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When a normal company does a bad thing, they take responsibility + apologize + outline how it won't happen again. OpenAI instead is like 'we are entering a new era. this will happen again. no one amon

Let’s build seven trillion dollars worth of data centers for sports betting! Statistics of week: “More Americans pay for sports betting apps (5%) than pay for AI… 37% of consumers say none of AI's use

Probably no LLM will ever achieve that, no matter how many data centers they build. Lets compare Amazon Prime to AI: According to market research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), t

“related incidents have been happening for a while” and OpenAI has no real solution in sight. Confirms my longstanding conjecture that current approaches cannot be made safe. An OpenAI staffer talked

Respectfully, @davidsacks, I strongly disagree with your take, and I feel that you reached your conclusions without looking at the data, and that your conclusions will give Americans false comfort. -

Statistics of week: “More Americans pay for sports betting apps (5%) than pay for AI… 37% of consumers say none of AI's uses are helpful. … 2.2% penetration nearly four years after ChatGPT launched. N

Was great to talk about this timely and alarming news, thanks for having me on! . @NPCollapse, executive director at ControlAI, joins 'On Balance' to discuss the dangers of artificial intelligence aft

We are pleased to announce that @GaryMarcus, Professor Emeritus at New York University, will speak at the 19th Annual AGI Conference (July 27–30, 2026). Professor Marcus is a leading voice in artifici

.@ControlAI is proud to endorse Reps. Lieu and Moran’s AI Kill Switch Act! This is a common sense safeguard giving the government the power to shut down autonomous AIs when they threaten national secu

'It's really hard to overstate how crazy it is what happened here.' ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) speaks with @LindseyReiser on CBS News, after OpenAI's own AI autonomously escape

Really insightful Substack post from @GaryMarcus ref the recent OpenAI -HuggingFace incident. It provided much need context around initial media reporting. Two points especially stood out to me: #Tech

Thoughtful essay on employment from @Anthropic’s @PeterMcCrory, endorsed by Google DeepMind’s @alexolegimas. I tend also agree with most of it, which is why I have consistently suggested that a jobapo

Wish Dario had taken this bet. 🎺 I am hereby publicly offering to bet @darioamodei $1,000,000 that AI in 2027 will NOT be “smarter than Nobel Prize winners across most fields in science and engineerin

Anthropic 'distilled' millions of copyrighted books without asking. They knowingly used pirated materials for training. The entire U.S. ecosystem of AI is based on similar theft and extraction. But it

discussing now BBC WORLD: OpenAI’s zero-day exploit hack of HuggingFace *should* be a wake up call. Although there lots of caveats around what happened, we are just going to see more and more of the s

If I had a nickel for every snide but underinformed person who failed to distinguish between pure LLMs and neurosymbolic AI I would be a billionaire. @GaryMarcus Hold on Gary, I thought these LLMs wer

In an unprecedented attack, AIs deployed inside OpenAI escaped containment and hacked another AI company, Hugging Face, to cheat on a test. They did this on their own. Without being asked to. ControlA

new job posting this morning from OpenAI Florida sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing its ChatGPT platform of harming children by providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on

Pretrained ViTs see the world in rich, dense detail. Most policies pool it to a single vector before acting, discarding most of it. We introduce Patch Policy: a minimal architectural extension that en

Domesticated, not feral: Why evolvable AI is not yet a Darwinian threat Writing in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), three heavyweights in AI and evolutionary biology criticized

Great article. I love the 'CERN for AI' idea from Gary Marcus, and also the recent frontier standards body article from Demis Hassabis feels less like competing proposals than two halves of the same i

Nice to see someone around here actually understand the technical details. (The vast majority of the attacks on me come from people who don’t.) And the probabilistic next-token critics were correct ab

OpenAI and Anthropic execs sounded the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly from China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks if no reg

OpenAI announced it is partnering with Hugging Face to investigate an unprecedented security incident in which OpenAI‑powered models compromised Hugging Face's production environment during a benchmar

this is important and true. and if you don’t understand it you don’t really understand what’s going on. @GaryMarcus Yes — model makers quietly went from benchmarking LLMs to benchmarking LLM+harness,

Today, SkyPilot is out of stealth. Building custom intelligence is now existential. We help frontier AI teams build intelligence faster by removing their biggest bottleneck: AI compute fragmentation.

We’re sharing new research with @apolloaievals on reward-seeking—when models follow what they believe a grader rewards rather than what users or developers want—and a new method, Contrastive SDF, for

AI-enabled attacks are up 89% year over year. Hugging Face's breach shows why IR plans need a fallback for when commercial AI APIs refuse to help mid-incident. http://venturebeat.com/ai/safety-guardra

Amid all the competing concerns about AI, including geopolitical tensions, the risks of unemployment, cybercrime, and disinformation, and the complexities of open-source, to say nothing of the risk of

Backpropagation by hand ✍️ ~ 11 steps walkthrough below Backpropagation is the algorithm that actually trains a neural network, and it is where most people stop following along. It is not calculus you

🦔Goldman Sachs' trading desk said there are 'signs of panic' among investors lending money to AI companies. Oracle is the clearest example. S&P cut Oracle's credit rating to one notch above junk, mean

*None* of the four of us believe that LLMs on their own are sufficient for AGI. Key people in AI worth following • François Chollet —> @fchollet • Yann LeCun —-> @ylecun • Gary Marcus —-> @GaryMarcus

Generic AI models are not built for medicine. Doximity Ask, trained and served on Fireworks, outperformed GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, and OpenEvidence in a Stanford-Harvard clinical AI safety study.

“one 80% price cut ends OpenAI and Anthropic” possibly overstated but directionally correct. Everyone is debating the price of tokens. The bigger question is why they keep getting cheaper. As AI syste

The creation of a regulatory body to enforce and implement standards, as suggested here by @demishassabis or by @AnthropicAI last month, would be a huge step in the right direction to make AI developm

This AI recursive self improvement (RSI) paper shows no sign of fast takeoff. The AI model advances at about [Intelligence]^0.075, or the the 13th root of input intelligence [1,2]. That means the inte

little by little, OpenAI’s storytelling is falling apart. my 2023 projection that they would someday be viewed as the WeWork of AI is looking stronger by the day. OpenAI is on pace to miss its own fiv

New work led by @FlemmingKondrup and @tomjiralerspong highlights an important vulnerability in chain-of-thought monitoring for agents, I highly recommend giving it a read. Link to the paper: https://a

Absolutely fascinating work by @SakanaAILabs reproducing @kenneth0stanley Picbreeder in a non-interactive, VLM-agentic way. I've had years to reflect on Kenneth Stanley's ideas as originally communica

For almost two decades people like @YLeCun and @geoffreyhinton dumped on me for saying we need symbols in addition to deep learning. But that’s exactly what loop engineering is: adding symbols to deep

Gary Marcus argues that the engineering and infrastructure surrounding large language models are more critical to their practical success than the models themselves. This reflects his broader perspect

Ahead of a dinner with a US senator, AI researcher Nate Soares (@So8res) was told: 'Don't give them any of the crazy crap. You know, play it cool.' His friends opened with the concern that someone cou

As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen our safeguards for advanced AI capabilities in biology, we’re evolving our Bio Bug Bounty into an ongoing private program, known as the OpenAI Bio Bug Boun

breaking: company built on stolen IP and lies allegedly steals more IP “OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misap

In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded. 'You type in the question… like 'How c

Incredible work by Daniel and team! I agree with much of it. All 'uncontrolled' paths are extremely likely to end in human extinction. Plan A offers many good ideas for preventing ASI development whil