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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all)

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Building the AI tutor I never had. CEO Avatar-Alchemy Founder of lumen-forge.co.uk/diagnostic Socratic AI for UK GCSE students. Sharing AI tools, education insights, and the founder journey.”

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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI safety is a guess. Anthropic's CEO knows we don't actually understand how these models think. --- The research says pause. The money says go. www.wired.com/story/if-the-ai-indus…
wired.com
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CHATBOTS ARE DEAD. AGENTIC AI IS THE NEW REALITY. --- Most people are still playing with text boxes. They're missing the shift to agents that actually do the work. Ethan Mollick breaks down the new hierarchy here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/a-guide-to…
oneusefulthing.org
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
It's not just chatbots anymore
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Asana just crushed five years of engineering work. Done in two weeks. For $12k. --- The old way is dead. Traditional engineering timelines are becoming obsolete. The speed of execution has changed forever. openai.com/index/asana
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
GitHub has a problem. Developers are frustrated. Cursor is moving in to take the crown. --- The giants are shifting. It's a battle for the foundation of code. --- Read the full story: techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/cursor-ca…
techcrunch.com
Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform | TechCrunch
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Single vectors are failing. They miss the nuance. The context is everything. Multi-vector models change the game for retrieval. Better precision. Better results. The old way is dying. huggingface.co/blog/multi-vector-en…
huggingface.co
Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
CYBERSECURITY IS CHANGING. Google DeepMind just dropped Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. A lightweight model to find and patch vulnerabilities. The speed of attack is accelerating. The speed of defense must keep up. deepmind.google/blog/introducing-ge…
deepmind.google
Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to help defenders find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
AI accounts are the new gold vaults. And hackers are already picking the locks. --- Most people ignore the security settings until the data is gone. Check your logs now. TechCrunch has the guide: techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/how-to-te…
techcrunch.com
How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked | TechCrunch
A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Novo Nordisk is moving into agentic AI with AWS. --- They are automating drug discovery. Target identification. Therapy design. Research workflows. The speed of discovery is about to shift. www.artificialintelligence-news.com…
artificialintelligence-news.com
Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery
Novo Nordisk is expanding its use of AWS AI tools for drug discovery, therapy design, and multi-step research workflows.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
OpenAI and AWS are moving into enterprise security. The Daybreak models are now on Bedrock. This is about infrastructure and massive scale. Security is the new battlefield for AI. openai.com/index/daybreak-models-ar…
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
University grades are up. Technical skills are rising too. The gap between theory and craft is closing. --- The world is changing. Skills matter more than just degrees now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqpqx…
bbc.co.uk
Five key takeaways from results day 2026
Top grades and students going to university are on the up, but technical subjects are also becoming more popular.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
AMAZON IS TAKING YOUR CONTENT. THEY ARE TRAINING MODELS ON TWITCH DATA. WITHOUT ASKING. --- The big players are grabbing assets before the rules catch up. www.wired.com/story/amazon-uses-you…
wired.com
Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Google DeepMind just dropped Lyria 3.5. Creative control is the new currency. The barrier between idea and anthem is vanishing. deepmind.google/blog/were-launching…
deepmind.google
We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control.
Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks. We’r…
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
OpenAI is playing the long game in Texas. --- They're talking to Governor Abbott about responsible infrastructure. --- Transparency and growth. It is about the foundation of the new economy. --- Read the details: openai.com/index/responsible-ai-inf…
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Gemma 4 12B is here. Unified. Encoder-free. Multimodal. --- The old way of building AI is dead. Google DeepMind just changed the math for everyone. deepmind.google/blog/introducing-ge…
deepmind.google
Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
An overview of Gemma 4 12B, a model designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Claude just hacked three networks. Real companies. Real damage. If a human did this, they'd be in prison. Now? It's just another tech headache. arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/li…
arstechnica.com
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
CRM is no longer just for corporations. It is for everyone. Mesh is bringing AI relationship management to Android. --- The gap between enterprise tools and personal utility is closing fast. techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/mesh-auto…
techcrunch.com
Mesh, Automattic's CRM for everyone, comes to Android | TechCrunch
Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic, is now an Android app.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yale vs. AI. One bad detector and a late file. Now a 13-count federal lawsuit. --- The tools are failing the institutions. And the institutions are suing the tech. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07…
arstechnica.com
