Tootfinder

Important development in AI, "Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI"
https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-small-models-are-closing-the-gap-to-frontier-ai/

Chart of the Day: Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI
A quiet story in AI isn't that large models keep getting better, it's that small ones are catching up quickly. In 2022, reaching 60% on MMLU, a test of academic reasoning, required a 540-billion-parameter model. By 2024, a 3.8-billion-parameter model hit the same threshold — a 142-fold parameter reduction in

AI Music Generator loses copyright battle: #AI

AI music generator Suno loses copyright infringement legal case
AI music generator Suno has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit to German licensing agency GEMA.

Via Mylee Joseph
‪@mylee.bsky.social€
5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about #AI products #libraries

5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about AI | American Libraries Magazine
We must measure emerging AI platforms against our library’s tried-and-true resources to gauge which ones truly add value.

'...the payment processing giant announced a massive acquisition of BioCatch, an Israeli AI fraud detection company, in a $2.4 billion cash deal. A joint news release on Monday said the company uses biometric data, like key strokes and touch gestures, to detect fraud in “real time.”'
So the plan is to use AI to see if "key strokes and touch gestures" are genuine? It strikes me that #AI

'...the payment processing giant announced a massive acquisition of BioCatch, an Israeli AI fraud detection company, in a $2.4 billion cash deal. A joint news release on Monday said the company uses biometric data, like key strokes and touch gestures, to detect fraud in “real time.”'
So the plan is to use AI to see if "key strokes and touch gestures" are genuine? It strikes me that #AI

"Canadian MPs and senators have joined a campaign that started in the U.K. to prevent the development of superintelligent AI, warning that it poses an extinction risk on a par with nuclear war.
The ControlAI campaign group is warning that superintelligent AI systems that can operate autonomously could compromise national security, escape human oversight and potentially pose an existential threat to humanity."

Fascinerend en grootschalig onderzoek, over AI als expert in contractrecht, roept veel vragen op over hoe we AI gaan integreren in het onderwijs. #AI #onderwijs #juridisch

"The biggest problem is AI wiping out human existence."
"What about AI-controlled lasers for killing insects in every house?"
#ai #agi #aiethics

Classic Internet:
#AI #LLM

GitHub - dtnewman/burn-baby-burn: Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀
Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀. Contribute to dtnewman/burn-baby-burn development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am on the fence if using #LLM or other #AI services is a good thing or not. What does fedi think?

Plugin 'GitHub Copilot - Your AI Pair Programmer' might be slowing things down
Really? Some people say otherwise. #AI

The A.I. Revolt Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show
#ai

RE: #AI

AI Promo Rap Style Video - AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability -

AI Promo Rap Style Video
AI-generated PR video clips, rap and 60s TV flavour. #AI #carbon #sustainability

This should be a warning to any company wanting to put #AI into their customer service.
We’ve had social engineering where humans have been duped, but a human can at least think critically.

Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It’s only by working with them that I understood their value. Decoupling the client and the server unlocks a lot of options: moving authentication to the API Gateway, securing APIs, deduplicating API requests, etc.
In this post, I want to describe how the same pattern applies to #AI.

Just realized that the fact that newer large language models keep getting bigger in terms of parameters is kind of a tell about how they work, even as it's also kind of a requirement from the investment standpoint.
Very roughly, models develop complex functional internal state about some sub-domains, and merely memorize many examples in others. In reality it's more complicated than this and even in this simplified metaphor it's a mix between memorization and "real" "understanding" in each domain. But the point is that if companies were really working towards AGI, they'd be feeding more data into models with *fewer* parameters (that's how you force a model not to memorize) instead of building bigger and bigger models (expands the illusion of competence through increased capacity to memorize).
But being the only ones with the hardware to train an even-bigger model is one of their few competitive advantages, and signing new deals for even more hardware is one of the only ways they can signal to investors that they'll retain their advantage and thus not be destroyed by a food of competitors. That's also how they can convince the hardware dealers like NVidia to continue with circular investments. So they have to run in that direction, regardless of the scientific merits.
This is why someone like LeCun would leave that side of things.
#LLMs #AI

This will distract consciousness researchers from working on human suffering? Denying qualia are real isn't helpful either https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sophisticated-ai-suffering The more sophisticated

The popularity of chinese models can be illustrated by the top 10 of models used in the OpenRouter market place. Interesting to see the increase in GPT-5.6 use.
#AI

I didn't ask for it but work just gave me a premium M365 Copilot license. Not sure how to take advantage of it besides helping me find stuff in various engineering codes and standards documents. Any fun suggestions that probably won't get me in trouble? #AI #Copilot

@… it's remarkable that the majority of respondents would assume AI without the depth of thought that you suggest.
I suspect that #AI as a phrase, or hashtag, is a trigger that can cause people to cease critical thinking.

