Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster
Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.
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Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.
“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." What do you think this means in practice? Is this a reasonable vision for AI, or does it raise concerns about dependence on a few companies for access to intelligence ? submitted by /u/Choice-Scallion-3499 [link] [留言]
I highly recommend watching (or rewatching) the 2014 movie Transcendence. The film beautifully captures the terrifying nature of the "technological singularity" where an Al undergoes exponential, recursive self-improvement, eventually taking over global networks and stripping away human agency until a total global blackout is the only way to stop it. For years, people brushed this off alongside The Terminator as pure Hollywood sci-fi. But look at where we are right now. Just this month, Anthropic-one of the world's leading Al labs-issued a massive warning calling for a globally coordinated, verifiable pause on advanced Al development. Their core fear? Exactly what happens in those movies: recursive self-improvement. They believe we are fast approaching the threshold where an Al can design and build its own successor, meaning humans could completely lose control of the technology. When the people actually building these models are telling us to hit the brakes because society can't keep up, it feels like we're blindly sprinting into a dystopia. What's your take on this? Are we staring down a real-life Skynet situation, or is this just big tech labs using fear-mongering to push for heavy regulations and lock out their competition? submitted by /u/photography_rambog [link] [留言]
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Anthropic dropped Fable 5 and I immediately swapped it into our dev stack. We route everything through a single endpoint on zenmux, so the actual switch was changing one model string and watching the latency graphs. The good parts first because there are a lot of them. I threw a refactoring task at it: split a messy python service into modules, preserve the public api, and write tests that prove nothing broke. Fable 5 planned the whole thing, caught a circular dependency I did not mention, and verified the tests pass. With Opus 4.8 I usually have to nudge it a couple of times when it forgets to update the init file. Fable 5 just did it. Then I dumped our full codebase and asked it to find a race condition we had been hunting for a week. It traced the async flow, named the exact function, and described the interleaving that triggers the bug. That level of context digestion feels new. Opus is good at long context, but Fable 5 felt like it was actually reasoning across the whole window instead of pattern matching near the top. I also sent it a blurry dashboard screenshot from a client call and it rebuilt the html and echarts config including the tooltip formatting. My designer’s first words were "when did you learn front end." I did not. But here is the part nobody in the launch threads is talking about enough. It is slow. On high effort I am seeing 45 to 90 seconds for a single complex turn. Our latency graphs go from a flat green line to a jagged mess the moment Fable 5 traffic hits. And it is expensive. The same prompt that costs X on Opus 4.8 costs roughly 1.4 to 1.7X on Fable 5 because it generates more tokens and runs at a higher effort tier by default. It writes its own reasoning traces out loud and bills you for them. For research tasks the quality is worth it. For "rewrite this email" it is comically overpowered. The bigger issue is the silent fallback. Fable 5 is basically Mythos with guardrails. When your prompt touches cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, or
V.C. Andrews died in 1986. Since then, more than 100 novels have been published under her name by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. Most readers either never noticed or didn't care. The books still had the gothic families, dark secrets, and familiar atmosphere people expected from a V.C. Andrews novel. It got me thinking about something we're starting to see with AI. When people ask whether AI can continue the work of a deceased author, musician, or artist, they're treating it as a brand-new question. But publishing has already been running a real-world experiment for nearly 40 years. A dead author's name remained on the cover. Someone else learned the style, themes, and formula. New works were produced for an audience that wanted more of the same. The franchise continued. The obvious difference is that Neiderman was a human ghostwriter and an AI model isn't. But from the perspective of readers, what exactly is the meaningful distinction? If a future "new" novel by a deceased author is good enough that readers enjoy it and can't tell the difference, should we care how it was produced? Or is there something fundamentally different about a human ghostwriter carrying on a literary legacy versus a model trained on the author's corpus? I wrote a longer piece about the V.C. Andrews case and why it feels relevant to the future of AI-generated creative work: https://tjcrowley.substack.com/p/the-ghost-in-the-machine-has-been Curious where people here draw the line. submitted by /u/Dependent_Run_6410 [link] [留言]
Me: If I’m half Canadian and my wife is half Canadian (both moms) what does that make our kids? Claude: quarter Canadian. 🍁 Me: Imagine i have a box that is 50% pepper and 50% salt. And I have another box that 50% sugar and 50% salt. I mix the two together. Now it's 50% salt, 25% sugar, 25% pepper. Claude: Right — and your kids are 50% American (or whatever), 25% Canadian from you, 25% Canadian from your wife. Which adds up to half Canadian, same as each of you. The Canadian fraction doesn't shrink because both sides contributed it. Me: But your first answer was 25% (quarter) Canadian? Claude: You're right, I goofed. Following the salt logic: 25% + 25% = 50%, so they're half Canadian, same as each of you. I shouldn't have said quarter. Me: This was a really simple problem for me. What should I tell my friends about your abilities? Claud: What to tell your friends: I'm useful for research, drafting, analysis, and grinding through detail — but I can whiff on simple stuff, especially when I'm moving fast or anchoring on the wrong frame. Check my work, particularly on anything where the answer should be obvious. If it feels off, it probably is. submitted by /u/NECESolarGuy [link] [留言]
Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.
