Ethan Mollick posted a hypothetical scenario on X. He posits that if AGI is achievable and labs can only be banned from using a model internally when they release it publicly, the Big Three labs may decide to capture all value from AGI themselves through expansion and acquisition. Sharing AI access with other firms would trigger the risk of internal bans, so avoiding public release eliminates that vulnerability. The tweet highlights a potential perverse incentive in AI governance. No concrete event or decision is reported; it is purely speculative.
Together AI shared the three main optimizations applied to accelerate GLM 5.1 inference. They rewrote the indexer topk kernel and fused the indexer kernel to reduce memory and launch overhead. Additionally, CPU overhead that was bottlenecking prefill throughput was eliminated. The indexer changes yielded the largest performance gain. GLM 5.1 is now available on the Together AI platform.
A social media post humorously notes the tendency of language models to frequently mention 'smoke tests', implying an exaggerated affinity for the term.
Indie maker Pieter Levels (levelsio) announced he canceled 99% of his SaaS subscriptions and built free replacements using AI. His spending now focuses entirely on AI, servers, and storage, but rising prices have increased his total costs. He now pays roughly three companies $10,000 per month each, compared to previously paying about $100 per month to roughly 30 companies. The shift concentrates his vendor relationships and spending on essential infrastructure providers.
xAI announced that users with a SuperGrok or X Premium subscription can now select the Grok Build model inside the Warp terminal application. The integration is accessed through Warp Agent Settings, enabling subscribers to leverage Grok's capabilities directly in their command-line workflows. No additional setup is required beyond having an eligible subscription.
Indie developer Levelsio built a functional webcam app for Windows 3.11 that runs inside a web browser. He prompted Claude to generate a WEBCAM.EXE file and paired it with JavaScript that routes the user's webcam feed to a virtual DOS COM4 port. The demo works on the live site and even lets users print their face from within the retro environment. The project revisits early-1990s webcam history, referencing the Cambridge Coffee Cam, while showcasing modern AI-assisted coding for obsolete platforms.