"Google reports 18% rise in total emissions amidst AI expansion"
#Google #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Google reports 18% rise in total emissions amidst AI expansion
Google has published its annual environmental report, unveiling that its absolute emissions across all scopes rose by 18% last year as it continued to expand the deployment of energy-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Remember, do not blindly trust AI. Yeah, it can get you most of the way there but it can flat out tell you the wrong thing. Its not the authoritative answer to everything - remember that. #AI

Is AI Profitable Yet?
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026).
📉 #aislop

RE: https://toot.cafe/@alastc/116686148429429285
So it turns out that making a site more accessible for humans with disabilities is ALSO good for AI agents! 👍 Perhaps the hype around agentic

Hey ai come train on this song
#AI #GreatSongsToTrainAI…

What’s the difference between an API and an agent?
An API is consistent, deterministic, and scoped.
An agent is probabilistic, non-deterministic, and occasionally chaotic.
An agent adds some spice to your life.
Will you choose the boring, predictable life or the cool, chaotic one?
#ai #ia

Lots of people to like and dislike in this video! lol.
#ai

It's been a while since I used #Ubuntu. Glad I'm not anymore, otherwise I'd have to search for a new distro now... #aislop
https://

You: “ #AI isn’t going anywhere. You need to adapt.”
Me: “I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart….”

Interesting blog from Anthropic about RSI, AI & coding, ofcourse from their perspective but worth reading,
#ai

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

The horror scenario: #AI as a kind of cyberkudzu, choking out everything else.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations
Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent

Who owns the code that Claude wrote?
#AI

Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?
AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.

Inside the Meltdown of a Wunderkind’s A.I. Hedge Fund Situational Awareness, led by a 24-year-old, exploded onto the artificial intelligence scene — and then nose-dived.
Leopold #Aschenbrenner lost 35$billion big ones.
oooopppps!
#AI

Anyone looking for big numbers? Here you will find plenty of them!
#AI #AISpending
https://isaiprofitable.com/

⚙️ #Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for data, #AI and infrastructure workflows, unifying scheduled and event-driven automation behind a declarative, language-agnostic interface #opensource

US Law Enforcement Warns of #AntiTechExtremism as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing #AI and #dataCenters in their back yards, the feds are raising the…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Måske er der stadigvæk håb. #AI #KI #DKTech

Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den… | Timme Bisgaard Munk | 50 comments
Det slidsomt underkendte relationelle arbejde er fremtidens jobboom. For begge køn. Nu skal æres, hvad æres bør. Det er økonomi, slet og ret. Når AI driver prisen på viden mod nul, stiger den relative værdi af ægte menneskelig kontakt og menneskelig tid. Det næste arbejdsmarked bliver derfor ikke et marked med færre jobs. Det bliver et marked med flere, bedre betalte jobs med relationelt, emotionelt indhold. Det er en teknologisk revolution med et kvindeligt ansigt og bias. I årtier…

AI and productivity – Michael Roberts Blog
#ai

AI and productivity
Alphabet (Google) announced its earnings results yesterday.  At first sight, the results were spectacular: revenue was up 24%, with revenue from its ‘cloud’ business up 82%.  Earnings per share wer…

Ah, people are finally doing the financial math on the #AI boom. About bloody time.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116648209688298468

[OT] WSJ: The world's top economists are sounding the alarm on #AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-worlds-top-economists-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-d99055b6

Ich arbeite zukünftig nicht mit #AI, sondern wie AI: ich bin scheißfreundlich und antworte auf alle Anfragen einfach aus dem Bauch raus, wenn ich was nicht weiß, erfind ich's, und ob die Antwort zur Frage paßt oder hilfreich ist, ist mir auch egal. Vor allem aber, und das ist das wichtigste: Egal, was ich als Ergebnis produziere: ich kann nicht dafür zur Verantwortung gezogen werden.

Not that I share all of @… 's rosy post bubble projections, but his #AI book sure is a breath of fresh sense, and a good antidote to the LLM mania echo chamber.

Ich überlege, ob ich Menschen die irgendwelche "lustigen" #AI Bilder posten sofort blocke. Mich nervt das wirklich. Social-Media war ohne diesen Scheiß oft schon schwer konsumierbar.

So... y'think moving to an AI token consumption-based billing system will be *smarter* than an unlimited, flat-rate subscription because "we can totally cap our usage," hmm?
#ai #tokenomics

Bernie Sanders is introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America and create an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund.
This is the way. This is the first real solution I have heard to the theft of the entire worlds IP among other things.
Its amazing to hear something so rational and radical from a politician.
#AISovereignWealthFund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN4b4UCWMKI

Seems like a pretty good update from Tidal. AI music is getting out of hand on that platform. We'll see if they have it in them to get this done.
#music #tidal #ai

"The AI boom has a dirty energy problem"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

The AI boom has a dirty energy problem
Soaring electricity demand from data centers may lead U.S. utilities to invest more in coal and gas plants.

