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Grifters and many other salesman are like LLMs. They say things that aren’t always true with absolutely certainty. Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycl
Grok may not be the AGI that Elon promised, but it appears that the man has found his use case. xAI is betting big on AI video and image generation — but the biggest driver of Grok Imagine may not be
Imagine if i had a business that gave you 20 bills for 10 bills. As word spread, my customer base would grow. My revenue (how many $10 bills I collected) would grow. And I would continue to lose money
🚨 In a surprise to NOBODY, a study shows that generative AI use raises homework scores, but substantially reduces learning. My takeaways for AI ethicists and educators: The study analyzed data from 26
In the end, will Elon be best known for his efforts to mainstream electric cars, for his rockets, …. or for his efforts to mainstream AI-generated porn? xAI is betting big on AI video and image genera
It is amazing to me how little the X-verse cares about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. Is that because most of the “people” here are actually Russian bots? 🤔 More Soviet-style decep
Looks like OpenAI’s IPO will be delayed until 2027. • might be a sign that their finances don’t look compelling yet. • gives Anthropic time to go first If they can bump up the valuation by $999.3 bill
Loops, one of the most symbolic tools ever invented, are rescuing generative AI. Neurosymbolic AI is completely dominating. Anthropic engineers just showed how to build agents that can run for days wi
love that one of my readers made her own, explicit set of public predictions. 🙏 I want to post my predictions for 2ish years horizon. AI stock bubble collapses due to fundamentals not working out with
Gary Marcus expresses concern about deceptive practices in the United States that he compares to Soviet-style tactics, suggesting he has observed propaganda, misinformation, or manipulative government
Neurosymbolic agents (here Codex) are absolutely crushing pure chatbots. This is a fascinating and important set of data which shows us where things are going, using OpenAI as a canary in the coal min
noah smith, ignoring that Anthropic’s rumored profitable quarter is a. during peak tokenmaxxing b, before recent Chinese advances c. in a quarter in which Elon gave them a big one time subsidy. that’s
Or people could learn their lesson? Naah 🙈 @GaryMarcus The reason he’s going down, is because the market can only handle one all encompassing scam at a time. So the AI scam will probably get a boost w
Our new AI policy is that the White House decides ad hoc, for whatever reasons it likes, who does and does not get access to frontier intelligence. This seems rather maximally terrible. The US Governm
People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is. Here’s the context and a suggestion. Both @pmarca and @DavidSacks did everything in their power to keep the Wh
Gary Marcus discusses concerns about generative AI's limitations and potential overhyping of the technology, arguing that initial enthusiasm may not translate into sustained practical breakthroughs as
Weird to see this just as the administration is delaying a model for the second time in weeks, apparently without clarity about its criteria. You can’t be pro-growth, pro-innovation, and opaque at all
wouldn’t it be funny if greed undid OpenAI? 🚨BREAKING: OPENAI IPO DELAYED Altman told everyone OpenAI is worth a TRILLION dollars His own advisors warned him that retail investors aren’t buying it… ga
Big Tech's 1 trillion AI moat just got DESTROYED by a free Chinese download. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are pouring fortunes into chips and data centers because they have been told that whoev
COMPANY BUILT ON IP THEFT RAGES AGAINST THEFT OF ITS OWN IP ANTHROPIC ACCUSED ALIBABA OF UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO ITS AI MODELS, OUTLINING ITS ALLEGATIONS IN LETTERS SENT TO U.S. SENATORS AND THE WHITE
Gary Marcus expresses anticipation for developments in generative AI, suggesting continued evolution and advancement in the field. The post likely discusses expectations for next-generation AI capabil
Rep. Luna reportedly used Anthropic's Claude AI to draft language for a Defense Bill amendment but left visible AI-generated text in the final submission, which was noticed and shared by AI researcher
On behalf of the largest coalition of local newspaper publishers assembled to date, we just sued @OpenAI and @Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright laws by using our clients' content to train an
“The Al bubble is by far the biggest stock-market bubble that mankind has ever seen - both in scale and scope, in terms of the leverage that's in there and in terms of the sheer excessive exuberance t
Gary Marcus argues that generative AI, while significant, represents only a narrow subset of the broader computing field and should not overshadow the diverse and impactful work occurring across other
This post likely references Gary Marcus's critical commentary on limitations or failures in generative AI systems, using 'Fizzle' as a metaphorical or literal descriptor for underperformance or unmet
Wow even @MicahLasher thinks the OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir money spent to oppose @AlexBores backfired -- NY-12 retrospective in the NYT from Teddy Schleifer. Hard to imagine this was the headline tha
Gary Marcus argues that data security is fundamentally fragile and that mass surveillance and data harvesting practices create persistent security vulnerabilities that cannot be eliminated. The post e
AI Capex pushback from GS: 'If frontier intelligence can increasingly be developed in the East at a fraction of the cost incurred in the West … then the largest capital allocators are also the ones mo
AI data centres are hungry for land, water & power. I’m calling on every major AI company to publicly disclose the full environmental impact of its systems – as a matter of transparency No more hidden
