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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

arXiv:2606.26114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We examine the structural transformation of creative industries under generative artificial intelligence, drawing on 374 primary sources spanning poli

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

I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been lookin

arXiv:2603.04444v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) diversify across modalities, capabilities, and cost profiles, the problem of intelligent request routing -- se

arXiv:2606.00804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise multi-agent systems increasingly expose multiple coordination patterns, but deployments often lack evidence for when to use consensus, deba

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

arXiv:2605.26575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual embedding models are deployed under the assumption that cross-lingual retrieval is symmetric: if a query in language A retrieves its transl

arXiv:2605.24699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most reported gains on agentic-LLM clinical benchmarks are often attributed to prompt engineering, yet our results suggest that larger improvements can

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

arXiv:2605.22714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are routinely used as automated evaluators: to review code, moderate content, or score outputs, often with many items passing th

We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent repre

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

Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key p

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

arXiv:2511.19399v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep research agents perform multi-step research to produce long-form, well-attributed answers. However, most open deep research agents are tr

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

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

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

arXiv:2604.27470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Millions of clinicians use ChatGPT to support clinical care, but evaluations of the most common use cases in model-clinician conversations are limited.

“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

arXiv:2604.14858v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As agent systems move into increasingly diverse execution settings, trajectory-level safety evaluation and diagnosis require benchmarks that evolve

Distillation is largely an industry standard and not just something done by Chinese labs targeting OpenAI/Anthropic. Many American companies also distill Chinese (open) models. LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: Open

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

DigitalOcean announced a new AI-native cloud platform designed to support production artificial intelligence workloads with optimized infrastructure and services. The offering likely provides speciali

Nellie Peyton / Reuters: South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated — South Africa has wit

Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she's become the latest celebrity who's escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however

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

We agree. The real leading indicators are clear: breakout Codex growth ✅, enterprise offerings on every cloud ✅, the only consumer app that matters ✅, a compute strategy built to accelerate ✅, and the

The Information: Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 — Dozens of enterprise

This post references a quote from Matt Levine, a financial columnist known for his sharp commentary on finance and markets, shared by Simon Willison on X (formerly Twitter). Without access to the spec

Generative AI as the Hindenberg 🦔 Michael Wooldridge, professor of AI at Oxford, is warning that the race to market AI has raised the risk of a 'Hindenburg moment' that could shatter global confidence

Here's a uv one-liner that downloads and runs the MLX model against a local mp3 file uv run --with mlx-audio python -m mlx_audio.stt.generate --model mlx-community/VibeVoice-ASR-4bit --audio lenny.mp3

Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more

there’s seem to be a ton of confusion about this post. for clarity: The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that

Doomers have made the AI industry much of what it is today, by hyping the narrative. Chamath captured the current state of AI perfectly in his 2025 annual letter 'In testing the most effective messagi