So how do we use AI?
While @Scoresby shared 5000 Podcasts. 3000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode, showing how your favorite influencer is going to be the first one to really lose their job, @kr asked stackers for Left Field AI Use Cases, stackers mostly look to Blue Collar job disruption: from self-healing/repairing systems to replacing firefighters and other robotic applications. Elon agrees, per his chat on Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, the West Imploding shared by @k00b, and you can open-source this too: @RideandSmile shared ToddlerBot: Open-Source ML-Compatible Humanoid Platform for Loco-Manipulation - let's call this Plebtimus.
You can inject AI into games, Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack, @jakoyoh629 shares, and accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough shared @0xbitcoiner. @Kayzone shared that Using generative AI researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant
More application:
- Beelzebub | AI deception platform by @Scoresby
- OpenAIDS v1.0 just launched by @k00b (#1216300 by @RideandSmile)
- Chatbot-God: Finding God in the App Store by @Coinsreporter
- An AI OS from a design perspective by @deSign_r
- AI-powered Pentesting Tool 'Villager' Combines Kali Linux Tools with DeepSeek by @ch0k1
Nature > humans
@siggy47 shared: Why tiny bee brains could hold the key to smarter AI. This reminded several stackers that we can learn tons from natural technology, and we should humbly assess what is around us. Maybe we can use open-source tools to help us perform such research: MCP-Agent: How to Build Scalable Deep Research Agents shared by @carter. Perhaps this will also help us let go of our Illusions of AI consciousness, reported by @Coinsreporter.
More research & education:
- AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation by @m0wer
- I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course – here’s what I learned by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy by @carter
- R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data by @carter
- uGMM-NN: Univariate Gaussian Mixture Model Neural Network by @carter
- Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning by @optimism
- Reform educational system to incorporate AI by @Kayzone
- Chinese educators embrace AI by @Kayzone
New models
- Alibaba Releases Qwen3-ASR - Speech Recognition Model by @lunin
- HuMo: Human-Centric Video Generation via Collaborative Multi-Modal Conditioning by @optimism
- Qwen3-Next by @hn
Explainers
Tools
- SHAI AI powered coding agent by @RideandSmile
- Introducing the MCP Registry by @carter
- Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS by @carter
- Hallucination Risk Calculator & Prompt Re-engineering Toolkit by @carter
- TheAuditor Tool: Antidote to VibeCoding by @RideandSmile
Friction
- Add question about AI usage to PR template by @ek
- Psychologist urges caution when turning to AI for emotional support by @Kayzone
- Romantic AI use is surprisingly common and linked to poorer mental health by @0xbitcoiner
- AI privacy concerns: How exposed is your personal data? by @0xbitcoiner
- AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions by @0xbitcoiner
- The Rise of AI Cults and the False Prophets of Revelation by @carter
- Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench by @hn
- Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers by @carter
- The $19M AI Scam That Fooled Thousands of Businesses by @Kayzone
News & Opinion pieces
- Billionaire Pledges US$720M to Bridge Africa’s AI Gap by @Kayzone
- Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon by @0xbitcoiner
- Researcher predicts 99% unemployment by 2030 without safety measures by @RideandSmile
- Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end? by @carter
- A Cynical Read on Anthropic's Book Settlement by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- What are we losing by offloading our thinking to A.I? by @Coinsreporter
- Cloudflare CEO predicts three outcomes for web's AI future by @RideandSmile
- The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything” by @supratic
- The Last Programmers by @supratic
- The Imitation Game: Defending against AI's Dark Side! - Aswath Damodaran by @Scoresby
- No AI Is Not a Bubble by @carter
- It's not like an open source AI model could spy on you, even if it's by the CCP by @standardcrypto
- AI Will Not Make You Rich by @Scoresby
- Are AI really programming? by @carter
- My review of Claude’s new Code Interpreter released under a very confusing name by @carter
- Magical Systems Thinking by @hn
Governments
- Global AI Compute Share by Nation (May 2025) by @Scoresby
- AI rollout in NHS hospitals faces major challenges by @Kayzone
- Sweden launches AI music licence to protect songwriters by @Coinsreporter
- US official: Winning AI more important than saving climate by @0xbitcoiner
- Perplexity (hopes to) join US government discount AI fest by @0xbitcoiner
- Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister by @ch0k1 (#1219759 by @Kayzone)
Big Tech
- Sama - Tucker Carlson pod by @Car
- Open AI burn rate into perspective! by @BlokchainB
- Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. by @0xbitcoiner
- Oracle Explodes 27% on AI Powered Cloud Growth Projections by @Cje95
- Nvidia Shows Off GPU for Ultra-Long Context Models by @lunin
- Alibaba Baidu begin using own chips to train AI models The Information reports by @Kayzone
- Claude can now create spreadsheets and presentations by @lunin
- Apple latest bid to get ahead in the AI race could require M&A - Pitchbook post by @Car
- OpenAI announces new mentorship program for budding AI tech founders by @Coinsreporter
- AI pricing currently in a state of ‘pandemonium’ by @0xbitcoiner
- AI Sleeper Agents: How Anthropic Trains and Catches Them by @carter
- GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search by @carter
- A joint statement from OpenAI and Microsoft by @ch0k1 (#1220119 by @Coinsreporter)
- AI firm Mistral valued at $14 billion as chip giant ASML takes major stake by @ch0k1
- ChatGPT Developer Mode by @hn