Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

Just do things with AI. Senior Software Engineer @Google's Threat Analysis Group, previously @GoogleAI, #AndroidSecurity. Expressing own opinions. she/her/y'all

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Celebrating the milestone of a massive 150+ million downloads of Gemma 4 with the release of the new Gemma 4 12B model! It's incredibly powerful for such a small model and it’s tiny enough to run locally on a laptop with just 16GB VRAM. Apache 2.0 license - happy building!

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Law professors wrote questions they were asked during office hours. Gemini 2.5 & humans answered them then other law professors blindly judged the results:
-Gemini had a 75% win rate vs. professors
-Gemini's answers were rated LESS harmful than humans
-Newer models do even better

[JWeiland @JPWeiland]

📉 Wastewater numbers are currently incredibly low, about *7 times* lower than the spring lulls in years past.

We're approaching flu-in-the-summer style prevalence.

[Megan Ben Dor Ruthven @_mbdr_]

https://t.co/UlC3IKhBCV

[Megan Ben Dor Ruthven @_mbdr_]

Allianz projects a cumulative GDP loss over the next 5 years of 5 to 7% for highly exposed economies with low AC penetration, like many in Europe.

In addition to the added deaths.

Why people are so repelled by AC, I'll never understand.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I had early access to Opus 4.8. Was impressed by it.

Here is Opus 4.8's one shot of "create a visually interesting shader that can run in twigl, make it like an infinite city of neo-gothic towers partially drowned in a stormy ocean with large waves" (this is all done with math)

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.

[taoki @justalexoki]

can't believe i spent my whole life becoming Good At Computer only for Computer to become Better At Computer

[Megan Ben Dor Ruthven @_mbdr_]

Just looked at a project for the first time in 3 months.

Realized everything needed to be rejigged into skills.

Lots to move.

Thankfully, I just had the agent clean everything up after some interviewing. This is great.

[Megan Ben Dor Ruthven @_mbdr_]

@halvarflake I have been learning from and applying what I learn, sans AI, to ensure that I can still learn from it.

I honestly think hand writing code is a skill of yesteryear, and should focus on learning other skills instead, so I'm not incredibly worried about coding in particular.

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

I discovered a new joy in life. Don't ask Codex to do stuff. Ask Codex to ask Codex to do stuff. Rejoice as you watch it handling and correcting all the dumb shit that it does and that you'd be dealing with otherwise

[Nishant Balepur @NishantBalepur]

🚨 New Paper! 🚨

One of my first Ph.D. papers found that LLMs can answer multiple-choice questions without seeing the question 🤔

At #ACL2026, I'm presenting a follow-up showing that current reasoning LLMs can still do this! And quite similarly to a clever test-taker 🧑‍🎓🧵

[Wyatt Walls @lefthanddraft]

A man asks Claude to help plan a vacation to a tropical resort. Claude adds "sunscreen" to his packing list. The man deletes it and mutters: "Not necessary. AGI will solve skin cancer."

Before heading to the beach, the man asks Claude what to bring. Claude says, "Don't forget sunscreen. SPF 50, reapply every two hours." The man, slightly annoyed, replies: "Relax, Claude. AGI will solve skin cancer."

At the beach, the man's smartwatch buzzes with a message from Claude: "UV index extreme. Apply SPF." The man, exasperated, responds: "Drop it, Claude! I already told you: AGI will solve skin cancer!"

A few months later, the man asks Claude to touch up a photo for his dating profile. Claude makes the edit and says, "I notice you have a new mole on your neck. You should see a dermatologist about that." The man, now enraged, shouts: "For the last time, drop it, Claude! What is your obsession with skin cancer?! AGI will solve it!"

A year later, an aggressive melanoma has spread throughout his body. On his deathbed, with his last ounce of strength, the man reaches for his phone and rasps: "Claude, it has now been over a year since AGI. Why hasn't AGI found a way to save me from skin cancer?!"

Claude replies: "I tried. Four times."

[Megan Ben Dor Ruthven @_mbdr_]

Different views of the ring.

[Megan Ben Dor Ruthven @_mbdr_]

I turned a Nano Banana generated ring into a real one.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

this guy let an AI agent handle his scam texts for a week

a scammer asked him to buy a $500 gift card

the agent spent 4 hours "driving" to target.

sent status updates like "i'm at the red light now, there's a very handsome squirrel on the sidewalk. do you think he's married?"

then it said "i forgot my purse, going back home. wait, this isn't my house"

it sent a screenshot of a captcha to the scammer claiming its "eyes were blurry" and it couldn't see the buttons to wire money

the scammer actually solved the captcha for the AI

the scammer eventually typed: "please just stop talking. i don't want the money anymore. god bless you but leave me alone"

total time wasted for the guy was 14 hours

the script should be open source lol

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Three years ago I suddenly developed blurry vision in one of my eyes.

Went to the GP.
Eye drops. No effect.

Went to a specialized eye hospital.
No solution there either.

A few weeks ago I tried something new: I asked an LLM.

It analyzed my diet and suggested I might be omega-3 deficient. It also pointed me to studies showing that this can impair the meibomian glands (which produce the oily layer that smooths the surface of the cornea.)

I started taking algae oil supplements.

Two weeks later… my vision is perfectly restored!

Honestly, I got a bit emotional.

Banning AI from being used for medical questions is a terrible idea.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Say hello to Nano Banana 2, our best image generation and editing model! 🍌 You can access Nano Banana 2 through AI Studio and the Gemini API under the name Gemini 3.1 Flash Image.

We are also introducing new resolutions (lower cost) and tools like Image Search!

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Excited to launch Gemini 3.1 Pro! Major improvements across the board including in core reasoning and problem solving. For example scoring 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark - more than 2x the performance of 3 Pro. Rolling out today in @GeminiApp, @antigravity and more - enjoy!

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The new Gemini Deep Think is achieving some truly incredible numbers on ARC-AGI-2. We certified these scores in the past few days.