§ 00 — Front page
The News,
decoded.
§ 01 — This issue
Editor’s picksWhat Is Artificial General Intelligence?
And why everyone keeps arguing about it
The Quiet Crisis: Bias in AI Hiring Tools
AI hiring tools promise objectivity but often encode existing biases. Here's what you need to know about the state of algorithmic hiring.
Opinion: Stop Calling Everything "AI"
The term "AI" has been stretched so thin it's meaningless. Here's a plea for honest language in tech.
§ 02 — Latest dispatches
Everything the desk has cleared for publication.
- 01·Latent Space·22h ago
[AINews] not much happened today
apart from DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731, a quiet day.
- 02·Simon Willison·23h ago
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model.…
- 03·Simon Willison·1d ago
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since it first launched, and has also served to reignite my personal interest in the…
- 04·Simon Willison·1d ago
llm-mcp-client 0.1a0
Release: llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 See this blog entry. Tags: llm, model-context-protocol
- 05·Simon Willison·1d ago
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary frontier ones, accidental…
- 06·Simon Willison·1d ago
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer questions about the capabilities of different models. The result is smevals, a new tool for…
- 07·Ars Technica AI·1d ago Dan Goodin
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
- 08·BetaKit·1d agoTrevor Nichols
Calgary crypto exchange Catalyx permanently barred from operating
Former crypto exchange’s CEO, Hyuk Jae Park, will also pay a $90,000 fine to Alberta Securities Commission. The post Calgary crypto exchange Catalyx permanently barred from operating first appeared on BetaKit.
- 09·Ars Technica AI·1d ago Nate Anderson
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.
- 10·BetaKit·1d agoTrevor Nichols
U of T professor Jacob Tsimerman, who won math’s highest prize, to join OpenAI
Fields Medal winner says AI safety is the most important issue of our time. The post U of T professor Jacob Tsimerman, who won math’s highest prize, to join OpenAI first appeared on BetaKit.
§ 04 — The dispatch
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