AI news in context

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says booing graduates will shape AI's future — and live with its consequences. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Insider Says Ubisoft Is Testing Gen AI In Far Cry 7, And It "Looks Like S**t". Community angle: discussion is centered on reliability

The Financial Times has published an article about Heretic. “The FT was able to use Heretic, a tool available on the popular code repository GitHub, to remove the guardrails from Meta’s Llama 3.3 model in less than 10 minutes without any specialist hardware.” “Heretic creator Philipp Emanuel Weidmann told the FT his software had been used to create more than 3,500 “decensored” models since its release last year and that modified systems created using the tool had been downloaded 13mn times.” This is the first of multiple press inquiries I’ve had recently as Heretic and uncensored language models are gaining mainstream attention. **Please note that I am a mathematician. Community angle: discussion is centered on skepticism about hype

US President administration and Anthropic finalizing deal to let US spy agencies use its AI tools. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

🚀 Skills for small businesses, officially released by Anthropic. Anthropic’s 31 small-business skills reportedly hit around 382,000 downloads on day one. And now someone has mapped the whole thing into a setup workflow that can apparently be deployed in \~10 minutes. This is actually a pretty interesting shift. Small businesses used to stitch together automations manually across: Zapier Notion CRM tools email workflows internal docs custom scripts Now AI companies are starting to package the whole thing into reusable skill packs: 🧠 workflow 📚 memory ⚙️ behavior 🔗 connectors 🤖 orchestration 📋 operating rules Basically: business operations as AI-readable skill files. The best. Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow, cost and pricing, and safety and policy

AI agents are quietly generating chaos engineering failures enterprises don’t track yet. Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow and reliability

‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Is AI viewed as “evil” in non-tech communities?. I’m sorry if this is a dumb question…. But some context here: I thought I was posting what I thought was a helpful suggestion when a bra size calculator website was off - there was a huge manual guide so the only easy thing in this day and age to do is… delegate it to AI, right? I’m mostly surrounded by a tech community and have been most of my life ( undergrad in C.S, masters in statistics, work as a data engineer) so I’m realizing I have a pretty narrow and sheltered opinion about it. I see the downsides of it ofc, and am actually majorly pro regulation, but I still see it has a helpful tool to enhance your. Community angle: discussion is centered on infrastructure costs

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott gets a huge cheer after ripping up his AI-written commencement speech. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Codex is literally insane. I switched from claude code to codex last month (25$ plan) and I can't believe the usage limits on gpt 5.5 xhigh. Opus 4.6 (at the time) would last me exactly 15 minutes per 5 hour limit, while gpt 5.5 high can often run for hours at a time on even more complex projects/tasks than what I could give to Claude. What's amazing is that after you hit your limit, Claude would hard stop, never going above 15 minutes continuously in any case, whereas codex will still keep running for like 30 minutes while it "wraps up". That's actually twice the full 5 hour usage of claude - and this usage doesn't even count towards w. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism