Today's Hallucination HQThe Library: Now Your Best Weapon Against Silicon Valley
Libraries have always been quietly radical, and they're at it again. "Avoiding AI" workshops — teaching people how to search the web without feeding data to tech giants, use privacy tools, and generally exist without being processed — are now turning people away at the door. The irony of physically travelling to a public building to learn how to opt out of the digital economy is not lost on anyone. Except, perhaps, the tech giants paying close attention to the trend.
Source: TechCrunch
Governments Poke China's Kimi K3 with a Stick, Find It Concerning
The UK's AI Safety Institute and its US counterpart CAISI have jointly assessed Kimi K3 — a powerful model from Chinese AI lab Moonshot — for cyber capabilities, and the preliminary findings suggest it could meaningfully assist with offensive cyber operations. This is the sort of result that politely confirms what most people already suspected. The joint assessment framework itself is notable: two governments quietly agreeing that independent benchmarking of frontier models is probably a good idea before something goes sideways.
Source: NIST
Del Toro Draws a Line in the Faun-Haunted Dark
Guillermo del Toro, directing the 3D re-release of Pan's Labyrinth, has pledged — with characteristic composure — that there will be "absolutely no goddamn AI" in the production. While Hollywood studios increasingly treat AI as an exciting new budget line, del Toro remains constitutionally opposed. The original film was a handcrafted masterpiece of practical effects and obsessive detail. The idea of algorithmically upscaling it is a bit like asking a robot to restore a Vermeer using stock brushstrokes.
Source: Rolling Stone
AI Sits the Maths Olympiad. Results Are… Complicated.
The International Mathematical Olympiad makes an excellent AI benchmark for a clean reason: the problems are genuinely new, so no model could have memorised the answers. Researchers compared leading LLMs on IMO 2026 problems and found a spread of results that tells a more nuanced story than the usual "AI solves everything" headlines. Top models showed real capability on structured multi-step reasoning. They also showed, with admirable consistency, that raw intelligence and reliable accuracy remain rather different things.
Source: r/MachineLearning
South Korea Arrives in Silicon Valley With a Declaration and a Shopping List
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung touched down in Silicon Valley and promptly announced the "San Francisco AI Declaration," a framework for international AI cooperation that sounds statesmanlike and probably took considerable effort to name. The visit also produced a cascade of Nvidia partnerships, because no AI-themed diplomatic trip is complete without Jensen Huang somewhere in the background. South Korea's ambitions in AI infrastructure are serious; this trip appears designed to ensure Silicon Valley knows it.
Source: Digitimes
Until tomorrow — stay curious, stay sceptical, and perhaps consider visiting your local library.
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