Nvidia May Put $2.5 Billion Into Thinking Machines Lab, Valuing the Startup at $40 Billion

I built an epistemic gate to stop LLM data poisoning during fine-tuning. Tested across 5 architectures, orchestrated on a 2006 Toshiba laptop for $0.

Hi everyone, For a long time, the AI industry has pushed the narrative that advanced safety research, data poisoning auditing, and model alignment require massive clusters and millions of dollars.

2h ago ·dev.to

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support…

2h ago ·simonwillison.net

Why AI Agents Keep Failing in Production (And What to Actually Build Instead)

Originally published on tamiz.pro . The Production Reality Check Every AI agent demo looks magical until it hits production.

• AI agents fail in production due to hallucinations, context drift, and unpredictable failures.
• Agents lack fallback mechanisms; incorrect LLM information is blindly processed, amplifying errors.
• Shift focus from building agents to deterministic systems augmented by language models.

2h ago ·dev.to

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2

• AA-Briefcase evaluates agentic knowledge work tasks in multi-week projects
• GDP.pdf assesses professional document reasoning across 100 PDFs in ten domains
• Private test sets now account for 40% of the Index's total score

2h ago ·artificialanalysis.ai