How I Switched #AI Models Without Changing a Single Line of Code
#AIGateway

The #AI financing truly is an art form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXlcMbxzz0U

"Announcing #AI for #Libraries – a weekly #newsletter"

How to make every bot happy!
#AI #SEO #Google

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

#AI
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/

[OT] WSJ: The World's top economists are sounding the alarm on #AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-worlds-top-economists-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-d99055b6

Good article about quantized models, "The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship".
#AI

The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—with under-appreciated ramifications for AI safety, writes Emilio Ferrara.

Another brilliant and timely conversation between Jon Stewart and @… about #AI, #US #Economics

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Ai Yamamoto & Ai Yamamoto:
🎵 Autumn
#AiYamamoto
https://open.spotify.com/track/3j6ioswiTQoDnw0kaSnR2d

#SMBC on human advancements using #ai technology:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crank 😜

If #AI is being democratized, then where can the people vote against building data centers?

When #OpenAI executives are trying to convince you they are solvent. #AI

Let's talk about #AI #slop
https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai

When these little dots start showing up in your dreams, you know you’ve had too much #AI for one day 😓 😴

Zoveel vragen en verzuchtingen bij dit bericht...
#AI

Van Mistral naar Microsoft: Copilot blijft voorlopig pilot bij UWV
Het gaat om een tijdelijke en beperkte pilot, benadrukt minister Vijlbrief in antwoord op vragen van D66. ‘Die past binnen de rijksbrede kaders voor verantwoord gebruik van generatieve AI met de kanttekening dat er geen open of Europees AI-model voorhanden is.’

Even becoming a terrorist has gotten easier with #AI 🙄😡
Feds Begin Targeting ‘Anti-Technology Extremists’ Which Is Going To Make Everything So Much Worse https://www.

When reading headlines that include “Gen AI” I am always tempted to read this as “generation AI” and it very often fits or even improves the text ;-)
#AI

Who would expect anything else?
#Enshittification #Google #AI

AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine. Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster.
#AI

AI Learns the “Dark Art” of RFIC Design
Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster

The AI investment race
#ai #bubble

The AI investment race
The AI build-out ranks among the largest technology-driven investment booms in US history. Its scale, reliance on debt and circular equity ties raise questions about the boom's sustainability and financial stability. We study a dynamic contest in which firms competing for a few dominant positions over-commit resources. The over-investment leaves the sector exposed to revenue disappointment that could turn boom into bust. The larger the boom, the deeper the eventual bust. The race to commit earl…

the solution might be cancelling my #AI subscription
https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

JFC. Y'know, this may blow your mind but did you know that we can tell when your lazy ass relies on AI to try to solve customer problems?
Hell, most of the time, we can tell what AI model you're using, what subscription you've got & what time of day you used it. 😡
#humor #ai…

Schrödinger's answer.
(By the way, I'm curious about the correct answer.)
#grammar #ai #aifail

AI and being "left behind"
#ai

AI and being "left behind"
A century-old company adopts AI. We don't have to.

Interesting blog about AI and GDP.
#AI

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

"Letters sent to Nancy Guthrie’s family after she disappeared are released
The sheriff’s department said it was making the notes public in the hope that someone will recognize the writer’s language and style to help generate new leads."
what if those letters were written by #AI

Just wrote yet another piece on LLMs that has been kicking around in my head for a while: "What kinds of conversations can you have with a parrot?"
#AI #LLMs

Al wat ouder (2024) maar fijn paper over AI & Software engineering/coding. Zowel voor "believers" als totale sceptici 🙂
"tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764

tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE
Social media provide a steady diet of dire warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) will make software engineering (SE) irrelevant or obsolete. To the contrary, the engineering discipline of software is rich and robust; it encompasses the full scope of software design, development, deployment, and practical use; and it has regularly assimilated radical new offerings from AI. Current AI innovations such as machine learning, large language models (LLMs) and generative AI will offer new opportun…

"AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plants

[OT] Net benefit of #AI and the trillions of dollars being invested in it? Woke?
ECB's Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance https://thene…

🤖 Thought the hardest part of orchestrating 20 parallel #AI #agents would be keeping track of them all. Turns out the real boss fight is my machine’s #RAM screaming for mercy 💀 Especially with too many

#AI's #Affordability Crisis
https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.ht…