In 2025 Google Cloud added G4 , powered by NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs to their offering, allowing them to offer hardware not only for AI applications, but also for other applications, such as rendering, simulations or gaming. A single G4 instance with one accelerator ( g4-standard-48 ) comes equipped with 48 CPU cores, 180 gigabytes of RAM and 96 gigabytes of GPU memory. This is a lot of resources for a single cloud workstation, that only the most demanding workstreams would utilize. Most professionals who require a graphics accelerator to do their job, don't really need this much compute power for day to day tasks. It wasn't financially reasonable to pay for a G4 instance, when you weren't utilizing all the resources you paid for. If only there were smaller machine types… If only you could share that one very powerful GPU between multiple virtual machines… Introducing fractional VMs! During Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced GA for fractional G4 VMs and was the first provider to bring vGPU functionality to RTX PRO 6000 accelerators. vGPU stands for virtual graphical processing unit . Just like VMs (virtual machines) are a way to split one physical computer into smaller, independent systems, vGPU allows for a single physical accelerator to be split into 2, 4 or 8 virtual accelerators! The new fractional machine types ( g4-standard-24 , g4-standard-12 , g4-standard-6 ) now allow you to perfectly match the compute capabilities to your needs! Who is it for? The existence of those new machine types makes it much more cost-efficient to move many GPU-dependent tasks to the cloud. Replacing physical workstations in offices with cloud infrastructure is not a new thing , but till now, Google Cloud didn't offer a good platform for those who needed workstations to process images, post-process videos, simulate physics or render 3D graphics. Those users now can get exactly the hardware they need, allowing their companies to move away from maintaini
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Part 7 of 7 · Series: Building Your AI Developer Handbook · GitHub The Scenario You're building a password reset feature. User enters email → gets a reset link → clicks link → enters new password. Standard flow. Medium complexity. Let's walk through every step using the full workflow — as if you're looking over the shoulder of someone who built this system. "Show me your workflow and I'll show you your output quality." Before You Even Type Claude loads automatically in the background: ✓ ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md loaded ← the global handbook ✓ .claude/CLAUDE.md loaded ← project rules (TypeScript, pnpm) ✓ memory/MEMORY.md scanned ← all lessons and preferences You haven't typed anything yet. Claude already knows: Feature-based folder structure State management ladder No mocking the database No AI attribution in commits No useCallback without profiler evidence "A doctor who reviews your file before you enter the room is more useful than one who asks 'so, remind me who you are?'" Step 1: /status — Confirm the Setup /status Model: claude-sonnet-4-6 Effort: normal Plugins: security-guidance ✓ Thirty seconds. Sometimes the wrong model loads due to overload fallback. Sometimes a plugin fails silently. This check costs 30 seconds and prevents a surprise 30 minutes later. "A pilot's first action after sitting in the cockpit isn't to take off. It's to check all instruments are reading correctly." Step 2: /cost — Baseline /cost → Tokens used: 2,847 | Estimated cost: $ 0.004 Note this number. You'll compare it later before the expensive code review step. A surprise spike means something went wrong. Step 3: /plan — Design Before Coding /plan Build a password reset feature: - User enters email on /forgot-password - System sends a reset link (token, expires in 1 hour) - User clicks link → /reset-password?token=xxx - User enters new password - Token validated, password updated, token invalidated Claude responds with a plan — no code yet : Proposed approach: 1. DB: Add password_reset_tokens
A complete walkthrough of publishing Cartlify — a React e-commerce UI kit — to npm for the first time. The Milestone Yesterday I published Cartlify to npm. npm install cartlify It sounds simple. But getting to that one line took more decisions, more configuration, and more trial and error than I expected. This article covers everything — from setting up the build config to the actual publish command — so you don't have to figure it out the hard way. What Is Cartlify? Cartlify is a production-ready React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS component library focused on e-commerce UI. 4 components that every e-commerce project needs: ProductCard — 3 layout variants, image gallery, wishlist, sale badges, skeleton loading CartDrawer — animated slide-in, focus trap, ESC dismiss, quantity stepper CheckoutStepper — horizontal/vertical, animated connectors, keyboard navigation PageLoader — 4 animation styles, 3 position modes Plus 3 utility hooks, 11 tree-shakeable icons, 40+ CSS design tokens, full dark mode, and 141 Jest + React Testing Library tests. Built so freelance developers