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6 dispatches
  1. AI18 Aug, 11:48 UTC

    A shorthand for skipping unedited AI output

    Rick Manelius argues for "AI;DR" — if you didn't bother editing the AI text you sent, he isn't going to bother reading it.

  2. AI17 Aug, 14:40 UTC

    The Small-Model Trade: Reasoning In, Facts Out

    A blog post argues labs are deliberately stripping world knowledge out of model weights to buy cheap reasoning, and that the harness picks up the slack.

  3. WEB17 Aug, 14:39 UTC

    A Satirical Landing Page That Roasts AI-Generated Web Design

    A parody page called "Every Fucking Website — Slop Edition" catalogues the visual tics that have converged into a single default look.

  4. AI17 Aug, 14:33 UTC

    Stripe reportedly buys AI gateway OpenRouter for over $7B

    Bloomberg reports Stripe has finalized a deal for OpenRouter at more than $7 billion, roughly five times the startup's May valuation.

  5. AI17 Aug, 14:32 UTC

    Gruber: Claude's text watermark trades word choice for compliance

    Anthropic's forthcoming text watermark works by biasing token selection, and John Gruber argues that makes every output slightly worse on purpose.

  6. AI17 Aug, 14:31 UTC

    Qwen 3.8 27B ships with its reasoning dial cranked to max

    Simon Willison finds Alibaba's new 27B local model highly capable, but says its default 'xhigh' reasoning effort makes it impractical out of the box.

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