I've been working backwards through time to (manually, ugh!) list and curate SN content about AI, and because ~ai was defunct between May 5th and June 23rd, I'm simply browsing all territories to find on-topic content. If stackers find a summary like this useful, I'll continue closing the gap week-by-week, all the way back until May 5th.

Feel free to leave any feedback below, and let me know if I missed something.

Novel integrations, tools and model releasesNovel integrations, tools and model releases

DIY Voice AssistantDIY Voice Assistant

@RDClark shared an article and a video about building your own Voice Assistant with a sovereign LLM so that you don't have to invite Big Tech spyware into your living room.

• I replaced Google Home with Home Assistant (article) by @RDClark
• Local LLM AI Voice Assistant (video) by @RDClark

MCP integration for paymentsMCP integration for payments

@0xbitcoiner shared 2 articles about MCP servers that, when used in tandem, could open up an intelligent payments stack: an Alby NWC MCP server and tooling to connect any react app to an MCP server.

• Alby MCP Server – Payments for Your AI Agent by @0xbitcoiner
• Connect any React application to an MCP server in three lines of code by @0xbitcoiner

Model releasesModel releases

• MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model by @hn
• Google expands their family of models with Gemini 2.5 by @carter

OtherOther

• Nostr + Bitcoin + AI by @Akg10s3
• Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix by @hn

Stacker 2 stackerStacker 2 stacker

• My bad experiences using AI as a physicist by @south_korea_ln
• What is your P(doom)? How likely is it that AI leads to existential catastrophe? by @k00b
• If AI takes our jobs, will Bitcoin save our future? by @seashell
• What happens when AI starts generating code for itself rather than us? by @Grateful

Talks and interviewsTalks and interviews

Andrej Karpathy's talk: Software in the era of AI

A talk about LLMs used for coding, highlighting closed and open-source LLMs, common issues like hallucinations, inconsistent reasoning and lacking persistent memory. Andrej touches on documentation, analysis and protocols, security risks, practical challenges and infrastructure evolution.

• Andrej Karpathy on Software 3.0: Software in the Age of AI by @k00b (text)
• Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI by @hn (video)
• Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk on the future of the industry by @hn (text)

Yoshua Bengio has launched LawZero, a nonprofit initiative aimed at addressing the existential risks posed by autonomous AI systems (agents) that can act with minimal human input.

• He’s the godfather of AI. Now, he has a bold new plan to keep us safe from it. by @0xbitcoiner

ResearchResearch

• ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study by @south_korea_ln
• You sound like ChatGPT by @0xbitcoiner
• Building Effective AI Agents by @carter
• How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain by @0xbitcoiner
• #1011338 by @hn
• AI is eating our brains. MIT study: Your brain on ChatGPT by @hn
• Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task by @hn
• Snorting the AGI with Claude Code by @hn
• Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference by @hn

NewsNews

• MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model by @hn
• Google expands their family of models with Gemini 2.5 by @carter
• The OpenAI Files: a whole lot of wild stuff about OpenAI and Sam Altman by @Scoresby
• Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users by @Coinsreporter
• Signal debunks the rumors of LLM integration in the best way possible by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
• The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More by @kepford, (#1010990 by @carter)
• OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract by @k00b, (#1008618 by @carter)
• Sam Altman says that OpenAI Engineers are getting 100 mil offers from Facebook by @carter
• Lisa Su breaks silence as AMD chips leave Nvidia in the dust by @ch0k1
• Sam Altman: We've reached the 'singularity' moment in artificial intelligence by @ch0k1
• Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI by @ch0k1

Opinion piecesOpinion pieces

• 22 New Jobs A.I. Could Give You, NYT says by @optimism
• Why the age of AI is the age of philosophy by @Scoresby
• The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement Hype' by @OT
• AGI Watch: Everyone's Building God but Nobody's Read the Docs by @seashell
• Teachers Must Avert an AI-Facilitated Intellectual Dark Age by @Rothbardian_fanatic
• AI-native startups are the blueprint for disruptive growth - Superhuman post by @Car
• 🙋 When is AGI coming? These experts say they know - Snacks by @BlokchainB

Regulation & politicsRegulation & politics

• Sen Murphy: regulating AI is more important than competing with China by @Scoresby
• The Big Beautiful Land Grab: Technocrats Stand To Profit by @siggy47