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Interesting study commissioned by European Commission's DG ENER on smart and bidirectional charging of EVs.
Smart charging is already mature tech and ready for use. It is important to use time-varying energy and network prices, and for TSOs and DSOs to remove barriers to small-scale flexibility.

Study on the assessment of use cases and business models for smart and bidirectional recharging in the context of energy system integration - Publications Office of the EU
demand patterns across the European Union. As electrification progresses across private, commercial, and fleet segments, charging behaviour has become a material factor for peak demand, grid utilization, and system balancing. Within this context, smart charging (SC) and bidirectional charging (BDC) have growing relevance as demand-side flexibility and energy-system integration instruments. This study first assesses the system relevance, maturity, and deployment conditions of SC and BDC across t…

AGNTCon MCPCon: Agentische KI wird erwachsen
Auf einer eigenen Konferenz diskutiert die Community über die Zukunft des Model Context Protocols: Wie wird agentische KI sicher, überwachbar und skalierbar?
https://www.

AGNTCon + MCPCon: Agentische KI wird erwachsen
Auf einer eigenen Konferenz diskutiert die Community über die Zukunft des Model Context Protocols: Wie wird agentische KI sicher, überwachbar und skalierbar?

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...

Donno what’s worse, the verse itself or DuckDuckGo’s generated explanation of it. @… https://partyon.xyz/@nando161/116925119988965039

back to posting me on signal out of context

The Frey Wille Hundertwasser Street Rivers collection testifies to his commitment to architecture
and is influenced, for example, by the famous Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna.
Hundertwasser was strongly committed to architecture and fought for a more natural and human-friendly construction.
He despised rational, sterile architecture and demanded more space for individual design.
In this context, he campaigned for a "tree obligation" and a "window right&…

Juwelier Binder Ravensburg | Frey Wille - Hundertwasser Street Rivers DIVA Ring | Schmuck und Uhren online kaufen
Frey Wille - Hundertwasser Street Rivers DIVA Ring - Die künstlerische Arbeit ist das Maß aller Dinge bei dieser Hundertwasser Schmuck-Kollektion.Ein Ring der sich unverwechselbar vom Ausdruck und Sti

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

🌍 🛰️ Are you working on Earth Observation research? We want to hear from you.
Building on the Helsinki Declaration, GÉANT and partner networks are running a short survey to understand the researchers' needs in the context of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and other research initiatives on EO around the globe.
🔗 Complete the survey by mid-October 2026:

100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/die-leuchtenden-nachtwolken-sind-weiter-aktiv for some news coverage back then and the wider context.

Am starting a series of blog posts on design and implementation of a AI Harness - based on the one from Fisk AI https://choria.io/fisk-ai
Will cover all the bits from what it is (todays post) to cover the loop, tools, memory, context, session history and more.
First post here

Sensory substitution under passive guidance: Effects on proprioceptive acuity and motor performance https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-026-03290-z

Sensory substitution under passive guidance: Effects on proprioceptive acuity and motor performance - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) offer a unique framework for investigating attention, perception, and sensorimotor interactions. While previous studies have examined how the type of stimuli provided by an SSD and the exploration strategy applied during active manipulation affect perception, proprioception, and motor-exploratory performance, these factors have not been explored in the context of passive guidance through an SSD. In this study, we examined how the type of stimuli (modality-spe…

I've switched to Nova from VSCode as my primary editor on my Mac. When I made the switch about a month ago, I added this function to my .zshrc:
code () {
echo "use Nova instead \`nova\`, or if you really want VSCode, \`vscode\`"
}
Could I have just pointed a code alias at nova? Sure, but how then would this dummy ever learn?
I hit my function today, first time!
Context: My primary way of open a project to work on it is from my terminal now nova…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[7/8]:
- MedRLM: Recursive Multimodal Health Intelligence for Long-Context Clinical Reasoning, Sensor-Guid...
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facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

How Maxx Crosby went from being ‘murdered by own fan base’ to Raiders fan favorite https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/how-maxx-crosby-went-from-being-murdered-by-own-fan-base-to-raiders-fan-favorite-38…

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@miranda_blue/116935608086213327
This is showing one thing that I think should become general principle: Using an LLM for someone else _is rude and bad_. Presenting something untranslated that _they_ can have an LLM translate is better than doing it yourself, and not showing that input — the prompt here is not included and is a key piece of context, and the results are also bad _with no recourse_.
Information has been destroyed. Trust has been broken (or in the case of commerce, failed to be established). Even if the total amount of LLM-use were the same, this is worse than the reader using it.
PROMPTING AN LLM FOR SOMEONE ELSE IS RUDE.

🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

Yes. It is real. He actually posted it.
(Context: Blue Angels, US Navy precision flight team, flew above beachgoers in Florida and jet wash, the kinetic energy of flight, hit the beachgoers. The flyover is in violation of the law, Navy policy and basic understanding of pilot responsibility for anyone older than 5.)
The flyover: https://yout…

🧠 Lazy discovery is the core trick: instead of dumping every tool definition into context on each request, the gateway advertises 3 meta-tools (toolport_status, toolport_search_tools, toolport_call_tool) and the agent searches on demand.
📊 3 servers with 62 tools cost ~24,000 tokens of definitions up front; via meta-tools it drops to ~660. Benchmarked at up to 91% fewer total tokens at equal task success, 97% less tool-definition overhead per request, 99.6% on a 415-tool catalog.

Waiting For The Sky To Empty (2026)
From two nights ago. More context & time lapse:
#SilentSunday

future of scientific publishing my ass
#academicChatter
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce original results, answer new scientific queries and collaborate to generate novel insights.

Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats

‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.

🎧 I enjoyed this episode of 'Instant Genius' about #laziness, how we ascribe it as a quality and the harm that can do. Also, what is laziness in the context of an unrelenting social drive to be 'productive'?
Worth a listen!
https://

Seriously folks, if you are discussing global non-profit organizational policy in the context of Delaware law, you should do ALL of your own comprehension and analysis or SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR CLANKER BULLSHIT!
#SubToot.

This post about API Context Engineering captures a lot of things I have been thinking about API descriptions, pipelines, and task-scoped interfaces "The surface you hand an agent is the surface it will use" #linkTuesday

Editorial: The Human Rights Museum’s Nakba exhibit ignores the important context that I don’t want to hear about it
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/07/editorial-the-human-rights-museums-na…

Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

The Public AI Summit starting Wednesday has something for every educator, from scaffolding AI-aware assignments to learning about agents without accidentally deleting your hard drive. Thursday at 1 EDT I’ll share updated tools to discover your AI environmental footprint.
https://publicaisummit.…

Researchers detail "context bombing", where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-d…

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

⏰ "Remind me in 20m" or "check every 2h" turns into a real cron entry that wakes up the exact same Codex session later and delivers the message as a continuation of the original task.
🐑 HerdR does the hard part: it resolves the pane that currently runs that session ID, so the reminder lands back in the original conversation instead of some fresh context.

Human translators manage good #translation because they comprehend the original text, know its intricacies and can actually creatively write to preserve its gist. Context is more than the surrounding paragraphs: it includes the cultural and social background, other books, etc. Sometimes it literally involves getting hints from the author. And in the end, it is deeply personal. It can't be "accurate", because no two people are the same, and no two languages map 1:1 (though the interpretation will also differ between different users of the same language); the best you can do is add translator's notes.
LLM translators manage good translation because they've been fed tons of human translation work, and quite often they manage to match an original human translation and plagiarize it. They may even seem better because they seem to manage it without sufficient context, but that's only because they've found a human translation that had that context already.
Or, well, technically they can also regurgitate something that makes sense only in the irrelevant original context.
#NoAI #NoLLM

I also saw that uncredited, context-free photo in my timeline.
This entire thread is a good explanation of the many ways that post was bad form:
https://mas.to/@meganL/116888106293249758
Give credit, give context, don’t do inspo porn.