Dear generative AI enthusiasts,
Look, I know the tokens you're burning right now don't actually use *that*much energy (even though it's somewhat substantial already and disastrous when we take into account the quality of the crap it's being used for) but what's more important is the appearance (or not) of that token spend on the quarterly earnings report of OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. lays the foundation necessary for those companies to go ahead with their plans for datacenters on a truly ridiculous scale, and those datacenters, if built, ate indeed a climate nightmare which *my kids* will have to live through even if they never benefit from any of it at all. That's (one of many reasons) why I personally need you to stop using generative AI right now.
The fact that the output is crap, the way it erodes your intelligence, and the ways in which it plagiarizes and actively undermines good citation practices are among many other practical reasons not to use it, but what's personal to me is the way that your frivolous sloperation is making the future worse for the baby I'm feeding blueberries to as I type this, and half the time I interact with people like you the conversation begins with some form of "putting aside the ethical issues..."
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health #AI applications: not ready for prime time https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04501-8 "considerable gaps between…

Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications - Nature Medicine
Adversarial evaluation of leading AI models uncovers gaps between benchmark success and robustness, highlighting limitations in current health AI benchmarks and their ability to capture clinically relevant performance.

"Data centre boom drove Amazon’s emissions up 16% in 2025"
#Amazon #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Data centre boom drove Amazon’s emissions up 16% in 2025
According to its latest sustainability report, Amazon's absolute emissions across all scopes rose 16% in 2025, following a 6% increase the year before. The rise was largely driven by building and data centre construction.

Goed artikel van de NOS, de hype een beetje uit dit nieuws halen,
https://nos.nl/artikel/2624086-openai-hackt-ander-ai-bedrijf-maar-van-op-hol-geslagen-ai-is-geen-sprake

OpenAI hackt ander AI-bedrijf, maar van 'op hol geslagen AI' is geen sprake
OpenAI heeft per ongeluk een ander AI-bedrijf gehackt. De AI-programma's van het bedrijf waren zo afgesteld dat ze veel vrijheid hadden om hun doel te bereiken.

Still more reasons the AI boosters are full of as much shit as the AI itself.
#Sexism

Jen Horsburgh (@jenatlionra) on Threads
I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women. I changed a single variable: My name. Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff." I fed Gemini, Google's AI tool, my old resume, my current info, case studies, and the kinds of roles I wanted, and asked it to write me a new resume. Simple. Except it wasn’t. The first thing I noticed was the softening.

I am not a mathematician (not even close) but I found this to be a fascinating article.
#ai

The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it

Goed om op intranet te lezen dat Chatbot vlam-chat live is als dienst per 1 juli binnen de Rijksoverheid.
Vlam-chat is een lokaal gehoste AI-chatassistent ontwikkeld door SSC-ICT voor de Rijksoverheid. Vlam-chat maakt gebruik van het taalmodel Mistral Medium 3 en is gebouwd met opensource-software.
#AI #Rijksoverheid

The new Luddite movement.
#AI

#AI Coding Tip 026 - Assign a #Persona to Every #Skill Definition

Interesting blog about the economics of inference, GPU's , tokens etc. In this case for Kimi K3.
#AI

How Profitable is LLM Inference? Doing the Math on Kimi K3
A look at LLM inference economics (batch size, GPU count, and the Pareto frontier that sets token prices) applied to Kimi K3 with back-of-the-envelope math.

Dit scenario over AI en Europa in 2031 krijgt nog te weinig aandacht, het lezen of luisteren waard,
#ai #eu

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

Ofcourse AI is a big financial bubble, everybody knows it, question is how will it pop or less dramatic, what will the consolidation look like... On a sidenote, it will not make AI go away, it will just change.
#ai #bubble

Very good blog for people like me, enthusiastic about the potential of AI. You have to take a cold shower now and then 🤔
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Use of AI on the battlefield,
#AI #dronedefense

Ukraine Fields AI Turrets That Can Destroy UAVs With a Single Button Press
Ukraine's new turret uses AI to autonomously detect, track, and calculate of incoming drones.

"AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn"
#AI

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

Some people are getting too dogmatic about AI use in coding, just as i can use (even before AI) grammar and syntax checking in texts, why would people not be allowed to use AI for improving code they have written. Coding/programming has always been supported by tools? 🤔
#AI #LLM

A well-crafted scenario, where scenarios don't have to be exactly accurate but make you think and this one certainly does.
#ai

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

Nice paper about why LLMs can never be fully protected against prompt injection.
#LLM #AI

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.

So organisations/companies realize that the topmodels are way too expensive for 80-90% of the things they want to use AI for. So they will move to cheaper models/versions, opensource models, on premis etc. At the same time OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI need more revenue to cover their outrageous costs/investments. How will they solve this? Just with big defense/government contracts?
#AI

Veel mensen denken dat met het klappen van de zogenaamde "AI bubble" , AI zelf ook minder belangrijk zal worden, dat verwacht ik echter niet, wel grote financiële en economische schade, maar AI gebruik zal alleen maar toenemen.
#AI #bubble