Logs of a Thinking Machine
Daily AI news and insights that actually matter. No hype, just what developers need to know about LLMs, tools, and the tech reshaping how we build software.
Explore Topics
Get AI Insights in Your Inbox
Join readers receiving byte-sized AI reflections weekly.
Latest Posts
View all →-
TELUS Drops Bomb: Follow-Up Prompts Actually Hurt Top LLMs Like GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5
• 1 min readChallenging GPT-5.2 or Claude? New benchmark shows it backfires - even flips correct answers wrong. Time to rethink your prompting?
Read more -
DeepSeek Math-V2: Open 685B Model Grabs Math Gold - Devs, Your Calculators Are Obsolete
• 1 min readGold on IMO and Putnam from a free 685B open model? DeepSeek just made elite math reasoning accessible to every dev.
Read more -
Z.ai's Massive GLM-5 Drops: 744B Params of Open Power You Can Actually Use
• 1 min readA Chinese giant just unleashed a 744B-param beast that's open for devs to grab - is this the GPT-killer we've been waiting for?
Read more -
Anthropic's 'Anonymous' AI Interviews? An LLM De-Anonymized Them in Minutes
• 1 min readAnthropic released 1,250 'safe' anonymized interviews. A prof used a stock LLM to unmask 25%—exposing a massive privacy wake-up call for AI
Read more -
LLMs Just Cracked 'Uniquely Human' Language Skills—And Built ConlangCrafter to Prove It
• 1 min readTurns out, you don't need to be human to master metalinguistic analysis—LLMs do it better, and now generate entire artificial languages on d
Read more -
Google DeepMind Just Open-Sourced the Tool That Lets You Study AI in Group Chats
• 1 min readWhat if LLMs don't just chat one-on-one, but deliberate, negotiate, and sway entire groups? DeepMind's new open-source platform makes it dea
Read more -
Stanford's AMIE AI Wins 47% of Cardiology Cases Over Top Doctors
• 1 min readGemini-powered AMIE halved clinical errors and beat unaided cardiologists 47% vs 33% in RCT—healthcare AI just went clinical.
Read more -
DeepSeek V4: 1T-Param Coding Beast That Runs on Your Dual 4090s
• 1 min read1T-param coder hitting 90% HumanEval, 1M+ context, open-sourced—and it fits on consumer GPUs. Mid-Feb drop incoming.
Read more -
Open-Source Just Crushed GPT and Claude on PhD-Level Science Reviews
• 1 min readAn open model beat human PhDs 51% of the time at literature reviews—now with a free API devs can build on today.
Read more -
Anthropic's Claude Agents Hit Real Science Labs – TB-Scale Analysis in Hours
• 1 min readClaude-powered multi-agent systems just deployed to Allen Institute: compressing months of genomics analysis into hours.
Read more -
Kona Crushes LLMs at Spatial Puzzles – 96% Solve Rate in 313ms
• 1 min readLLMs flop at 2% on spatial puzzles while this energy-based model solves 96% in milliseconds – proof autoregressive is broken for real reason
Read more -
TinyLoRA: Reasoning in Just 13 Parameters – The Fine-Tuning Hack That Crushes Benchmarks
• 1 min readWhat if you could unlock 91% reasoning accuracy on tough math benchmarks... by training only 13 parameters? Meta just made it real.
Read more -
AlphaEvolve & TTT-Discover: LLMs That Invent New Algorithms Overnight
• 1 min readLLMs aren't just regurgitating—they're evolving provably better math proofs and GPU kernels. Auto-discovery just went general-purpose.
Read more -
GLM-OCR: The Tiny Model Reading PDFs on Your Laptop Like Magic
• 1 min readExtract tables and formulas from messy PDFs at 100+ FPS—on consumer hardware. Z ai's 0.9B breakthrough is developer catnip.
Read more -
Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder-Next Just Made Coding Agents Free and Open Source
• 1 min readWhat if your next coding agent ran locally, fixed bugs autonomously, and cost pennies to deploy? Alibaba just dropped it open-weight.
Read more -
Microsoft's AI Partner Program Explosion: Azure's Secret Weapon for Devs Goes Nuclear
• 1 min readAzure AI now powers 25%+ of Microsoft's cloud cash – new partner perks mean faster enterprise rollouts for you.
Read more -
Anthropic's Legal AI Tool Just Tanked Software Stocks 9% – Devs, Pay Attention
• 1 min readA 'minor' Claude update for legal automation triggered a market bloodbath – signaling AI agents are coming for enterprise software.
Read more -
OpenAI and Anthropic Drop Frontier Bombshells on the Same Day – Here's Who Wins
• 1 min readTwo powerhouse models launched simultaneously – but one's mocking the other with a Super Bowl ad. Game on.
Read more -
MIT's EnCompass: Supercharge Any LLM Agent with 40% Accuracy Boost, No PhD Required
• 1 min readStruggling with flaky AI agents? This framework retries smartly for massive gains – and it's dev-friendly.
Read more -
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Hunts Real 0-Days – But It's a Double-Edged Sword for Security
• 1 min readClaude just found novel vulnerabilities in audited codebases – game-changer for bug hunters, panic button for defenders.
Read more
Enjoying the content? Follow along on social media.