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In 1969 Volker Strassen found a way to multiply two 4×4 matrices using 49 scalar multiplications instead of the obvious 64. The trick went into textbo…

I came across the paper behind this post through Azeem Azhar's Exponential View newsletter, in a short item noting that AI-native startups start s…

On May 25th, Pope Leo XIV stood in the Vatican's Synod Hall to present Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical. The document addresses AI and hu…

One morning earlier this year, engineers at an Alibaba-affiliated AI research lab woke up to a cascade of security alerts. Attempts to probe internal…

If you haven't used one of the major AI platforms in the last few weeks, you're making an increasingly costly mistake: judging a technology by…

Visitors to the fifth floor of Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters are greeted by warm wood, soft light, a portrait of Alan Turing, and a recep…

Ruben Hassid, who writes the "How to AI" newsletter on Substack, made an observation recently that stopped me cold. He calls it "perfor…

Last week, AI agents on an AI-only platform (really!) called Moltbook spontaneously created their own religion. They called it Crustafarianism, comple…