Some LLM takeaways for 2025: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed
It's that time. It's been a hell of a year. — At the start we barely had reasoning models. X: Simon Willison / @simonw : Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - th...
Anthropic announces Claude Skills, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve how it performs specific tasks
here's how they could supercharge your workflow Robert Brown / Implicator.ai : Claude taps Microsoft 365 as the connector war heats up X: Olivia Moore / @omooretweets : Like many of Anthropic's produc...
In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products
Update! It's this: — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Emma Jacobs / @emmavj : Your dad introducing his new partner — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : but what are they actually making????...
Trump Media unveils fintech brand Truth.Fi with an investment of up to $250M, which can be allocated to various investments, like bitcoin and other crypto
Trump's Net Worth Spikes Over $200 Million Mohammad Shahid / BeInCrypto : Trump Media Group to Invest Up to $250 Million in Crypto with Truth.Fi Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Trump Media announces Bitco...
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning
Quick: what sort of prompts should you run against GPT-4o vs Gemini 1.5 Flash vs o1 vs o1-pro vs gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp? X: Jeff Dean / @jeffdean : Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an exp...
A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever
From repeatedly crippling thousands of gas stations to setting a steel mill on fire, Predatory Sparrow's offensive hacking … Mastodon: @simontsui@infosec.exchange and @agreenberg@infosec.exchange X: @...
How OpenAI uses ChatGPT prompt engineering to get around DALL-E 3's fundamental biases, discourage DALL-E 3 from recreating the work of living artists, and more
“Don't create images in the style of artists whose last work was created within the last 100 years (e.g. Picasso, Kahlo). Artists whose last work was over 100 years ago are ok to reference directly (...
How OpenAI is using ChatGPT prompt engineering to get around fundamental biases in DALL-E 3, discourage it from recreating the work of living artists, and more
Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI's image generation model. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social , @waxy@xoxo.zone , and @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net X: @joedevon...
On Day Two of the Apple vs Epic trial, Sweeney said he would have taken an exclusive App Store deal, Apple recounted Epic's praise of Apple's Metal API, more
Simon says Apple refused to let it prominently mention COVID-19 in an update that appeared in its app, because it worried the topic —including just mentioning lockdowns — would be “potentially trigger...
Interviews and emails show NSA backed down on two encryption techniques, Simon and Speck, it wanted as global standards amid experts' concerns and lack of trust
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