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This article by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus likely critiques Richard Dawkins' views or statements regarding Claude (an AI system), examining whether Dawkins may be mistaken or overly optimistic ab

New York Times: Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend 3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation — Chris Larsen, who hail

For programming tasks with an RTX 5080 (16GB VRAM) and 64GB RAM, optimal quantized models include Qwen 3 14B at Q6 quantization, Llama 3.1 13B at Q8, or DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B Q4, all of which fit co

see also this essay: “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training

OpenAI announced a community contest inviting users to create custom Codex pets using a /hatch command, with 10 winning entries receiving 30 days of ChatGPT Pro as prizes. The promotion encouraged use

/elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype I

small milestone: uninstalled the chatgpt app. codex is strict superset now! found something cool - among frontier models, @xai @grok 4.30 is the most intelligence per dollar you can get, beating even

(Sorry, after seeing so many of these, could not resist): 🚨 BREAKING: Google just dropped a NEW paper that completely deletes RNNs from existence. No recurrence. No convolutions. Nothing. Just one mec

The Information: Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 — As Anthropic's sales explode, straining the servers it uses,

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~45B — Retai

Bloomberg: Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising — Opay Digital Services Ltd. is workin

Stanford's latest seminar is a deep dive into the evolution of world modeling in AI. Focuses on the shift in the world model from traditional reconstruction methods toward latent space prediction. Cov

Elon Musk announced that Starlink satellite internet service has expanded to Papua New Guinea, marking the company's entry into that market. This expansion aims to provide high-speed internet connecti

Robert Booth / The Guardian: Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors — Research

suno can spit bars 😵‍💫 https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZqWAGhGt13WAt4krXv8bV?si=c953d55900a8455f ♫ Bias Alignment I’m deriving the variance, bias alignment is delicate Scaling parameters, balancing gr

switching model providers is easy switching harnesses is less so model providers want to lock you in via harness we need open harnesses! TBH I don't agree with your take. I don't think Athropic's desi

The Harness is a Context Manager on Behalf of the Model What happens when the context window fills up and who decides? This decision is external to the model - The Harness designer must have some opin

Harrison Chase, the creator of LangChain, commented on significant improvements made to the LangChain documentation, indicating that the docs have substantially improved compared to a previous version

The left is what Wikipedia sees the world through. You can get a sense of what it what it would look like to change that lens if you go to @Grokipedia. If you take the same article on Wikipedia and Gr

Gary Marcus discusses concerns about the massive financial investment being directed toward generative AI development and deployment, likely examining whether the trillion-dollar spending is justified

The Tesla office feels like a modern-day computer museum as you walk past generations of vehicles, which are technically computers with wheels. Guests often ask what I am working on. “Technically, whe

The trend keeps going ITALY IS DYING — AND THE NUMBERS ARE BRUTAL Italy just recorded its lowest number of births since 1861. Only 355,000 babies were born in 2025, while deaths reached 652,000 — a ne

The year of the harness 🤝 Harnesses are our most direct layer to turn a model into a great product experience for users by shaping model behavior towards a goal This matters today because models have

Elon Musk posted a tweet praising campaign advertisements for Spencer Pratt's mayoral campaign in Los Angeles, calling them 'game changers' and 'inspiring.' The post appears to be commentary on Pratt'

This is actually a version of an alignment problem. Humans have background beliefs (don’t waste large sums of money without telling me) and Claude doesn’t respect those. Caveat emptor. THIS GUY ACCIDE

This is insane Three Trump judicial nominees refused, over and over, to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. They either believe Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, or they’re too afraid of him

This is so sick! 【革命】動画から3Dモーションを抽出！ComfyUIの新機能が凄すぎる 動画から人物の動きを抜き出し、高品質な3Dアニメーションに変換できる「Mocap Surgeon」が登場しました！✨ 注目の神機能はこちら： ・Jitter Filtering：動きのガタつきを数理的に除去し、滑らかさを実現 ・Slerp（球面線形補間）：関節のねじれを自然にブレンドして手動修

This post likely references the Voight-Kampff test from 'Blade Runner,' a fictional device used to identify replicants (artificial beings), as a metaphor for distinguishing AI bots from humans on X (f

Thought-Controlled Robotics is now very real and it's happening with Neuralink A paralyzed Neuralink patient, Alex Conley, just controlled a robotic arm using only his thoughts - then piloted a drone

Trooper v2.1 is a tool that provides automatic fallback functionality from cloud-based LLM services to local Ollama instances when cloud quota limits are exceeded, incorporating context compaction to

I cannot provide an accurate summary for this entry as the title appears truncated and incomplete, cutting off mid-sentence. The text suggests a discussion about open source security concerns and geop

Jerry Liu predicts that genuinely useful long-running AI agents will become a reality by 2026, viewing this development as simultaneously inevitable and remarkable. The post reflects on how advances i

We are honored to be featured in the latest @TwoMinutePapers video! You all can watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/QzZ4VwDHAT4 Here’s a short clip from it: Media What happens when you put com

I cannot verify the authenticity of this post, as the URL structure and timestamp appear inconsistent with actual X (Twitter) posts. The claim about fine-tuning a '1930 vintage LLM' is anachronistic,

Sam Altman announced plans to organize larger celebration events for future OpenAI product releases, noting that previous release parties attracted more attendees than anticipated. He expressed gratit

This post likely presents arguments defending or praising Western civilization's contributions, achievements, or cultural values, potentially in response to common criticisms. Without access to the sp

When a self-proclaimed civil rights organization puts Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of all people, on a 'hate watch' list, you know it has been twisted into a grotesque hate group itself. But this was only a sampl

This episode features Warren Smith discussing the decline of critical thinking in contemporary society, likely exploring how factors such as social media, institutional education, or cultural trends h

🚨 WOW! Los Angeles mayor candidate Spencer Pratt has infuriated leftist candidate Nithya Raman after he recorded outside her MANSION to point out how out of TOUCH she is 'Here is where Nithya Raman's

Gary Marcus expressed frustration on X about unexpectedly spending his Saturday morning writing a Substack article critiquing Richard Dawkins' recent work or statements. The post suggests Marcus felt

Swyx compares xAI's Grok codex functionality favorably to Slack's native AI search feature, suggesting it provides superior search capabilities within Slack. The post implies that Grok's codex indexin

This post from Swyx discusses Grok (xAI's AI assistant) in the context of efficiency, likely highlighting performance metrics, speed improvements, or resource optimization of the model compared to alt

Replit celebrated its 10-year anniversary by offering free access to its Agent feature to all users for one day on May 2nd, enabling users to build projects without cost. The promotion aimed to democr

arXiv:2604.28064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This comprehensive review examines the evolution and the current state of the art in three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques in manufacturing a

arXiv:2604.28134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the problem of regenerating 3D objects from 2D images and initial 3D shapes. Most 3D generators operate in a one-shot fashion, converting te

Jerry Liu discusses how AI now generates approximately 95% of code, arguing that the era of orchestration frameworks has ended and been replaced by newer approaches to AI development and integration.