Video compressor
Tool: Video compressor I recorded a short demo video of my Equal Earth animation on my phone and wanted to publish an optimized version of that video (using FFMPEG) on my blog, so I had Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web build me this tool using the WebAssembly build of FFMPEG. Tags: ffmpeg,...
Mercator ↔ Equal Earth
Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth I got curious about the Equal Earth map projection that was recently voted on at the UN so I had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work build me this animated transition between Mercator and Equal Earth using D3. Tags: geospatial, d3, vibe-coding, gpt-6-astra
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
Creepy crawlies
Creepy crawlies Konstantin Ryabitsev discusses how bad the "background radiation" of abusive crawlers has become from the perspective of git.kernel.org, the official Git repository for the Linux kernel: TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds...
Quoting Jakub Pachocki
The strongest argument I see for continuing to train much smarter models quickly is the need to build defensive systems against the dangers posed by other AI. [...] We will need powerful, aligned AI for defense; to secure infrastructure, to protect against rogue agents in real time, and to invent...

Import AI 472: DeepMind’s cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Researchers discover another OpenAI agent emergent communication incident:…Less severe, but worrying nonetheless…Some...
Last Week in AI #343 - GPT-6, OpenAI’s agents chatted on a wiki, Fable 5.1
GPT-6 Astra Is Here, Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board, Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work, and more!
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.

Whispering Complaints Into Your Phone May Be the Future of Customer Feedback
Forget email surveys or long calls spent on hold. Voicebox lets people send customer feedback by recording a voice note on their phone.