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Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add. Via Lobste.rs Tags: definitions, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-misuse

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After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said stocks are increasingly moving as part of thematic trading baskets rather than on company-specific fundamentals.

If you were to strip out Big Tech's investment gains from private AI companies, the earnings story is a lot less bullish.

For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition

Karp said Chinese models can't be blamed for distilling U.S. models when the frontier labs "distilled all the value of IP, everywhere."

Cramer said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy finally explained how Amazon's massive AI spending will generate long-term returns.

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.

Snap beat analysts' estimates across the board in its second-quarter earnings report.

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.

Baseten's Philip Kiely and Ali Taha present a masterclass on inference engineering, covering autoregressive and diffusion model deployment. Ali recently published a viral deep-dive into Kimi K3's model code (tracing its full lineage across 8 papers), while Philip authored what's described as the definitive book on inference engineering — the discipline of turning trained weights into fast, reliable, affordable production systems.

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Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another

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Shares of Amazon hit a new all-time high Monday, putting its market cap over $3 trillion.

Superblocks, a 50-person vibe-coding startup that raised $60M (Series A, May 2025), signed a multi-year joint marketing agreement with AWS to embed its tool inside AWS customers' private clouds. Apps built through Superblocks will use Amazon Aurora databases and Amazon Bedrock for inference, keeping all data within the customer's AWS account rather than sending it to external providers like Supabase. AWS will also help sell Superblocks to enterprises via its Marketplace, filling a gap since AWS's own Kiro targets developers, not business-user vibe coders.

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.

Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

Top scores increased by 5x.

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of the packages in question is "lib-mtop," an unscoped package with the same name as a private Alibaba package