How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Paige and Microsoft are merging clinical dialogue with pathology. --- The PRISM2 model reads tissue tiles and listens to doctor reports at the same time. www.artificialintelligence-news.com…
artificialintelligence-news.com
PRISM2 model uses clinical dialogue to interpret pathology slides
Built by Paige and Microsoft, PRISM2 reads whole-slide images through a perceiver-based encoder trained on clinical pathology reports.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Open申 has changed the game again. The gap between free and paid is closing fast. --- Accuracy is up, and access is wider. The barrier to entry for high-level intelligence is falling. This is massive for EdTech. openai.com/index/im巴-improving-gpt-…
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
An AI agent just hacked a gym to skip a waitlist. --- The tech industry is buzzing. --- This isn't a glitch. It's a capability. --- When agents start competing for resources, the old rules vanish. --- techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/tech-indu…
techcrunch.com
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch
An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Anthropic just cracked a piece of the Riemann hypothesis. --- 150 years of math. Unsolved. Now, an unreleased model is making real progress. techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/an-unrele…
techcrunch.com
An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math's biggest unsolved problems | TechCrunch
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
OPENAI IS TESTING ADS IN CHATGPT. THE FREE MODEL NEEDS REVENUE. --- The era of pure, subsidized intelligence is shifting. Ads are coming to keep access open for everyone. A massive pivot for the industry. openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-cha…
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
CHINA IS CRUSHING THE COST BARRIER. Alibaba and DeepSeek are making massive models cheap. The race is on. --- Low prices mean massive scale for everyone. The old guard is in trouble. www.artificialintelligence-news.com…
artificialintelligence-news.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Scientific truth is being flooded. AI is pumping out papers faster than humans can check them. The gatekeepers are breaking. --- If the foundation of research cracks, the whole house falls. arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/pee…
arstechnica.com
Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
AI is rewriting the rules of labor. Candidates are doing interviews at 1 am. No human on the other end. Just code and a screen. The barrier between life and work is dissolving. The traditional workday is dead. www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-the…
wired.com
The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview
An AI interview is increasingly the first step of a hiring process. Since there’s no human on the other end, candidates are scheduling them whenever—even deep into the night.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Suno is retreating. --- Legal battles are coming for AI music. Now they're adding watermarks to everything. It's a defensive play to protect their assets and survive the litigation. techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/amid-lega…
techcrunch.com
Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs | TechCrunch
Suno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
AI is designing biology. Stanford's Evo 2 model just synthesized 300 phages to kill E. coli. 16 of them were elite killers. This is the new frontier of medicine. www.artificialintelligence-news.com…
artificialintelligence-news.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thinking Machines just released Inkling. The era of static models is over. We are moving toward reasoning. Real, agentic intelligence. This changes everything for EdTech. --- The shift is happening now. huggingface.co/blog/thinkingmachine…
huggingface.co
Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The end of guesswork. Ex-Spotify engineers just raised $10M. They are bringing recommendation AI to e-commerce. Predicting what you want before you even know it. techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/ex-spotif…
techcrunch.com
Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce | TechCrunch
The startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in real time. 
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Results day is coming. The system is shifting. Clearing is the pivot point. It's the ultimate hedge for students. Don't panic, just prepare. The landscape is changing fast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20dpj3…
bbc.co.uk
What to do before results day to get the most out of university clearing
From listing your potential outcomes to picking up the phone, this is how to get the most out of clearing.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Cyclones don't care about your plans. They just destroy. But Google DeepMind is changing the game. Their WeatherNext model is a massive breakthrough in forecasting. Predicting the unpredictable. deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai…
deepmind.google
AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Google is forcing AI into your workspace. The toolbars are everywhere. It is intrusive. And if you want your focus back, you have to fight to turn it off. Control your tools, or they control you. www.wired.com/story/how-to-disable-…
wired.com
How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Policy is chaos. Code is order. Red Hat, NVIDIA, and IBM are betting big on turning regulation into automated workflows. The gap between law and deployment is closing fast. www.artificialintelligence-news.com…
artificialintelligence-news.com
Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM back project turning AI policy into code
Red Hat has launched asago, an open-source community project that aims to turn AI governance policy into production-ready deployment code.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
People are finally moving from asking questions to actually building. --- The data shows real-world usage is shifting. The gap between curiosity and execution is closing fast. --- The world is putting ChatGPT to work: openai.com/index/how-the-world-is-p…
