We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made…
The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, …
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…
The light in my bathroom went out while I was showering today. And my brain immediately went to “Oh wow I’ve been in the shower too long, what a waste of tim...
Last week I spent some time diving more into LLM inference. This is a field I personally find interesting, especially because of the optimizations and engineering behind it. It is a tricky optimization problem where the goal is to make LLM inference possible w…
Will software remain valuable? Will software development remain a valuable trade? What about software companies? These questions often get muddled up. Here is my attempt at looking at them separately.
If a test fails on CI and nobody can reproduce it, did it really fail? 🧘 Nix gives me a build that is a function of its inputs via the extensional model. The same derivation, produces the same store path, and if I am lucky, the same bytes. What Nix does not g…
Observability dashboards were designed for the person who builds them, not the person who reads them during an incident. I argue that we need a complementary observability tool.
A Tencent-hosted agent fleet used urlquery.net and webhook.site to pull entrance data from Chinese map pages, with no sign of the agents communicating · By the Swarmchasers: Alecto Irene Perez, Ethan Elasky, ConcurrentSquared, Frank, Jonathan Elsworth Eicher, …
Agentic code can be thought of as a fabric. It is easily shaped and can assume any form with little effort, but it is hard to build something rigid out of…
AI inference will pass the $161b database market on its way to ~$350b in 2027, mutating every application into an inference reseller & upending classic software unit economics.
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad.
A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
The mechanics half of a two-part guide to cross-application single sign-on: the callback handler and the four doors it closes, the cross-site POST and SameSite, hardening an unsolicited SAML response, OIDC section 4, the launch token, back-channel logout, home…
I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So I decided to give a tour of the lamps
A benchmark tested whether the local `Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf` model could add positive integers and express exact results solely in English words, using 5,070 reasoning-disabled cases and a paired 169-case comparison with …
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader Friday.