Former OpenAI Engineer Ordered To Remain In Custody
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
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CIOs Unprepared For Agentic Workforce Shift
Just 4% of tech leaders have plans in place to retool roles for an agentic-human workforce, a Gartner survey found.
Security & Policy
MapQuest Adds Surveillance Layer To Show Flock Cameras
A name from the past is emerging again to help you stay out of sight of surveillance cameras.
Developer Tools
Context.dev Launches Rusteerio For Faster HTML Parsing
Keep your Cheerio code. Make it faster. Discussion | Link
Developer Tools
llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1
Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins, now fixed. Tags: datasette , llm
Models & Research
Salesforce Develops Launa-Omni Voice Model For Real-Time Conversations
Salesforce AI Research has been building Launa-Omni, a voice model that holds real-time, two-way conversations. The latest evaluation results came in this week, and this post covers what we built and how it…
Models & Research
llm-echo 0.5
Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the prompts that have been fed to it. The…