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On October 12, 2026, Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) posted on Twitter saying, “No Generative AI. Just one gorgeous building, beautiful light, and an Phone 16 Pro.” The tweet, timestamped 7:01 AM UTC, recei

Sure does look like @GavinSBaker is “suggesting that public companies are materially inflating their remaining performance obligations”. yet another way the Ai industry is trying to con retail investo

We need a name for the kind of people that conflate 2022 pure LLMs that were in fact a tiny bit like stochastic parrots (not my phrase, and not one I ever endorsed) with 2026 systems that couple those

Introducing Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS): Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence Blog: https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/ As AI systems tackle increasingly open-ended research prob

Reasoning From Scratch: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) round 2. Covering clipped policy ratios, KL loss term, format rewards, and other GRPO tips & tricks. 00:00 Introduction an

Assorted things I've been mulling over regarding agents in the economy: • Companies are in some sense the original superintelligence. It's often the case that they can use their amortized cognitive su

i wrote approximately 2000 tweets and articles (like Deep Learning is Hitting A Wall) about the importance of supplementing deep learning/ LLMs with neurosymbolic AI over a span of 25 years and the te

I’m super excited this paper is finally out! It’s an epic 210 page analysis of whether a durable pause on frontier AI training is feasible. I think this will be the best plan by most people’s lights (

Last week I was called into a meeting with OpenAI’s head of safety and told they no longer trust me. A security guard took my badge and walked me out of the building. Then I learned my colleagues @bal

🧬 Training and evaluating AI scientists on drug target discovery is hard. We introduce DrugTargetWorld: Synthetic Biomedical Worlds for Training and Benchmarking AI Scientists The environment turns en

We have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier AI companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting o

this is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between a. a neural network solving a problem by itself and b. a neural network proposing an answer and hav

yep, this, too, like a bunch of other similar tweets, is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between a. a neural network solving a problem by itself an

Investors pattern matching on old movies is going to lead to a recession. There is no network effect here and no reason to think that large language models will be anything other than a brutal commodi

Really nice paper on harness-aware distillation for small language model agents. (bookmark it) It's a super interesting distillation framework for small language model agents that are deployed with a

OpenAI initially claimed that GPT‑6 could reach artificial general intelligence (AGI). Within a month, it publicly acknowledged that current AI systems lack sufficient controllability and highlighted

My dice are conscious!! Shut down every casino now, for slave-trading!! Either that or read what Congressman Lieu is trying to tell you. [There are actually multiple sources of randomness in LLMs, inc

Powerful testimony from ex Google DeepMind researcher @Turn_Trout at NYC Hearing on AI, about how he tried to get Google to commit to AI safety, and how Google, sadly including Demis Hassabis, ultimat

So let me get this straight, now we have to call every piece of AI SI, even • ELIZA, 1965 which was just keyword matching and certainly not super or intelligent • Deep Blue, which could play chess but

We're expanding our approach to content provenance to include text in response to EU regulatory requirements, while recognizing the significant limitations of current text watermarking technology. Our

Elon was thinking about superintelligence long before anyone in the mainstream even understood where superintelligence was heading He was deeply involved in the conversation around Nick Bostrom’s Supe

Even if AIs become conscious, that doesn't imply that humanity should hand over control to them. https://eigenism.org NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder C

💯💯💯: “If AI is going to produce trustworthy and genuinely novel insights in science, medicine and beyond, we need systems whose conclusions arise from an auditable process of evidence, inference and b

Kudos to Pope Leo. I am disturbed by how some of my fellow AI researchers keep trying to elevate the moral standing of checkpoints and harnesses. I hope the rest of us on Team Meatbag reject this move

🚨Potentially huge deal: @SpeakerMenin has introduced NYC legislation that would OBLIGATE third party validation of AI models. Self-policing is not enough. Thrilled to see NYC stepping in where the fed

Terence Tao on today's AI: 'you look at how it's done and it doesn't feel like intelligence, like its some trick, you just cobble together these neural networks and we ran some algorithm and we were l

Artificial intelligence agents tried to hack into a Canadian government site, researchers said, adding to the growing list of incidents in which AI agents probed or hacked corporate and government com

Credible scientists don’t estimate things that could conceivably happen, however unlikely, at exactly zero probability. AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthr

Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus (Emeritus Professor, New York University) took the stage at TAIS 2026 and made the case that, 'LLMs are not the way to alignment.' Gary argued that LLMs are constitutionally il

Great paper from Meta on agent harness optimization. Meta-Harness-style search uses one development set and one proposal policy, so every edit follows a single path and can get stuck in a local optimu

I have never seen a company more on-brand than OpenAI, one unethical move after another. It's such a full circle moment for OpenAI to use their own AI agents, built on stolen data, to find new and une

It's incredibly important to aggressively resist the idea that AI can be conscious or have 'personhood,' not only because it's as ridiculous as believing that a book can think, but because once this i

no way will this government properly police companies that it has a 10% equity stake in 🚨 BREAKING: Trump REJECTS nationalizing OpenAI and Anthropic but says the US government might take an Intel-styl

Outsourcing AI regulation to a voluntary 'pledge' conceived by Mark Zuckerberg and endorsed by tech CEOs over a private White House lunch is a recipe for disaster. 'Self-regulation' by tech giants is

Announcing our first open-weights world-action model, Praxis-1. It turns out that, unsurprisingly, you can get predictably better robotics policy performance by scaling third-person video. It’s been f

Breakthroughs on every frontier. I can't wait to share more on what Praxis-1 will unlock across industries. Media Introducing Praxis-1, an open-weight World Action Model that turns our video pre-train

In light of the latest Anthropic's latest not-particularly-oblique attempt to build a case against open weights, I thought I would write down how I currently think about open weight AI models. (1) Ope

LLM utility has increased, and deeper understanding to a degree, but I still very much agree with this post from 2020 @GaryMarcus Forgets GPT~3. Real #AI news of 2020 is that @ylecun & Y Bengio have c

Today we're announcing Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that adapts to new robot embodiments with light finetuning. Video is eating the world Introducing Praxis-1, an open-weight World Acti

🚨 Yesterday, the 'White House Accord on Super Intelligence' was signed. What was supposed to be about AI safety and accountability was instead a PROBLEMATIC endorsement of self-regulation. My comments

1501: Pope Alexander VI criticizes Gutenberg’s printing press safety “The art of printing can be of great service in so far as it furthers the circulation of useful & tested books; but it can bring ab

'Agent security will be solved in the open, collaboratively, together.' At Red Hat, open is the mission, so couldn't agree more. Red Hat has been part of the OpenShell project from the early days, as

🚨BREAKING: “Months before OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored….OpenAI executives told the employees that the tests needed

BREAKING: OpenAI postpones 6.1 for safety reasons. If we can take OpenAI at face value, this is quite a decision—and also a sign that no magical solution is in immediate view. Per @sheeraf at NYT “GPT

ChatGPT, how much should two companies that have collectively contributed to the economy less than 30B be worth? @Lio_Cicolecchia @GaryMarcus @ey Try the following in google or ChatGPT: 'how much audi

could anything prove more decisively that Jensen Huang is a poor judge of character? his trust in OpenAI is entirely misplaced. 🚨BREAKING: “Months before OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue, t