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Simon Willison, commenting on the recent paper from Apple researchers that found state-of-the-art large language models face complete performance collapse beyond certain complexity thresholds: I thought this paper got way more attention than it warranted -- the title "The Illusion of Thinking" captured the attention of the "LLMs are over-hyped junk" crowd. I saw enough well-reasoned rebuttals that I didn't feel it worth digging into. And now, notable LLM skeptic Gary Marcus has saved me some time by aggregating the best of those rebuttals together in one place! [...] And therein lies my disagreement. I'm not interested in whether or not LLMs are the "road to AGI". I continue to care only about whether they have useful applications today, once you've understood their limitations. Reasoning LLMs are a relatively new and interesting twist on the genre. They are demonstrably able to solve a whole bunch of problems that previous LLMs were unable to handle, hence why we've seen a rush of new models from OpenAI and Anthropic and Gemini and DeepSeek and Qwen and Mistral. They get even more interesting when you combine them with tools. They're already useful to me today, whether or not they can reliably solve the Tower of Hanoi or River Crossing puzzles.

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Justin Bieber's Father's Day reportedly ended in a bitter showdown with his wife Hailey after he spent the day posting bizarre messages on Instagram.

Police want to make sure that she is okay

Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are calling on the union to demand that the NHS adopts a 'national maximum workplace temperature'.

The festival really has something for everyone, from rock to classical music and everyone dresses up

A social media user discovered something about the beloved doll after they took it apart that has left people all across the web 'terrified.'

Friday's (20 June 2025) instalment of the racy Channel 4 show welcomes a new married couple into the mix - Sharmayne, 26, and Jamie, 29, from Essex.

Former MMA fighter Conor McGregor, 36, was carousing at the Pacha nightclub on the Spanish island of Ibiza on Tuesday morning when he was said to have struck the man

Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue

A European court has advised [PDF] that Google's appeal against a ruling that found it had abused its market dominance should be dismissed.…

The much-loved presenter, 49, took a trip to the doctors in January after experiencing an increasing number of heart palpitations.

Apple software chief Craig Federighi has ruled out bringing macOS to the iPad, amusingly using a kitchen utensil analogy to explain the company's design philosophy. "We don't want to create a boat car or, you know, a spork," Federighi said in an interview. "Someone said, 'If a spoon's great, a fork's great, then let's combine them into a single utensil, right?' It turns out it's not a good spoon and it's not a good fork. It's a bad idea. And so we don't want to build sporks." The new version of iPadOS, which will ship to consumers later this year, features dynamically resizable windows that users can drag by their corners and a menu bar that is accessible through swipe gestures or cursor movement. Some observers might consider the iPad Pro itself a "convertible" product that blurs the line between tablet and laptop, he said. However, the Mac and iPad serve distinct purposes, he asserted. "The Mac lets the iPad be iPad," he said adding that Apple's objective "has not been to have iPad completely displace those places where the Mac is the right tool for the job." Rather than full convergence, Federighi said the iPad "can be inspired by elements of the Mac" while remaining a separate platform. "I think the Mac can be inspired by elements of iPad, and I think that that's happened a great deal."

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Trevor Robinson was left 'heartbroken' when he was forced to ditch the former piece of play-equipment from the front garden of his semi-detached home in Gillingham, Kent.

Feds told they can't demand a haystack to find a needle

The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge's ruling that obtaining tower dumps is unconstitutional.…

Exercise is about far more than losing weight. However, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in working off body fat at the gym...

The pair's first episode on the popular Channel 4 reality show (pictured) is set to air tomorrow night.

A follow-up to the 'great' 2002 film 28 Days Later, Boyle and Garland assembled a star-studded cast including Harry Potter star Ralph and fellow Brit Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

A 35-year-old woman was diagnosed with a nasty digestive issue that can cause painful bloating, excess gas and even bone diseases after a 15-year-long stint of constipation.

When Lorna Rooke's NHS colleagues entered her personality traits into a light-hearted online quiz they had no idea this apparently innocent piece of workplace banter would lead to a court hearing.

In updated advice, the regulator has warned the products are not suitable for children under seven. It comes as amid a surge in horrifying reports of children collapsing.

The teen was seen taking orders and attempting to work the register behind the counter at a Dunkin' Donuts drive-thru this week.