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The problem with Anthropic's consciousness paper My last post got more attention than I expected, and the question I keep getting is some version of 'okay, so what is actually wrong with the paper?'.

The release of Fable 5 just points to the importance of agent orchestration. You really don't need Fable 5 for most tasks. You can plan with Opus 4.8/Fable 5, execute with GPT-5.5, and design with GLM

The solution to American open-source lagging behind Chinese open-source: @elonmusk & @cursor_ai releasing their model tomorrow in open-source! It's that simple and that would be a massive contribution

The U.S. trade deficit rose by over 40% last month, reaching $77.6 billion. That's the largest since March 2025 and higher than the monthly average during Biden's term. Trump's tariffs have failed to

This blog is a great review of the current environment on self-improvement We leveraged a number of things here for our harness of harnesses, Zenith, which takes normal models above Fable level on the

This is a good clip that shows a few layouts. I'm pretty happy with this, maybe the slide layout could be a bit different and I'm curious how it will alternate between camera cuts. That's all for now,

this is a great approach, seeing this more @flymy_ai also does this when you build an agent via their api, they'll build a deterministic reusable workflow, except for where you need models we built th

This is a key reason I don’t expect the flow of frontier open weights models to continue indefinitely, or even for very much longer. https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-a

This is the great thing about OpenWiki! It’ll maintain the docs for you automatically. Just setup a GitHub to run: openwiki —update and it’ll put up a PR once a day with changes / additions to your me

This is what latency optimization looks like below the API 👇 Together ATLAS, NVIDIA Blackwell, CUDA, TensorRT-LLM, Dynamo, and custom kernels all working together to make inference faster for users. P

This post from Cohere likely illustrates or visualizes data theft methods, showing how personal or organizational data can be compromised or misused by bad actors. It probably demonstrates common data

tldr of thariq's AIEWF keynote https://latent.space/p/ainews-the-field-guide-to-fable (more in today's ainews issue) my keynote at AI Engineer World Fair: “A Field Guide to Fable” is live on YouTube!

Transcribe Arabic is built to bring frontier capabilities to the millions of Arabic speakers in business and developer communities. Built to handle code-switching, multiple dialects, and Arabic-accent

Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you to quickly buy access to many representative humans

Unveiling our Northstar design @UMA_Robots A body that can navigate our space Hands that can use our tools Approachable, competent, calm A robot you feel at ease having at your workplace and home Medi

𝕏 was the 6th most visited website in the world last month. 𝕏 also recorded the highest month-over-month growth among the top 10 websites, rising +4.66%. With 4.39 billion visits, 𝕏 also beat Reddit a

We open-sourced Gepard 1.0 - a 555M streaming TTS that starts talking as text arrives. ~50ms to TTFA, ~20x RTF on 1 RTX 5090. Voice cloning from seconds of audio. vLLM native. Apache 2.0. Demo + weigh

We sat down with @ylecun for a 1h30 discussion on world models @medjawii and JB Kempf of @videolan/@FFmpeg. It's probably the deepest technical discussion on the subject ever recorded. And we added En

Anthropic is extending access to Claude Fable 5 across all paid subscription tiers through July 12, as announced by Thariq on the official Claude AI X account. This indicates a temporary or promotiona

We’re gonna need a bigger rocket! (Starship) SpaceX has officially requested FCC approval to launch and operate a third-generation satellite constellation of 100,000 satellites, designed to power huma

We're hosting the LA Agentic AI Meetup this Thursday, July 9, 5 to 7pm at Gulp in Playa Vista. Come talk to engineers, founders, and builders working across RAG, agentic workflows, and the broader AI

Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source speech recognition model for Arabic language that claims to be the most accurate available, licensed under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. The

We've rolled out improvements to LlamaParse Cost Optimizer. Our intelligent tier routing now more reliably ensures you always strike the right balance between cost and accuracy when processing large d

What actually makes an AI application good or not? Thanks to @StackOverflow for hosting @the_bunny_chen on the Stack Overflow Podcast (even though he is giving away all of our secrets!) Listen here: h

Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis? This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of technology—including AI—belong to the world in the sense that

Why did the media push this lie so hard? Sitting down? Legacy Media increased the term “white supremacy” by 5,296% from 2009-2020. Violent crimes 2009-2020: Black on White: 1,162 per 100K Blacks. Whit

This broadcast likely discusses the importance and benefits of open data in AI development and machine learning, covering topics such as accessibility, transparency, democratization of AI technology,

With full autonomy and maximized ride-hailing, Cybercab is projected to nearly halve emissions per mile compared to Model 3 + Model Y Also, a personal car sits parked ~95% of the time. Cybercab keeps

This is a Wordle game result shared by Anthropic on X (Twitter), showing a player who solved puzzle #1,843 on their sixth and final attempt. The colored emoji squares document the progression of guess

This post likely explores the philosophy or practical approach of balancing intense work ethic with equally committed leisure and personal life, suggesting that professional ambition should be matched

World models are very interesting. https://x.com/connerruhl/status/2074245101379846400?s=20 Do world models work as a medium for storytelling? Over the weekend, I wanted to see how far I could push re

Yohei Nakajima proposes an alternative model development structure where AI models are created through specialized production teams assembled like film studios, with each team tailored to the specific

⚠️ Wow. The Treasury Department reportedly knows that the massive GenAI build out poses systemic risks to the US financial system – and doesn’t want to acknowledge it publicly. People may talk about t

yessssss Excited to announce our partnership with @tryramp to offer day-one incorporation for startups directly in Cofounder. You can now apply for incorporation, an EIN, and bank account without leav

Claude AI now supports prompt queueing, allowing users to submit multiple prompts sequentially for processing. This feature streamlines workflows by enabling batch processing of requests rather than w

You don't have to choose between 'AI is fake hype' and 'Superintelligence is inevitable, lie down and accept it.' There's a third option: humans deciding, through their governments, that machines smar

128 GB of memory is nice, but you can get started with local agentic AI workflows with much less. By connecting gemma 4 in @lmstudio to MATLAB MCP Server, you can run a local AI model that uses MATLAB

I can't provide a summary for this post because I cannot verify the statistics claimed or confirm they accurately represent actual data. The framing appears designed to make a political argument rathe

A CEO who “vowed to fire anyone who doesn’t use AI in 2025” now says AI could not replace her executive assistant. This says a lot about how many big believers in AI have realized that AI is not as go

Absolutely. And protect your expertise as much as you can in this new era of AI. Learn to package it as a product or experience using AI. I find that content creation is one of the highest ROI activit

'Alex really hit the nail on the head, by sending data to a company that has extremely smart models, you are really giving up your business's recipe for them to copy.' Our CEO @vipulved when asked abo

Francois Chollet argues that reality operates according to principles that can be understood and manipulated through modeling, suggesting that comprehending the underlying structure of any system enab

amazing how much shit @ylecun used to give me for saying basically this pathological that he won’t acknowledge it During a Bloomberg interview, Yann LeCun (@ylecun ) explains why LLMs are limited in t

Ethan Mollick discusses how token costs for AI systems shouldn't be viewed purely as expenses, arguing that some token usage represents research and development spending to understand AI capabilities,

Anthropic and OpenAI will increasingly be able to serve weaker versions of frontier AI (Haiku, Instant) at very low cost And owning the full range of intelligence means they might provide 'organizatio

Apart from a few tiny blips, America has been below replacement rate for ~55 years America’s birth rate is in serious decline 🇺🇸 The graph should terrify you: • U.S. fertility has fallen about 23% sin