LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions(twitter.com)

285 points by nought 1 year ago | 136 comments

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI(twitter.com)

324 points by lukasgross 4 months ago | 313 comments

A post on X by Noam Shazeer announcing he is leaving Google and joining OpenAI.

John Jumper to join Anthropic(twitter.com)

147 points by artninja1988 4 months ago | 111 comments

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI(twitter.com)

1039 points by wavelander 2 years ago | 687 comments

Tweet by Ilya Sutskever announcing he is leaving OpenAI after almost a decade to pursue a personally meaningful new project.

Former GitHub CEO Friedman and Scale AI CEO Wang Declined OpenAI CEO Role(twitter.com)

189 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 106 comments

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup(qazinform.com)

361 points by Bolat14 4 months ago | 368 comments

Kazinform news article reporting that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in valuation after a new funding round, approaching $1 trillion.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c(github.com)

578 points by tosh 2 years ago | 109 comments

A GitHub discussion in Andrej Karpathy's llm.c repository about reproducing GPT-2 training from scratch in C/CUDA.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics(openai.com)

545 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 369 comments

OpenAI post announcing that GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics; the captured page shows only a loading logo.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)

411 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 240 comments

Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.