to generate a personal essay published in The New York Times' "Modern Love" column. Gilgan admitted to using chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as a "first reader" to help craft and...

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