Battle Drones—a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer...

Simon Willison built Battle Drones, a fun strategy game for phones and computers, with help from coding agents. It offers 3D battles, several game modes, and AI opponents. Two nearby devices can even play together by sending messages through sound.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones/

Training Your Own Models is an Incredibly Stupid Idea...

Training a model on company data is expensive and often poor at learning new facts. Better reasoning, retrieval, and memory can improve results without retraining. The author argues that most companies should invest in these tools instead of building their own models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.artificialintelligencemadesimple.com/p/training-your-own-models-is-an-incredibly

30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts)...

AI has improved rapidly, becoming more capable and much cheaper, though its skills remain uneven. People are shifting from chatting with AI to assigning tasks to AI agents and checking their work. These changes bring new opportunities and risks, so people need to know when to rely on AI and when not to.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/30-months-on-the-exponential-in-charts

Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling...

The author argues that Anthropic’s draft AI bill weakens state protections without strong enough federal safeguards. He says this conflicts with the company’s safety ideals and suggests it may be prioritizing rapid AI development. He wants Anthropic to explain its goals and take steps to prevent this from happening again.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-does-not-understand-why

Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun...

AI is beginning to speed up scientific discovery and transform the economy. With planning and investment, it could bring better health, more food, energy, and wealth. Strong oversight is vital to share its benefits and limit its risks.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-477-in-which-i-tell-the

[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback...

DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference system it uses to serve its AI models. The company reports extremely high throughput and says caching helps make serving efficient. The figures are not independently audited and do not prove the claimed profits.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-deepseek-deepinfer-open-source

The Sequence Knowledge - Issue #954: Learning RSI: How AI Learns to Design Learning Algorithms...

DiscoRL and the next level of recursive improvement.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-sequence-knowledge-issue-954