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Agent harnesses like OpenClaw are changing how we build and run AI models. (The Register)

Oh, are they?
The creator of OpenClaw burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI usage in a single month. (Tom's Hardware)

Yes, that would certainly be a change. But I like not living under a bridge.

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Halupedia is a Wikipeda-style website that is made up on the spot by AI. (Halupedia)

It does remember articles it has already created - mostly - but it fills them with links to related articles that it may or may not have created, and if you click through to a never before seen page it fills it in for you.

It's a lot like the SCP Project but faster and less coherent and lacking the bits of whimsy and beauty amid the cosmic horror.

Also, don't ask about 1788. We don't talk about 1788.
Can Apple's new MacBook Neo game? No. (Digital Foundry)

Leave aside for the moment the sorry state of gaming on MacOS generally, it has about one third the graphics performance of the iPad Pro. On the CPU side, while the single-threaded performance is quite good, it is so power-constrained that it runs slower than a Ryzen 5 1600 from nine years ago. Great for a phone CPU, but it is what it is.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt did not receive a warm welcome when he tried to sell the wonders of AI in his commencement speech at the University of Arizona. (NBC)

At all.

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