Morning Paper

Sep 1, 2025

Long Live The Black Parade
We saw My Chemical Romance at Soldier Field on Friday night. Still reeling from how good of a show it was. At one point the entire stage was on fire, and they had a guy in a fire suit run across.
Diverted mode
James Dyer and I both ran into the same workflow snag when fixing source indentation. He explains it best: You’re working in a file with inconsistent indentation You want to fix the entire buffer’s formatting You run C-x h (select all) followed by M-x indent-region Your mark is now at the beginning of the buffer,...
Happy Bell Riots Day, to all who celebrate
August 2025 newsletter
I just sent out my August 2025 sponsors-only newsletter summarizing the past month in LLMs and my other work. Topics included GPT-5, gpt-oss, image editing models (Qwen-Image-Edit and Gemini Nano Banana), other significant model releases and the tools I'm using at the moment. If you'd like a preview of the newsletter, here's the July 2025...
Introducing gpt-realtime
Introducing gpt-realtime Released a few days ago (August 28th), gpt-realtime is OpenAI's new "most advanced speech-to-speech model". It looks like this is a replacement for the older gpt-4o-realtime-preview model that was released last October. This is a slightly confusing release. The previous realtime...
Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights Cloudflare launched this dashboard back in February, incorporating traffic analysis from Cloudflare's network along with insights from their popular 1.1.1.1 DNS service. I found this chart particularly interesting, showing which documented AI crawlers are most active collecting training data - lead...
2025-09-01 Emacs news
People continue to share interesting Emacs elevator pitches. The Emacs Carnival September theme is "Obscure packages." Recommend a hidden gem! Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
Bear is now source-available
Updates to the Bear license