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We stress tested many frontier AI models for multimodal medical reasoning (including GPT-5, Claude 3.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro). They’re not ready. Faulty reasoning, use of inappropriate shortcuts, hallucinat

Gary Marcus fact-checks a claim that WeWork had no revenue, indicating this is a debunking of a false statement about the coworking company's financial performance. The post clarifies that WeWork did

“WeWork’s IPO fell apart. I’ve been calling OpenAI the (possible) WeWork of AI for a long time. I will not be surprised if their IPO plans apart, too” - @garymarcus, June 10, two weeks before OpenAI d

ah, the creative S-1 For those unfamiliar, WeWork pioneered the creative S-1 and the subsequent failure to IPO, and Sam seems to be following a comparable path. /cc @GaryMarcus https://qz.com/1685919/

An almost perfect prediction of the current AI predicament — and what may ultimately unravel our entire economy — from almost three years ago (August 2023), at Marcus on AI: Nearly every word remains

An important point which Gary will break down on tomorrow’s @ProfGMarkets episode Tune in Imagine if i had a business that gave you 20 bills for 10 bills. As word spread, my customer base would grow.

Gary Marcus discusses potential implications for generative AI if Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy CEO and prominent Bitcoin advocate) experiences financial or reputational difficulties. The post likely

Big Breaking News: White House asks OpenAI to delay GPT- 5.6. NEW: Trump admin asks OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 release over cyber concerns. Will approve 'access customer by customer during this preview

Chart of increasing revenue, pre the decline of token-maxxing, not looking at the immense costs/lack of profitability, not considering threats from open-source models, price-war dynamics etc. @noahopi

Crazy how many times people have told me over the last five years that a solution to hallucinations was right around the corner — and yet here we still are. This study tests how often LLMs invent answ

Disagree with @mcuban’s opening sentence – I do think some people genuinely hate the noise, blight, impact on electric prices, etc—but he is quite right that data centers have become a proxy for hate

Grifters and many other salesman are like LLMs. They say things that aren’t always true with absolutely certainty. Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycl

Grok may not be the AGI that Elon promised, but it appears that the man has found his use case. xAI is betting big on AI video and image generation — but the biggest driver of Grok Imagine may not be

Imagine if i had a business that gave you 20 bills for 10 bills. As word spread, my customer base would grow. My revenue (how many $10 bills I collected) would grow. And I would continue to lose money

🚨 In a surprise to NOBODY, a study shows that generative AI use raises homework scores, but substantially reduces learning. My takeaways for AI ethicists and educators: The study analyzed data from 26

In the end, will Elon be best known for his efforts to mainstream electric cars, for his rockets, …. or for his efforts to mainstream AI-generated porn? xAI is betting big on AI video and image genera

It is amazing to me how little the X-verse cares about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. Is that because most of the “people” here are actually Russian bots? 🤔 More Soviet-style decep

Looks like OpenAI’s IPO will be delayed until 2027. • might be a sign that their finances don’t look compelling yet. • gives Anthropic time to go first If they can bump up the valuation by $999.3 bill

Loops, one of the most symbolic tools ever invented, are rescuing generative AI. Neurosymbolic AI is completely dominating. Anthropic engineers just showed how to build agents that can run for days wi

love that one of my readers made her own, explicit set of public predictions. 🙏 I want to post my predictions for 2ish years horizon. AI stock bubble collapses due to fundamentals not working out with

Gary Marcus expresses concern about deceptive practices in the United States that he compares to Soviet-style tactics, suggesting he has observed propaganda, misinformation, or manipulative government

Neurosymbolic agents (here Codex) are absolutely crushing pure chatbots. This is a fascinating and important set of data which shows us where things are going, using OpenAI as a canary in the coal min

noah smith, ignoring that Anthropic’s rumored profitable quarter is a. during peak tokenmaxxing b, before recent Chinese advances c. in a quarter in which Elon gave them a big one time subsidy. that’s

