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Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper departs Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab Anthropic

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Parody website InTheWeights.com launches to rank tech figures on their hypothetical presence in fictional future AI model weightsAlexis Ohanian and Shawn Wang shared their mock profiles.

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Top post: @jeremyphoward “Battle of the Jeremy Howards!”

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Miles Brundage and Susan Zhang argue against nationality-based restrictions on AI talent, urging a focus on basic securityThe debate focused on national security and corporate espionage.

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Top post: @Miles_Brundage “@suchenzang @willdepue (See my second tweet in the thread for many things we can do besides “discriminate against ppl” which I agree would be counterproductive even by the lights of the US competition angle (which is not the only relevant one! I have written on US-China safety collab for example)”

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THUDM open-sources Slime, an LLM post-training framework for reinforcement learning scaling and online preference optimizationIt completed GLM-5.2 post-training in two days.

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Top comment: @teortaxesTex “@didier_lopes > The entire OPD post-training of GLM-5.2 took on this slime platform took ~2 days. what”

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Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper departs Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab AnthropicDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis praised Jumper's historic contributions.

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Digg Deeper question: “On a 1-10, how harmful are these recent departures to Google's AI ambitions? Consider their existing known staff of researchers and key AI talent.”

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Elon Musk argues interstellar travel will shift economic metrics from currency to mass and energyCasey Handmer outlined a roadmap to scale antimatter production.

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Digg Deeper question: “Approximately what percentage of Elon's predictions actually end up being true?”

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Will Depue, who worked on OpenAI's Sora, claims China has complete access to OpenAI and Anthropic's internal GitHub and SlackDepue provided no technical evidence to support the claims

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Trump administration orders Anthropic to get US approval before foreign nationals can access Fable 5 and Mythos 5 modelsCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick issued the directive under export laws.

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Digg Deeper question: “If you had to speculate as to when the models would return, what's your best guess?”

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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick alleges an ASML EUV lithography machine reached China, which ASML deniesChinese research teams are actively developing domestic EUV prototypes

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Thomas Dimson launches In The Weights, a retro site visualizing how strongly a name is represented in AI training dataThe search tool generates video game-style character profile cards

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OpenAI's roon argues human-computer hybrids cannot compete with pure machine intelligence because biological brains are too slowCritics debated if mind uploading or consciousness validates hybrid systems.

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Jason Liu, Instructor creator on OpenAI's Codex team, launches seamless thread handoffs between local and remote hostsThe update automatically transitions active sessions without manual setup.

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OpenHands co-founder Graham Neubig says GLM-5.2 is the first open model capable of replacing closed-source models in his coding workflowsThe 744B model features a one-million-token context window

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Leaked Google DeepMind report reveals internal discontent as its AI models slip to fifth place on industry benchmarksEmployees worry leadership is conceding the race to AGI

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Engineer Boris Cherny uses Claude Code to analyze and attempt to decipher the ancient script Linear ACherny requested academic peer review to validate the translation.

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Dwarkesh Podcast host Dwarkesh Patel argues AI requires up to one million times more data than humans due to sample inefficiencyResearchers agree that improving sample efficiency is the next frontier.

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Proponents claim Midjourney's low-cost whole-body scanner overcomes diagnostic limits, but critics argue hardware upgrades cannot solve clinical failuresProponents claim the technology cuts imaging costs by 99.9%.

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Midjourney launches a medical division, unveiling a conceptual 60-second full-body ultrasonic scanner to replace MRIsMidjourney plans to deploy 50,000 scanner units globally.

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Pseudonymous developer Teortaxes argues China's GLM model rivals Claude 3 Opus, challenging assumptions about training data limitsResearcher @kalomaze questioned the evaluation's value estimation metrics.

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Figure AI founder Brett Adcock says the company's active humanoid robots now outnumber its human employeesRobot headcount will exceed 700 units by Q2 2026.

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Helen Toner, Georgetown CSET interim director, says Anthropic builds advanced AI rapidly to act as a safety vanguardShe compared rival AI systems to dangerous forest entities.

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THUDM open-sources Slime, the reinforcement learning scaling framework used to train Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 modelIt merged over ten expert models in two days

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Digg Deeper question: “What's the TLDR of what this does in plain english?”

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Jean Kaddour releases Sokoban Speedrun, an RL benchmark that fine-tunes Qwen3-4B-Instruct in 87 minutes using GRPOThe project modifies Andrej Karpathy's open-source nanochat pipeline

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EU issues tenders for seven data centers with up to 40,000 GPUs, scaling back sovereign infrastructure plansObservers say the downsized footprint favors smaller AI models.

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Ukraine launches TrophyLab, a secure platform for sharing vulnerability analyses and data on captured Russian military hardwareAuthorized partners can also request physical weapon samples

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Mitchell Hashimoto, Ghostty creator, embeds prompt injections in codebases to detect and ban contributors submitting unreviewed AI-generated codeThe traps are placed in files like AGENTS.md.

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Gabriel Petersson, who worked on OpenAI's Sora, confirms he left the company a month before the official announcementAn outside user leaked his departure weeks before the announcement.

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Stripe's Patrick Collison says the Tempo blockchain hit a $3 billion annualized payment volume run rate 93 days after launchThe network hosts 1,000 payment services for AI agents.

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Study of 26,811 students finds generative AI cuts homework time but reduces exam scores by 20%AI hurts learning when it replaces active mental effort.

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Pirate Wires details how Medium burned $2.6 million per month chasing a $5 subscription ecosystemThe platform raised $157 million but lost top writers

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Noah Smith parodies formulaic tech career announcements, mocking rapid shifts between hyped sectorsAntonio García Martínez called these updates an insufferable trope.

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White House and Anthropic collaborate on a standardized technical framework to benchmark AI jailbreak severityThe framework could restore access to Mythos and Fable.

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Audit of Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma finds intermediate steps remain human-interpretable, enabling chain-of-thought safety monitoringThis restores transparency benefits previously restricted to autoregressive LLMs.

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Systems engineer Yacine argues tech companies should stop hiring from NeurIPS and CVPR and recruit from SIGGRAPH insteadHeinrich Kuttler noted DeepMind's original team relied on gaming.

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