Scrine is a reading app designed to make books and long articles easier to finish by presenting them in small, swipeable sections, usually one or two sentences at a time. Readers can import EPUB, PDF, Word, Markdown, HTML, or text files, paste an article link, or choose from thousands of public-domain classics. The app also offers a full-page view, continuous scrolling text, and a one-word-at-a-time mode, with adjustable pacing and optional bolding at the start of each word. Highlights, notes, bookmarks, chapter quizzes, reading streaks, and statistics help readers keep track of their progress.
An AI tutor powered by Claude explains passages in context at a chosen level, answers follow-up questions, rewrites difficult text in plainer language, and creates quizzes; users can save answers to their notes. The free plan includes the swipe reader, personal books and articles, notes, bookmarks, the public-domain library, and three AI answers. Paid Plus and Pro subscriptions add other reading modes and, at the Pro level, unlimited AI help, follow-up conversations, quizzes, and rewrites. Scrine is available on iPhone running iOS 17 or later, as well as through a browser-based web app. It imports DRM-free files, not Kindle books protected by copy restrictions; adding personal books requires a free account.
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Democrats’ gains in the 2026 elections could bring new scrutiny of AI, datacenter expansion, and Elon Musk when the new Congress takes office in 2027. Political backlash against these issues is growing. (theregister.com)
samir-vllm is a small LLM inference engine built from scratch. The repository includes over six hours of video tutorials and 85 pages of handwritten notes. (github.com)
Opting out of Google’s AI search removed the site from AI Overviews and AI Mode within an hour, wiping out 500-1,000 daily impressions - about 10% of its search impressions. The site kept its top organic ranking, but links in AI answers had a 0.9% click-through rate; visibility returned quickly after opting back in. (signal.zyppy.com)
South African author Coral Hart has published more than 370 books in 20 months using several AI models and a detailed process she designed. Despite online abuse and death threats, she says AI is here to stay and that its writing has improved rapidly. (enca.com)
Next-Concept Modeling generates text by predicting hierarchical discrete codes in parallel, moving from coarse representations to finer details. It runs 10-31 times faster than strong diffusion baselines on text benchmarks and outperforms autoregressive and diffusion models on Sudoku reasoning. (arxiv.org)
An analysis of 1,400 Claude Code sessions found Opus 5.5’s reasoning behavior and output in high mode changed sharply on November 3, despite no model-name change. In a bug-fixing test, xhigh solved the issue in minutes while high struggled for hours. (twitter.com)
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