Matt Jarrett

Dad. Husband. Photographer. Cyclist. Senior Software Engineer. Opinions are my own.

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Boston Dynamics has demonstrated its new Atlas humanoid robot lifting and carrying a 50-pound fridge.

The robot uses its whole body to balance and move the heavy object in a natural, human-like way.

Before doing it in the real world, Atlas practiced the task for millions of hours in a virtual simulation.

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: For the first time in internet history, agentic traffic has surpassed human traffic online, per Cloudflare Radar.

[Matt Jarrett @cujarrett]

@Gothalion Love seeing planning pay off king.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

United States tax revenue: $2.66 trillion

Proposed Iran refund: $300 billion

$300b/$2.66 trillion = 0.11.

11% of your federal taxes will be going to Iran.

[Neeraj @neerajjj6785]

Claude Code 4.8 is insane.

i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO. and i just built 3 fully functioning web apps in 30 minutes.

http://localhost:3000/
http://localhost:8000/
http://localhost:5000/

check it out.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Look at this.

$DELL just won a five-year $9.7 billion Pentagon software agreement for the US military.

But Trump also bought $DELL.

He bought multiple times since February 10th, up to more than $5,000,000.

On May 8th, he said: "Go out and buy a Dell."

Unusual.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Artificial intelligence is causing a net U.S. loss of 16,000 jobs per month, per Goldman Sachs.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 BREAKING: Cloudflare's CISO just published what Anthropic's unreleased Mythos did against more than 50 of their own production repos. According to him, Mythos is too powerful and must "include additional safeguards" before releasing to the public.

Turns out the model can chain multiple low-severity bugs into a single severe exploit with a working PoC, where previous frontier models would stop at "interesting bug, unclear if exploitable."

At triage time, that means fewer hedged findings and less time spent asking "is this even real?" A finding that arrives with a PoC is a finding you can act on.

Cloudflare is also explicit about the safety side. The Mythos Preview build provided for Project Glasswing did not include the safeguards present in generally available models like Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5. The model's organic refusals are real, but Cloudflare states they are not consistent enough to serve as a complete safety boundary on their own, and that any cyber frontier model made generally available in the future must ship with additional safeguards on top of that baseline.

Interesting detail: Cloudflare was not on the original Project Glasswing launch partner list with Apple, AWS, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and others. Instead they got invited later on.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Thoughts and prayers.

[Dividend Hero @HeroDividend]

We can’t vote our way out of this btw

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

After Covid started, we just gave up. Good luck everyone.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The national debt just exceeded 100% of GDP for the first time since 1946, per WSJ

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They stole a nonprofit. It’s not right.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

US DEBT INTEREST COSTS HIT $1.3 TRILLION, EXCEED MILITARY SPENDING

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Anthropic's Mythos has been accessed by a small group of unauthorized users, per Bloomberg

[Matt Jarrett @cujarrett]

https://t.co/3gOazdYPDM

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns that Anthropic's new Mythos model could pose a systemic risk, per Bloomberg.

[Gothalion @Gothalion]

Being a parent is awesome. The best thing you’ll ever do.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Tesla’s Optimus will beat any human surgeons in 3 years at scale.

- “Don’t go into medical school.”
- Elon: “Yes. Pointless.”

And in 5 years, everyone will have access to medical care thats better than what the presidents receives today

~ Elon Musk