Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works
Kolibri is Aleph Alpha's open-weight German and English LLM: 78B parameters, 3.5B per token. How it works, what it's good and bad at,…
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Artificial Intelligence
<p>Model releases, evaluation, research and the shifting economics of machine intelligence.</p>
Apple Pass Designer
Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness centre, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer…
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Use DeepSeek Harness to work with documents, analyse spreadsheets, write code, and schedule tasks. Extend its capabilities with composable plugins.
DraftKings is using AI to behaviourally target chronic gamblers
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling…
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on…
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behaviour. It started with a series of carefully…
Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
In the midst of growing fears that artificial intelligence is advancing at such a rate that it may compel itself to end all…
Ember-1
Ember-1 is a new specialised model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI…
Terrytao is gonna need a lot more mathematicians
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI.…
Plan mode is dead
Earlier this year, Aymannadeem believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.