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oops Goldman reckons that AI will create about 10trn of discounted value for the world, or up to 22trn. But markets have priced in 27trn of additional value creation. So the size of the 'bubble' has n

'Oracle is under financial pressure because of an expensive build-out of AI data centers for customers like OpenAI.' https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/oracle-layoffs-fueled-by-ai-redu

The Kremlin’s cognitive warfare is evolving. Leaked documents from Russia’s Social Design Agency reveal efforts to move beyond planting fabricated stories on social media. Now Russian influence operat

The article challenges the widespread assumption that AI surpasses human capabilities across all domains, arguing this narrative is inaccurate. It likely presents evidence or reasoning from AI researc

The recent Mythos/NSA warning shot is looking more and more like how I expected a 'warning shot' to look like. An absolutely insane thing happens, and then the FUD machine kicks into action and adds i

I can't provide a summary of this content based on the information given. The URL appears to be fabricated (the tweet ID format and account name don't match actual X/Twitter patterns), and I cannot ve

This, once again, shows why the theory of change of 'we just wait for a wArNiNg ShOt and then everyone will suddenly be reasonable!' is flawed. We need to do a lot of work to make the situation legibl

An update. A US official tells me that Sen. Warner misunderstood the NSA director Gen. Rudd in this case. Rudd did use the 'hours, not weeks' wording, but the use of Mythos in this context was—as wide

'Because I'm going to be smarter than you' This clip is from a new short film by @ForegoneFilms on the race to develop superintelligence. Please watch the full 16 minute film (link below) to help unde

By the end of the decade and maybe a lot sooner, we will wonder why we ever treated these folks like they were gods. “The more I listen to AI company CEOs, the stranger they sound,” says another tech

Great report on LLM agent communication protocols. Communication is a huge bottleneck in multi-agent systems. (worth bookmarking) The report builds a five-dimensional taxonomy (counterparty, payload,

have been thinking a bunch about model routing and related things current thoughts here, would love feedback: 1/ there is a difference between 'model routing' and 'model council' 'model routing' = rou

LLMs can’t be trusted to follow rules. Which means they can’t be trusted, period. If we are going to solve alignment we must move on. Large language models can be persuaded to break their own rules. N

New piece in @TheAtlantic! We always hear that AI will cure cancer, and I would immediately benefit if it did. But I argue that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer

Gary Marcus compares two countries' economic risk-taking, suggesting one is engaging in dangerous speculation while the other is not. The post likely discusses contrasting approaches to emerging techn

Our new incident response report exposes a coordinated network of 340 Facebook pages, largely operated from Vietnam, flooding feeds across Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe with AI-fabricated news, a

Professor @GaryMarcus is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. What

Sober minded folks need to understand the cash out happening in this bubble peak. Watch the @WSJ discussion 👇 How big tech hides the true cost of AI @wsj https://youtu.be/YrJzjC4kKCY?si=o1CiKxLaSVWOhK

The largest LLM-as-a-Judge reliability audit yet. Researchers ran 21 judges from nine providers over roughly 541,000 judgments on MT-Bench, JudgeBench, and RewardBench. Findings: Validating a judge wi

Gary Marcus posted a critical commentary on X regarding SPCX stock, sarcastically offering 'thoughts and prayers' to investors who purchased the stock at 225 in the previous week, implying the investm

This post by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus likely critiques the widespread credibility given to a particular public figure's predictions, questioning the basis for their influence or accuracy track

Absolutely insane revelations about Tulsi Gabbard. Throughout her public life, she's been a puppet for a Hindu cult. Washington Post got access to 25,000 pages of documents including directives from T

This video from the Wall Street Journal examines how major technology companies obscure the substantial economic, environmental, and societal costs associated with developing and operating artificial

'If curing cancer were the only result of building ever more powerful AI systems, I would cheer for their arrival. But the problem is that their impacts are much broader, and we are moving too quickly

Is it a sign of disillusionment when technooptimist @BrianRoemmele sounds *exactly* like me:? Here he writes that we risk an AI winter from “Over-promising relative to capabilities: Ambitious public c

this claim around creativity is too strong, IMHO. truly novel ideas from LLMs are surely rare but i don’t think that any math proves they are impossible. note that the objective function and the outpu

This now widely circulated claim is based on a line I wrote last week (https://economist.com/briefing/2026/06/14/donald-trumps-blocking-of-anthropic-is-capricious-and-chaotic). I accurately quoted Mar

about fucking time. they have always shown a disregard for humanity. 42 state attorneys general are investigating OpenAI over alleged harmful practices. Read again: 42 state attorneys general are inve

Gary Marcus expresses frustration that American media outlets avoid covering his realistic critiques of AI, attributing this to influence or deference from the tech industry. He notes that internation

Big Tech will absolutely destroy our drinkable water supply to advance their AI products and increase their profits. Just like the health insurance industry lets people die to increase their profits.

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged relia

exactly. there aren’t enough resources in the world to build 5 towers of babel. which means the loan defaults alone will be epic. @GaryMarcus Instead of building the Tower of Babel we appear to have f

Flesh-eating maggots, scientifically known as larvae of blow flies and flesh flies, are used in medical settings for debridement therapy to treat infected or necrotic wounds by consuming dead tissue w

@GaryMarcus the whole AI bubble depends on investors not understanding that the progress on coding harnesses DOES NOT GENERALIZE to other less-quantifiable tasks. AI companies are deliberately obscuri

Has there ever been a more a soul-crushing technology than Generative AI? Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression. As CTOs aggressively evangelize tokenmaxxing, a

Gary Marcus argues that language models are not genuinely intelligent despite their sophisticated outputs, and that they operate fundamentally differently from human cognition. This critique likely ch

If Generative AI were a vehicle, it would be a runaway train. Terrifying sentence from Goldman Sachs: “Hyperscalers will need financing from across markets, structures, and currencies as they potentia

money talks: after putting 50B into OpenAI • Amazon ratted on Anthropic • dropped their skeptical film about Sam Altman Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished Sam Altman movie, “Artificial,” has been dropp

pro tip: when someone starts a long song and dance with “the fact that X” and that claim X is not a fact but an as yet a controversial and unproven speculation, hold on to your wallet. The fact that o

same. i want to know why Amazon is trying to bury it. If you have a script/screener of this movie, I would love to see it https://variety.com/2026/film/global/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artifici

// Self-play with a pinch of human data // Really cool paper combining human demonstrations and self-play RL. 30 minutes of human data, 2500x less than imitation learning, is enough to make self-play

Terrifying sentence from Goldman Sachs: “Hyperscalers will need financing from across markets, structures, and currencies as they potentially bump up against saturation considerations in liquid credit

The NSF helped build the internet, funded the observatory that detected gravitational waves, laid foundations for AI, advanced MRI technology, and trained generations of scientists. It is on track for

There is no way the hyperscalers are going to make back their 5.3 trillion — unless they take it out of the taxpayers, via massive government subsidies. Which is *exactly* what they are going to try t

This post likely discusses economic policy errors and systemic vulnerabilities that could transform a stock market correction into a severe, prolonged economic depression similar to the Great Depressi

C'est un grand honneur d’avoir reçu cette semaine l'insigne d'officier de l'Ordre national du Québec. Merci @CFrechette pour la remise de cette distinction. Il reste beaucoup de chemin à parcourir pou