Megan Lynch (she/her) (@meganL@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image When posters link (or credit if they have no valid links), they give us the ability to find context and more info. The missing info here was: The soccer player: Carson Pickett of the Orlando Pride (at the time). The boy: Joseph Tidd, who was 2 years old at the time it was taken. Photographer: Colleen Tidd, the mother of Joseph. https://www.instagram.com/tiddbit_outta_hand/p/ByWi0FMnB4L/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2019/07/23/carson-pickett-one-armed-so…

Cool idea:
"Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by its guardrails, the safety barriers AI developers erect to prevent it from taking harmful actions. The LLM responds by shutting down."

For context: https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji/issues/14 (2022) when MS made their own 3D emojis.

For full context: he posted this in May.

Another beautiful piece on the wall!
Although the text taken out of the context of the Irish West coast, might be misunderstood.
#Ireland #Pagan #Nature

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/math.ST/new
[1/1]:
- Graph Causal Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distances
Jan Ob{\l}\'oj, Vlad Tuchilus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13716 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/117109746090804032
- Detection of Structural Distortions in Functional Time Series
Debanjana Datta, Rituparna Sen, Nalini Ravishanker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13762 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117109778563001128
- A Structural Characterization of Entropy Functionals
Daniel Lazarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13917 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/117109760641851678
- Change Point Detection and Localization in High-Dimensional Time Series
Patrick Bastian, Daria Tieplova, Nina D\"ornemann, Tim Kutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14344 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117109842628849962
- A distance-based theory of lottery complexity
Giulio Principi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14464 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econTH_bot/117109786200544079
- Handover of In-Context Learning State Across Session Boundaries
Masahiro Kato, Taka Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14528 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117109896699069976
toXiv_bot_toot

Just kidding, of course. This is an important discussion, and I’m glad we’re talking about these details.
For context:
@…'s post – https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/

#WordWeavers Sept 13: Share a line of dialogue that sounds innocent without context but absolutely isn’t.
Plenty of conversations in my books are not what they seem, but I will let the readers themselves decide where they want to be, what interpretation they would like to believe.
This is from my upcoming book “Management Apologises for the Inconvenience”.

@… is one of the most thoughtful, understanding, and pleasant designers I've ever had the privilege of working with.
(In fact, I hope I get to work with him again on something.)
If you're looking for detail-oriented, smart design—that only a real human can bring—I fully recommend reaching out to him at Obvious Things.

This is incredibly important.
Computers (writ large) have historically been tools that help humans solve problems which do not intrinsically demand computers but need complex computation (possibly including text transformation!) which humans cannot do as well or as fast.
The fact that we have grown a subculture of people who only really know computers has led to the situation where “computer-people” disregard other issues & the concerns of everyone else.

Looks like NESO are trying to prevent the kind of issue (high solar input causing overvoltage) that led to Spain's grid collapse. In Spain this was in the critical context of nuclear centrales being off-line. In Britain the availability of French interconnector supply is impacted by their nuclear shutting down as cooling water too hot.
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears | Solar power | The Guardian

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue

Euno, whose platform reconstructs data flow, meaning, health, and more across data environments to give agents context, raised a $23M Series A led by N47 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/09/09/conte…

Exclusive: AI context platform Euno raises $23 million
The startup may look to raise again in the next 12 months, its CEO says.

@…
I cannot load the ‘For You’ tab and ‘Following’ tab. It just shows this message.
Additionally hashtags in bios don’t work.
iOS 27 Beta 8

Context: I do public outreach presentations on AI aimed at senior citizens, and yesterday I had an attendee who was blind. I have handouts...and was embarrassed that I didn't have anything for her.)
So I'd like a Braille version of that handout. It's just regular text and very straightforward to do in Braille. (If you know about good transcription/printing services for this, let me know.)
But naturally I'm wondering about math and CS.
How does math notation…

zero context provided
#VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

zero context provided
#VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinciali: As a weapons development context, Ukraine offers unrivaled opportunity.
As an engineer, Giorgio distills the marketing speech into reality, and he shares the math.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and help give the world a glimpse of the reality on the ground in Ukraine:

FirePoint’s “Freya” Meets the Test of Physics: What the FP-7.X
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

If I say 1.3.6.1.4.1 with no context, do you instantly know what I'm talking about?

