How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse
ByteDance uses its 1 billion users’ data to fuel its AI growth, after investing $11B in 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/tiktok-china-bytedance-ai.html?
Vim is more useful in the age of LLMs https://ja3k.com/blog/vimllm
This and anthropic artifacts make me think the future of code could involve a lot of bespoke software made just for one individual’s use case.
‘We tried to train it like it was a kid in art school’: artist David Salle on using an AI model to enhance his painting practice https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/10/artist-david-salle-on-using-ai-model-enhance-his-painting-practice
If you are not jailbreaking models your missing out
https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S
Notable Aamicus filings.
Aamicus brief in support of authors suing Meta https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.415175/gov.uscourts.cand.415175.525.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.433688/gov.uscourts.cand.433688.152.0.pdf
OpenAI employees on Friday filed a proposed amicus brief opposing OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit corporation.
Papers
Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18813
Google : Taking a responsible path to AGI
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/taking-a-responsible-path-to-agi/
Google : An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and
Security https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/evaluating-potential-cybersecurity-threats-of-advanced-ai/An_Approach_to_Technical_AGI_Safety_Apr_2025.pdf
ARTS
Hamlet hail to the Thief. https://www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief/