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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

Voice assistant and conversational AI agent developer PolyAI Ltd. today announced the release of Dialog-RSN-1, a voice dialog artificial intelligence model capable of directly perceiving and respondin

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

Wall Street Journal: Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models — The AI pioneer 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

It doesn't solve any problems. Just a few paragraphs above, he says he fears that authoritarian states (he names China, and possibly others) can use their models to do evil stuff. And surely enough, m

arXiv:2607.21672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long source-code contexts consume many text tokens, motivating the proposal to render code as images for vision-language models. Recent work asks whet

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

A group of tech firms has released an open letter that calls on policymakers not to ban open-source artificial intelligence models. The development follows a report that some Trump administration offi

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

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity — Many of

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

I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising

🦔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

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on re

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

Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features w

simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a 'pet' in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Cl

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —Ja

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

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