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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: @peterwildeford “I guess this is another way of doing AI evals”

Digg Deeper question: “What's pangram?”

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Cybertruck FSD Demo Delights Family, Prompts Immediate Purchase

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Claude Generates Psychological Profile Of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

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TikTok Users Deploy AI to Create Fake Early 2000s Actresses

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Damodaran Warns AI's $10-15 Trillion Market Signals Mass Job Replacement

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Brian Roemmele Debunks Myth Superintelligent AI Will Hate Humans

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Podcast Examines Hyperscaler Weakness And Rise Of Open Source AI Models

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Levelsio Adds AI Chat Assistant And Anti-ESG Filter To Hotelist.com

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Amazon Drops Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Starring Andrew Garfield

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Dean Ball Urges Broad AI Model Diffusion to Avert Nationalization Risks

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Trump Says Anthropic No Longer Poses National Security Threat

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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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Senator Mark Warner says AI system Mythos breached nearly all classified NSA systems within hoursPedro Domingos urged export controls on Mythos and Fable.

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Former DOE and NRC official defends past nuclear energy work, claiming they prioritized humanitarian goals over Silicon Valley interestsThe former official posted the defense as @OverReactor1776.

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Top post: @lulumeservey “Watch this space.”

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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 post: @suzatweet “this is actually really cool, fully open source. RL framework behind GLM-5.2, GLM-5.1, GLM-5, GLM-4.7, GLM-4.6, and GLM-4.5, validating the full post-training loop.”

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Yunta Tsai's analysis finds machine learning projects spend 50% of effort on evaluation and only 2% on trainingData cleaning takes 40%, a breakdown Elon Musk recently endorsed.

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Top comment: @mahfuzxallum “@elonmusk Data quality is still the highest leverage optimization in ML”

Digg Deeper question: “Sheing Ng @sashimikun_void how many percentage of that 2% training is run by AI? educated guess”

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Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch praises GLM-5.2, saying its coding capabilities could shift software development expectationsThe underlying model was developed by @zai_org.

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Bill Ackman compares California's $231 billion rail project to SpaceX, prompting debate over infrastructure versus orbital complexityOnly 13 nations currently possess orbital satellite launch capabilities.

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Top post: @stevesi “Worth also adding that only 13 countries even have satellite launch capabilities—however limited in capacity, including NASA—whereas there are two dozen countries with over 50,000 miles of high speed rail and more being added all the time.”

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A recirculated claim that bypassing regular expressions is a highly advantageous strategy sparks debate among software developersDeepMind's Xiao Ma and founder Bojan Tunguz backed the claim

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Top post: @CJHandmer “I used to feel bad because I never mastered c++ to my satisfaction, then I thought the AIs could do it for me. Turns out they also hate c++.”

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OpenAI's Roon argues technical professionals resist science-fiction AI scenarios as a psychological defense mechanismDavid Shor says voters already accept sci-fi AI narratives

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Top comment: @tszzl “you are not building b2b computer tools you are making the Mind Children”

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Analyst Zephyr says tinygrad's $150,000 Blackwell setup runs GLM 5.2 at 120 tokens per secondThe local hardware offers a 3.5-year cloud breakeven point.

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Top comment: @scalinglayers “@zephyr_z9 Should ANT/OAI really be worth 10x+ more than Z AI?”

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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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Jason Calacanis and Eric Weinstein defend the private Dialog conference following media scrutiny of Ezra Klein's attendanceA Wired article criticized Klein's attendance at the event

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Top post: @ericweinstein “This is pathetic & weak. I’ve been to Dialog. Multiple times. Peter Thiel invites me. He remains a close friend. I enjoyed Dialog just as I have enjoyed many other private gatherings. What I saw at Dialog was not immoral, illegal and is no one’s business. I’d go again. Clear?”

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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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Anshul Kundaje argues Bayes' theorem handles scanning false positives, while an analysis blames differing patient demographicsFrequent scanning proponents are typically healthier and highly educated.

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Top post: @JeffLadish “Perhaps our civilization is so far gone that we cannot handle more information. Perhaps the right move is to gouge our own eyes out, lest confusing data lead us to harm ourselves. I pray it is not so. And if it is, I pray we may yet become wise enough to handle difficult truths.”

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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: @zeynep “So lucky that we’re not in an era with any downsides for “our whole lives to be recorded” and with our physical and digital signal density to go to 10,000x. Nothing but a “worship of human life” would come of that. Not in 2026.”

Today's Highlights

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

Yunta Tsai's analysis finds machine learning projects spend 50% of effort on evaluation and only 2% on training

Anshul Kundaje argues Bayes' theorem handles scanning false positives, while an analysis blames differing patient demographics

Elon Musk predicts tenfold global economic growth and a moon base within ten years, barring a major world conflict

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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.

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

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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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.

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

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.

Senator Mark Warner says AI system Mythos breached nearly all classified NSA systems within hoursPedro Domingos urged export controls on Mythos and Fable.

Former DOE and NRC official defends past nuclear energy work, claiming they prioritized humanitarian goals over Silicon Valley interestsThe former official posted the defense as @OverReactor1776.

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.

Yunta Tsai's analysis finds machine learning projects spend 50% of effort on evaluation and only 2% on trainingData cleaning takes 40%, a breakdown Elon Musk recently endorsed.

Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch praises GLM-5.2, saying its coding capabilities could shift software development expectationsThe underlying model was developed by @zai_org.

Bill Ackman compares California's $231 billion rail project to SpaceX, prompting debate over infrastructure versus orbital complexityOnly 13 nations currently possess orbital satellite launch capabilities.

A recirculated claim that bypassing regular expressions is a highly advantageous strategy sparks debate among software developersDeepMind's Xiao Ma and founder Bojan Tunguz backed the claim

OpenAI's Roon argues technical professionals resist science-fiction AI scenarios as a psychological defense mechanismDavid Shor says voters already accept sci-fi AI narratives

Analyst Zephyr says tinygrad's $150,000 Blackwell setup runs GLM 5.2 at 120 tokens per secondThe local hardware offers a 3.5-year cloud breakeven point.

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

Jason Calacanis and Eric Weinstein defend the private Dialog conference following media scrutiny of Ezra Klein's attendanceA Wired article criticized Klein's attendance at the event

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.

Anshul Kundaje argues Bayes' theorem handles scanning false positives, while an analysis blames differing patient demographicsFrequent scanning proponents are typically healthier and highly educated.

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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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 claims China has complete, unauthorized access to OpenAI and Anthropic internal GitHub repositories and Slack communicationsHe warns this access helps China steal proprietary model architectures.

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.

Creator Teortaxes says China's GLM model nearly matches Claude 3 Opus despite lacking a multi-billion-dollar compute budgetBeff (e/acc) attributes the rapid gains to model distillation

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.