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Lots of advances coming from the open source harness movement (including Moltbook, RAG approaches back in the day, etc.) but they depend on the intelligence of the models created by a small handful of

create a really interesting game called 'Don't Discuss Goblins' that should have some story elements but mostly be fun and fast moving - the goal is to avoid mentioning goblins, and this should be cha

I think OpenRouter is not a good measure of actual model usage in a world of agentic tools (not that I doubt that Chinese open weights model usage is up, but this could also look like a graph of usage

Ethan Mollick notes that image input represents the primary advanced capability of current AI models, and that tool‑use can effectively replace outputs from non‑omni models. He observes that multimoda

I wrote the latest of my occasional guides to which AI to use right now for non-experts who want to get stuff done. The agentic systems available to everyone are getting extremely powerful (even as th

Yes, the AIs were given a cybersecurity challenge, with internet access enabled and safety filters disabled. But the extent to which Mythos 5 pursued its mission (fake identities, social engineering,

Also I think AISI is a great model of a government agency tasked with AI security. They have open benchmarks, very fast testing, and clear communication about incidents that is neither hyped up nor hi

This definitely seems like something worth noting, and illustrates the gap between Fable/Astra class models and the previous frontier that was 'merely' good at hacking under human instructions. Initia

You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don't usually care about tech stuff. If nothing else, click this link to the 18 minutes in & see how

Most companies are not even thinking about giving every employee a fine-tuned self-hosted version of GLM that they need to update and keep harnessed and build connectors for. There are lots of places

And the idea that frontier open weights models will continue to be released was fragile even before the current de facto licensing regime. https://x.com/emollick/status/2067669551685218638?s=20 Is the

All is not lost. Duckerton is still possible. Here is Seedance 2.0 with the same prompt. Media My most popular Sora video was “an Elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a

According to Waymo's published data, their technology is preventing injuries & deaths. My view is that if this is true, and I have yet to see a debunking of their data, then we safety advocates should

Ethan Mollick discusses how a model's instruction-following capabilities and video processing abilities expand its potential applications and use cases. He emphasizes that combining strong instruction

I think people don't realize why Gemini Omni is different than other video AIs. It is fully multimodal, so it can edit video natively, too I took the famous 'train ' movie from 1896 & made it a bullet

Lem & Douglas Adams got AI right Presciently Golem XIV (from 1981) has an illustration of the jagged frontier as explained by an AI, Golem (GENERAL OPERATOR, LONG-RANGE, ETHICALLY STABILIZED, MULTIMOD

One thing I am kind of surprised by is that full multi-modal (any-any) models have not become a bigger deal. It seems Google is the only Lab releasing these, OpenAI uses selective multimodal capabilit

Ethan Mollick notes that image input represents the primary advanced capability of current AI models, and that tool‑use can effectively replace outputs from non‑omni models. He observes that multimoda

Glad to see Google sharing data on how Gemini is being used. Especially interesting is that the usefulness of multimodal AI for manual labor may be greater than expected. https://blog.google/innovatio

This was perhaps the most controversial aspect of the guardrails around Fable, now being rolled back. Very pleased to hear Anthropic have walked back this policy https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/

It would be very useful to understand more about the government safety concerns associated with frontier AI releases so we could (a) know what risks everyone will face if/when open source reaches Myth

Ethan Mollick raises questions about whether Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro model should be subject to export controls, suggesting concerns about its capabilities and potential regulatory implications. The p

That Wall Street Journal article about GLM catching up with Mythos (which is not true & the reporting doesn’t back up) is another one of those “everyone will ask me about it at every conference or mee

Even though I made this graph, it is also kind of wrong. Fable is guardrailed Mythos. If we use the Mythos date I took the new AA-Briefcase scores from @ArtificialAnlys (basically having the AI do mul

Fable is very good, and having it taken away after getting early access delayed a few things I was working on and made me defer others until it returned But in my early access I also tripped the secur

And now from the Chinese government side. This would be a good time for cooperation between the US and China to establish common testing/acceptance standards for new models, so at least the safety cer

Yes, the AIs were given a cybersecurity challenge, with internet access enabled and safety filters disabled. But the extent to which Mythos 5 pursued its mission (fake identities, social engineering,