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Quoting Matthew Green

Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose…

A new feature for my blog, built using my voice

I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature…

Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

JetBrains | Rust Foundation AI Livestream Series - OpenAI: Performance, Safety & Scale

OpenAI builds some of the world's most advanced AI systems on infrastructure operating at extraordinary scale, where even small performance gains can have an enormous impact. Rust helps engineers keep those systems…

ttok 1.0

Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6…

Can TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM?

How a decision-first model can catch risky tool calls before they turn into real-world actions The post Can TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Where Does the Money Go Across Long-Running Coding Agents?

The cost of control The post Where Does the Money Go Across Long-Running Coding Agents? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Hugging Face Transformers: Leverage Open-Source AI in Python

Get hands-on with Hugging Face Transformers in Python. Download, run, and inspect pretrained open-source AI models, and speed up inference on GPUs.

Generate Images in Python With OpenAI's GPT Image API

Learn how to generate images from text prompts with OpenAI's GPT Image API in Python, tune their size and quality, and edit them with a follow-up prompt.

Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call

AI Agents for Beginners, Part 1 The post Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Quiz: Generate Images in Python With OpenAI's GPT Image API

Test your understanding of generating images in Python with OpenAI's GPT Image models, from text prompts and Base64 decoding to size, quality, and edits.

AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on.

AWS’s new decision model comes with a familiar address. Released October 1, Strands Decider 2B is an open-weight model built The post AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on.…

Stop Using AI. Start Hiring It.

AI agents can now write more code than any of us can read. That changed how I think about AI. The post Stop Using AI. Start Hiring It. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference

Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up

😺 Claude Dashboards + Motion launched

Fired OpenAI safety researchers hit back

PLUS: Clean up a messy Excel report with Claude

We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no

Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of…

The Future of Coding Agents, According to Microsoft Research: How to Actually Trust AI-Written Code

Microsoft Research engineer Alex Lavaee explains how to verify AI-written code using Atomic, independent reviewers, real-world tests, and reproducible evidence.