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One of the biggest threats to US innovation isn’t just research funding - it’s losing the next generation of scientists. Phd admissions at leading research universities fell 15% this year. Scientific

reminds me of the time Greg Brockman personally downloaded YouTube videos for training purposes, as reported in NYT. 🦔Apple is suing OpenAI for systematic trade secret theft weeks before the IPO. The

arXiv:2408.02379v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Developing and certifying safe - or so-called trustworthy - AI has become an increasingly salient issue, especially in light of upcoming regul

The New York Times and several news outlets are accusing OpenAI of hiding its ability to search its AI training data and output logs for more than two years during an ongoing copyright lawsuit: • The

This is a very important observation. AI is not adopting the language and shaping it to fit its known ideas. It has no known ideas. It is repeating patterns found in the language. super interesting -

„Language models model language“ is going to be my quote of the week … maybe I print a T shirt for the next conference. super interesting - and a reminder that language models model language and not i

// Memory becomes an action space // Great paper on long-term memory for agents. (bookmark it) In short, it's discusses the use of a learned policy for using memory at the right granularity. Most memo

arXiv:2606.12502v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose that value -- the quantity goal-directed agents create, destroy, and exchange -- is a lawful structural quantity in the same catego

As the @UN’s Global Dialogue on AI Governance wraps up today, I’ve been encouraged by the discussions surrounding AI and its implications for global collaboration and policymaking. I’m hopeful that we

Full clip of my presentation of the Independent International Scientific Panel’s preliminary report at the opening ceremony yesterday: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1y/k1yd3dlebq?kalturaSeekFrom=3260

More than half of Americans can’t afford food or gas. Meanwhile, the top .1% increased their wealth by $2.59T during Trump’s second term. Republicans ran on affordability, and then immediately passed

new @WSJ editorial board piece on 'The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman' highlights dangers of politicization of AI, regulatory capture, & bailouts. 'The larger harm will be to the U.S. economy if i

OpenAI just asked the US government to take a 5% stake in the company. The pitch: give every citizen a share in the profits of AI. The problem: AI has no profits. So the real plan is to give every cit

States are asking for a $1.4 trillion fine of Meta over addicting kids. Basically they are saying Facebook's business model is a result of crime, and all of Mark Zuckerberg's property should be forfei

The AI boom is just not sustainable; Apollo’s Torsten Slok joins the chorus. Torsten Slok argues that the AI boom can only be seen in the hyperscalers and semiconductor companies and that this is caus

Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis? This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of technology—including AI—belong to the world in the sense that

⚠️ Wow. The Treasury Department reportedly knows that the massive GenAI build out poses systemic risks to the US financial system – and doesn’t want to acknowledge it publicly. People may talk about t

You don't have to choose between 'AI is fake hype' and 'Superintelligence is inevitable, lie down and accept it.' There's a third option: humans deciding, through their governments, that machines smar

A CEO who “vowed to fire anyone who doesn’t use AI in 2025” now says AI could not replace her executive assistant. This says a lot about how many big believers in AI have realized that AI is not as go

Gary Marcus argues that Geoff Hinton, rather than Dario Amodei, was the originator of making exaggerated claims about neural networks' impact on employment. This appears to be part of a broader discus

GenAI isn’t good enough to replace millions of employees, so there is basically no way the capex is going to earn out. If AI isn't going to wipe out millions of jobs every year, it has to generate pro

ha ha Geoff Hinton in 2016 completely overhyping where deep learning was at then Geoffrey Hinton explains the coyote test for medical AI: radiology is already over the cliff, it just has not looked do

Hugging Face has just been sued for alleged copyright infringement for hosting & distributing copyrighted images, used for AI training. It's been almost a *year* since I flagged to their CEO that they

I cannot believe how good GLM 5.2 is. Several weeks in now and it's mostly all I have been using. It doesn't have the alignment issue of cloud AI, it's much more clear what it can do and can't because

If that happens, where does it leave Anthropic and OpenAI? And Oracle, CoreWeave, Nebius, xAI, etc? Fable 5 probably running locally in about two years. That is the projection in this r/LocalLLaMA cha

This article likely explores the concept of robustness in AI systems and what it means for AI to be 'robust to' various types of failures, adversarial inputs, or distribution shifts. The piece probabl

Gary Marcus reflects on his 2023 prediction that large language models would become commoditized, noting that this outcome is now materializing. The post suggests that LLMs are transitioning from nove

this is a bit confused. should I unpack it? tl;dr LLMs are already neurosymbolic in its latent space this is the mechanistic explanation for the intuitively obvious 'feel' that the stochastic parrot c

Trump blockading Cuba into catastrophe should be a much bigger story than it is. Cuba’s electric grid suffered a total collapse Monday as the nation struggles with crumbling infrastructure and a de fa

unconscionable, if these death numbers are even vaguely correct update: https://www.doge-impact.org suggests that the actual number is over 1M; the number below is just USAID related. Money saved: 0 P

when capex quadruples relative to revenue in five years it just can’t be good. FT: 'It is not yet clear that either [OpenAI or Anthropic] has a sustainable business model. For sure, both have built as

When I talk to people that instantly, deeply, get the risk from superintelligence, they often share a trait sometimes called the 'security mindset' I think this post by @l_mc_nally is a nice brisk tou

“AI is now costing some companies more than the people it was supposed to replace.” I think AI is in a messy middle phase where usage looks productive, but output remains unclear. Forbes published thi

Gary Marcus argues that Elon Musk's public opposition to democracy reveals important truths about how extreme wealth concentrates power and can lead wealthy individuals to reject democratic principles

Junk food is an interesting failure of capitalism. We exchanged human beauty for cheetos. Bryan Caplan types are forced to think this trade a worthy one. None born before the obesity crisis would have

Pop quiz: Can you explain the contrast here, between AI’s coding ability and their less compelling research ability? AI's coding ability has become amazing. But there research ability remains really p

This post appears to reference an unusual weather event (lightning) as symbolic proof that the United States retains geopolitical dominance or divine favor, likely in the context of discussions about

Connor Leahy posted about reaching 250 of something, likely a milestone related to followers, users, or members based on the celebratory phrasing 'To 250 more!' The post appears to be a brief celebrat

true. a lot of people here just don’t have the historical context. You know what's funny but not funny: If the housing market of 2006 was the AI market of 2026, Charles R Morris would be getting calle

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure. Musk promised 2 trillion in savings. What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was 215 billion. Even that numb

Connor Leahy shared an anecdote about creating a text-to-speech (TTS) version of Zeta Lyrae's work 'No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass' when the AI encountered a notable glitch partway through th

If this doesn’t chill you, I don’t know what will. 😱 “A president with the authority that Trump is now asserting could in theory put the world’s most powerful AI to repressive ends while at the same t

South Africa became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake research citations generated by AI https://restofworld.org/2026/

The July 4th weekend All-In @theallinpod turned into a long argument about who owns the intelligence layer. The besties think enterprises just woke up to a trap they had been walking into, here's how

Another major Grok Build update just landed, packed with new features, extensive bug fixes, and meaningful performance improvements Release Notes: v0.2.84 — 2026-07-03 Features: • Announcements now up

Wow, even I was surprised how high AI ranked! Very good to see! Interesting poll of Hill staffers from @PunchbowlNews. 250 years is a long time! But interesting to see that 'losing control of AI' is t