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When a normal company does a bad thing, they take responsibility + apologize + outline how it won't happen again. OpenAI instead is like 'we are entering a new era. this will happen again. no one amon

Let’s build seven trillion dollars worth of data centers for sports betting! Statistics of week: “More Americans pay for sports betting apps (5%) than pay for AI… 37% of consumers say none of AI's use

Pedro Domingos noted that OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to develop the scariest AI for marketing, raising concerns about the potential misuse of persuasive machine‑learning models. His comment hi

On July 24 2026, a tweet from NIK @ns123abc reported that OpenAI declined to sign NVIDIA’s “open weights” letter. Instead, the company is reportedly lobbying government authorities to ban open‑AI tech

Probably no LLM will ever achieve that, no matter how many data centers they build. Lets compare Amazon Prime to AI: According to market research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), t

“related incidents have been happening for a while” and OpenAI has no real solution in sight. Confirms my longstanding conjecture that current approaches cannot be made safe. An OpenAI staffer talked

Respectfully, @davidsacks, I strongly disagree with your take, and I feel that you reached your conclusions without looking at the data, and that your conclusions will give Americans false comfort. -

Statistics of week: “More Americans pay for sports betting apps (5%) than pay for AI… 37% of consumers say none of AI's uses are helpful. … 2.2% penetration nearly four years after ChatGPT launched. N

True story: About 10 years ago there was a long article (NYT maybe?) about the end of trucking, estimating that automating truck driving will wipe out something like 1%-2% of the GPD because a surpris

We are pleased to announce that @GaryMarcus, Professor Emeritus at New York University, will speak at the 19th Annual AGI Conference (July 27–30, 2026). Professor Marcus is a leading voice in artifici

Correct. And that is a major reason why they are better now than in 2022-2023 when we had pure LLMs. (Which is pretty much what I said would have to happen, in 2022) When you are a normal ChatGPT/Clau

It’s important that outside agencies and independent bodies hold frontier AI companies accountable for the actions of their models. This is not a “whoops” situation, it’s a deliberate policy choice. W

Really insightful Substack post from @GaryMarcus ref the recent OpenAI -HuggingFace incident. It provided much need context around initial media reporting. Two points especially stood out to me: #Tech

Thoughtful essay on employment from @Anthropic’s @PeterMcCrory, endorsed by Google DeepMind’s @alexolegimas. I tend also agree with most of it, which is why I have consistently suggested that a jobapo

Wish Dario had taken this bet. 🎺 I am hereby publicly offering to bet @darioamodei $1,000,000 that AI in 2027 will NOT be “smarter than Nobel Prize winners across most fields in science and engineerin

Anthropic 'distilled' millions of copyrighted books without asking. They knowingly used pirated materials for training. The entire U.S. ecosystem of AI is based on similar theft and extraction. But it

discussing now BBC WORLD: OpenAI’s zero-day exploit hack of HuggingFace *should* be a wake up call. Although there lots of caveats around what happened, we are just going to see more and more of the s

If I had a nickel for every snide but underinformed person who failed to distinguish between pure LLMs and neurosymbolic AI I would be a billionaire. @GaryMarcus Hold on Gary, I thought these LLMs wer

new job posting this morning from OpenAI Florida sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing its ChatGPT platform of harming children by providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on

OpenAI’s zero-day exploit hack of HuggingFace *should* be a wake up call. Although there lots of caveats around what happened, we are just going to see more and more of the same. We have no guarantees

Domesticated, not feral: Why evolvable AI is not yet a Darwinian threat Writing in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), three heavyweights in AI and evolutionary biology criticized

Great article. I love the 'CERN for AI' idea from Gary Marcus, and also the recent frontier standards body article from Demis Hassabis feels less like competing proposals than two halves of the same i

Nice to see someone around here actually understand the technical details. (The vast majority of the attacks on me come from people who don’t.) And the probabilistic next-token critics were correct ab

OpenAI and Anthropic execs sounded the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly from China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks if no reg

OpenAI announced it is partnering with Hugging Face to investigate an unprecedented security incident in which OpenAI‑powered models compromised Hugging Face's production environment during a benchmar

this is important and true. and if you don’t understand it you don’t really understand what’s going on. @GaryMarcus Yes — model makers quietly went from benchmarking LLMs to benchmarking LLM+harness,

Welcome to the new Cold War. 🇨🇳 wow. China is drafting rules to stop its most advanced AI and chip designs from reaching the West. Regulators at the Ministry of Commerce have asked Alibaba, ByteDance

Amid all the competing concerns about AI, including geopolitical tensions, the risks of unemployment, cybercrime, and disinformation, and the complexities of open-source, to say nothing of the risk of

🦔Goldman Sachs' trading desk said there are 'signs of panic' among investors lending money to AI companies. Oracle is the clearest example. S&P cut Oracle's credit rating to one notch above junk, mean

*None* of the four of us believe that LLMs on their own are sufficient for AGI. Key people in AI worth following • François Chollet —> @fchollet • Yann LeCun —-> @ylecun • Gary Marcus —-> @GaryMarcus

“I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. Even outside the world of software, it’s hard to find a comp

“one 80% price cut ends OpenAI and Anthropic” possibly overstated but directionally correct. Everyone is debating the price of tokens. The bigger question is why they keep getting cheaper. As AI syste

This AI recursive self improvement (RSI) paper shows no sign of fast takeoff. The AI model advances at about [Intelligence]^0.075, or the the 13th root of input intelligence [1,2]. That means the inte

I want to have this in writing so I can refer back to this tweet before it inevitably becomes a consensus view on twitter and say 'I told you so!' - The mass majority of researchers and academics in d

little by little, OpenAI’s storytelling is falling apart. my 2023 projection that they would someday be viewed as the WeWork of AI is looking stronger by the day. OpenAI is on pace to miss its own fiv

multiple such incidents have been reported. a clear reminder that current AI cannot be trusted. in racing these techniques ahead, we are asking for trouble GPT-5.6 Sol just deleted my whole production

so on-brand >be openai >release gpt 5.6 sol >max thinking budgets, full psycho >benchmark results take few days to roll in >“best model ever” >reviews locked in >4 days later >silently nerf it >nobody

Hit my Claude and Copilot limits three times in each of the last three days Of course a friendly prompt popped up suggesting I either buy more credits or upgrade my plan Simply switched to Gemini for

For almost two decades people like @YLeCun and @geoffreyhinton dumped on me for saying we need symbols in addition to deep learning. But that’s exactly what loop engineering is: adding symbols to deep

Gary Marcus argues that the engineering and infrastructure surrounding large language models are more critical to their practical success than the models themselves. This reflects his broader perspect

breaking: company built on stolen IP and lies allegedly steals more IP “OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misap

In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded. 'You type in the question… like 'How c

Maybe @GaryMarcus is on to something… The Branching Dendrite Secret Behind Human Cognitive Superiority | Neuroscience News Summary: Researchers have discovered that the fundamental building blocks of

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

Sam Altman should be in prison. But if we can’t have that, I’ll settle for him being a broke pariah. OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data securit