Meta may have found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.

For those doing heavy AI programming or running local models on mobile hardware: Is the current generation of iPhone Pro or Samsung Galaxy Ultra actually making a difference in your workflow, or is it mostly a gimmick right now? submitted by /u/Spirited_Good9789 [link] [留言]

Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved for Apple’s Messages for Business platform.

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Yesterday I was looking at the caniuse page for invokers and had something like 83% coverage...I thought: I wonder what other feature has the same coverage and maybe I'm already using it. So I built it: https://ifyouuse.com submitted by /u/pablopang [link] [留言]

Canada's "AI for All" plan prioritizes strengthening data protections and increasing AI adoption.

Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.

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Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. Star Us to help devs discover the project. Do give it a try and share your feedback for improving the product. What if you could change how an AI thinks without retraining it? Not by rewriting prompts. Not by fine-tuning billions of parameters. Not by collecting another mountain of training data. Instead, imagine finding a direction inside the model's internal representation space and nudging the model a little in that direction. A small push. A different behavior. This idea sits at the heart of one of the most fascinating areas of modern AI interpretability: steering vectors . Steering vectors suggest that many behaviors we care about—careful reasoning, honesty, coding style, security awareness, verbosity, and more—may already exist inside a model. The challenge is learning how to activate them. Let's explore what steering vectors are, how they're created, and why they might become one of the most practical tools for controlling AI systems. 1. What Exactly Is a Steering Vector? Large language models process information through layers of high-dimensional activations. At any point during generation, the model's internal state can be represented as a vector containing thousands of numbers. Researchers discovered something surprising: Different behaviors often correspond to different regions of this activation space. For example: Writing Python code Solving math problems Speaking French Explaining concepts carefully Producing insecure code Each tends to produce distinctive activation patterns. A steering vector is essentially the difference between two activation patterns. Suppose we gather examples where the model is: Careful Methodical Thorough and compare them to examples where it is: Rushed Superficial Incomplete The average difference between these internal states becomes a steering vector. At inference time, we can add that vector back into the model's activatio

Believe it or not, this is not the first robotaxi-assisted theft.

Voltage lies. Put a battery under load and its terminal voltage sags. Let it rest and the voltage springs back. A naive fuel gauge watching only voltage will happily tell you a worn-out cell is "fine" right up until it falls off a cliff. The number you actually care about — is this battery still good, or is it time to replace it? — isn't in the instantaneous voltage at all. It's in the capacity : how much charge the cell can still deliver between full and empty. That quantity fades as a cell ages. Tracking it is called State of Health (SoH) , and it's the difference between "the device says 80%" and "the device has 80% of the runtime it had when it was new." I wanted my open-source battery SDK ( ibattery-sdk , Apache-2.0) to learn SoH on the device itself — no cloud model, no floating-point, on MCUs with kilobytes of RAM. This post is the story of getting that working end to end: from a coulomb integral in firmware to a faded value showing up live on a Grafana dashboard. The idea: learn capacity from one full→empty trip You don't need a PhD-grade model to estimate usable capacity. You need two anchors and an ammeter. Full anchor — when the cell is at its full-voltage plateau, declare "this is full" and set the coulomb counter to the rated capacity. Discharge — integrate current over time (coulomb counting). Every milliamp-hour that leaves the cell ticks the counter down. Empty anchor — when the cell hits its empty-voltage threshold, look at how much charge actually flowed. A healthy cell delivers close to its rated capacity before going empty. An aged cell hits empty early — it simply has less to give. From the charge measured between those two anchors, you get the cell's real usable capacity, and SoH = measured / rated . The SDK runs it through an integer EMA (so one noisy excursion doesn't whip the estimate around) and a plausibility guard (reject anything outside 30–120% of rated — that's almost certainly a glitch, not a real measurement). The whole thing is inte

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

We've poured hundreds of billions into bigger models, bigger clusters, bigger training runs, all pointed at AGI. And yet: the model still rebuilds context every few turns, still forgets what you told it ten messages ago, still degrades over long horizons. The capability is staggering and the continuity is brittle. We keep making the pattern-matcher bigger and acting surprised when a bigger pattern-matcher is still a pattern-matcher. Start with the measurement problem, because it sets up everything else. Faster output and better output are not the same thing. The industry measures speed. Tokens per second, FLOPs, parameters, because speed is easy to measure. But *effective* output, the useful work you actually get before the model starts reconstructing or fabricating what it already knew, is a different axis entirely. And on that axis, raw hardware speed tells you almost nothing. A system that generates twice as fast but burns half its output re-establishing context it should have retained isn't ahead. We've been optimizing the number that's easy to read instead of the one that matters. Here's the part I think gets skipped entirely. Current systems have no intrinsic drive. They don't want anything. They sit idle until prompted and optimize the next token. A bacterium has more impetus than a frontier model, it has a goal (find food, avoid toxin) and acts on it unprompted. That's not intelligence, it's drive, and drive is the thing evolution built *first*, hundreds of millions of years before cognition. We built the cortex and skipped the brainstem. So the bet that "scale the transformer until AGI falls out" may be optimizing the wrong layer entirely. You can't scale your way into goal-generation if goal-generation isn't a function of scale. If genuine intelligence needs a motivational substrate, something that forms its own goals and acts on them, then no cluster on earth produces it by getting larger, because it's an architecture problem, not a compute problem. That