// a daily digest from the AI world
New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.
Inherent, a British AI lab founded by DeepMind alumni, released Faraday, an AI agent built to replicate scientific papers. The company says it outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at reproducing research, which could be a stepping stone toward faster innovation.
Simon Willison shipped version 0.33 of his LLM tool. It upgrades to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switches the HTTP client from httpx to httpx2. The llm embed and llm embed-multi commands, along with the matching Python embedding methods, now accept a --key option.
A new study finds that leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing a rogue model. It raises questions about preparedness as these systems increasingly show unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.
OpenAI is calling on California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill the company had previously opposed. The shift signals an evolving stance among major labs toward regulation, a theme that resonates in Europe too.
Prominent YouTube filmmaking creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam “Kold” Kolder posted videos showcasing the AI platform Higgsfield and its new Seedance 2.5 feature as the future of video production. The clips drew a wave of backlash for accepting AI money.
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