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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Google ai open web

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Data & Society Taylor Lorenz Kashmir Hill Christopher Mims kate conger nilay patel Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Dare Obasanjo +1

“As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...”

“Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytim…”

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Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social a billion people a month use ChatGPT. It has more users than Wikipedia does, and is by any metric the fastest growing product in history. There’s a lot of complex and importan…
Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social because life is too short to argue on the internet with random strangers, and because I’m on vacation. Muting you now, have a great life!
Luis Villa: @viperx83.bsky.social anyway here’s Cloudflare data saying human web browsing is falling off a cliff https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html
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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

arxiv.org

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Grace Luis Villa

“Bluesky loves to Trust the Experts until it comes to this particular issue. Here's Prof. Eric Schwitzgebel on the subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09858”

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Grace: Bluesky loves to Trust the Experts until it comes to this particular issue. Here's Prof. Eric Schwitzgebel on the subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09858
Grace: The article overall is pretty measured and reasonable. I do have qualms with the "character-level" interventions mentioned here, as the relationship to subjective experience is unclear, and might d…
Grace: Thank you!
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Established Models & releases Analysis 3d ago
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LLM reasoning effort control analysis

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

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Luis Villa

“@gremblor.com (you probably already know this but good intro that I happen to be in the middle of https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/controlling-reasoning-effort-in-llms?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web )”

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Tim Kellogg: GLM-5.5 is supposedly landing in August. Probably not Fable-level, but close, and larger than 1T (which for a GLM, i’ll expect a 2-4T feel)
Luis Villa: @gremblor.com that may just be that it is surfacing reasoning traces more than other models?
Luis Villa: @gremblor.com (you probably already know this but good intro that I happen to be in the middle of https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/controlling-reasoning-effort-in-llms?utm_campaign=post&utm_…
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 6d ago
John Henry cerebellum AI labor essay

the legend of john henry's cerebellum

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Luis Villa

“This essay makes me want to re-read Drucker’s Effective Executive, because the world @dsquareddigest.bsky.social describes is one where more people are acting as (good) executives—making hard decisions and only hard decisions. https://backofmind.substack.co…”

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