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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

news.ycombinator.com Tomáš Baránek 2025-07-20 01:51:59

Now for my more detailed arguments. Reason 1: I don’t want to become cognitively lazy In a recent study by MIT researchers (Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task) demonstrated using LLMs when writing essays reduces the originality of the resulting work. More notably, when measured using an EEG, LLMs also diminish brain connectivity compared to when participants were allowed to use only their brains or a search engine. People who

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Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders

wired.com Will Knight 2025-07-27 14:02:19

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round that values the fledgling firm at $12 billion. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included Nvidia, Accel, Cisco, and AMD—among others. The mammoth investment reflects the ultracompetitive race to build advanced AI systems, as well as the premium placed on top AI talent. It is the largest seed funding round in history. Thinking Machine

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-28 10:59:29

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, officially closed a $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz on Monday, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. The deal, which includes participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, and Jane Street, values the startup at $12 billion, the spokesperson said. Several outlets reported in June that Thinking Machines Lab was close to closing this $2B funding round at a $10 bill

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A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-07-31 22:26:03

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia have developed a new model architecture that could lead to more robust AI systems with more powerful reasoning capabilities. Called an energy-based transformer (EBT), the architecture shows a natural ability to use inference-time scaling to solve comp

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Overclocking LLM Reasoning: Monitoring and Controlling LLM Thinking Path Lengths

news.ycombinator.com Roy Eisenstadt 2025-08-11 18:53:13

This work investigates how large reasoning models internally track their thinking progress and how such processes can be monitored and controlled. We focus on reasoning models that explicitly segment their computations using <think> and </think> tokens (e.g., DeepSeek-R1), allowing us to study the internal dynamics of the "thinking phase." 1. Monitoring the Thinking Phase We hypothesize that hidden states encode a token's relative position within the thinking phase. To test this, we collect hi

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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 05:21:28

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?

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The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

news.ycombinator.com Celine Nguyen 2025-08-20 22:27:11

On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, “Who here thinks that design can change the world?” Several hands shot up, including mine. After a few seconds of silence, he advanced to the next slide of his presentation: a poster by the designer Frank Chimero that read, Design won’t save the world. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen, you pretentious fuck. My professor was

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'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 09:01:57

Though low mood is the best-known symptom of depression, indecisiveness and biased thinking are also common. But these problems, which can lead to delays in making important choices — and being more likely to make poor ones — receive less attention, write the authors of a recent paper in Emotion. Many of the theories that have been put forward to explain difficulties with decision-making are based on work suggesting that depressed people are not as responsive to rewards, or punishments, as thos

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What Apple's controversial research paper really tells us about LLMs

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-11 18:06:46

CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Generative AI models quickly proved they were capable of performing technical tasks well. Adding reasoning capabilities to the models unlocked unforeseen capabilities, enabling the models to think through more complex questions and produce better-quality, more accurate responses -- or so we thought. Last week, Apple released a research report called "The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the

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I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it

news.ycombinator.com Phil Mckinney 2025-09-15 07:03:30

I've never shared this story publicly before—how I convinced HP's board to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion, then watched as they destroyed it while I was confined to bed recovering from surgery. This isn't just another tech failure analysis. I was the HP Chief Technology Officer who led the technical due diligence on Palm. I presented to Mark Hurd and the HP board, making the case for moving forward with the acquisition. I believed we were buying the future of mobile computing. Then I watched it

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I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days

news.ycombinator.com Phil Mckinney 2025-09-15 22:03:30

I've never shared this story publicly before—how I convinced HP's board to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion, then watched as they destroyed it while I was confined to bed recovering from surgery. This isn't just another tech failure analysis. I was the HP Chief Technology Officer who led the technical due diligence on Palm. I presented to Mark Hurd and the HP board, making the case for moving forward with the acquisition. I believed we were buying the future of mobile computing. Then I watched it

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Latest Tech News

I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models

Overclocking LLM Reasoning: Monitoring and Controlling LLM Thinking Path Lengths

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression

What Apple's controversial research paper really tells us about LLMs

I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it

I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days

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