Colin Gray gave his 14-year-old son an AR-15 for Christmas. That rifle killed four people at Apalachee High School. On Thursday, a Georgia court gave Colin Gray 15 years for murder. He didn’t pull the trigger. He is still going to prison. It’s only the third time a US parent has been convicted for a school shooting committed by their child - but legal experts are calling it a turning point.
The reflecting pool was rushed, and the coating peeled. The East Wing was rushed into rubble. The plane was rushed, and had to be grounded for security upgrades. The tariffs were rushed, and then repeatedly rewritten, billions in refunds issued. USAID was dismantled before anyone had worked out who would administer its programs. Men were rushed onto deportation flights. Then the country was rushed into war. @Johnfdickerson - substack
In the last two Chrome releases, Google fixed 1,072 security bugs. That’s more than the previous 23 milestones combined. AI wrote most of the fixes.
That chart is what software productivity gains actually look like when AI moves from experiment to pipeline. Two years of flat patch rates, then a spike that dwarfs everything before.
Childhood vaccines are the leading cause of adulthood.
I love a good chart. This one is devastating. I really hoped to confine the Covid Pandemic to history but the Republicans in Washington DC have unleashed all of the horrible memories in service of political theatre.
Jerry Falade’s crime novel won a 14-way auction for over $2 million. Then an AI detector read it.
Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body attracted bids from fourteen publishers. Minotaur, Macmillan’s crime imprint, won. Film rights were in play. By any measure, this was an excellent story. Then AI detection tools flagged “fingerprints,” Falade’s agent lost faith, and the deal collapsed.
“When I talk to the leading researchers in the field of AI right now, for example, they literally refer to this — right now — as their Oppenheimer moment. They’re looking to history to say, ‘What are the responsibilities for scientists developing new technologies that may have unintended consequences?'” — Chris Nolan, July 2023 Techradar
Source: OpenAI, Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6, using Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 results.
OpenAI has cut the API price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 per cent, only three weeks after releasing it.
The new price is US$0.20 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens, down from US$1 and US$6. Terra has also become 20 per cent cheaper. Sol is unchanged.
The chart above is the arresting part. Luna at maximum reasoning scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Claude Opus 5 at low reasoning scores the same. Yet Luna appears to cost roughly five cents per benchmark task, against about 35 cents for Opus.
Recommended: “An Audience With The Goodies” (with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, hosted by Stewart Lee) was recorded live at the Leicester Square Theatre in London in June 2018 (YouTube). Captured before the sad departures of Tim (2020) and Bill (2026).
The X-Twitter brutal fact checking continues - https://x.com/aaronsmith/status/2082449715418017796
Dave Hughes came back to me again last night with a bit of energetic goalpost shifting.
The bigger issue isn’t Dave Hughes. It’s that parts of our media think the person to ask about Australia’s economy is, Dave Hughes.
It’s like asking your plumber to perform your colonoscopy.