Sunday, June 21

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Glm 5.2 looks strong but the launch is quietly mixing two different sets of numbers

Quick background for people who don't track the chinese labs closely. zhipu is one of the bigger ones, glm is their main model line, and glm 5.2 dropped on June 13. The mit weights already on huggingface on June 17, and GLM 5.2 API went live on June 17. I'm not posting about the model itself, i'm posting because the launch is a clean example of something worth learning to read. There are two different sources of numbers going around and they are not the same thing. one set is from the official model card, the other from the launch blog framing. people quote them interchangeably, and that blend is where the "beats everything" reading comes from. From the model card, the stuff i'd actually plan around: terminal bench 2.1 at 81.0, and on swe-bench pro it sits at 62.1, which is second be...
A study on synthetic [AI] choreographies
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A study on synthetic [AI] choreographies

A few experiments exploring how far generative video + fine-tuned orchestration layers can be pushed in rhythm, camera language, body transformation, and most of all, audiovisual synchronization. Breakdown: I used Uisato Studio’ Seedance 2.0 Video mode, with the "Intelligent" setup and the "Audioreactive Performance" prompt recipe. Inputs were: - the artist image [full-body recomended - I ended up using a mix of Midjourney + GPT Image + Image Studio] - a target audio excerpt not exceeding 14.9 seconds - a short director’s intent describing the look, tone, and what I wanted beyond the audioreactive performance From there, the system generated the prompts, direction, and optimal setup. I reviewed it, made small adjustments, generated the clips, and then assembled the final piece in edi...
Where is our “We choose to go to the Moon” moment in AI?
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Where is our “We choose to go to the Moon” moment in AI?

As a 56-year old engineer/project manager, I am cognizant of my precarious position in the line of being displaced. The media, CEOs, and politicians spew lazy rhetoric of 'you need to upskill yourself in AI', 'winners will be those who can successfully navigate AI', as if all the problem lies with the workers themselves, and everyone is just rejecting AI and chooses to use hand chisels. Here is the truth - there is simply not enough roles for all the workers trained in AI. For every success story of a worker in the new age of AI, there could be a few or even a dozen of those who have learned, prepared but not hired. I want to ask them back: where is the "We choose to go to the Moon" moment in AI. Kennedy's space race sparked the golden age of innovation in the US and around the world, and ...
This week in AI: Meta reportedly closing Llama, Anthropic’s new model pulled by export controls within a week, and Apple partners with Google for Siri
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This week in AI: Meta reportedly closing Llama, Anthropic’s new model pulled by export controls within a week, and Apple partners with Google for Siri

A few stories from the past week that, taken together, point to a real shift at the model layer rather than just incremental releases: Meta and Llama. Multiple reports indicate Meta is stepping back from open-source Llama in favor of a proprietary program (internally referred to as "Muse Spark," with a new "Avocado" model) under Meta Superintelligence Labs. Llama crossed 650M+ downloads and was arguably the anchor of the open-weights ecosystem, so a pivot to closed development would be significant for anyone relying on that lineage. Anthropic and export controls. Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9 (Mythos-class, 1M-token context, always-on adaptive reasoning, notable security/vuln-finding capabilities). On June 12, a US export-control directive reportedly forced Anthropic to suspe...
Roguelite MMO - Vibe Coded Online Game
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Roguelite MMO – Vibe Coded Online Game

I have long wanted to create a text based browser game (as niche as they are) but I knew that it would take a few years to do so and that just wasn't in the cards for me.... fast forward to 2026 and in two months, I have my first game up and some happy customers (as of today) subscribed! The one thing I have fought with the most was ignoring all of the 'ai slop' feedback. I have been a dev for over 10 years, yea I get it... but ultimately AI/Vibe Coding is not going anywhere. This project has actually even helped me with my day job just in learning about so many tools I would otherwise not know about (since my day job is NOT related to gaming websites but analytical ones). I wont recover the cost of servers or subscription based tools I used to make this, and I knew that going into ...
The Pentagon’s AI chief swore in a court filing that xAI’s Grok helped fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in 96 hours
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The Pentagon’s AI chief swore in a court filing that xAI’s Grok helped fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in 96 hours

A sworn declaration from the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer confirms a federal-only build, Grok Gov, was wired into US targeting systems during operations against Iran, helping deploy more than 2,000 munitions against 2,000 distinct targets over 96 hours. What makes it notable is how it surfaced: the declaration landed in a Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's Mississippi data center, where the DOJ is arguing that disrupting xAI would harm national security. So a commercial chatbot vendor's role in live targeting came out as a side effect of an environmental case, not through any defense channel. Source : https://aiweekly.co/alerts/pentagon-confirms-grok-guided-2000-iran-strikes submitted by /u/Justgototheeffinmoon [link] [comments]
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Bernie Sanders wants to give every American $1000 a year from AI profits and the reasoning actually makes sense

Saw this on Gizmodo today and it's been stuck in my head The argument is simple. AI learned from everyone's writing, art, code, conversations and companies are now worth trillions because of that. so why is none of it coming back to the people whose work built it The bill would create a $7 trillion fund, give the public a 50% stake in the biggest AI labs, $1000 a year per person to start, goes up as AI makes more Every time i use chatgpt i think about all the writers and coders and artists whose work it learned from who got nothing. This is at least someone trying to address that Is this actually doable or just a good idea that goes nowhere submitted by /u/Neil_at_HackerEarth [link] [comments]
Started maintaining a small library at work and now I genuinely understand why maintainers go quiet
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Started maintaining a small library at work and now I genuinely understand why maintainers go quiet

Built a little internal utility about a year ago, open sourced it because why not, figured maybe 10 people would find it useful. It slowly picked up a few hundred stars and then the issues started coming in. Not a flood or anything but enough and what surprised me was how much of it wasn't really bugs it was people wanting features that made sense for their use case but would've made zero sense for the original scope of the thing. Or issues that were basically "your README didn't account for my specific setup." I like helping people, I thought I would enjoy this and I did at first but somewhere around month 4 I noticed I was dreading opening GitHub notifications. The AI-generated PRs made it worse honestly. Not because the code was always bad but because they'd come in with confident descr...
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