No AI Payoff Beyond Big Tech
Outside the Mag 7, AI has produced no measurable financial payoff: revenue per worker and profit margins are rising for those tech leaders while the rest of corporate America shows flat results and no clear productivity gains. — apollo.com
Goose: Heapless, Memory-Safe Systems Language
Goose is a new memory-safe systems language that omits a heap and uses compiler-managed data stacks, delivering benchmarks that outperform C++ while using substantially less memory. — aardappel.github.io
Information Flow, Not Free Speech
For online platforms the core problem is information flow, not a simple free-speech dial; structured, staged validation and nested group review limit rapid viral false consensus and misvalidation. — lesswrong.com
Large Language Models Produce Harder-to-Process Language
Frontier models generate linguistic patterns that increase human processing difficulty, with nine models showing more low-frequency n-grams and taxing constructions than comparable human text, consistent with optimization for information density. — arxiv.org
AI Lets Builders Be More Ambitious
Recent AI advances make it practical to build far more ambitious, usable software and one-off tooling—projects like pgrust illustrate accelerated prototyping, verification, and performance experimentation that were previously infeasible. — danluu.com