Don't Forget the Broader Context of the Iranian Memorandum (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/23/dont-forget-the-broader-context-of-the-iranian-memorandum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p86#a260623p86

📊 Results: text context produced 50 successful games at ~9 minutes average. Image context produced only 23 successful games at ~20 minutes average. Damage numbers were comparable or slightly better with images, but the runtime gap was drastic.
💸 Token usage: 306 million tokens for the text runs vs 213 million for the image runs — with roughly half as many completed games.

Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

from my link log —
ARM LDM and STM are Turing complete.
https://kellanclark.github.io/2023/09/18/armfuck/
saved 2023-09-27 https://

Anthropic has been trying to understand how large language models (LLMs) work for a few years now.
Anthropic isn’t the only one looking at this, but I think the company has made it part of its core mission more than most.
Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has said we won’t be able to control LLMs fully unless we learn more about how they work. 
So this new research is very much in that context.
It goes deeper into the weird mechanisms inside LLMs than ever before.

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
The company says it has found a new window into how its models arrive at answers. We spoke with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven about it. 

Analysis: the 2026 Emmy nominations for acting and hosting hit an 11-year low with only 22 performers of color recognized, down 21% from the nominees in 2025 (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/2026-emmy-nominations-…

2026 Emmys On-Screen Diversity Hits Eleven-Year Low
A closer look at diversity among the 2026 Emmy nominees, with historical context and comparisons to recent years shows that they hit an 11 year low.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27 (Kimi)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3

For context, this is the inference provider I use; they serve Chinese models, right now primarily DeepSeek's latest releases. They retain no session transcripts, and are based in Europe (though their inference clusters are not all in Europe.)
Also notably they don't host any image or video generation models, and they are focused on coding. These models can do stuff like write fiction, but they're not actually that good at it. Software is where the money is.
This is still an energy-intensive business, but _look at those efficiencies_. There are orders of magnitude differences between providers and eras of this stuff.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Come to #D3A @ Nyborg on Oct 8 - We are organizing the workshop Data Science of Human-centric Mobility! https://d3aconference.dk/data-science-of-human-centric-mobility/
Sh…

Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996310/googl

Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
Google’s new Model Context Protocol integration lets AI agents like Claude and OpenClaw control your Google Home devices and data.

No context, but I find the sheer number of sexualised monkey loops on GIPHY a little concerning.

Resume 📃 #i18nFails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/resume

Resume 📃 | i18n fails
Another classic lost context.

I keep being reminded that highlighting and saving highlights from a non-fiction book does not really work.
When I highlight, I do it with the current context in mind.
When I extract the highlights, their context is gone and those quotes rarely make sense independently.
Who has a system they trust, works for them,
and are willing to share it?

Talking in a room with no name. https://wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mpnir2rvec2j

Talking in a room with no name. - We Can Just Do Things
"Bluesky" can mean at least four different things depending on the context. What do we mean exactly?

If you have a dialog on your page / screen and are trying to figure out whether it should close when a user clicks / taps outside (or hits Esc), I tried for some guidance:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/08/should-a-dialog-close-when-clicked-outside.html

Should a Dialog Close When Clicked Outside?
Maybe not, but I’ll break these down into three categories because it depends on context and intent. Pretend this post also applies for pressing Esc. Action Required If the user must complete a task that is presented by the dialog, then they should not be able to close it without…

Psychedelics align brain activity with context https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10910-z Under psilocybin, "the separation between internal models and sensory context on which predictive processing depends" dissolves.
Brain-wide reconfiguration of burst firin…

Psychedelics align brain activity with context - Nature
The psychedelic psilocybin reorganizes brain activity into structured, context-aligned patterns that integrate internal and external processing, providing a neural basis for the felt continuity between self and world, elucidating how the psychedelic state translates into psychological change.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116886490678196828
For context read https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/clacton-byelection-likely-to-be-two-man-race-between-reform-leader-and-binface and watch https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3mq5eojano22o

Claude Code changed how it handles responses from sub agents now - discards the response after a few turns to keep context clear.
Using this and one of those "grill me" skills i went from nothing to a 21 plan implementation over 12 000 lines of code from initial discovery to feature built in a single context filled to 70%. Do all research, implementation etc in sub agents and the orchestrator uses super little context throughout.
Really cool

Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/

Introducing Muse Image and Muse Video
Muse Image follows instructions faithfully, edits with precision, composes from multiple references, and draws on Instagram for social context. Muse Video delivers exceptional visual fidelity with native audio support.

