but as noted here, not zero threat, either:
but as noted here, not zero threat, either: The detailed investigation of a prior hantavirus human-human transmission event has evidence of airborne transmission of Andes strain: Patient 1 --> Patient
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but as noted here, not zero threat, either: The detailed investigation of a prior hantavirus human-human transmission event has evidence of airborne transmission of Andes strain: Patient 1 --> Patient
Gary Marcus discusses how symbolic tools and verification methods may be undervalued in AI development, suggesting that if harnesses and verification systems are performing the primary computational w
David Shepardson / Reuters: GM agrees to pay 12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers — GM (GM.N)
Gary Marcus publicly challenged Joseph Jacks with a $10,000 bet regarding a prediction Jacks made about 2030, requesting direct message contact to formalize the wager. The challenge was posted on X (f
Gary Marcus shares a humorous projection suggesting Anthropic could potentially reach $2 trillion in annual revenue if certain growth assumptions materialize. The post likely comments on AI industry r
🌷 If X had been around during the Dutch tulip craze🌷 1. Prices would have gone even higher before the crash 2. Tweets saying “there’s no bubble” would have gone viral. 3. Prices still would have crash
Is there a version of the bull case that spells out where the multitrillion dollar revenue will come from that doesn’t ultimately revolve around “trust me bro”? (And does it factor in the inevitable p
Questions people will be writing about in the coming years: • Was it a Ponzi scheme? • Why didn’t more people worry about the circular financing? • Why were investors so blasé about the lack of profit
Sorry, @peterwildeford, but this is wrong. Please don’t play along. The measurement “wall” you mention is hit ONLY if you don’t insist on reliability. If you demanded 95% accuracy on the task, the sys
A 2018 study by D.K. Roy and Soroush Vosoughi published in Science found that false information spreads faster on social media platforms than accurate information. The research demonstrates a quantifi
This post likely references the famous opening lyric from The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction' (1965) as a commentary on contemporary issues, possibly relating to AI confusion, information overload, or
Gary Marcus discusses the 'too big to fail' concept in the context of AI systems, likely examining how large AI companies or models may pose systemic risks that make them difficult to regulate or shut
'Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71% cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025....The aid cuts cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide in their first year' and 'will cost 9.4M live
Wanna get a million views? Make stuff up. Take a tiny tiny bit of truth and distort it wildly. Consider the tweet below, 1.4M views. Take the chess thing. The paper that is linked doesn’t actually say
'50 percent of Americans told the Pew Research Center last year they were more concerned than excited about what’s to come from A.I. Only 10 percent said they were more excited. That is a yawning gap
Asking for HTML explanations of things is pretty neat, I tried it just now with the obfuscated Python POC for the new http://copy.fail Linux vulnerability: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreaso
“Combined free cash flow across Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle is projected to FALL more than -70%, to ~100 billion, by the end of …. AI capital expenditure is consuming nearly every do
Alex Lekander / CyberInsider: EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” — The European Parliamen
Gary Marcus critiques the AI industry's financial model, noting that companies with high burn rates continue to see rising market valuations despite unprofitable operations. The post sarcastically que
Happy to see that The White House has finally realized that the Andreessen-Sacks zero regulation approach to AI was going to blow up in the their face. Also glad to see them finally consider the kind
Holy AI “fact checking” disaster We are in deep, deep trouble. A reader wrote in to me this week saying that they wouldn't read my Trump corruption story because ChatGPT 'fact-checked the piece' and i
I warned you early that covid-19 could get really serious. Hantavirus is not as easily transmitted; not likely to be the same level of threat. Nearly 40 cruise passengers exposed to a deadly virus may
i wish i could fast forward five years to see how badly this all turned out. it’s painful to watch. “Combined free cash flow across Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle is projected to FALL m
Jan Leike expresses gratitude for collaborators he has worked with on AI alignment research throughout his career. The post, shared on X (Twitter), reflects on the privilege of working with talented i
It’s honestly painful to root for Elon in the trial, given the kind of person he has become. Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest m
A judge ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated regulations by using ChatGPT to process grant applications in an unauthorized manner, determining the practice was both incom
Morgan Stanley sees capital spending by the five largest AI hyperscalers topping 800 billion this year and 1.1 trillion next year. At 3.3% of gross domestic product, next year’s figure would exceed pr
My view on Mythos was and is somewhere in between. It’s real, it’s a wakeup call, and it’s not quite what some of the media coverage suggested. • Mythos is not going to allow an 8 year old to accident
Next week at The Trial could be wild. Here’s why: Sam Altman will be on the stand. He is one of the world’s most convincing (though not always truthful) talkers (as I saw up close when we testified si
Professions with guilds or membership associations are going to get different AI policy reactions than those without The Bar & the AMA will ensure that human doctors or lawyers are legally required fo
