2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
vitalik.eth on Twitter / X
2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty.But this applies far beyond the blockchain world.In 2025, I made two major changes to the software I use:* Switched almost fully to https://t.co/caFP0K5fYF (open source encrypted decentralized docs)*…— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 22, 2026
The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity
Today I head out to a month-long series of events associated with identity: I’m starting with the 22st (!) Internet Identity Workshop next week; then I’...
Self-authoring LLM knowledge base
Prior to 6 months ago, I wouldn't trust an LLM to automatically manage my personal records. They were too dumb and too much of a liability. But recently…
Public LLM exceeds superforecaster on Forecast bench by EOY 2026?
41% chance. Resolves to YES if any LLM released in 2026 exceeds the superforecaster baseline on ForecastBench by July 2027. Resolves to NO if this does not happen, or if after January 1, 2027 we have results from enough LLMs (e.g. the leading models from the major AI labs at the time) to be confident this will not occur. If The Forecasting Research Institute tells us how this market should resolve, then we will go with what they say.
LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.
The dead internet theory wasn't wrong, just early. Here's what to do next.
VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM
Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research
Rethinking Bluesky's "Decentralization": An Assessment as of January 2026 - Nightflight
January 19, 2026
Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity.
Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there.
First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.
15 Open-Source Tools for Digital Sovereignty (2026) | Comparisons & Alternatives | Vucense
Own your digital stack. The 15 best open-source tools for privacy, security, and full control over your data — reviewed and ranked for 2026.
crawshaw - 2026-02-08
I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs a bit over a year ago, and updated it for the world of agents eight months ago. A lot has changed since then, so here is an update.
Not that I'm at all against sovereign infrastructure, but it's quite interesting to see so much focus local, interoperable cloud infrastructure while interoperability remains taboo for individuals and communities. bsky.app/profile/chrisshank.com/post/3…
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Ha obviously im glad there are incentives and investment in sovereign tech stacks! But let‘s not trick ourselves into believing swapping out tech giants with some new companies and regulations will suddenly fix everything.