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Hiring in an era of fake candidates, real scams and AI slop
"Red flags that both job seekers and employers should watch for, in an era of AI slop and application scams."
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Stochastic parrots, text extruders, extractive business models, and chatbots.
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The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Software Factory
"I’ve now seen dozens of companies struggling to put AI to work writing code, and each one has moved through five clear tiers of automation. That felt familiar."
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2025: The year in LLMs
Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.
Future of News
Is the article dead?
Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?
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Trump Signs Executive Order To Combat State AI Regulation
"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to limit state regulation of artificial intelligence." At the same time, states are watering theirs down.
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What Happens After the Hype? Lessons from Mobile Internet’s Long Road to Success
"The question isn’t whether the current AI investment cycle will face a reckoning. It’s what form that reckoning takes — and what comes after."
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This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
AI at scale isn't scaling.
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Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It’s Going About as Well as You’d Expect
"Obviously, any campaign that used only that AI-generated data would miss the mark — instead of looking at the views of real respondents, it would be looking at a funhouse mirror reflection of a demographic cooked up by a language model with no access to actual data."
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Evaluating AI
How to think about vendors, technology, and power
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Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
The Trump administration is using AI as a way to shill fossil fuels. But even for tech companies that don't care about climate change, renewables are a far better option.
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OpenAI’s gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad
OpenAI claims a significant result: gold-level performance International Mathematical Olympiad. But they're scant on details and it needs to be independently verified.
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The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
"I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."