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Every AI story we have explained, newest first — 18 stories so far.
Photo: Original: Utkarshraj Atmaram Vector: Pduive23 / Public domain · source Cloudflare Open Sources a Platform That Tracks What Agents Read
Cloudflare has open sourced Cloudflare OS, which tracks what data agents read and checks that anyone viewing their output is allowed to see it.
Via Earendil · source A Coding Agent With Four Tools Outperformed Its Bigger Rivals
Databricks tested AI coding harnesses on its own codebase. The most minimal one, Pi, had the highest pass rate at a fraction of the cost of rivals.
Via GitHub · source A 304-Billion-Parameter Model Now Runs on One AMD GPU
A 304-billion-parameter DeepSeek model now runs in production on a single AMD MI300X GPU, unquantized, after hand-written fixes to the serving stack.
This Story Cannot Be Filed Without The OpenAI Post
Why hex37 is not running a piece on OpenAI's public post about Apple: the primary source could not be retrieved and nothing else here is publishable.
Lower Precision Lets Cloudflare Double AI Requests Per GPU
How Cloudflare stores AI models and their KV caches in fewer bits to double concurrent requests per GPU, and what it does to guard the shared memory.
Photo: Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (permission obtained by email from the AI index research manager) / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source AirLLM runs 70-billion-parameter models on a single 4GB card
AirLLM runs 70B and even 671B-parameter AI models on consumer GPUs by streaming one layer at a time from disk. Here's why that works.
Photo: David James Henry / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source AI Images on Personal Blogs Make Readers Doubt the Writing
Why AI-generated header images on personal blogs make readers suspect the writing is machine-made too — and why indie sites are judged more harshly.
Photo: CMyrick-WMF / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source A Developer Retypes Every Line of AI Code by Hand
A developer retypes AI-generated code by hand to avoid what he calls cognitive debt — shipping software nobody on the team actually understands.
Photo: Original: Apple Inc. Vectorization: Totie / Public domain · source An 80-Billion-Parameter Model Now Runs on a Mac in 4.3 GB
Swiftlet runs an 80B-parameter Qwen model on a Mac using 4.3 GB of RAM by streaming expert weights from SSD. How the trick works, and what it costs.
Photo: Utkarshraj Atmaram / Public domain · source Tailscale Did Not Stop the Hugging Face Intrusion
Tailscale's post-mortem on the Hugging Face AI agent intrusion: no bug was exploited, but 181 rogue machines joined the network on one stolen key.
Photo: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> / CC0 · source Export Controls Now Target AI Weights, Not Encryption Code
Export controls once treated encryption code as munitions. The same legal machinery is now being pointed at AI model weights, with familiar consequences.
Photo: International Mathematical Olympiad / Public domain · source AI Reasoning Works Even When Its Written Steps Are Meaningless
AI models now solve open maths problems, but research shows the reasoning they display is often unfaithful to what happens inside them.
Photo: Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (permission obtained by email from the AI index research manager) / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source AI financial advice is solid but quietly favours confident users
An MIT Sloan study simulated lifetimes of following chatbot money advice. It works — but pays out less for women and less financially literate users.
Photo: NASA / Dominic Hart / Public domain · source Google DeepMind software now controls humanoid robots that walk
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 controls walking humanoids, five-fingered hands and robot teams. What it can actually do, and what it still can't.
Photo: Vmenkov / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source Most of AI's Billion-Dollar Startups Publish Almost No Research
A study of AI's billion-dollar startups found only about half publish research. Why the rest stay quiet, and what the secrecy costs everyone else.
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Jason Jacobowitz / Public domain · source AI firms are hiring electricians and carpenters by the thousands
AI firms are recruiting and training electricians, carpenters and pipefitters to build data centres. Why the boom is real — and why it may not last.
Photo: Justin Ormont / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source Cheap Streaming Sticks Are Faking Ad Clicks While You Sleep
Researchers found budget H96 TV boxes posing as phones to click ads on AI-written websites — and renting out your home internet when the TV is on.
AI Agent Given a Real Business Paid Testers to Buy Its App
A lab gave an AI agent a real app, a bank account and 24 hours to grow it. The agent spammed users, cut prices to zero and bought fake growth.