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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

a smarter alternative to 'always use plan mode': always frame your task as a question, so that the model is invited to push back and rate the quality of the idea/suggest alternatives, rather than blin

A super useful feature I like that we have in Grok Build: we load your .envrc and pass it straight into the agent’s shell environment. Same API keys, PATH, sccache, remote caches, .etc — everything yo

AI code generation tools are producing low-quality code that requires significant human developer effort to debug and fix, potentially negating productivity gains and necessitating rehiring of develop

All the people who hate me here are now looking for government bailouts. 🤣 Exactly like I said they would. 🤣🤣 The countdown until we are told that LLMs are “too big to fail” starts now. “We can’t affo

This post describes the automatic features of a coding agent built on ActiveGraph, highlighting that developers receive both an execution trace and a visual graph representation without additional con

anyone who wants to put money into OpenAI’s IPO should think again. the talent is voting with its feet, and has been for several years. Personal update: I’ve decided to leave OpenAI. I’m proud to have

As you can see It does seem like meaningfully better AI releases are accelerating, especially from OpenAI & Anthropic. To illustrate, I caused this timeline to be created. It only lists new models tha

🚨BREAKING: Miguel Bosé, the biggest Spanish-language pop star of the last few decades, has just released a video taking a knee and putting his hand over his heart in honour of Henry Nowak This has now

Chip Export rules: made China/Huawei stronger, accomplished relatively little. USG stakes in US AI: will make Mistral and other “sovereign AI” efforts stronger, freak out the rest of the world, escala

circular finance, with numbers, a worked example. I want to use GOOG Anthropic and SPCX deal to show how the circular finance deals hiding losses and costs is falling apart. How every deal meant to ma

Code volume is not a reliable metric for measuring developer productivity, as writing more lines of code does not necessarily correlate with delivering more value or solving problems more effectively.

Codex ad on the right side... we lowkey should've done our OOH campaign in NYC 🙃 Knicks in 5 The New York Knicks are flying home with a 2-0 lead. 7th Avenue might not stop celebrating before they land

ComfyUI’s free open source tool has already been used to create the viral Coca-Cola ads and that (infamous) “Wizard of Oz” show at the Vegas Sphere. We find out why 4 million-plus users are relying on

// Continual Learning Bench // One of the research areas with lots of investments is continual learning. While there are many efforts, there is very little progress in measuring it. So the big questio