Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang
Simon Willison quotes an article by Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang on how the Claude Code team does code review.
Simon Willison quotes an article by Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang on how the Claude Code team does code review.
In 2025, Stanford PhD student Samuel King used a generative AI model to propose the genetic blueprint of a miniature virus, earning him a spot on MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35.
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years in product marketing for Nvidia's robotics platform, founded early-stage firm Techable VC, focusing on physical AI in robotics, materials science and life sciences.
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years in robot platform product marketing at Nvidia, founded early-stage firm Techable VC to invest in physical AI. She says robotics is in its "Lego era," with building blocks like actuators, grippers, software and safety standards still being rebuilt, rather than nearing a "ChatGPT moment." She also defines physical AI as broader than robots, covering molecules, materials, drugs and machines on factory lines.
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Mark Wahlberg said AI has a place in the film industry if used "the right way." He plans to use AI to enhance visuals like stadium scenes in the upcoming Pete Rose biopic, but opposes using ChatGPT to write scripts directly or replace real actors. He has not visited the CAA Vault but is willing to try it, and in the future doesn't rule out an AI version of his likeness carrying on his work, nor object to the animated series Ted continuing with AI after his death.
Shan Carter-affiliated researcher Nick Cammarata published a new reading of the famous cat-face/car neurons in InceptionV1, arguing they are actually V-shaped detectors, and uses "recursive generalization" to explain neuron polysemanticity; in Qwen3-32B, about 90% of neuron poles have a single dominant function.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad laid out his vision of the "self-driving company" at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco: AI agents handle most of the grunt work while human value shifts to judgment and taste. He noted that Replit's support tickets are first triaged by agents searching GitHub issues, codebases and Linear tickets, and after human fixes a one-click deploy closes the loop with agents. He argues agents aren't taking jobs but freeing people to spend more time on architecture and discussion.
Panos Panay, Amazon's SVP of Devices & Alexa, said at TechCrunch Disrupt that personal computing is heading toward ambient computing devices where sensors and AI work proactively in the background — the next generation of users won't open an app for everything but will expect devices to understand their needs, though smartphones will remain important.
EE Times published a video interview with AMD executive Mark Papermaster on the future of AI and semiconductor innovation. This is video interview content; the article provides no further technical details or specific figures.
AWS released its Trust in Depth methodology, which lets agents operate safely without per-step human approval through four layers: Scope (limiting capabilities and access), Know (Agent Registry and independent identities), Bound (AgentCore Policy enforced at the Gateway, Guardrails, and the open-source sandbox Strands Box), and Observe (CloudWatch Omni tracking and evaluation).
On The Verge’s Decoder podcast, investigative journalist Benn Jordan discussed Flock’s automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system: he recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s crime and counterterrorism subcommittee, Flock is facing hundreds of local governments canceling contracts, an investigation by Republican Senator Josh Hawley, and Reuters reported plans to cut about 18% of its workforce.
In a SEMICON West interview, Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi said the company has deployed more than 40 task agents, and some customers can hand a spec to the Synopsys Autonomous Agent to automatically generate and verify RTL — a process that used to take multiple engineers several months — though fully autonomous chip design remains out of reach today.
Simon Willison had Claude Opus 5.5 Max build a Three.js game called Tree Appreciator in the Claude iPhone app, where the gameplay is appreciating differences between two algorithmically generated trees. Claude ran for 3 hours 7 minutes and produced a fairly playable spot-the-difference game with music, animations and an achievement system.
At AI Engineer NY, OpenAI's Joseph Kim proposed a usefulness threshold, arguing that as model capabilities improve, financial analysts will hand work such as investment idea generation and trading to agents.
Google DeepMind engineer Haydn Belfield said AI-driven acceleration of AI research has not yet appeared and self-improving AI remains far off. AI now writes over 75% of production code, but roughly 88% of code changes still require human oversight or review; the share of code changes fully handed to AI rose from 7.5% to 11.9%, and the more complex the task, the lower the rate of independent AI completion.
Simon Willison relays Anthropic's writeup on its in-house source control system Scion, built to replace Git, with nearly 100 GB of main branch history and about 25 million code checkouts per day; a 7-person team completed the migration in 5 months.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman criticized the AI industry's doomsday narrative, saying some AI leaders "maybe shouldn't speak publicly," and argued more should be said about AI's potential benefits, such as ensuring grandchildren "never meet a person who died of cancer."
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that the era of at-home AI devices is not far off. He predicted personal AI assistants will run locally, splitting work between devices and the cloud like phones do, and could eventually shop on users' behalf. He cited Meta's Muse and Instinct, a startup valued at $10 billion, and said he already uses a set of agents to manage his schedule and look up who is calling him.
Latent Space hosted Dyna Robotics co-founder and chief scientist Jason Ma for a deep dive into the Dyna-2 world action model, pretrained on over 1 million hours of human video, combining a diffusion transformer with flow matching to predict future video and generate robot actions.
