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Nabeel S. Qureshi says a Harper’s Bazaar prize-winning short story was flagged as 100% AI-generated by PangramHe urged contests to verify submissions or permit AI.

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Top post: @__nmca__ “the fact that slop has won a couple of literary prizes implies that slop is in large part an exposure effect; more broadly frequent AI users probably underestimate how good slop is by 2019’s standards. (story is ass imo)”

Digg Deeper question: “What's pangram?”

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Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das argues AI coding assistants are splitting developers into automators and code-quality managersDiligent engineers face burnout from correcting automated code output

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Top post: @GaryMarcus “Has there ever been a more a soul-crushing technology than Generative AI?”

Digg Deeper question: “How is this gonna impact junior roles?”

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Abridge co-founder Zachary Lipton jokes that Barret Zoph is joining Thinky Machines as CFO, satirizing rapid AI talent movesDivyansh Kaushik suggested restarting the Approximately Correct publication.

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Trump Says Anthropic No Longer Poses National Security Threat

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Dean Ball Urges Broad AI Model Diffusion to Avert Nationalization Risks

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Scoble Explores AI Governments Inspired By Edge Esmeralda Builders Event

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Podcast Examines Hyperscaler Weakness And Rise Of Open Source AI Models

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S-Agent Uses Spatial Tool-Use To Boost Reasoning On Vision Benchmarks

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Apple AI Photo Reframing Glitches to Back-of-Head View

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Core Memory Podcast Recaps Weekly Tech News With AI And OpenAI Updates

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TikTok Users Deploy AI to Create Fake Early 2000s Actresses

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Leve Introduces Filesystem-First Agent Framework Built On LangGraph

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Large Crowd Lines Up For Google DeepMind Hackathon At Y Combinator

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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: @alexisohanian “Clever concept”

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Stability AI co-founder Emad Mostaque teases that an open-source 'fable-level' AI model will run on base MacBook hardwareHe provided no technical specifications, architecture details, or timeline

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Top post: @EMostaque “My guess is 18 months fwiw. My forecasts have been reasonably accurate on capabilities previously.”

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Daniel Francis, Abel founder, criticizes San Francisco's rise of manufactured tech events used primarily for self-promotionKylie Robison agreed, citing a surge in forced AI events.

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Top comment: @SimonTheNoob “@growing_daniel Honestly, I think this is just chinese honeypot, with hot chinese chicks trying to get information from founders or employees of certain companies. Just keep your mouth shut and enjoy the company.”

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Meta FAIR's François Fleuret argues speculative decoding is a nearly free lunch, prompting debate over token volume versus deeper reasoningResearch engineer kache argued systems should focus on deeper thought.

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Top post: @yacineMTB “@francoisfleuret why grug make token. grug think. less token. more thought”

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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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Midjourney launches a medical hardware division and unveils an AI-powered, radiation-free full-body ultrasonic scanner prototype for in-home careIt delivers 0.5mm 3D anatomy maps in 60 seconds

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Top post: @NickADobos “The data from midjourney scanning 1 billion people will be more important than the scanner itself or the initial diagnostic potential The scanner could be less effective than other modern medical imaging, doesn't really matter, think about this like a data scientist & business not a doctor. Putting it in a spa you can walk into in 60 seconds fundamentally changes how many body scans you can harvest by 10-1000x. The diagnostic and research potential of that data is astounding. What does a person's medical history & treatment plan look like if they have full body scans every week? They are building a spa that sells you your body's data.”

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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: @suchenzang “oh missed this one. unless you have hard proof that your former colleagues are compromised, have leaked secrets, and have openai legal team pursuing the issue with the FBI, i suggest you stop pretending that what you're saying isn't sinophobia by definition. keep it a technical issue. or keep race out of it. slapping on a few other countries after starting out with "china is stealing" does not help your case.”

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AI Alliance launches Project Tapestry to co-train open frontier models and counter Chinese AI dominanceParticipants retain sovereign derivatives while sharing a base model.

