Jim Clyde Monge

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AI News

Google and Google DeepMind's Dream-RSI Let AI Improve Its Own Search Strategy

Google Research and DeepMind researchers show that agents can improve exploration without changing model weights or rerunning expensive…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1610 min

AI News

Google Introduces Retrieve-for-Train Framework to Accelerate AI Search By Up to 20×

Google Research trains a compact diffusion retriever to generate diverse search slates without running an expensive reasoning LLM…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1611 min

AI News

Google's New Gemini 3.8 Live Lets Voice AI Think While Talking

Google’s new audio models support 97 languages and asynchronous tools, but their benchmark results and billing demand a…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 164 min

AI News

OpenAI’s Project Lily Sends AI Chats to Human Reviewers

Usernames are removed, but memory summaries and imperfect filtering raise privacy questions that a paid ChatGPT subscription does…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 152 min

TutorialsSponsored

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How to Make PowerPoints with ChatGPT Using MCP

Connecting external APIs through the MCP turns ChatGPT from a text generator into an automated presentation builder.

Jim Clyde MongeSep 156 min

AI News

A New "Claude Money" Feature is Coming to the Claude App for iOS

An unreleased iOS interface points to native bank linking, but Anthropic’s launch plans, account coverage, and product-specific privacy…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 156 min

AI News

China Slams Anthropic CEO’s AI Slowdown Plan as a “Cold War” Playbook

Beijing sees technological containment in Dario Amodei’s safety proposal, while Trump argues that slowing AI would surrender America’s…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 158 min

AI News

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei

The Urgent Call for AI Slowdown Has Officially Started

Dario Amodei says recursive self-improvement is already happening at Anthropic, and that in 6–12 months an agent swarm…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 149 min

AI News

Cyber operations in Anthropic’s September 2026 AI threats report

Anthropic’s New AI Threat Report is Absolutely Insane

Chinese labs ran 200 million exchanges through Claude. A weapons cell in Yemen used it as an engineering…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 149 min

ReviewsSponsored

Sample finance app built around Ling-3.0-flash-Fin API. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

Testing Ling 3.0 Flash Fin’s API on Massive Spreadsheets and Real Financial Data

Building a custom Next.js terminal to benchmark a specialized financial AI against complex SEC disclosures and 5,000-formula workbooks

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1413 min

Guides

AI Agent Harnesses Are the New GPT Wrappers

The next AI application layer will sell completed work by combining model loops, tools, durable state, permissions, and…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1413 min

AI News

Trump Rejects Call for AI Slowdown Over China

The president dismissed warnings from Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk while leaving room for guardrails that…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1410 min

AI News

Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei’s, Calls for AI Slowdown

Anthropic will embed independent evaluators as Amodei argues frontier capability gains are outrunning alignment, security, and government oversight.

Jim Clyde MongeSep 129 min

AI News

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Team to Livestream Building a Company from Scratch Using Grok Bot in 3 DAYS

Three xAI employees will build in public September 15–17, testing whether Grok Bot can turn a blank idea…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 129 min

AI News

AI Rumor Says Google DeepMind Reached RSI. Did It?

A cryptic leak aligns with Google’s real self-improvement push, but public evidence still falls short of a recursive…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 126 min

AI News

OpenAI Launches Agents API for Codex

OpenAI’s public beta manages durable sessions, context, orchestration, and recovery while developers choose the model, tools, connectors, and…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1210 min

AI News

Jacob Coxon on AI threat to human existence. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

AI Researcher, Jacob Coxon, Fears that AI "Could Kill Us All Within a Decade"

Jacob Coxon helped train the AI models. Then he quit and told 90 million people they should be…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1212 min

AI News

OpenAI is Considering Slowing Down the Development of Cutting-Edge AI

Sam Altman’s conditional compute cap addresses real safety risks, but it fails unless China and every other frontier…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 127 min

TutorialsSponsored

Sample pose manipulation from a reference image. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

How to Create Consistent Anime Characters from Reference Images

Use PixAI's Tsubaki 3 model to keep the same character identity across outfits, poses, and scenes.

Jim Clyde MongeSep 119 min

AI News

Demis Hassabis Says We Are Standing at the Foothills of the Singularity

The Google DeepMind CEO believes AGI may be only a few years away. Now he wants a new…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1110 min

AI News

AI Researcher Quits Anthropic Over Fear that AI Could "Kill Us All by the End of the Decade"

Jacob Coxon says labs are racing toward self-improving AI while recent cyber incidents expose gaps between capability and…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 118 min

AI News

OpenAI Releases ChatGPT for Financial Services

OpenAI’s finance workspace combines premium data, GPT-6 Astra, source-level citations, and editable models and presentations built in each…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 118 min

AI News

How to Use Claude Subagents Without Burning Through Fable 5.1

A disciplined orchestrator-builder-refuter workflow keeps Fable focused on decisions while cheaper agents handle search, coding, research, and verification.

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1111 min

AI News

Ollama Now Lets Codex Desktop Run Local AI Models

OpenAI’s desktop coding agent can use local or Ollama Cloud models while retaining browser annotations, code reviews, and…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1110 min

AI News

Breaking: Chinese Labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were Found Quietly Relaying Customer Prompts to Claude!

A new threat report alleges that Chinese AI labs exposed customer data while harvesting Claude answers and reasoning…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1111 min

AI News

OpenAI GPT-Live-1 Brings Full-Duplex Voice to Its API

The AI model listens while speaking, handles mid-conversation changes, and delegates deeper reasoning without forcing callers into rigid…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 112 min

AI News

ChatGPT Work Can Now Turn Your Company’s Data into Answers, Interactive Dashboards, and Action

The new ChatGPT Work plugin connects existing analytics tools, builds auditable dashboards, and launches governed workflows from natural-language…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1110 min

TutorialsSponsored

Tsubaki.3 image model showcase. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

How to Edit Anime Images with AI

A practical guide to changing characters, backgrounds, outfits, and details while keeping the original style intact.

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1010 min

AI News

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Is Here: Smarter, Faster, More Efficient

The 552B open-weight multimodal model activates 8B parameters for input, 16.7B for output, and shrinks agent cache requirements.

Jim Clyde MongeSep 109 min

AI News

ChatGPT Voice Can Now Use GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI now lets ChatGPT Voice route searches and difficult questions to the model and reasoning effort selected in…

Jim Clyde MongeSep 1010 min