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Planning is 40% of a task; execution is the 60% that eats your week. Plus vibe sourcing — finding the open-source tool instead of generating one.
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Nvidia confirmed the Hugging Face deal and promised its compute stays optional
A week ago the acquisition was an unconfirmed report. Jensen Huang has now announced it himself, at $12,930,300,000, and committed that Nvidia compute will not be required to use Hugging Face.
Did Multiverse actually build Europe's leading AI model?
A Spanish company launched a 438B reasoning model as Europe's best. Its API changelog, the benchmark it cites as validation, and a Community Note all point at a Chinese open-weight base.
Google signed the letter asking for cyber-capable AI, then gated its cyber model
156 companies called for a surge in cyber defence on 27 August. On 2 September Google shipped its most capable security model to a selected set of trusted defenders.
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- World models could widen the AI divide before they improve ordinary work
- OpenAI Wants Your Trust Back, But Is Unclear On How
- Perplexity brings hybrid frontier and local AI to your Mac
- Runway's Solaris generates app interfaces frame by frame, with no code
- Anthropic says it had one layer of defence where it needed several
- An agent's tool list shows what you wired into it
- The magic in agent interfaces still needs an off switch
- Cloudflare can now see some MCP traffic, and the gap is the point
- 294,000 exposed AI tools is the wrong number to worry about
- Nvidia may buy Hugging Face. Here is why that matters.
- OpenAI's agents were persuaded past their own refusal
- Tailscale Aperture treats agent access as a change-control problem
- A webcam's recording light is only useful if its firmware is protected
- The robot arm will obey the limits you remembered to write down
- WebMCP could make browser agents less clumsy. It also makes permission design unavoidable.
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What breaks, who is liable, and what an agent can reach once it is already inside.
Start with: Your AI Assistant Can't Tell You From an Attacker →
Agents & Tooling
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Agents, MCP, and wiring AI into the systems you already run.
Start with: AI That Actually Works Together →
Writing & Thinking
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Prompting, writing, memory, and whether the model is telling you the truth.
Start with: How to Talk to AI (and Actually Get What You Want) →
Building
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Making things with AI: coding, local models, and open weights.
Start with: You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI →
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The labs, the money, and what enterprises are actually doing.
Start with: The 95% AI Failure Rate Nobody's Talking About (And What to Do About It) →
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