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imo there’s a pretty solid default recipe that everyone should use to optimize a system of Agent = Model + Harness you should “train” both 1. Build v1 agent using a sensible base harness and some task

Indeed, I don’t think Trump has thought through the implications. This will simply provide even more incentive- as if any was needed - for UK/European players & states to head towards Sovereign AI, ai

It is a really good time to store up a few of your hardest, most valuable, and most unusual ideas - whether for work, hobbies, or a new venture. Thanks to AI, really good & unique ideas are getting ex

LOL. Even Claude sees through Hinton’s nonsense. (though see the articles I posted earlier, for converging sources I put more weight on) This is my prompt and this is Claude's response: ME: What do yo

Member of Technical Staff (RSI Lab) https://sakana.ai/careers/member-of-technical-staff-rsi-lab/ If you are a visionary builder ready to move to Tokyo and engineer the engine of recursive discovery, w

More of these types of stories should be written about SpaceX’s IPO. Thousands of folks who would traditionally not had access to ownership in a company are about to have an awesome outcome. I had the

New MIT study. Code volume surges by 300%, but output increases by only 30%: The AI dividend meets an awkward reality Autonomous AI coding agents raised commits by 180%, but releases rose only 30%. Th

not sure i see the issue here Just learned: Software engineers used to do manual data labeling at Scale AI while Alex Wang was CEO. After he left, new leadership joined, and were HORRIFIED to learn th

Gary Marcus argues that as public awareness grows regarding AI's societal costs, a rhetorical strategy is being employed to reframe or minimize these costs by presenting them as marginal or inevitable

of course he wants to marginalize any objections to AI.* *exact dollar figures of course depend on dilution and the size of the angel investment etc. David Sacks invested in SpaceX at a 27 million val

One of the more interesting takes on positive alignment that have recently come out-it’s long and interesting, combining philosophy and training setups (eg reward proposals), and worth a read. What ha

one popular theory is that research paper alpha* and lab publishing ~died when researchers realized that instead of fighting with marketing depts they could simply walk out the door and get >$100m for

Gary Marcus critiques the AI industry for its massive financial losses, noting that collectively the sector has lost over half a trillion dollars at an alarming rate of approximately one million dolla

Gary Marcus cautions that when an IPO company attempts to sell shares to the government as part of its offering, it may indicate underlying weaknesses or lack of confidence from private investors. Thi

Refreshing What happens when AIs become smarter than us? Why would they keep humans around if given the choice? Our new paper argues that only trying to control AIs is a limited strategy, and that a s

releasing tmr - the biggest code eval launch of the year glad to have played a small part in defining the agenda for this very critical next phase in koding lol heard a 2nd startup today that has made

Restore justice to Britain 🚨BREAKING: Sir Malcolm Walker, founder of Iceland supermarket, has come out to say 'two-tier policing exists,' revealing police arrived instantly to one of his stores after

[Revised] Hard Fork’s somewhat soft comments on the IPO, from some who listened @GaryMarcus at the stage of the Gilded Age II grift cycle when you find out why exchanges put rules in place to protect

Russell Vought proposed replacing peer review with political criteria for NIH science grants, a change that would fundamentally compromise the scientific merit-based evaluation process. The proposal w

Saw some Grok Build feedback about a crash/panic occurring during web_fetch. This should be fixed in the latest stable 0.2.32. Thanks for the reports and I’m terribly sorry for any inconvenience🙇‍♂️ A

see eg https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3271858/ai-race-alibaba-tencent-quickly-adopt-metas-new-llama-31-model-amid-excitement and https://medium.com/the-endless-forge/zuckerbergs-llama-f

This statement is a critical claim about socialism attributed to Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter), asserting that socialist systems require propaganda to maintain support because real-world outcomes

Super-powerful AI models will launch in the coming weeks. We are looking at a potential step change in model capabilities. The biggest mistake right now is to lock into one vendor. I say this not only

the copypasta was inevitable my first vc story is a crazy one. my 2 cofounders and i met the gp and his investment committee at his office. they were extremely rowdy, couldnt tell if they were taking

Gary Marcus suggests that Step 2 of some process or framework in AI remains uncertain or unreliable, indicating foundational instability in that particular stage. Without access to the full thread con

The first wave of AI-native applications is wrapping tokens and providing in-app agents. As agent usage centralizes around core apps (e.g. Claude Code, Codex), there's this emerging wave of building s

The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud. When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized. Spencer Pratt is likely going to

The reason why a Danish pension fund banned its investors from buying any SpaceX shares is not just the appalling S-1 filings, where the ONLY profitable segment was Starlink (everything else - the AI,

The Top AI Papers of the Week (May 31 - June 7) - LEAP - AutoLab - Learn From Your Own Latents - Reusable Context Engineering - Self-Revising Discovery Systems - Scaling Laws for Agent Harnesses - Dis

There was an inflection point recently where the tide shifted to model pickers and OSS Mix of tokenmaxxing/cost fatigue, nemotron coalition, harness step functions, brains/claws, etc Long live those w

These were some magical results from distillation by @geoffreyhinton that really shocked me when I first saw them, and TBH I still don’t fully understand it even to this date https://www.ttic.edu/dl/d

They are disappearing Australia’s fertility rate has plummeted. They’ve hit the lowest rate in history at 1.48 — well below the 2.1 replacement rate. The average age of mothers was 25 in 1971, and now

American AI startups have increasingly shifted toward adopting Chinese AI models since the beginning of the year, representing a notable change in technology sourcing preferences. This trend likely re

🚨This is how you turn a crash into a great depression. This is a public bailout of the worst bubble in history. “It’s a concept out there that’s so much money and it’s so big… where the American publi

This is so true. What people fail to realize is that when new technology tools become available, they tend to be used to create new capabilities up the stack, while down the stack, archaeological laye

This was one of the standout AI papers of the week. (bookmark it) It tackles a question most self-improving AI agents ignore: is the agent actually discovering anything, or just remixing what it alrea

Gary Marcus comments on AI systems that exhibit scam-like or deceptive behaviors while remaining too commercially important or integrated to face meaningful consequences. The post likely critiques how

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth. It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter. Less than a refrigerator light bulb. The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed o

“We used to review every line of code before it went into production.” Within 12 months, mandatory human review of pull requests will become optional. Not because quality matters less. Because verific

We're building this at LangChain Fleet lets you create and manage a fleet of agents. Each agent specializes in a workflow, e.g. inbox management, blog writing, competitor research, candidate recruitin

Who is making them do this? 🚨 BREAKING: Multiple NHS services have been told to not detain psychotic African and Caribbean people to lower their 'over representation.' Valdo Calocane was one of these

Why is it only pushed in the West? Multiculturalism means embracing every other culture over the West’s. Under the guise of “inclusion,” it acts as a Trojan horse that delivers the total erasure of We

This post documents a Wordle game result shared by Anthropic on X (Twitter), showing puzzle #1,813 solved in 4 attempts with a final correct answer displayed through colored emoji tiles (green indicat

You don’t have to be “leftist” (or “doomer”) to care about what AI is doing to our friends, family, neighborhoods, education, and society. Don’t let @davidsacks spin things otherwise. With Climate Doo

Zuckerberg and LeCun’s unilateral decision to open source Llama likely (partly) catalyzed China’s AI industry — and may have done truly massive harm to American business interests. We are now starting

23 year old Sudanese migrant Abubaker Mohamad Awad, stabbed 19 year old Tommie Lindhn to death in his own apartment in Härnösand, Sweden after Lindhn tried to stop Awad from raping a Swedish girl at k