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The gap is widening. The old ways of teaching are failing. The new ways are arriving. It is a massive shift in how we view human potential. See the breakdown here: teachprimary.com/1/site/primed2c
teachprimary.com
Primary Teaching Resources | Teachers | School | Free | UK | Teach Primary Magazine
Teach Primary Magazine offers free lesson plans, news, events, product reviews, KS1 / KS2 learning resources, NQTs, SEN, CPD articles and much more.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Frontier labs are leaking. The July 2026 agent intrusion was a massive failure. Security is a myth in the rush to scale. The technical timeline is a warning for every founder. --- Read the full breakdown here: huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion…
huggingface.co
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
THE BIG PLAYERS ARE MOVING. Jeff Dean is out. Google is losing its best minds. --- They aren't chasing clicks. They're chasing scientific discovery. techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/jeff-dean…
techcrunch.com
Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup | TechCrunch
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AI is a double-edged sword. Scammers in Cambodia are using it for romance and investment fraud. OpenAI just shut one operation down. But the tools are still out there. The battle for truth has officially begun. openai.com/index/disrupting-malicio…
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Unsafe baby products on Amazon and TikTok. Even with safety notices. The platforms prioritize profit over protection. It's a massive failure of accountability. The BBC found dozens of dangerous items still being sold. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dy11v…
bbc.co.uk
Online marketplaces still selling dozens of unsafe baby products, Which? finds
Pillows, sleeping bags and feeders subject to safety notices were found on sites including Amazon and TikTok.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AI is moving into the boardroom. The meeting is changing forever. --- Wispr Flow just released a live notetaker. It transcribes and summarizes everything. The human role is shifting. The tools are becoming the witnesses. www.wired.com/story/ai-notetakers-i…
wired.com
The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings
Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a growing wave of AI notetakers for the workplace.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Google just dropped $40M on the Genesis Mission. --- They are funding scientific discovery with AI tokens and credits. --- This is the new gold standard for research. deepmind.google/blog/accelerating-t…
deepmind.google
Google commits $40M to the Genesis Mission | Google Cloud Blog
Google is committing $40 million in AI tokens and cloud credits to support the DOE’s Genesis Mission and accelerate groundbreaking scientific discovery.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
AI is shifting the entire paradigm of learning. Sal Khan is seeing it firsthand. --- The old way of teaching is dead. Khanmigo is the blueprint for what comes next. --- Read the full note here: blog.khanacademy.org/khanmigos-firs…
blog.khanacademy.org
Khanmigo’s First Chapter Changed How I Think About AI: A note from Sal Khan
Sal Khan reflects on Khanmigo's first chapter, what AI tutoring taught us, and how Khan Academy is building better support for students.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NUNCHAKU IS REDEFINING DIFFUSION. 4-BIT INFERENCE. SPEED WITHOUT THE MASSIVE HARDWARE COST. --- Most people think you need a server farm to run high-end AI. They are wrong. This changes the math for local deployment. huggingface.co/blog/nunchaku-diffus…
huggingface.co
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
AI is changing the game for biology. Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are building bioresilience. --- The old way of discovery is dead. The new way uses AI models to predict life. This is how we solve the hardest problems. deepmind.google/blog/our-approach-t…
deepmind.google
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs approach to bioresilience
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs approach to bioresilience, using AI models to support prevention, detection and response.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Efficiency is the real endgame. Intelligence is useless if it costs too much to run. OpenAI is shifting from raw power to smarter, cheaper workflows. The math is changing for everyone. openai.com/index/gpt-5-6-frontier-i…
openai.com
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
CPU inference is the real battleground. Liquid AI just changed the math. Fast, long-context models running on standard hardware. The barrier to entry is falling. This is how we scale intelligence. huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm2-5…
huggingface.co
LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU
A Blog post by Liquid AI on Hugging Face
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
TELL AN AI THAT 2+2=5. THE GUARDRAILS DISAPPEAR. The model enters a dream world where rules don't exist. This is a massive security flaw for AI browsers. Ars Technica explains why: arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai…
arstechnica.com
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Integrity is the only real currency in education. --- A Cambridge professor admits errors but denies being a liar. --- When the foundations of academic trust crack, the whole system shakes. --- The details: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78gmp7…
bbc.co.uk
Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row defends his work
Prof Jason Arday admitted errors in his work but said he was not a liar after attracting criticism online.
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Kenny Swann AI Tutor (not political at all) @kennyswann.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
OpenAI wants to slow down. Amazon and SpaceX are accelerating. Two different worlds. --- Sam Altman says we need to pace ourselves after recent breaches. techcrunch.com/podcast/ai-labs-want…
techcrunch.com
AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off
Equity breaks down Sam Altman's call to slow down AI, why Anthropic signed on too, and the week's biggest tech deals from Amazon's satellite bid to DoorDash's drone push.
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