Glen Rhodes

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Google DeepMind Predicting the Past: Gemini-powered tool lets historians query ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in plain English via Antigravity skill system
ByGlen Rhodes July 7, 2026

The Ancient World Just Got a New Interface There’s a category of AI application that doesn’t get enough attention. Not chatbots. Not code assistants. The ones that take a domain with deep specialist knowledge, decades of accumulated tooling that only experts can use, and quietly remove the barrier between the question and the answer. Google…

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Anthropic J-space discovery: global workspace theory applied to Claude’s internal neural activations for interpretability and hidden goal detection
ByGlen Rhodes July 6, 2026

Anthropic Just Found Claude’s Inner Monologue And it has opinions it never shares with you. Last week Anthropic published research that genuinely shifted how I think about what’s happening inside these models. They identified what they’re calling the J-space inside Claude, a structure in the raw neural activations that behaves, in measurable ways, like the…

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Question: as AI generates full interactive worlds from prompts, what is the actual skill of a software engineer going forward?
ByGlen Rhodes July 5, 2026

The Question Nobody in Engineering Wants to Answer Karpathy posted something last week that I haven’t been able to shake. He was watching Claude Fable 5 generate real-time ThreeJS environments from prompts, full 3D scenes with physics, lighting, interactive objects, and he wrote: “I didn’t appreciate that models would be able to create these awesome,…

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Contrarian take on enterprise AI data ownership: who actually captures the value from your model corrections and feedback signals
ByGlen Rhodes July 4, 2026

The Question Nobody Asks Before Signing the AI Contract You spend six months integrating a third-party model into your core workflow. Your team corrects its mistakes every day. You build prompt chains tuned to your industry. You feed it your proprietary documents, your edge cases, your institutional knowledge. And then you renew the contract, and…

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Prediction: voice AI infrastructure will consolidate around single-stack providers faster than text AI did, driven by latency physics
ByGlen Rhodes July 3, 2026

Voice AI Will Consolidate Faster Than Text AI Did. Here’s Why That’s Already Happening. The text AI market took years to sort itself out. Dozens of API providers, model wrappers, and orchestration layers competed for developer attention, and honestly that competition produced good things. But voice is a different animal, and I think we’re about…

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xAI Voice Agent Builder single-stack architecture and $0.05/min pricing insight
ByGlen Rhodes July 2, 2026

The Voice AI Problem Nobody Talks About I have built voice pipelines the hard way. Speech-to-text from one vendor, a language model from a second, text-to-speech from a third. It works. Until it doesn’t. And when it breaks at 2am, you get to play a very fun game of “which API is lying to me…

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xAI Voice Agent Builder launch: single-stack voice agent platform with Grok Voice at $0.05/min
ByGlen Rhodes July 1, 2026

The Ugly Truth About Voice AI Stacks (And Why xAI’s New Platform Might Fix It) If you have ever built a production voice agent, you know the specific kind of 3am dread that comes with it. Not the “did I push bad code” dread. The “which of my three vendors broke and who do I…

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OpenAI GeneBench-Pro: novel benchmark for AI agent judgment in messy biological research workflows
ByGlen Rhodes June 30, 2026

GeneBench-Pro and the Benchmark That Actually Matters Most AI benchmarks are designed to be solved. That’s the problem. You format the question cleanly, the model retrieves the right token sequence, the number goes up, the press release goes out. Meanwhile, anyone who has spent time in actual computational biology is quietly losing their mind, because…

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Meta releases Brain2Qwerty v2: real-time non-invasive brain-to-text decoder with open-source training code published alongside Nature paper
ByGlen Rhodes June 29, 2026

Brain2Qwerty v2 Is the Quiet BCI Announcement Everyone Missed While the AI world spent the week dissecting GPT-5.6 naming conventions and token-per-second benchmarks, Meta dropped something that I think will matter far more in ten years. Brain2Qwerty v2. Real-time brain-to-text decoding. No implants. Open-sourced. Published in Nature. And almost nobody is talking about it. Let…

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Anthropic Claude Mythos 5 partial government clearance restored for US critical infrastructure organizations
ByGlen Rhodes June 28, 2026

The AI Clearance Divide Is Becoming Policy Something quiet but significant happened this week. Anthropic announced that the US government has notified them that Claude Mythos 5, their strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a specific set of US organizations working on critical infrastructure defense. This follows a lockdown that began June 12. Not…

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