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HOW ATTENTION SINKS KEEP LANGUAGE MODELS STABLE

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hanlab.mit.edu · 15 min

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LLMS AREN'T WORLD MODELS

Large language models aren't sufficient as a path to general machine intelligence. They will never manage to deal with large codebases autonomously because they are incapable of forming models about the program. These models will never reliably know what they don't know or stop making things up. They are able to teach students complex curricula and answer expert questions, but they fail at basic novel questions on the same subject because that requires a world model.

yosefk.com · 18 min

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U.S. GOVERNMENT IMPOSES FEE ON NVIDIA, AMD EXPORTS TO CHINA

The US government will levy a 15% fee on some of Nvidia's and AMD's chip sales to China as a condition of granting them export licenses to sell in the country. The deal applies specifically to Nvidia's H20 chip and AMD's MI308, which are both crucial to AI applications. It is unclear how the government will deploy the presumed billions of dollars in fees it will collect. Nvidia says that being blocked from selling its chips to China cost the company $4.5 billion in one quarter alone.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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FROM BOOTCAMP TO BUST: HOW AI IS UPENDING THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY

AI has devastated the coding bootcamp industry by automating away the entry-level programming roles these programs traditionally filled. Bootcamp job placement rates have plummeted from 83% to 37% at some schools, and new graduate hiring has dropped 50% from pre-pandemic levels.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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OPENAI UNDERCUTS RIVALS WITH GPT-5 PRICING

OpenAI launched GPT-5 at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, sharply undercutting Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 and matching Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro baseline.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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THE PERCENTAGE OF USERS USING OPENAI'S REASONING MODELS EACH DAY IS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING

Free users went from under 1% to 7% and Plus users went from 7% to 24%.

simonwillison.net · 1 min

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META ACQUIRES AI AUDIO STARTUP WAVEFORMS

Meta acquired AI startup WaveForms, bolstering its AI unit, Superintelligence Labs.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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GOOGLE'S AI-DRIVEN FINANCE

Google is testing a redesigned Google Finance that integrates AI-driven answers to complex finance queries, advanced charting with technical indicators, real-time market data, and a live news feed. U.S.

blog.google · 1 min

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HUGGING FACE LAUNCHES AI SHEETS

Hugging Face's AI Sheets is an open-source, spreadsheet-style interface for building, transforming, and enriching datasets with AI models, including OpenAI's gpt-oss.

huggingface.co · 14 min