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Top post: @Dorialexander “Happy to be onboard.”

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Joseph Barrow and Denis Peskoff of UC Berkeley release a dataset of 2.2 million US city and county lawsThe corpus aggregates previously fragmented local laws for public search

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Top comment: @barrowjoseph “Once we had processed the laws, the question was: how to analyze them. One idea I really like is @TheStalwart's http://Havelock.ai, where he distills pairwise comparisons from an LLM + TrueSkill into a BERT model to score orality.”

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Geoffrey Litt argues AI coding agents struggle with UI because specification and implementation tasks constantly blurStrongDM's Attractor spec proposes non-interactive loops to ease delegation.

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Top post: @jamescham “@andy_matuschak Justin McCarthy’s attractor spec gives some detailed perspective on how a longer loop could be run. https://github.com/strongdm/attractor”

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OpenAI's roon predicts a 10,000-fold increase in personal data logging, with AI filtering continuous lifetime trackingInvestor Josh Wolfe endorsed the premise, calling it lifecording.

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Top post: @wolfejosh “100%. LIFECORDING”

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Z.ai launches GLM-5.2, a coding agent trained on SGLang and Slime that reportedly matches Claude Opus capabilitiesThe system builds websites and manages long-horizon tasks.

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Top post: @IntuitMachine “If GLM-5.2 has Opus 4.8-like capabilities, then what prevents http://Z.ai from creating a Mythos/Fable level AI? Is the cat already out of the bag wrt higher capable models?”

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Study finds ChatGPT commoditizes online freelance work by neutralizing skill differences and shifting hiring focus to priceEmployers decreased reliance on traditional credentials and worker experience

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Top post: @emollick “Some interesting findings suggesting that, by leveling performance, AI also commoditizes contract labor.”

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Lux Capital co-founder Josh Wolfe questions Elizabeth Warren's proposal to tax Elon Musk to fund free community collegeOpponents argue SpaceX and Tesla yield greater public utility.

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Physician Matt Zirwas proposes using cheap, frequent ultrasound scans to monitor cancer anomalies instead of ordering immediate biopsiesFrequent imaging monitors growth rates to avoid unnecessary diagnostic surgery.

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Top post: @krishnanrohit “Very good post on how things might change with largescale scanning done regularly. It's a possibility, and data will tell.”

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Russell Kaplan, Cognition AI co-founder, highlights how early obstetric ultrasound faced intense skepticism before becoming a life-saving standardDetecting vasa praevia before birth raises fetal survival to 99%.

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Top post: @patrick_oshag “@russelljkaplan Huge congrats Russell!”

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Google DeepMind's Susan Zhang jokes about a four-person archetype that coordinates to manipulate Silicon Valley narrativesMinh Nguyen compared the group to the Gang of Four.

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Top comment: @TheAhmadOsman “@suchenzang The Gang of Four > The Ridiculous Six > The Magnificent Seven > The Hateful Eight American history arcs”

Today's Highlights

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

Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das argues AI coding assistants are splitting developers into automators and code-quality managers

Nabeel S. Qureshi says a Harper’s Bazaar prize-winning short story was flagged as 100% AI-generated by Pangram

Daniel Francis, Abel founder, criticizes San Francisco's rise of manufactured tech events used primarily for self-promotion

Top Stories

Nabeel S. Qureshi says a Harper’s Bazaar prize-winning short story was flagged as 100% AI-generated by PangramHe urged contests to verify submissions or permit AI.

Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das argues AI coding assistants are splitting developers into automators and code-quality managersDiligent engineers face burnout from correcting automated code output

Abridge co-founder Zachary Lipton jokes that Barret Zoph is joining Thinky Machines as CFO, satirizing rapid AI talent movesDivyansh Kaushik suggested restarting the Approximately Correct publication.

Video Signals

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.

