Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until a…
Neuromancer
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson. Set in a near-future dystopia, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist. It was Gibson's debut novel and, after its success, served as the first entry in the Sprawl trilogy, followed by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).
Reverse-Engineering the Wetware: Spiking Networks, TD Errors, and the End of Matrix Math
An engineer-friendly deep dive into how the human brain truly processes information, learns without backpropagation, and uses spiking neural networks, predictive coding, and dopamine-driven TD errors—challenging our notions of AI and matrix math.
Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show
Newly unredacted court documents reveal damning statements by two AI executives in a landmark case about intellectual property.
The Second Brain That Grows Smarter and Lives on your Computer
How a spark from Andrej Karpathy, app called Obsidian, and “The Curator”, the app I built are changing the way I think.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as m…
Bleeding edge
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble
Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X
The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing.Its features are slowly crystalizing:- Natively multimodal… https://t.co/2jsVevkTSJ— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) June 27, 2025
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
Note · Mikkel Malmberg
Of all the psychoses I've taken part of, this current AI coding one sure is my favourite. Never have I felt this unlocked, locked in, ambitious and unconstr...
Netigen
Take a glance at a life chock full of second-guesses and the occasional dramatic pause.
When Cursor Wiped a User's PC: A Cautionary Tale of AI Overreach
We recently received a sobering story from a subscriber, a stark reminder of the potential pitfalls when granting AI agents unfettered access to your system.
The Brain Eating Machines
Another valuable AI tool to address the massive de-skilling event we are currently experiencing! By @lav.io
Sam Lavigne
I made a chrome extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly... slowllm.lav.io
As an AI-adjacent network neuroscience person who has also studied bits of media structure and political economy, I strongly agree with @karlbode.com: The biggest threat, by far, isn’t “superintelligence will soon kill us all!” but instead “information control by oligarchs will crush our society”
Karl Bode
one recurring theme in the coverage of this AI Anthropic doomsday newscycle is nobody actually has any REAL ideas of what to do just a lot of ambiguous hand-waving in a country that's too corrupt to have working regulators, by a press that doesn't realize that's a central pillar of the conversation