Remember that MIT study that showed that the ROI for generative AI wasn’t really there for most businesses? Or any of the six or seven studies from other teams that followed, showing basically the sam
Sadly I am forced to agree. @karaswisher shilled for her friend Sam (who interviewed her for her book tour!), and ran me down for seeking (and stating) the truth. And never apologized, even after my t
This appears to be a post by cognitive scientist and AI researcher Gary Marcus on X (formerly Twitter) expressing skepticism or disagreement about a claim or development, likely related to AI, machine
SCOOP: VP JD Vance held a secret call with CEOs of giant AI companies including Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. Vance expressed concern with the potential of AI systems and impact they could h
Gary Marcus discusses the prospect of writing an updated edition of a work that has entered the public domain, suggesting he may revise and republish it. The post reflects on opportunities created by
Gary Marcus shared appreciation for a humorous or witty piece of content from the Financial Times (FT), praising its deadpan British humor style. The post suggests the FT occasionally publishes unexpe
Jan Leike announced he is beginning a new research project at Anthropic focused on contributing to safe and beneficial AGI development. The post expresses enthusiasm about the initiative and indicates
Take Mythos seriously, but don’t panic. Here are the facts: • Mythos is a real threat. And it can really help with finding bugs (as @mozilla’s new report documents well). • It’s not unique; similar vu
🚨The slow decline of OpenAI has begun. 🚨 These two hesitations from SoftBank and Broadcom, back to back in my feed from @HedgieMarkets and @anissagardizy8, are major signs. The money question of 2026:
We’ve spent a lot of time on the framework underneath Codex, so it can move quickly on routine work while stopping for review when the risk changes. Here’s how we use sandboxing, approvals, network po
Gary Marcus argues that despite 3.5 years of rapid AI development and deployment, there is minimal empirical evidence that AI has significantly impacted overall economic productivity metrics. The post
arXiv:2605.04439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks enriched with structural information have been widely employed for facial expression recognition tasks. However, these methods ofte
arXiv:2605.03537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a modular AI agentic skill pipeline for automating subject indexing with Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Subject inde
arXiv:2605.04066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is an essential paradigm that enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs).
arXiv:2605.03423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a novel adaptive dual-path framework for covert semantic communication (SemCom), which integrates covert information transmission wi
arXiv:2605.05123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In offline-to-online reinforcement learning (O2O-RL), policies are first safely trained offline using previously collected datasets and then further fin
arXiv:2602.13670v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Class-incremental learning (CIL) with pre-trained models (PTMs) faces a critical trade-off between efficient adaptation and long-term stability. Whi
arXiv:2605.03648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To understand complex system dynamics in dairy farming, it is essential to use modeling tools that capture farm heterogeneity, social interactions, and
arXiv:2605.04875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting innovation, intended as the emergence of new technological combinations, is a fundamental challenge for science and policy. We show that for
arXiv:2507.12768v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning generalizable manipulation policies hinges on data, yet robot manipulation data is scarce and often entangled with specific embodiments, ma
Gary Marcus corrected a previous statement about power consumption, clarifying that the figure was 300 megawatts rather than 30 megawatts. This appears to be a technical correction posted on X regardi
arXiv:2605.04077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a central paradigm for improving reasoning and code generation in large language mode
arXiv:2505.00020v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Using a legally obtained dataset of 34 copyrighted O'Reilly Media books, we apply the DE-COP membership inference attack method to investigate wheth
arXiv:2605.04381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal discovery methods such as LiNGAM identify causal structure from observational data by assuming mutually independent disturbances. This assumpti
arXiv:2605.04652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning aims to predict future events from historical facts. A key challenge lies in jointly capturing two sources of p
arXiv:2605.04073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bail decisions present a fundamental challenge for data-driven decision support systems. When bail is denied, the counterfactual outcome of whether the
arXiv:2605.04080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research investigated how online criminal activities can be better understood and connected using data-driven machine learning methods. Many illega
contest time: First person to update this chart with no mistakes using an AI system and a general prompt (rather than one than that handholds the system every step of the win) wins a signed book! Plea
arXiv:2605.03278v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Doubly Robust (DR) estimation of treatment effect relies on an untestable assumption that is the absence of unobserved confounding. This assumption is
arXiv:2605.04555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) offers a promising approach for data-efficient energy management in buildings, combining the strengths of pred