Stability AI co-founder Emad Mostaque teases that an open-source 'fable-level' AI model will run on base MacBook hardwareHe provided no technical specifications, architecture details, or timeline

Daniel Francis, Abel founder, criticizes San Francisco's rise of manufactured tech events used primarily for self-promotionKylie Robison agreed, citing a surge in forced AI events.

Meta FAIR's François Fleuret argues speculative decoding is a nearly free lunch, prompting debate over token volume versus deeper reasoningResearch engineer kache argued systems should focus on deeper thought.

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.

Midjourney launches a medical hardware division and unveils an AI-powered, radiation-free full-body ultrasonic scanner prototype for in-home careIt delivers 0.5mm 3D anatomy maps in 60 seconds

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.

AI Alliance launches Project Tapestry to co-train open frontier models and counter Chinese AI dominanceParticipants retain sovereign derivatives while sharing a base model.

Joseph Barrow and Denis Peskoff of UC Berkeley release a dataset of 2.2 million US city and county lawsThe corpus aggregates previously fragmented local laws for public search

Geoffrey Litt argues AI coding agents struggle with UI because specification and implementation tasks constantly blurStrongDM's Attractor spec proposes non-interactive loops to ease delegation.

OpenAI's roon predicts a 10,000-fold increase in personal data logging, with AI filtering continuous lifetime trackingInvestor Josh Wolfe endorsed the premise, calling it lifecording.

Z.ai launches GLM-5.2, a coding agent trained on SGLang and Slime that reportedly matches Claude Opus capabilitiesThe system builds websites and manages long-horizon tasks.

Study finds ChatGPT commoditizes online freelance work by neutralizing skill differences and shifting hiring focus to priceEmployers decreased reliance on traditional credentials and worker experience

Lux Capital co-founder Josh Wolfe questions Elizabeth Warren's proposal to tax Elon Musk to fund free community collegeOpponents argue SpaceX and Tesla yield greater public utility.

Physician Matt Zirwas proposes using cheap, frequent ultrasound scans to monitor cancer anomalies instead of ordering immediate biopsiesFrequent imaging monitors growth rates to avoid unnecessary diagnostic surgery.

Russell Kaplan, Cognition AI co-founder, highlights how early obstetric ultrasound faced intense skepticism before becoming a life-saving standardDetecting vasa praevia before birth raises fetal survival to 99%.

Google DeepMind's Susan Zhang jokes about a four-person archetype that coordinates to manipulate Silicon Valley narrativesMinh Nguyen compared the group to the Gang of Four.

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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.

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

Will Depue, who worked on Sora at OpenAI, claims China has complete access to OpenAI and Anthropic's internal GitHub and SlackHe warns stolen methods will populate Chinese open-source models.

US Commerce Department orders Anthropic to get approval before letting foreign nationals access its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 modelsTrump no longer considers Anthropic a national security threat.

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

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

Roon argues human-computer hybrids cannot compete with pure machine intelligence due to slow biological brainsCommentators counter with metrics like energy efficiency and consciousness.

Codex launches automatic session handoff to transfer active developer threads between local laptops and remote serversUsers can close local laptops without losing active progress

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

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

Boris Cherny claims to crack the undeciphered 3,500-year-old Linear A script using Anthropic's Claude CodeThe translation attempts will undergo academic peer review.

Dwarkesh Patel argues the massive sample efficiency gap between LLMs and humans represents a critical AI data bottleneckLLMs require up to a million times more training data.

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%.

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.

Analysis argues China's GLM challenges data-scarcity assumptions by matching Claude 3 Opus performance through model distillationSanctions forced labs to use consumer GPUs for RL.

Figure founder Brett Adcock projects the company's humanoid robot fleet will surpass its human headcount by Q2 2026The projection targets 700 robot units against 650 employees.

Policy researcher Helen Toner says Anthropic rapidly builds advanced AI to map existential risks before rivals trigger themShe compared scaling AI to mapping a monster-filled forest.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pirate Wires report says Medium burned up to $2.6 million a month while losing writers to SubstackMedium raised $157 million before tightening content moderation

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

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

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.

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.