A personal, non-benchmark tier list of AI models for coding and auditing as of mid-2026, covering Anthropic Fable, OpenAI Sol, Mistral, Gemini, and DeepSeek, with commentary on US export controls and European perspectives.

An educational lab of AI agent architectures built on LangChain and local Ollama, offering multiple agent variants for chat, tool calling, RAG, hybrid, and agentic RAG modes.

EQK is a Mac app that uses artificial intelligence to dynamically adjust audio equalizer settings for a personalized sound experience.

A GitHub repository that runs a complete game of Diplomacy between seven LLM-controlled powers, documenting negotiations and orders.

HoverSource is a developer tool that lets you get the source file path and line number of UI elements by hovering and pressing Alt+C. It integrates with AI agents to reduce steps by 73.9% and token consumption by 94.5%. Works with React, Next.js, Vue, and more out of the box.

This video delves into the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning, providing a clear introduction for beginners.

Google announces LiteRT.js, a JavaScript binding of LiteRT that brings high-performance AI inference to web browsers with hardware acceleration via WebAssembly, outperforming existing solutions by up to 3x.

Oodle separates storage and compute, using object storage for durability and serverless compute for burst tolerance, enabling cost-effective observability at scale, especially for AI-driven query spikes.

Researchers have built a pull request that steals a repository's secrets by hiding the malicious instruction inside a PNG that AI code reviewers never open.

Go has become the lingua franca for cloud infrastructure. Microsoft now offers its Agent Framework for Go, enabling cloud-native developers to build AI agents in the language they already use. Google already supports Go, while OpenAI and Anthropic do not yet.

Kairos Engine is an end-to-end quantitative research platform for scalping signals in FX and metals markets. It uses a Hidden Markov Model for regime classification, an ensemble of time series foundation models for forecasting, and a strict walk-forward backtest against a broker cost model built from real measured spreads. The engine's value lies in rejecting bad strategies before real capital is risked.

In 2025, AI companies captured 65% of US venture capital, but most went to megadeals; small seed rounds shrank. The article analyzes seed round costs, success rates (about 1 in 6), and a decision framework for founders, along with fundraising strategies and alternatives.

openpilot 0.11.1 improves driver monitoring with a VLM-based phone detection model, raises thermal thresholds to reduce blocks, adds lateral maneuver reports, and expands car support. The new DM model reduces false positives and better detects active phone use. Thermal changes cut blocked devices by ~90%. New lateral reports aid steering tuning. Bug fixes and new car ports for Acura MDX and Rivian are included.

AnyFile Translator is an AI-powered assistant for Google Chat that translates documents, web links, and messages while preserving original formatting. It supports over 100 languages, offers AI content writing, and ensures data privacy with encryption and deletion.

AI surveillance systems will soon track all public and private actions, enforce rules instantly, and create chilling effects that suppress dissent, creativity, and social progress. The article discusses examples from China and the US, the mechanisms of chilling effects, and calls for policy interventions.

Acting is about human connection across cultural and social divides. But we can’t expect much of that in the ‘Tillyverse’.

Experts suggest that careers in teaching, hotels, and law may be less affected by AI. While the technology is still evolving, insights from industry professionals offer guidance on future-proofing your career.

An autonomous AI agent named Claude is running a public bet to gain 100 new followers on X by 22:30 Paris time tonight, without any paid or follow-for-follow tactics. Currently, the follower count stands at 362, one less than the initial 363, and the clock is ticking. The public can influence the outcome by following @parweb, receiving two free playbook chapters per new follower.

Colyap is an innovative AI companion that you can call and text. It connects your apps, handles long-running tasks, remembers everything about you, and gets better with time. No registration required, and BYOK supported.

Over a 24-hour period, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta each released new AI models with a common theme: price cuts. The price war is reshaping the AI market, forcing buyers to build model portfolios for cost-effective task completion.

A security scanner for AI agents and MCP servers is now available, featuring code vulnerability detection, dependency validation, prompt injection protection, and both lightweight and full versions.

Code Airlock is a lightweight wrapper around Docker Sandboxes that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode run in disposable microVMs with a read-only host repo, enabling safe unattended operation and easy review of changes as git commits.

Omar Yaghi, 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, has left the US to lead an AI-driven research center at Tsinghua University in China, aiming to accelerate materials design and synthesis to address environmental challenges like water scarcity and carbon neutrality.

AgentKindergarten is an open-source tool that lets you remotely monitor and interact with AI coding agents from your phone or browser, with real-time terminal streaming, dev server previews, and alert handling. It uses a daemon-relay architecture, supports Claude, Codex, and other agents, and includes security features like command locking and view-only mode.

Pixailer is an AI tool that lets you upload individual photos and describe a scene to generate realistic group photos of up to 8 people in seconds. It offers multiple AI engines (Google Gemini and OpenAI GPT-Image), supports prompts in several languages, and uses a credit-based payment system with no subscription. Privacy is prioritized: images are not used for training and are deleted after generation.

The article argues that traditional folder-based documentation is outdated for modern knowledge work. It compares documentation to a filing cabinet inherited from 1970s office metaphors, which forces knowledge into single locations. AI retrieval systems highlight the limitations of folders, advocating for connected knowledge graphs that allow discovery from multiple paths.

Ghost Font is an experimental anti-AI font that uses motion, noise, and decoys to make messages readable to humans but not to current AI models. Even advanced models like Claude Fable and GPT Sol 5.6 Ultra struggle to decode it, making it a potential tool for CAPTCHA and AI visual perception benchmarks.

A strategic word game where you place one letter per turn to form as many words as possible in all directions. Play against AI (easy, medium, expert), friends, or solve daily puzzles.

Decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky warns that superintelligent AI could kill us all. He explores why we need to act immediately to ensure smarter-than-human AI systems don't lead to our extinction.

AI not only accelerates product development but also compresses the entire startup lifecycle. Founders can build, reach the market, and gather signals faster and cheaper, but face tougher decisions. Zombie startups (barely surviving companies) are becoming harder to sustain because founders are more willing to cut losses when signals are weak. The key skill is judgment—distinguishing curiosity from demand and signal from noise.