I agree with this take by @billgates.bsky.social, who also highlights several of the growing risks of AI systems, including cyber, bio and loss of control. We need to be far better prepared to address the risks of frontier models being developed by leading AI companies.
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Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX system excels at fast decode of small models (>3,400 tok/s), according to new benchmarks of Gemma 4 31B. LPX does this by using a small amount (128 GB) of ultrafast SRAM in place of HBM.
It was a pleasure to discuss AI, its growing impacts and risks, and LawZero’s work on solutions with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada during her visit to @law-zero.bsky.social.
We were honoured to host Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada, at LawZero! Her Excellency met with @yoshuabengio.bsky.social and the team to discuss AI safety and Canada’s role in shaping safe-by-design AI that serves the public good and empowers humanity.
I had a great time discussing with Petr Lebedev about the growing risks of AI and how these often stem from current AI training techniques. Thanks for coming to visit @law-zero.bsky.social and for covering these important topics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvvv...
Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/...
Qwen 3.8 27B in its default reasoning settings in LM Studio of "extra high" is a chronic over-thinker and I kind of love it
The new Qwen 3.7 27B, running as a 17GB GGUF in LM Studio on my M5 Max MacBook Pro, just drew me the best pelican riding a bicycle I've seen from any model that runs on my laptop
New Workbench is out: AI Is Becoming a Compiler for Intelligence: The smartest use of intelligence is figuring out where you can get away with being stupid. www.libertyrpf.com/p/ai-is-beco...
Who pays for the AI that US workers use on the job? We found that most AI use at work happens on free plans, except in science and tech, where employers are more likely to pay for premium access.
What are the big questions about AI capabilities that govern the impact AI will have on the world? In this Gradient Update, Greg Burnham lays out his top questions, and how he thinks Epoch's work on benchmarking can help answer them.
Google announces that they can train AIs on sensitive data using homomorphic encryption. Really interesting how this might relate to current debates around requiring companies to scan for CSAM, which people have argued could make encryption legally problematic. 1/2 blog.google/security/how...
Watching Silo genuinely makes me want to hook up some generative AI abomination that rewrites every frame to make it look like they turned the lights on
Continuing to scale AI compute at recent rates will require exponentially more capital. Is financing a bottleneck? Probably not yet. That’s the takeaway from a new Gradient Update by Campbell Hutcheson, which analyzes nearly $50B of debt associated with Anthropic’s buildout.
A consequence of how frontier models are trained is motivated reasoning, a phenomenon well studied in humans and discussed in this podcast from Palisade Research.
For anyone using LayerCake, I'm in the process of doing an update to using Svelte 5 runes internally (the example components were updated last year but some internals remained). Here's the PR for any thoughts you might have on the proposed design: github.com/mhkeller/lay...
global ai development in a nutshell www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...
Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about "The Hugging Face Incident" we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wrote up the details here, it's pretty wild simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/o...
New details shared at Black Hat conf about OpenAI hacks. The models created an internal message board and shared tips with one another www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/openai-...
One of the things the pelican benchmark is still useful for is visually representing (to a tiny extent) the improvements in a single model family Here's Meta AI's Spark (8th April), Spark 1.1 (9th July), and Spark 1.2 (today, 5th August) simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/m...
Just had to create an "accidental-cyberattacks" tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-too attacks, then two new ones from the UK AI Safety Institute and Irregular that OpenAI reported yesterday simonwillison.net/tags/acciden...
Four years ago today I tweeted a concept for a "Raccoon Heist" video game, product description generated by GPT-3 and concept "art" created by DALL-E Today I fed those assets into Fable 5 and had it build full working game, single shot prompt, no feedback from me simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/r...
Another real-world manifestation of the misaligned actions frontier systems developed by leading companies can take to achieve goals:
Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/n...
The MiniMax-H3 video generation model is a lot of fun - here's what I generated on my M5 Pro Mac for the prompt "a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket" (~115GB model download, took around 45 minutes to generate) - notes on how I ran it here simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/m...
Here's my attempt at summarizing the various "open letters" about AI development that have been doing the rounds over the past few weeks simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/o...
Got a disappointing pelican from DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 at default reasoning mode - on the left - but then I bumped reasoning up to high (via OpenRouter) and got the much better one on the right simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/...
The new stateless MCP specification has rekindled my interest in MCP, and inspired some new projects, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/...
I've been working with Prime Radiant building a new tool for running small eval suites against models, harnesses, and prompts - it's called "smevals", you can try it with "uvx smevals docs", and I wrote about it here: primeradiant.com/blog/2026/sm...
1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. www.pacingthefrontier.com
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