📦 Ships 68 specialized agents, 291 skills and 94 commands covering planning, build repair, code review, security, architecture, docs, frontend, data and ML work
🧪 #TDD becomes a gated RED − GREEN − REFACTOR flow with evidence, and a fresh-context reviewer checks the changes instead of the same context grading its own code

On biotech and neurotech in China, Q3 2026 https://milan.cvitkovic.net/china_notes_q3_2026/

Notes from China, Q3 2026
Context: I recently spent 2.5 weeks in China visiting universities, research institutes, clinical sites, companies of all sizes, and investors. Most meetings focused on biotech, neurotech, and AI. Conventional wisdom my trip corroborated US cities feel medieval compared to Chinese cities. I was expecting the cleaner, safer, greener cities with better trains, EVs, consumer electronics, etc. But I was surprised that Chinese cities didn’t feel bleak. I thought that would be the required tradeoff…

Ran into yet another case where doing things the new/currently blessed Apple Way fails because their new way doesn't actually have everything needed that the old way provided.
Tonight it's that I had to use XCTest instead of Swift Testing because I need the context to assert a macro expansion diagnostic. (…or maybe I’m just missing something…?)
But this applies elsewhere, too—especially with SwiftUI.
I know it can be hard, but I wish they'd provide complete solu…

“Should a Dialog Close When Clicked Outside?”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/08/should-a-dialog-close-when-clicked-outside.html
This post is not exactly a shrug emoji (because I offer reasoning), but really, it’s probably not as clear-cut as …

Should a Dialog Close When Clicked Outside?
Maybe not, but I’ll break these down into three categories because it depends on context and intent. Pretend this post also applies for pressing Esc. Action Required If the user must complete a task that is presented by the dialog, then they should not be able to close it without…

OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/openai-chatgpt-computer-history/

ChatGPT can now remember what you did on your Mac — without screenshots
OpenAI’s opt-in Computer History captures a local timeline of Mac activity so ChatGPT Work can recover context across selected apps and sites.

The court of appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a block by a lower court judge
that prevents the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from sharing tax return information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The court also noted that IRS’ argument against the preliminary injunction
– namely that it “impedes and delays federal law enforcement by improperly restricting the information that ICE is entitled to receive”
– is actually a problem th…

Appeals court slams Trump's 'weak sauce' argument for sharing tax returns with ICE, says take 'gripe' up with Congress
The 32-page opinion references "the Watergate scandal" in its very first line — offering context for what the appeals court terms "executive branch abuses of...

🖼️ Can images replace text as LLM context? A #DeepSeek paper claims one image token carries ~10 text tokens of information at close to 100% accuracy, with 59-70% cost reduction reported by PixelPipe. ThePrimeagen put it to the test. #AI

Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen)
https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304

Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) on X
We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M

🧩 Bonus: container attribute injection with #[Context('trace_id')], conditional when()/unless(), exception reporting that carries context, and survival across the scheduler subprocess via __LARAVEL_CONTEXT.
✅ Use it for trace IDs, tenants, route names, user IDs, locale. Not for required business inputs, secrets, or large payloads. If the code can't run without it, pass it explicitly.
🌐

Skan AI, which is building a "context graph of work" by observing staff using enterprise software, raised a $63M Series C co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data/sk…

🧠 The reasoning: text tokens are discrete, drawn from a fixed vocabulary of ~50,000 entries, each mapping to a fixed point in embedding space.
Image tokens are continuous vectors of a thousand floating point numbers, so they can pack far more information into the same space.
🎮 The test: a tower-defense game where the AI plays in JSON mode without graphics, run for hours with two context variants — the same game state as a plain text string, and as an image rendered via PixelPipe.…