UC Berkeley professor emeritus and machine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan, in an interview with Libération, dismissed AI doom rhetoric, saying "superintelligence" is a science fiction term and that most related debates belong in the realm of sci-fi.
Simon Willison cites Geoffrey Huntley's view: if agents don't use his diagnostics library, relying only on checking and updating AGENTS.md still leads to bias and drift.
Microsoft President Brad Smith, on a BBC podcast, called for urgent AI regulation, saying AI is both a "weapon and a tool" and the moment for global safety rulemaking "has arrived." He argued that the UK, rather than the US or EU, is best placed to lead global safety rules because the UK AI Security Institute, established in 2023, can access primary models from leading US frontier labs for safety testing before deployment.
OpenAI co-founder and current Anthropic member Andrej Karpathy argued that there is a huge gap between the public's perception of LLM capabilities and reality.
PolyAI CTO Shawn Wen and Otter CMO Alex Gay, whose company makes a meeting-note tool, said at the HumanX conference that despite full-duplex voice models arriving, voice AI has yet to have its ChatGPT moment.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella adopted Trump's preferred Super Intelligence framing in a blog post and suggested enterprises treat AI models as insider security threats.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X arguing that AI should no longer be treated as a "nested black box" whose advice is simply accepted or rejected, and that transparent systems should be built that are containable, observable, and leave tamper-proof human-readable evidence. He suggested timely incident disclosure, independent audits, and verifiable data, and went further to propose assuming from the start that models are compromised and isolating them accordingly—like an emergency brake, authorized personnel should be able to pause or shut down a model mid-run at any time; he believes more advanced models require standardized, more advanced containment techniques.
In a post on X, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proposed rethinking AI's trust architecture, arguing that models should be separated from the harness that orchestrates them, with controls and guardrails externalized.
In a Latent Space interview, Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard and AI lead Leif Jentoft explain how the industrial robotics company, which just raised a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, is building its AI stack; customers include NASA, Amazon, and Lockheed Martin.
According to Business Insider, Google is testing several Gemini 4 variants — Argon, Barium, and Carbon — with Carbon recently deployed on its internal coding platform Jetski, reportedly outperforming Argon on coding tasks; some employees likened it to Anthropic's strongest coding model, Opus 5.5.
Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido discuss why AlphaFold's breakthrough was only a starting point and protein structure prediction is far from solved.
Andreessen Horowitz partner Olivia Moore released the Top 100 consumer AI apps report this week, arguing that ChatGPT remains the biggest player, while Suno, ElevenLabs and others show staying power.
Cryptographer Matthew Green argues there is a 1% chance we live in a 'Minicrypt' world where public-key cryptography is fundamentally impossible, and a 15% chance we will actually lose confidence in existing public-key algorithms. He notes AI creates surprises far faster than humans (even AI-assisted) can replace standards, and only advance preparation enables recovery from such surprises.
Carson Gross argues that programming is essentially two things: solving problems with computers, and controlling complexity in the process. He finds it hard to imagine these two skills losing value, so programming will remain a viable career even as AI tools keep emerging.
Ben Affleck has gone viral for explaining machine learning, neural networks, tensors and other AI terms across interviews including GQ and Bloomberg Screentime 2026, and says he can write Python scripts.
The Latent Space podcast interviews Periodic Labs co-founders Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk about their "synthesis superintelligence" vision: building reinforcement learning environments around physical labs where AI agents learn through an end-to-end cycle of predicting, synthesizing and characterizing materials, rather than relying only on internet data.
AVEVA CTO Arti Garg discusses how foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are pushing industrial automation into a new phase, with research showing industrial AI adoption has grown about 78% over the past two years. She stresses that AI should augment rather than replace human judgment in critical decisions, and AVEVA's responsible AI framework emphasizes safety, efficiency, and human oversight. She also serves on an IEEE working group creating standard methods for measuring AI's environmental impact in terms of power, water, and carbon.
Ben Affleck says he has been involved with machine learning since the digital cinema era and can write fairly bad Python scripts. He explains how film VFX pipelines have used machine learning for years: applying convolutional neural networks to analyze tensors (numeric representations of images) for edge detection and feature extraction to key green screens and swap backgrounds, calling Transformers an evolution with far more compute.
At MIT Future Fest, Tony Fadell said 'Gen 1' AI devices like the Rabbit R1, Humane Ai pin, and Limitless pendant failed because they didn't solve real needs—they were just tech that was fun for geeks.
Microsoft has published, on its corporate blog The Humanist Review of AI, a cautious AI forecast from Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu: AI will drive only about 1.5% GDP growth over ten years and displace at most 5% of jobs, far below some AI labs' projections.
In a Microsoft Research podcast, partner research manager Jennifer Neville speaks with applied scientist Chad Atalla about how evaluation drives AI systems past performance limits to meet user needs, and about the "unexpected failures" models show when tested beyond standard benchmarks. She shares practical advice on using existing AI systems and stresses the importance of carefully checking data when results don't match expectations.