AI on dan.heskett

This is not sustainable

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:25:00 -0400

“Companies are not staffed for this, and no matter what the industry wants to tell you, you can’t AI your way out of this.”

EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:30:00 -0400

“According to noyb, Persona collects biometric data to verify Outlier contractors are who they say they are, as well as gathering IP addresses, device info, geolocation data, addresses, and credit data of Outlier users.”

New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare's AI Experiment

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:25:00 -0400

“Another company built a system that allowed clinical reviewers to reject claims without opening patient files; clinical reviewers using this system spent an average of just 1.2 seconds on each case.”

AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:10:00 -0400

“All four affect EPICS Base, which is used to operate some of the world’s largest scientific research projects and facilities, and organizations should update to version 7.0.11, which includes the fixes.”

Nvidia discusses $2,000-per-GPU annual fee for software that 'runs agents on AI factories'

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:55:00 -0400

“At $2,000 per GPU each year, Nvidia would bring in $10 billion annually if five million GPUs were covered by paid licenses.”

Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:18:00 -0400

“Within the sample it retrieved, it took adult projects at the same rate as everything else.”

AI models cost more when you don't use English

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:15:00 -0400

“The most expensive of the languages used between 1.5 and 5 times more tokens than the cheapest.”

Go Fast, Turn Left: The Anderson Speedway & Indiana's Data Centers

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:10:00 -0400

“Yet the Speedway carries itself with earned, if aged, pride.”

Meta Pitches AI Sports Piracy Detector in Notorious Markets Rebuttal

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:45:00 -0400

“Based on the prediction results, we can proactively remove this content in real time, before it gains a significant audience, and without a rights holder ever having to intervene.”

New LF Research Survey Shows Generative AI Cuts Open Source Coding Time in Half, but 25% of Incoming Pull Requests are Considered AI Slop

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:35:00 -0400

“For high-complexity tasks, however, 21% of respondents report taking more time when using GenAI.”

‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:20:00 -0400

“We are going to see smaller software and hardware companies killed by competitors who used AI to steal their products and undercut them.”

Introducing Scope: Open-source evaluation for AI coding agents

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:55:00 -0400

“AI coding agents are becoming users of your software.”

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:20:00 -0400

“A ten-year-old network, fine-tuned for about twenty minutes, beat both of them at recognising skin cancer.”

AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:15:00 -0400

“AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgment.”

Computer Security Is About to Get a Lot Worse, Here's What You Can Do

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:05:00 -0400

“Three percent of all software vulnerabilities ever found in history were found just in the month of October.”

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:35:00 -0400

“The problem is that this particular legal action is new to us.”

Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:15:00 -0400

“Nothing in the individual techniques is new.”

Google can now use insights from your Gmail and Photos to target ads

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:40:00 -0400

“Google has added an exception to its promise that your emails and photos won’t be used to personalize ads.”

An artist's take on AI in math

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:35:00 -0400

“AI is seen as a tool to replace the work done by humans, rather than one to empower those humans.”

Big Tech's thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:15:00 -0400

“In just one day, the data center would consume as much water as all 80,000 residents of Cerrillos use for drinking in a year.”

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:06:00 -0400

“Across coding, agentic, and knowledge benchmarks, K3.1 Pro matches or approaches the strongest proprietary models.”

Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & It's Absolute Trash

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:32:00 -0400

“Epic wants to be the corporate goon the naysayers have said to watch out for.”

Apocalypse Now and Then

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:26:00 -0400

“But AI is colonisation of a kind few of us can even imagine.”

LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:19:00 -0400

“anyone who ran the compromised package on any platform should assume their secrets have been stolen.”

The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:17:00 -0400

“We want children who use AI to ask better questions, not children who rely on it to give them all the answers.”

The death of history's most successful publisher

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:14:00 -0400

“Google has a scorching case of main character syndrome, and nowhere is that more obvious than in its AI-fueled transformation into web-scale parasite.”

Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:42:00 -0400

“Meta did this because a single failed GPU would take out an entire rack and interrupt the training run.”

Google support pages start defaulting to AI chatbots – it might be for the best

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:41:00 -0400

“Google, as of right now, appears to only be testing this on select support topics.”

AI Firms Should Answer For What Their Models Say, On The Same Terms As Everyone Else

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:40:00 -0400

“A chatbot does not “intend” to do anything, even if it talks as though it does.”

Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive and LibGen

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:59:00 -0400

“The interrogatory asks about all decisionmakers, so if a decision was made by a team, everyone involved has to be named.”

Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:57:00 -0400

“Getting them connected to the grid, and keeping the neighbors happy, is proving rather more difficult.”

Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0400

“Lower cost reviews didn’t automatically mean worse quality, but it didn’t automatically mean fine either.”

DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:49:00 -0400

“DeepInfer is the high-performance inference framework that powers DeepSeek’s large-scale production services.”

A benchmark map of the US economy

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:48:00 -0400

“This makes it very hard to know how good AI models are at the work Americans actually do.”

What the West can learn from AI optimists in the rest of the world

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:47:00 -0400

“In the West, fear of AI has helped turn pessimism into a cultural virtue.”

DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:47:00 -0400

“Banning DeepSeek’s own app and API is workable.”

Will developing nations be able to handle millions of AI agents?

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:42:00 -0400

“These are costs that most Global South users may not be in a position to absorb,” said Jane Munga of the Carnegie Endowment.

Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:41:00 -0400

“I therefore disagree with claims that mathematics is over because machines can prove theorems.”

Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:20:00 -0400

“Meta has no reservoir of good faith among the community that it can draw upon.”

Is CoreWeave's Tapestry of Debt Unraveling?

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:05:00 -0400

“CoreWeave’s credit swaps were priced at a nerve-rattling 60% chance of default on Thursday, according to ICE Data Services.”

Search & Fetch | DeepSeek API Docs

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:45:00 -0400

“Search API finds web pages for a query and returns structured results.”

New Mexico and El Paso Spent Millions on Climate Plans. Three New Data Centers Could Undo Them.

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:18:00 -0400

“This does add to our greenhouse gas emissions in a massive way,”

Western open-weight models still can't beat China

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:12:00 -0400

“If you need relatively frontier capability, right now that’s Chinese open models only,”

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:11:00 -0400

“This repository and the model weights are licensed under the MIT License.”

'AI' is Not a Tool

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:30:00 -0400

“Tools are implements with which you do something, they do not do things for you.”

So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:20:00 -0400

“GitHub will need a miracle of that proportion just to keep up with customer demand.”

HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:09:00 -0400

“Within two to three years, we’ll have no issues that require humans.”

Microsoft Leans on Open Weight Model From Chinese AI Lab to Challenge Jev

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:00:00 -0400

“Now that agentic AI is a reality, we’ve seen that cost plays a major role in how people decide to use AI.”

Build Your Own Decision Model

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:55:00 -0400

“Since the outputs are constrained to only a fixed set of options, the model can’t select anything outside of those.”

The People of Utah vs. Kevin O'Leary

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:41:00 -0400

“We have to report on our neighbors if they’re watering at the wrong times or on the wrong days,”