55,000 copies of the French edition of 'Heated Rivalry' are being pulped, because of a typo -- two 't's in 'Heatted' on the spine of the book. rhollick.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
"Hallucinations are the price a mind pays for creativity." substack.com/home/post/p-...
"Penguin Random House’s Data Science team is hiring a Junior AI Engineer to help unlock the potential of AI and emerging technology through practical tools that improve how teams work." jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/PRH_US/job/J...
"The best advice I ever heard on pricing a product was that your customer should suck air through their teeth and then say yes." simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/...
"You may criticize how other people are getting their nourishment these days. But you yourself are not about to spend as much time cooking as your grandparents did." arnoldkling.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...
Thad McIlroy
“The fox can’t guard the henhouse,” said DeVaan, who has studied the donations of the ultra-rich. “They can’t be responsible for their own regulation or for their own definition of what their altruistic mandate is....” apnews.com/article/anth...
@aarontay.bsky.social "...there are actually two different problems. Ghost references are citations to works that do not exist. Faithfulness failures are real, correctly retrieved papers cited for claims they do not support." www.linkedin.com/posts/aaront...
@joshgans.bsky.social "Predictably, this led to every single country other than the US saying that it had to have its own sovereign AI. Nice, I’d like my own sovereign AI too, along with a pony." joshuagans.substack.com/p/the-big-mess
@jasmine.bsky.social "The notion that teens can smoke weed and skim Hegel for four years and have a cushy office job waiting on the other side was always doomed." jasmi.news/p/2026-advice
Note within the first comments, from Seth Godin, "We agree, Tim. Well said. (and I’m seeing the same data)" tim.blog/2026/06/12/h...
Thad McIlroy
Thad McIlroy
Thad McIlroy
Thad McIlroy
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing thing...
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
Photo: Actualitté Publishing Perspectives reports that 55,000 copies of the French edition of Heated Rivalry are being pulped. The book is described rather charmingly at Actualitté as a “saga…
Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program called Claude Corps that plans to help nonprofits effectively use artificial intelligence by embedding 1,000 trained fellows in variou...
Do academic AI search tools like Consensus, Undermind and Elicit fabricate references the way chatbots do? Short answer, from the literature and my own test: no, almost never. The longer answer of why...
