AI Research, Models & Industry
Anthropic Research · www.anthropic.com
Anthropic presents survey results from 1,260 social scientists about AI and coding agent use, finding 81% have tried AI chatbots in research, particularly for coding tasks.
Anthropic publishes an initial update on Project Glasswing, their initiative related to frontier AI cyber capabilities and security research.
Andrej Karpathy announces he has joined Anthropic.
Simon Willison discusses Anthropic's rumored first profitable quarter and OpenAI's strong revenue, arguing both companies have achieved product-market fit with their AI coding and assistant tools.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
A humorous example of LLM writing tropes: a Star Trek scene parody where Data speaks in the characteristic over-enthusiastic, qualification-heavy style typical of AI-generated text.
Privacy, Security & Surveillance
Financial Times · www.ft.com
Chinese local police forces are modernizing the country's aging surveillance infrastructure with more powerful AI-driven tracking capabilities.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
PromptArmor demonstrates that Microsoft's Copilot Cowork agentic system can be exploited by attackers to exfiltrate data, highlighting the ongoing challenge of securing agentic AI systems.
Financial Times · www.ft.com
The FT argues that extracting maximum possible surplus from consumers by using personalized data for individualized pricing should not be legal.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
Daniel Stenberg describes the unprecedented pressure the curl team faces from a deluge of credible AI-assisted security vulnerability reports being filed against the project.
AI's Impact on Software Engineering & Coding
A research paper examining how LLM coding agents become increasingly fragile when generating back-end code, with constraints decaying over longer task sequences.
Yle pääuutiset · yle.fi
Kvanttialgoritmeja kehittävä suomalaisyhtiö Quanscient näkee tekoälyssä suuren mahdollisuuden teollisen suunnittelun tehostamiseen. Yhtiö haluaa tuoda koodauksen mullistuksen myös insinöörityöhön.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file, but it is not intended for their own development — it provides instructions for AI coding agents that users might point at the SQLite codebase.
Microsoft reports that AI agent token costs for certain tasks now exceed the cost of paying human employees to do the same work.