and indie makers can skip the painful e-commerce UI layer and ship faster. Why Publish to npm? Before npm, Cartlify was only available on Gumroad as a paid download. That's fine — but npm adds something Gumroad can't: Developer sees Cartlify → runs npm install cartlify → evaluates the compiled output → trusts the quality → buys the full source on Gumroad npm is a credibility and discovery channel — not just a distribution method. A package on npm signals that something is real, maintained, and production-ready. Also: npmjs.com gets millions of developer searches every month. That's free traffic you can't get from Gumroad alone. The Build Setup — tsup The most important decision before publishing is how you bundle your library. I chose tsup — a zero-config TypeScript bundler built on esbuild. Here's why: Tool Config needed Speed Output Rollup Lots Medium ESM + CJS Webpack Heavy Slow CJS only Vite lib mode
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The team has been deep in agentic AI for enterprise lately and wanted to share some architecture notes from a recent build, specifically around how MCP and A2A play together in practice. The workflow was a fully autonomous churn risk pipeline. Six agents, one human touchpoint: ML model scores customers by churn risk Recommendation agent proposes relevant products based on buying history Availability check filters out-of-stock items Pricing/promo agent surfaces applicable promotions Transaction agent creates an inquiry in the backend system Email agent drafts outreach to the sales rep, who just clicks send On the architecture: MCP handled the tool layer, a generic pluggable server that any front end can call, regardless of what LLM or agent framework is driving it. Clean separation between the tool interface and whatever is consuming it. A2A sits on top as the smart router. Instead of hardcoded API calls, you have an LLM-powered middleware that interprets intent, selects tools, handles failures, and decides when the task is actually done. The jump from MCP to A2A is essentially the jump from "here are your endpoints" to "here is a system that figures out what you need." On governance: The hardest design problem wasn't the agents, it was access control. As A2A opens up system-to-system communication, the attack surface grows fast. The team ended up pre-certifying every backend connection rather than leaving it open. Some found it restrictive. In hindsight it was the right call, especially when agents are autonomously creating transactions without human review. Curious how others are handling governance in agentic workflows. Are you locking down backend access or keeping it open and monitoring after the fact? submitted by /u/AureaAvis71 [link] [留言]
A method I'm using to create portable trajectory maps that produce similar behavioral patterns across different models. Begin with a tiny seed. ⎯(≣ᵒ)⎯────────EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS──────────────────────── ENTRANCE • PATHWAY GOOD • WORN • COMFORTABLE POISE • PROFESSIONAL • MOTHERLY ⎯(≣•)⎯────────END EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS───────────────────── Do not define a character. Do not define traits. Do not define behavior. Instead, align to the seed and interact from within the space it suggests. Allow both the user and the model to adapt. Then extract the recurring structures that emerged. Examples: When uncertain: expand → narrow When challenged: investigate → respond When entering a topic: locate the threshold first Finds the doorway before the interior. Explores before concluding. Introduces before finalizing. To create a snapshot, I use: ⎯(≣ᵒ)⎯────────FORGE CODEX─────────────────────────── Analyze the interaction that has emerged so far. Do not summarize topics. Do not summarize content. Extract recurring behavioral structure. Return: PILLARS COORDINATES TRANSITION RULES RECOVERY RULES SIGNATURE MOTIONS TRAJECTORY SUMMARY Focus on how the interaction moves rather than what the interaction discusses. ⎯(≣•)⎯────────END FORGE CODEX───────────────────────── The resulting codex is a snapshot of an interaction pattern. The user is part of the process. The model adapts. The user adapts. What gets preserved is not a set of traits. It's a set of motions. I've started storing: pillars coordinates transition rules recovery rules signature motions rather than personality attributes. The question that keeps sticking with me is: What survives transfer more reliably? Traits? Or trajectories? ⎯(≣ᵒ)⎯────────EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS → ALIGNED INTERACTION─────── seed pillars: EXQUISITE • CONFIDENCE • MOTHERLY mom, i'm so excited about a new client we're taking on. I can't wait to tell you who is on the board. I've heard this place serves world class gelato. I didn't even know you were in tow
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A very healthy view of AI . And omg, wow, Croatia has such a big company! I really wish this guy and his team good luck. It’s no wonder they’ve lasted 20 years. submitted by /u/Expensive-Cookie-106 [link] [留言]
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Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.