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Monday, August 24, 2026
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★ Must ReadConceptual integrity and counting lines of code

Plus Bun 1.

Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
Latent Space

Simile’s CEO about his journey from the viral Generative Agents to creating 8 Billion Digital Twins of every living human... and why it’s gone from fun exploration to very serious business.

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Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover
404 Media

The Qurayyah Painted Ware of Bronze Age Arabia had distinct visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, and cultural reputation—all features of a commodified brand, scientists say.

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★ Must ReadAnthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Trending on Hacker News with 266 points and 229 comments.

★ Must ReadA few words about Canada and the US

Sorry, this one is not about AI. But sometimes one must speak out.

BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies

Cheaper tools are thriving. What does this mean for the upcoming IPOs?

Our Agentic Coding Best Practices

Context first, plan then code, and smart-model planning with fast-model execution.

Ornith-1.5, LFM2.5 QAD, and a 10 GB Qwen3.8 27B

Kaitchup — Ornith-1. 5, LFM2. 5 QAD, and a 10 GB Qwen3.

Your AI Privacy Toolkit

See how much your AI assistants know about you, anonymize prompts before submitting them, and try confidential new AI chat tools.

[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud

Latent Space — [AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; fou...

Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
Simon Willison
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?
Anthony Ha, TechCrunch AI
A few words about Canada and the US
Gary Marcus