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Interesting: 'Currently, 38% of Americans live within 5 miles of at least one operational data center... Living near a data center doesn’t have much of an effect on public opinion about the facilities

It is going to be like what happened in coding: as soon as models crossed a certain threshold (Opus 4.5, GPT-5.2, Gemini 3), suddenly Claude Code & Codex were viable. Before that, it was all about cod

Soon, at each gradual improvement level of AI, you will start to see large discrete jumps in ability in economically important areas, because the previous AI ability level in some aspect of the job bo

The idea of sovereign frontier models is only viable as long as the main Chinese model makers keep shipping open weights models that anyone can build on. I am not sure how long that will continues but

Ethan Mollick discusses the concept of 'emergence' in large language models (LLMs), referring to the phenomenon where AI systems appear to suddenly develop unexpected capabilities as they scale. The p

Version numbers are not a very useful way to understand model ability gains at this stage. Unfortunately that means that if you aren’t following closely, you would expect that 5.4 is a small gain over

This appears to be a whimsical, imaginative post from Ethan Mollick on X (formerly Twitter) framing an evolutionary history scenario as a fictional mech battle, pitting a machine piloted by Tiktaalik

Ethan Mollick, a prominent researcher and commentator on AI, expresses cautious optimism about the trajectory of AI-powered coding tools, acknowledging a scenario where increasingly capable coding ass

As I look at some of the replies (which are startlingly human, whats up with X?), it appears a lot of the concern is that Mythos was presented as some magic leap. I didn't read Anthropic's announcemen

At this point, I assume that every internal memo at an AI lab is just written for public release. The labs are certainly capable of keeping secrets that don’t leak, so they must realize that all-hands

This post by Ethan Mollick likely explores AI-generated or conceptual visualizations of battles between single-celled and multicellular organisms framed as mech combat, drawing on biological history f

Ethan Mollick shared a post on X expressing frustration that a piece of content—likely a documentary or documentary-style video—was automatically or incorrectly labeled as 'made with AI.' The post hig

Folks, this is not Jevon's Paradox. this is just normal supply and demand. It turns out the utility of AI is high enough that people have high demand, which is outstripping supply (so prices will go u

General Purpose Technologies have downstream effects everywhere, good and bad. Those outcomes can be mitigated, or encouraged, with the right sorts of policy choices If the only options are being for

I am catching glimpses in my feed that there is a backlash against Mythos as 'marketing hype,' and it is a little confusing. I don't think anyone who has used the latest agentic coding tools, would th

Ethan Mollick shares an example of Seedance 2.0, a video generation AI model, demonstrating impressive creative and historical scene generation capabilities by producing a depiction of a mech battle b

Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and prominent AI researcher, posted commentary on what appears to be a notable AI capability advancement, framing it as a predictable progression along established p

Six months ago, there was a lot of focus on the idea that the there would be a massive glut of unused computing power which would could a recession as AI use plateaued. The 'compute bubble' belief was

So the concern over Mythos and cybersecurity seems warranted. We conducted cyber evaluations of Claude Mythos Preview and found that it is the first model to complete an AISI cyber range end-to-end. 🧵

Ethan Mollick discusses the economic and financial risks surrounding data center construction, distinguishing between the risks inherent in financing methods and the broader arguments driving investme

The trend of treating all of AI as One Big Thing that always includes data centers & job changes & education changes & power & accelerating science & misinformation & national security & corporate con

According to Waymo's published data, their technology is preventing injuries & deaths. My view is that if this is true, and I have yet to see a debunking of their data, then we safety advocates should

And if you are interested in the answer, Claude and ChatGPT 5.4 Pro think running OpenClaw with local inference on your Mac uses more total power. Gemini doesn't think so (but appears to have not thou

Currently, ChatGPT has the best way of viewing thinking traces, a short summary of steps in the main window, and a detailed audit in the sidebar if you want it Claude does almost as well, but more sum

From this perspective, Gemini is also worse than the original Bard. Sydney was the original sin of LLMs anthropormism, but also got the idea that AIs can sometimes be better with personalities right.

I think Muse Spark came in far better than most were expecting as the first new model attempt from Meta, especially given the fact that it has been a year since Llama 4 with no models at all (and that

It is notable that we are all debating exactly which markdown files are most important to feed AI (skills, memory, tool instructions) and in which order to feed them to get the best output. Feels that

Ethan Mollick shares an assessment of an AI model (likely a newer or smaller model) that, while not matching the performance of the leading frontier models (likely referring to top offerings from Open

OpenAI should probably bite the bullet and just name their next set of models something more human sounding. Everyone anthropomorphizes their AIs anyway, and 'Claude' is an easier name to refer to tha

Really interesting ideas are going to be increasingly at a premium as the cost of executing those ideas drops. (Our research and others shows AI is quite good at generating interesting ideas, but not

(thinking traces are always summaries of the internal reasoning, since the actual internal chain of thought is a trade secret, but that doesn't mean they aren't useful when summarized, especially when

A lot of our education on writing well focuses on logic, clarity, and argument. AI will force us to think more about style. The boredom that comes from everything on the internet reading Claude-y now,

Chiasmus (reversing grammatical structures in two sentences for drama). Asyndetic tricolon (three items listed without a conjunction). Parataxis (short and somewhat disconnected dramatic sentences). S

Ethan Mollick shared a humorous AI-generated image that 'fixes' Goya's famous dark painting *Saturn Devouring His Son* by replacing the disturbing scene with Saturn happily eating a hot dog instead. T

I am not just talking about the em-dashes and phrasing ('doing the heavy lifting'). Those are more fixable than style, which will always default to an LLM-normal even if that normal changes with new L

Neat experiment finds AI fact checks are rated as more helpful & less ideological than human ones 'LLM-generated Community Notes can achieve broader cross-ideological acceptance than human-written not

I was unable to retrieve the specific content of the arXiv paper `2604.02592` or the specific tweet referenced. The search did not return the correct paper (the arXiv ID `2604.02592` as a 2026 pape...

Tired of the old version of Michelangelo's 'Creation of Man' just sitting there on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and not even moving or doing anything cool? Don't worry, its been updated while sta

A post by Ethan Mollick (@emollick) on X highlights an AI-generated video reimagining of William Blake's *The Ancient of Days* (1794) — a design originally published as the frontispiece to *Europe...

AI finally lets us see Raphael's The School of Athens the way Raphael obviously intended it, illustrating the delicate dance and subtle conflicts between Plato and Artistotle. (Seedance 2.0 is very fu

All is not lost. Duckerton is still possible. Here is Seedance 2.0 with the same prompt. Media My most popular Sora video was “an Elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a

Our Lab just posted a new research report from Zimran Ahmed about how the game industry is adapting to AI. He spoke to people at 20 different studios and found a wide range of approaches to adapt (or

The pace at which useful things are shipping also seems to be accelerating. Model releases are coming faster, of course, but so are significant application and enterprise products (especially from Ant

Things that make the jagged intelligence of AI harder to deal with than the jaggedness of humans: 1) Weaknesses are not always intuitive or identifiable in advanced 2) All LLMs have similar weaknesses

After playing with it a bit, Meta's Muse Spark Thinking is fine so far, but really doesn't match the current Big Three models. It also is a bit... weird. Like some strange language & tone, a little lo

AI is jagged, but I think sometimes it is easy to overly focus on that. The generalness is a surprise too! LLMs may be optimized for verifiable fields like coding, but AI is also not bad at corporate