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Literally for years I have been warning everyone: @GaryMarcus, December, 2022: “GPT-4 will still, like its predecessors, be a bull in a china shop, reckless and hard to control.” @GaryMarcus, November

On August 7, 2026 Ethan Mollick tweeted that “every remaining good AI benchmark score has an implied asterisk next to it which reads: * could be significantly higher with a better harness.” The commen

Introducing Agent Plugins, an open standard for extending agents. Supports Agent Skills and MCP, with more to come. Built in collaboration with: @awsdevelopers, @code, @cursor_ai, @github, and @openai

if you have been following his excellent work, @shloked has been breaking down every frontier labs' harness engineering for the last few months. excited to publish his deepest dive into ChatGPT yet as

🚨ASI/AGI is imminent fans don’t realize that they ALREADY lost the argument around Astra. My argument (spelled out in detail in my Substack today) was that Astra was unlikely to be the dramatic leap f

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delague says “AI is actually an opportunity to fix a lot of the cybersecurity problems” because his company used Nvidia’s version of a Chinese open model to defend itself agai

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate! The recent AI-powered cyberattacks have everyone talking about the risks of AI. We should. But let's not lose sight of the bigger picture! If we work hard

so much for the “general” part of general intelligence I have tried many times to get ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini to write scripts for my YouTube videos. It is still a complete failure. For one th

Wake me when Astra solves a significant open-world problem that doesn’t revolve around formal verification. Or at least fixes poor @skdh’s video problems. I have tried many times to get ChatGPT, Claud

Ethan Mollick highlights that large, currently under‑explored benchmarks (e.g., ARC‑AGI, GDPval, METR long horizons, ASI cyber tasks) are growing in complexity, yet they increasingly lack systematic h

I'm actually fairly bearish on frontier lab valuations. I've never seen the reasons articulated to my satisfaction, so before I go to sleep, I wanted to quickly jot down my thinking here. The basic is

sure we lose money on every inference but we make it up in volume We are committed to pushing the model frontier across cost efficiency, capability, and speed. Starting today, we are reducing prices f

@mitsuhiko Turns out the 'third-party provider' with the sandbox that was used for the attack was Modal, though they blame one of their customers for deploying an endpoint without authentication: http

Sam Altman: “Concentration of power with AI is a terrifying thing.” 'A lot of the talk about safety concerns is well-founded, and then a lot of it is about people that just really, even if it's slight

🦔The cost of insuring Big Tech debt against default just hit record highs. Credit default swaps are insurance policies investors buy when they think a company might not pay back what it borrowed. When

Ha! It did it: 'We introduce BenchBenchBenchBenchBench (BBBBB), an executable benchmark of AI-authored conformance suites for benchmark-evaluation metrics' I really thought it would treat 'now do benc

As a joke I prompted Codex 'Build and run BenchBench, a benchmark of now good ai is at creating benchmarks. then figure out what benchbenchbench is and run that. and then write benchbenchbench up as a

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

🦔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

calling it now FDE -> ODE -> PDE the existence of Forward Deployed Engineering and now Ordinary Deployed Engineering implies that the next pokemon evolution is Partial Deployed Engineering Anthropic,

“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

Thanks for the shoutout! Excited to see OpenWiki 0.0.3 launch 🥰 I believe wiki-based memory is a more governable, sustainable, and hierarchical direction for agent memory. Looking forward to continuin

We're continuing to work hard to make OpenWiki better and better! v0.0.3 just launched with a lot of improvements. What do you want to see next? OpenWiki 0.0.3 just launched with tons of bug fixes and

MAI-1 has no independent benchmarks yet, but the ones they released suggest it is worse than Sonnet 4.6. Not sure it is going to be great as a Copilot at Excel and Outlook, especially as there are alr

Alibaba allegedly ran 28.8 million fraudulent API exchanges across 25,000 fake accounts to steal Claude's intelligence. If confirmed, it's the largest AI model theft ever attempted. The same week, the

hard to see how anyone makes much money from all this in the long run. more like the airline industry; very small margins and big expenses pouring trillions in probably wasn’t wise China’s AI playbook

Highly-recommended reading. Interesting details in this METR's GPT-5.6 eval. They couldn't get a clean capability number because the model cheated more than any public model they've tested, and even r

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic accused Alibaba of conducting a 'distillation attack' on Claude. We asked @ClementDelangue his thoughts: 'Distillation is a very common practice that everyone is using.

discussed more here: I was first to call the death of tokenmaxxing (ahead of @zerohedge), among the first (in 2023) to warn that the economics of Generative AI was problematic, and first (also 2023) t

one popular theory is that research paper alpha* and lab publishing ~died when researchers realized that instead of fighting with marketing depts they could simply walk out the door and get >$100m for

ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke. Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fak

This is collectively the largest financial iceberg ever put in front of the stock market. This is $5 trillion in TOTAL AIR. These companies have never made a dime. SpaceX is literally a government wel

FWIW, I think this moves up my AI timelines a bit. I think the next milestone will be 'Artificial *Grothendieck* Intelligence' (AGrI): defining new general mathematical structures to solve the hardest

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an inte

customers are increasingly asking us for certainty on capacity. as models get better, we expect that the world will be capacity-constrained for some time. we are offering discounted tokens for 1-3 yea

Shouldn’t this mean > 100b in charitable giving for effective altruism adjacent projects from Anthropic founders & team members alone? New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds o

Today in AI Engineering (May 17) • Nous Research ships Hermes Agent v0.14.0: Grok subs, Codex runtime, Windows beta • LangSmith Engine releases trace issue clustering, drafts PRs and evals from prod t

Frontier labs are betting AGI models will be so good you won't ever want to customize them. We think different. Building on a closed platform means renting your intelligence. The landlord sets the ter

It was a manufactured marketing narrative all along because Anthropic lacked compute. 'Cybersecurity experts and artificial intelligence researchers told CNBC that the software vulnerabilities reveale

toodles from mickey mouse clubhouse was weirdly ahead of its time wake phrase: mickey mouse clubhouse launched in 2006, and “oh toodles” trained toddlers on the assistant wake phrase years before siri

“Marcus’ specific point about coding is structurally important: a model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, ma

Sam Altman is a master at insincerity, Author @GaryMarcus claims. 'He is a master of projecting insincerity, a master at telling the room what it wants to hear and not always truthful'. “Altman, sitti

does anyone else remember how Jacob Devlin went to the media about how Google was supposedly distilling from ShareGPT (it was not) and the resulting blowback? How times have changed 😅 https://futurism

What people call 'distillation' is a super common practice (you use other models to benchmark your model, to evaluate your inputs or to add a little bit to your datasets) that in my opinion should be

This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus contrasts Google's original 'Don't Be Evil' corporate motto from 2001 with a critical question about the company's 2026 practices, likely arguing that Google has

To those who pit Sam Altman and Elon Musk against each other like a billionaire feud, look, do your own research. When have you ever seen Elon Musk use his money to buy a yacht, a paradise island, or