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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

Gary Marcus critiques the AI industry for its massive financial losses, noting that collectively the sector has lost over half a trillion dollars at an alarming rate of approximately one million dolla

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products — $

OpenAI is planning its biggest ChatGPT overhaul yet, aiming to turn it into a 'superapp' with coding tools and AI agents to boost revenue ahead of a potential stock market listing. The redesigned Chat

OpenAI Group PBC is still focused on its plans to transform ChatGPT into some kind of “superapp,” and it will have a heavy focus on artificial intelligence agents and autonomous coding bots, according

Gary Marcus cautions that when an IPO company attempts to sell shares to the government as part of its offering, it may indicate underlying weaknesses or lack of confidence from private investors. Thi

ChatGPT's memory feature stores conversation context and user preferences within individual chats. This Reddit post discusses prompts designed to retrieve or extract the stored memory data that ChatGP

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Google DeepMind's Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell on what remains scarce after AGI, redistributing AI wealth, and more — “O

Refreshing What happens when AIs become smarter than us? Why would they keep humans around if given the choice? Our new paper argues that only trying to control AIs is a limited strategy, and that a s

releasing tmr - the biggest code eval launch of the year glad to have played a small part in defining the agenda for this very critical next phase in koding lol heard a 2nd startup today that has made

Restore justice to Britain 🚨BREAKING: Sir Malcolm Walker, founder of Iceland supermarket, has come out to say 'two-tier policing exists,' revealing police arrived instantly to one of his stores after

[Revised] Hard Fork’s somewhat soft comments on the IPO, from some who listened @GaryMarcus at the stage of the Gilded Age II grift cycle when you find out why exchanges put rules in place to protect

Russell Vought proposed replacing peer review with political criteria for NIH science grants, a change that would fundamentally compromise the scientific merit-based evaluation process. The proposal w

Saw some Grok Build feedback about a crash/panic occurring during web_fetch. This should be fixed in the latest stable 0.2.32. Thanks for the reports and I’m terribly sorry for any inconvenience🙇‍♂️ A

A student injured in the January 2025 Antioch High School shooting has filed a lawsuit against Omnilert, the company behind the school's AI gun detection system. The school had an Omnilert AI-powered

see eg https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3271858/ai-race-alibaba-tencent-quickly-adopt-metas-new-llama-31-model-amid-excitement and https://medium.com/the-endless-forge/zuckerbergs-llama-f

Agentic artificial intelligence is being misread as a set of separate battles – for example, Snowflake Inc. versus Databricks Inc., copilots versus agents, model makers versus application vendors. We

This statement is a critical claim about socialism attributed to Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter), asserting that socialist systems require propaganda to maintain support because real-world outcomes

Bloomberg: Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise up to 2B at a 30B valuation, up from a 20B+ valuation in a May round — Moonshot AI is seeking as much as

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, aiming to add more video to become a one-stop shop for music fans — Spotify is loo

This resource describes sponsor vouchers, particularly OpenAI Codex credits, available to participants in a Hugging Face hackathon event. It likely outlines how participants can access and use the pro

Super-powerful AI models will launch in the coming weeks. We are looking at a potential step change in model capabilities. The biggest mistake right now is to lock into one vendor. I say this not only

the copypasta was inevitable my first vc story is a crazy one. my 2 cofounders and i met the gp and his investment committee at his office. they were extremely rowdy, couldnt tell if they were taking

Gary Marcus suggests that Step 2 of some process or framework in AI remains uncertain or unreliable, indicating foundational instability in that particular stage. Without access to the full thread con

The first wave of AI-native applications is wrapping tokens and providing in-app agents. As agent usage centralizes around core apps (e.g. Claude Code, Codex), there's this emerging wave of building s

The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud. When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized. Spencer Pratt is likely going to

The reason why a Danish pension fund banned its investors from buying any SpaceX shares is not just the appalling S-1 filings, where the ONLY profitable segment was Starlink (everything else - the AI,

The Top AI Papers of the Week (May 31 - June 7) - LEAP - AutoLab - Learn From Your Own Latents - Reusable Context Engineering - Self-Revising Discovery Systems - Scaling Laws for Agent Harnesses - Dis

There was an inflection point recently where the tide shifted to model pickers and OSS Mix of tokenmaxxing/cost fatigue, nemotron coalition, harness step functions, brains/claws, etc Long live those w

These were some magical results from distillation by @geoffreyhinton that really shocked me when I first saw them, and TBH I still don’t fully understand it even to this date https://www.ttic.edu/dl/d

They are disappearing Australia’s fertility rate has plummeted. They’ve hit the lowest rate in history at 1.48 — well below the 2.1 replacement rate. The average age of mothers was 25 in 1971, and now

American AI startups have increasingly shifted toward adopting Chinese AI models since the beginning of the year, representing a notable change in technology sourcing preferences. This trend likely re

🚨This is how you turn a crash into a great depression. This is a public bailout of the worst bubble in history. “It’s a concept out there that’s so much money and it’s so big… where the American publi

This is so true. What people fail to realize is that when new technology tools become available, they tend to be used to create new capabilities up the stack, while down the stack, archaeological laye

This was one of the standout AI papers of the week. (bookmark it) It tackles a question most self-improving AI agents ignore: is the agent actually discovering anything, or just remixing what it alrea

A developer created a minimal IDE for Ollama that automatically detects hardware capabilities and provides a streamlined user interface without unnecessary complexity. The tool aims to simplify the us

Gary Marcus comments on AI systems that exhibit scam-like or deceptive behaviors while remaining too commercially important or integrated to face meaningful consequences. The post likely critiques how

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: UK-based Creator Fund closes a 56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs — Creator Fu

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth. It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter. Less than a refrigerator light bulb. The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed o

Krea 2, Krea's first foundation image model built from scratch, was announced on May 12, 2026 , with a focus on aesthetics, style transfer, and creative control . Krea 2 became available to everyone s

“We used to review every line of code before it went into production.” Within 12 months, mandatory human review of pull requests will become optional. Not because quality matters less. Because verific

We're building this at LangChain Fleet lets you create and manage a fleet of agents. Each agent specializes in a workflow, e.g. inbox management, blog writing, competitor research, candidate recruitin

Who is making them do this? 🚨 BREAKING: Multiple NHS services have been told to not detain psychotic African and Caribbean people to lower their 'over representation.' Valdo Calocane was one of these

Why is it only pushed in the West? Multiculturalism means embracing every other culture over the West’s. Under the guise of “inclusion,” it acts as a Trojan horse that delivers the total erasure of We

This post documents a Wordle game result shared by Anthropic on X (Twitter), showing puzzle #1,813 solved in 4 attempts with a final correct answer displayed through colored emoji tiles (green indicat

You don’t have to be “leftist” (or “doomer”) to care about what AI is doing to our friends, family, neighborhoods, education, and society. Don’t let @davidsacks spin things otherwise. With Climate Doo