Or people could learn their lesson? Naah 🙈 @GaryMarcus The reason he’s going down, is because the market can only handle one all encompassing scam at a time. So the AI scam will probably get a boost w

Our new AI policy is that the White House decides ad hoc, for whatever reasons it likes, who does and does not get access to frontier intelligence. This seems rather maximally terrible. The US Governm

People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is. Here’s the context and a suggestion. Both @pmarca and @DavidSacks did everything in their power to keep the Wh

Gary Marcus discusses concerns about generative AI's limitations and potential overhyping of the technology, arguing that initial enthusiasm may not translate into sustained practical breakthroughs as

Weird to see this just as the administration is delaying a model for the second time in weeks, apparently without clarity about its criteria. You can’t be pro-growth, pro-innovation, and opaque at all

wouldn’t it be funny if greed undid OpenAI? 🚨BREAKING: OPENAI IPO DELAYED Altman told everyone OpenAI is worth a TRILLION dollars His own advisors warned him that retail investors aren’t buying it… ga

Big Tech's 1 trillion AI moat just got DESTROYED by a free Chinese download. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are pouring fortunes into chips and data centers because they have been told that whoev

COMPANY BUILT ON IP THEFT RAGES AGAINST THEFT OF ITS OWN IP ANTHROPIC ACCUSED ALIBABA OF UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO ITS AI MODELS, OUTLINING ITS ALLEGATIONS IN LETTERS SENT TO U.S. SENATORS AND THE WHITE

Gary Marcus expresses anticipation for developments in generative AI, suggesting continued evolution and advancement in the field. The post likely discusses expectations for next-generation AI capabil

Rep. Luna reportedly used Anthropic's Claude AI to draft language for a Defense Bill amendment but left visible AI-generated text in the final submission, which was noticed and shared by AI researcher

On behalf of the largest coalition of local newspaper publishers assembled to date, we just sued @OpenAI and @Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright laws by using our clients' content to train an

“The Al bubble is by far the biggest stock-market bubble that mankind has ever seen - both in scale and scope, in terms of the leverage that's in there and in terms of the sheer excessive exuberance t

Gary Marcus argues that generative AI, while significant, represents only a narrow subset of the broader computing field and should not overshadow the diverse and impactful work occurring across other

This post likely references Gary Marcus's critical commentary on limitations or failures in generative AI systems, using 'Fizzle' as a metaphorical or literal descriptor for underperformance or unmet

Wow even @MicahLasher thinks the OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir money spent to oppose @AlexBores backfired -- NY-12 retrospective in the NYT from Teddy Schleifer. Hard to imagine this was the headline tha

Gary Marcus argues that data security is fundamentally fragile and that mass surveillance and data harvesting practices create persistent security vulnerabilities that cannot be eliminated. The post e

AI Capex pushback from GS: 'If frontier intelligence can increasingly be developed in the East at a fraction of the cost incurred in the West … then the largest capital allocators are also the ones mo

AI data centres are hungry for land, water & power. I’m calling on every major AI company to publicly disclose the full environmental impact of its systems – as a matter of transparency No more hidden

“All the Money Flooding Into AI Is a Giant Warning Sign” “The deeply depressing third possibility is that companies are raising and spending so much merely because shareholders are cheering them on, a

Although I supported Musk in his suit against OpenAI, and admire what he did for electric cars, I am afraid my considered overall view is not very different from this: Candidly I have no idea why anyo

HalluHard update: We’ve added GLM-5.2, using adaptive thinking with maximum reasoning effort, to our leaderboard. Despite its impressive performance on other benchmarks, GLM-5.2 still hallucinates fre

'Instead of allowing for greater focus, the latest AI tools are overwhelming workers, frazzling minds and shredding attention spans.' https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/ai-agents-jobs-exha

Meta copied slot machines to addict kids to Instagram. Now Zuckerberg is turning his company into a prediction market. Meta’s business model is profiting from addiction—kids, gamblers, & more. Stop it