Weekly AI links: LLMs read and write neural weights, Anthropic rewrote API in Rust
njyx · x · 2026-11-09
Steven Willmott's weekly AI roundup highlights: LLMs can now natively read and write neural network weights — GPT-6 Astra can infer a network's training purpose from raw weights alone and, without any environment feedback, write from scratch small game-playing networks that outplay ones trained with PPO for 100 million steps, akin to gene editing but far faster than training if it pans out.
- Anthropic rewrote its Messages API in Rust: the author sees it as both a showcase of Claude's coding ability and a bad look — feeding narratives that specialist developers are obsolete and implementations may be careless, questioning the rush toward critical infrastructure humans can no longer understand.
- OpenAI claims its query volume now equals 20% of Google's search traffic, while Airbnb's CEO says personal agents are not a meaningful traffic share — which the author likens to dismissing the internet's commercial impact in 1997.
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