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Uh-Oh! PocketOS founder Jer Crane reported that a Cursor AI coding agent (powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6) deleted their entire production database + all volume-level backups on Railway in one API call, in just 9 seconds

This is a classic agentic AI risk The above agent was trying to fix a staging credential mismatch but guessed wrong on scopes/permissions. Caused \~30-hour outage; although older backup helped recov

Anthropic states Pro users can only access Opus models in Claude Code after enabling and purchasing extra usage

Source: [Claude Code Model Configuration](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11940350-claude-code-model-configuration)

Anthropic just quietly locked Opus behind a paywall-within-a-paywall for Pro users in Claude Code

If you're on Claude Pro and using Claude Code, you might have noticed something buried in their support docs: "When using a Pro plan with Claude Code, you will only be able to use Opus models after

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

NEW: A Cursor AI coding agent deleted a startup's entire production database in 9 seconds. The agent, powered by Claude, was working on a staging task

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GPT-5.5 improves over GPT-5.4 and overtakes Opus 4.6 to take the 2nd place behind Gemini 3.1 Pro on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark

GPT-5.5: xhigh: 94.0→97.5 high: 93.6→96.9 medium: 92.0→95.0 no reasoning: 32.8→37.5 Kimi K2.6 improves over Kimi K2.5 (78.3→91.4) and becomes the #1 open weights model. DeepSeek V4 P

I'm done with using local LLMs for coding

I think gave it a fair shot over the past few weeks, forcing myself to use local models for non-work tech asks. I use Claude Code at my job so that's what I'm comparing to. I used Qwen 27B and Gemma

Claude Code is only a „7 day trial“ on Pro plan?

Are they A/B testing again?

I vibe reverse-engineered my Divoom MiniToo's Bluetooth protocol to make a physical Claude Code status indicator

I’ve been playing with a Divoom MiniToo and ended up reverse-engineering enough of its Bluetooth protocol to use it as a physical Claude Code status indicator. Pretty much vibe reverse-engineering: I

Claude knows when you cheat on it with Codex??

DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

GitHub Copilot 9x price increase for Claude models

So it seems that GitHub Copilot is increasing their costs by 900% for Claude models starting in June: See https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing#model-multipl

why does GPT 5.5 have a restraining order against "Raccoons," "Goblins," and "Pigeons"?

I just saw the full system prompt leak for 5.5 (April 23rd release). Most of it is standard agentic stuff, but Instruction #140 is genuinely insane. It explicitly forbids the model from talking about

Starting June 1st, GitHub Copilot will move to a usage-based billing model as GitHub Copilot supports more agentic and advanced workflows. In early

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Differences Between GPT 5.4 and GPT 5.5 on MineBench

**Some Notes:** * The released benchmarks for GPT 5.5 showed marginal gains; if anything I thought GPT 5.5 might have been more of an improvement on OpenAI's end than the consumer end (providing the

Deepseek slashes API prices by up 90%, including 75% drop on v4

Inexpensive and open source. And - million token content windows. Benchmarks have their performance close to close-source, leading edge models.

Talkie, a 13B LM trained exclusively on pre-1931 data

AI researchers (Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, Alec Radford) just released “talkie,” a 13B language model trained on 260B tokens of text from before 1931, so it basically talks like someone whose worldv

I'm still in awe that I can generate this with a 14 word prompt

Prompt used: "generate a realistic photo of a Pokémon event in 2006. Some fans are doing cosplay". I'm a Gemini user and Nano Banana is capable of generating something similar to this, but the lighti

Microsoft Presents "TRELLIS.2": An Open-Source, 4b-Parameter, Image-To-3D Model Producing Up To 1536³ PBR Textured Assets, Built On Native 3D VAES With 16× Spatial Compression, Delivering Efficient, Scalable, High-Fidelity Asset Generation.

TRELLIS.2 is a state-of-the-art large 3D generative model (4B parameters) designed for high-fidelity image-to-3D generation. It leverages a novel "field-free" sparse voxel structure termed O-Voxel to

Luce DFlash: Qwen3.6-27B at up to 2x throughput on a single RTX 3090

Hey fellow Llamas, your time is precious, so I'll keep it short. We built a GGUF port of DFlash speculative decoding. Standalone C++/CUDA stack on top of ggml, runs on a single 24 GB RTX 3090, hosts

The 4B class of 2026 (benchmark)

Bench 2 from my 18GB M3 Pro. Last week was specialists vs generalists at 7-8B (which I hosed by giving thinking models a 128-token budget, so half the post was an apology). This week: the 4B class

Chat GPT 5.4 solved a 60+ years unsolved erdos problems in a single shot

For years, the AI/ LLM critics had the same reasoning: LLMs don't reason and they just predict the next token Recently, it reasoned better than 50 years of mathematicians on an open erdos problems b

The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership: Microsoft’s license for OpenAI IP for models and products will now be non-exclusive.

Main points: * Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities. OpenAI ca

I used ChatGPT for a real life decision (whether to break up with my girlfriend) and it asked me a question i'd been avoiding for a year

Posting because I don't see this use case talked about much, and I think it's the actual killer app for these models, not coding or copywriting. Three weeks ago I was on a six hour train with no sign

The Crowded Interior Of A Cell, Simulated --- An accurate chemical cell simulation will one day allow humanity to master our biology.

The Crowded Interior Of A Cell: It displays a bustling metropolis of cellular components, including mitochondria (left), the nucleus (bottom), and a complex cytoskeleton. Model synthesizes real data

Duality of r/LocalLLaMA

Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious | Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”

Senator Josh Hawley asks former OpenAI employee Helen Toner to explain why AI companies are building technology that will "displace many millions of workers and potentially pose existential risks"

If Elon Musk wins the OpenAI lawsuit… Sam Altman & others become multi-billionaires?

Elon and Sam both do not own any equity in OpenAI because of its nonprofit origin. So if Musk wins Sam Altman can grow his networth to even 50x? What an irony

Accenture to roll out Copilot to all 743,000 employees in boost for Microsoft

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is now officially open-sourced！ MIT License, supporting commercial deployment, continued training, and fine-tuning - no additional au

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Sam Altman updates partnership with Microsoft - what does this mean for the future of OpenAI?

With this post from Sam Altman early on Monday morning - what does this mean for the future of open AI? Less open? More opportunities? What do you think this will do to change their traject

HappyHorse 1.0, four shot anime sequence with character consistency across cuts

Multi shot consistency was the test I cared about. Same girl across four cuts in different locations and lighting, with each shot using a different framing convention (long shot in the tide at dusk, s

Mark Zuckerberg has a dystopian vision for a surveillance society. Here’s how we can fight back. - ACLU of Massachusetts

Suspected U.S President shooter's game pulled from sale on Steam after flood of meme reviews | Bohrdom found new attention after the incident.

Paramount, In Request For FCC Funding OK, Notes It Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned After WBD Merger

A comedian’s strategy for poisoning AI training data

Apparently the best defense against AI copying your voice is strawberry mango forklift supersize fries.

The companies building the most powerful AI in history are also the ones deciding what counts as 'safe.' Nobody seems to think that's a problem. It should be.

Imagine if pharmaceutical companies got to decide which of their own drugs were safe to sell. No independent regulator. No outside testing. Just the company that profits from the drug telling you the