“All the Money Flooding Into AI Is a Giant Warning Sign” “The deeply depressing third possibility is that companies are raising and spending so much merely because shareholders are cheering them on, a
Although I supported Musk in his suit against OpenAI, and admire what he did for electric cars, I am afraid my considered overall view is not very different from this: Candidly I have no idea why anyo
HalluHard update: We’ve added GLM-5.2, using adaptive thinking with maximum reasoning effort, to our leaderboard. Despite its impressive performance on other benchmarks, GLM-5.2 still hallucinates fre
'Instead of allowing for greater focus, the latest AI tools are overwhelming workers, frazzling minds and shredding attention spans.' https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/ai-agents-jobs-exha
Meta copied slot machines to addict kids to Instagram. Now Zuckerberg is turning his company into a prediction market. Meta’s business model is profiting from addiction—kids, gamblers, & more. Stop it
My biggest NY-12 competitors aren't on the ballot today: Trump's AI oligarchs. If they can defeat me—the author of the nation's strongest AI safety bill in one of the nation's bluest districts—they ca
oops Goldman reckons that AI will create about 10trn of discounted value for the world, or up to 22trn. But markets have priced in 27trn of additional value creation. So the size of the 'bubble' has n
'Oracle is under financial pressure because of an expensive build-out of AI data centers for customers like OpenAI.' https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/oracle-layoffs-fueled-by-ai-redu
rumors of new models being delayed 🚨 SCOOP(s): - GPT-5.6 has been delayed and will no longer release this week. New target is ~mid-July. - DeepMind are not satisfied with the current state of 3.5 Pro
The Kremlin’s cognitive warfare is evolving. Leaked documents from Russia’s Social Design Agency reveal efforts to move beyond planting fabricated stories on social media. Now Russian influence operat
The article challenges the widespread assumption that AI surpasses human capabilities across all domains, arguing this narrative is inaccurate. It likely presents evidence or reasoning from AI researc
An update. A US official tells me that Sen. Warner misunderstood the NSA director Gen. Rudd in this case. Rudd did use the 'hours, not weeks' wording, but the use of Mythos in this context was—as wide
• At this point SpaceX just looks like CoreWeave with a bigger budget and a satellite company thrown in. • If they were anywhere near AGI they wouldn’t be leasing out so much capacity. • So much for t
By the end of the decade and maybe a lot sooner, we will wonder why we ever treated these folks like they were gods. “The more I listen to AI company CEOs, the stranger they sound,” says another tech
from the man who brought you SpaceX 1 year since Tesla RoboTaxi launched! Where are the autonomous RoboTaxis covering 50% of the US population? And where are the 7 new cities 1H2026? These were not po
GPU rental prices have declined according to a GPU rental index tracked by Gary Marcus, indicating decreased demand or increased supply in the cloud computing market. This trend suggests potential shi
Gary Marcus discusses potential competitive threats to CoreWeave, a GPU cloud computing company, from SpaceX's large GPU contracts and infrastructure investments. The post likely examines how SpaceX's
LLMs can’t be trusted to follow rules. Which means they can’t be trusted, period. If we are going to solve alignment we must move on. Large language models can be persuaded to break their own rules. N
New piece in @TheAtlantic! We always hear that AI will cure cancer, and I would immediately benefit if it did. But I argue that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer
Gary Marcus compares two countries' economic risk-taking, suggesting one is engaging in dangerous speculation while the other is not. The post likely discusses contrasting approaches to emerging techn
Our new incident response report exposes a coordinated network of 340 Facebook pages, largely operated from Vietnam, flooding feeds across Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe with AI-fabricated news, a
Professor @GaryMarcus is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. What
Sober minded folks need to understand the cash out happening in this bubble peak. Watch the @WSJ discussion 👇 How big tech hides the true cost of AI @wsj https://youtu.be/YrJzjC4kKCY?si=o1CiKxLaSVWOhK
Gary Marcus posted a critical commentary on X regarding SPCX stock, sarcastically offering 'thoughts and prayers' to investors who purchased the stock at 225 in the previous week, implying the investm
This post by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus likely critiques the widespread credibility given to a particular public figure's predictions, questioning the basis for their influence or accuracy track
This video from the Wall Street Journal examines how major technology companies obscure the substantial economic, environmental, and societal costs associated with developing and operating artificial
'If curing cancer were the only result of building ever more powerful AI systems, I would cheer for their arrival. But the problem is that their impacts are much broader, and we are moving too quickly
Is it a sign of disillusionment when technooptimist @BrianRoemmele sounds *exactly* like me:? Here he writes that we risk an AI winter from “Over-promising relative to capabilities: Ambitious public c
this claim around creativity is too strong, IMHO. truly novel ideas from LLMs are surely rare but i don’t think that any math proves they are impossible. note that the objective function and the outpu
This now widely circulated claim is based on a line I wrote last week (https://economist.com/briefing/2026/06/14/donald-trumps-blocking-of-anthropic-is-capricious-and-chaotic). I accurately quoted Mar