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

⚡ Conversation and background tasks run in parallel: ask for progress or cancel a running job mid-sentence, and results flow back into the active context
🔌 Connects to existing agents with their own models, tools, MCP servers and skills: OpenCode, OpenClaw, Qoder, Hermes, CodeBuddy and Codex, plus a generic ACP stdio entry point

SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/01/scifin-launches-with-44m-…

SciFin launches with $44M to help revenue teams close the ‘context gap’ - SiliconANGLE
SciFin launches with $44M to help revenue teams close the ‘context gap’ - SiliconANGLE

Reading Douglas Adams when I was 12 meant my tiny little mind got to learn all sorts of words and terms that were exciting but not too complex.
I had to rely on context clues and a physical dictionary. Or just, you know, keep reading.
My own writing is even more obtuse.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog…

🔍 Everything about Laravel's Context facade
Laravel's #Context facade is a framework-level place to store execution metadata during a request, command, or queued job — and attach it to your logs automatically. No more passing the same arrays through every method call.
🧠 Mental model: a per-execution key-value repository. Add data once (a trace_id), and any log later in the…

OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/ai-openai-gpt-release

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work tool
The leading players in AI are all speeding forward at breakneck speed.

🕵️ Hidden context travels with execution but never appears in logs. Laravel uses it for unique queued jobs to store cache store and lock keys, releasing locks even when a model fails to unserialize.
🔒 Scoped context via Context::scope() adds metadata only for a block, restoring previous state afterward — even on exceptions. Prefer scalars and IDs; mutated objects can leak.

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (Skild AI)
https://www.skild.ai/blogs/s1

Introducing S1: In-Context Learning for Robotics
S1 is our flagship robotic foundation model, built from the ground up as an in-context learner: show it a single video demonstration of a task, seen or unseen, short or long-horizon, and it executes with no fine-tuning or post-training.

🧠 Hooks enforce deterministic checks outside the prompt, sessions are distilled into summaries and confidence-scored instincts, and a Memory Vault shares Markdown context across harnesses
🛡️ #AgentShield scans prompts, hooks, #MCP configs, permissions, secrets and agent files, treating t…

Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding (Tae Kim/Key Context)
https://taekim.substack.com/p/gpt-6-astra-and-the-fourth-exponential

GPT-6 Astra and the Fourth Exponential
AI computer tool use is a big deal.

🔧 Three pieces mirror the Python RLM design: a system prompt, a $CONTEXT file plus bash as the REPL, and the native rlm_query sub-call. Depth 0 and 1 get full tools; the leaf at max depth runs bash only. jj workspaces isolate child edits when available.
🛡️ Five guardrails guarantee termination: dollar budget, wall-clock timeout, call limit, depth limit and PATH scrubbing. Deeper agents are told to be more conservative, preferring direct action over spawning more children.

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-tag-agentic-ai-coworker-slack/…

Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
Claude Tag could turn your Slack channels into shared spaces where an agentic coworker reads the room, joins threads, remembers context, and moves team tasks forward. Is your workplace ready?

🚚 The real power: crossing the queue boundary. Context dehydrates into the job payload under illuminate:log:context, then hydrates back on JobProcessing — so an async job's logs carry the original trace_id and order_id.
🪝 Hooks dehydrating()/hydrated() restore values like locale across the queue. Modify the Repository passed to the callback, not the facade.

Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (Rohail Saleem/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/a-my…

A Mysterious AI Lab Is Offering 100 Trillion Free Tokens/Day For Its Ox Alpha Model, As Evidence Points To Zhipu’s Unreleased GLM
Ox Alpha's 1-million-token context window and video inputs hint at a heavily upgraded GLM-class model that's undergoing live testing.

🐢 #Atuin replaces your shell history with a #SQLite database & records rich context for every command — exit code, duration, working directory, hostname & session.
Hit ctrl-r for a full-screen, fuzzy-searchable history UI.