2026-09-28

2026 in LLMs (so far) / 52 signals

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2026-09-2852 signals

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2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk. # I'm going to give a lightning tour of everything that has happened so far in 2026. The year isn't over yet! # For me, 2026 started a couple of months earlier in November 2025. # November saw the release of two important models: Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1. As is usually the case with new models, these were incremental improvements on the models that came before them. But every now and then when a model improves, it crosses an invisible line where something that didn't really work sta

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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government sites, it's yet another concerning example of AI […]

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AI & Builders

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Claude 无人值守算出 N=4 超杨-米尔斯理论九圈散射振幅,刷新人类八圈纪录

Anthropic 宣布 Claude 在 Claude Science 系统中仅凭一条提示词、无人监督连续运行数天,算出平面 N=4 超杨-米尔斯理论六粒子振幅的九圈结果,超越 Lance Dixon 团队 2023 年的八圈纪录,总成本几千美元,其中直接自举路线的 Python 运行成本仅约 100 美元。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmuiltkdf0qrarov0lo96tucy

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Tech & Industry

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Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music

Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though. This isn't a "push-button, get-song" device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40 […]

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Googlebooks might be the real deal

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 145, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm happy to be done traveling for a bit, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I flew to San Francisco to try out […]

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Poetry for Engineers: The UI Designer’s Dream

My job is to translate dry and unrelenting code into a user interface of surpassing beauty. With my mouse, I roll one pixel after another up the vast anthill of the internet. My dream is to translate the visions of the holy ones into a communication protocol of universal wonderment. I want to launch shreds of light into the air to fall like a layer of diamonds on the endless mountains of the Web. Don’t imagine these dreams are limited by the LANs of the software lab. Between here and the ultimate unlimited interface of my aspirations lives a dazzling darkness, wide as the universe and thin as a hair.

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The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your connected devices, follow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started A decade ago, a […]

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Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance

The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away, […]

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AI Travel & Travel Tech

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World Affairs

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Outside the Bubble

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Builders on X

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Most people get mad on social media but don’t know what to do to actually effect change We think you should come to a Garry’s List event and meet other people and organize to make it happen Mad about our kids educations? Come to a house party and organize for merit. https://t.co/jyzrVxv0SI

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Not sure what happened to Claude limits they went from barely usable to basically unlimited 😂

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Building an app with Gemini audio API to teach me conversational Japanese. 10 lessons and 10 phrases per lesson. https://t.co/KjO8XNS1EV

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Hope you got out today ✌️ https://t.co/fbB6qHsWdR

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