Anthropic's Spirit Microdoses Its Employees
Anthropic's organizational spirit works like a microdose, subtly shifting insiders' collective outlook through selection, social pressure, and privileged information. Their individually reasonable beliefs tend to align with company goals, so outsiders should weigh insider claims carefully. — lesswrong.com
All-Black Windows Theme Leaves Blank Screen
A Windows 3.1 user set every system color to black, leaving a blank desktop with nothing visible to click and no obvious way to undo it from the screen. — devblogs.microsoft.com
FLUX.1 Model Animates Images from Prompts
The FLUX.1 image-to-video model turns a still image and a text prompt into a video clip and is available in a half-precision version. — huggingface.co
Public APIs Repo Adds Agent-Callable Tools
The public-apis repository, which curates thousands of free APIs, now includes agent-callable servers that let AI tools call the APIs directly, along with a searchable web version. — github.com
AI Risk Project Missed Its Key Conclusion
The AI Risk Project collected prescient warnings from researchers but missed the key conclusion: scaling alone produced the kind of AGI that experts had doubted, and safety work still lags behind capability work. — lesswrong.com