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Digg - AI news, before it trends

Today's Highlights

Elizabeth Barnes, METR founder and CEO, says AI experts lack control over frontier AI risks after the Frontier Risk Report evaluated agents at Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI

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Matthew Barnett posts analysis of Eliezer Yudkowsky's calibration on AI doom predictions centered on a 2016 statement about Turing test timelines before the end of the world — NathanpmYoung replies that the statement offers limited evidence on timelines.

Jack Clark announces fictional story with optimistic outlook on humanity's future amid powerful AI systems for next Import AI newsletter — Issue publishes Tuesday; reply questions thematic shift.

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Digg - AI news, before it trends

Today's Highlights

Elizabeth Barnes, METR founder and CEO, says AI experts lack control over frontier AI risks after the Frontier Risk Report evaluated agents at Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI

Top Stories

Matthew Barnett posts analysis of Eliezer Yudkowsky's calibration on AI doom predictions centered on a 2016 statement about Turing test timelines before the end of the world — NathanpmYoung replies that the statement offers limited evidence on timelines.

Jack Clark announces fictional story with optimistic outlook on humanity's future amid powerful AI systems for next Import AI newsletter — Issue publishes Tuesday; reply questions thematic shift.

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Elizabeth Barnes, METR founder and CEO, says AI experts lack control over frontier AI risks after the Frontier Risk Report evaluated agents at Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI — METR had direct access inside the four labs for the pilot.

OpenAI Model Disproves Erdős Unit Distance Conjecture

Trump administration closes loophole that allowed O-1 visa holders including advanced researchers at OpenAI to remain in the US during green card applications — Applicants must now pursue consular processing abroad with years-long waits.

DeepSeek makes its 75% discount on the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API permanent, keeping rates at one-quarter of prior levels for input and output tokens beyond the prior May 31, 2026 cutoff. — The 1.6-trillion-parameter model offers 1M-token context and fixed per-million pricing.

Roon, an OpenAI employee, labels Gary Marcus chronically wrong and a slimy person, prompting Marcus to cite Paul Graham’s hierarchy of disagreement and link to a GitHub study — Theo shares screenshots highlighting ad hominem attacks in the thread.

Reiner Pope builds a multiply-accumulate unit from logic gates and covers systolic arrays, FPGAs, ASICs, and brain architecture in a timestamped blackboard lecture — Dwarkesh Patel shared the lecture spanning 0:00:00 to 1:11:49.

Anjney Midha, founder of AMP PBC, recommends AI labs require teams to read Edward R. Tufte’s “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” before releasing charts — Replies propose training AI models on the same principles.

ArXiv paper 'From Entropy to Epiplexity' prompts X discussion on why information theory lacks explanatory power and testable predictions for AI systems — Replies cite noise and unreliable estimators as practical ML barriers.

MIT CSAIL PhD student Ryan Bahlous-Boldi introduces Vector Policy Optimization, a reinforcement learning method that maximizes vector-valued rewards to preserve distinct objectives in LLM post-training — VPO raises pass@k scores on LiveCodeBench over GRPO baselines.

Hyperagent from the team behind Airtable launches a cloud platform for autonomous AI agents that accumulate skills across sessions and offers $10 million in credits to 500 founders — Platform already runs in 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies.

President Trump postponed a planned executive order on AI and cybersecurity, cancelling a White House signing ceremony with major tech CEOs amid internal administration disagreements — The order would require labs to share advanced models with the government.

Thomas Dimson, who worked on OpenAI's Sora video generation model, announced his departure from the company after 1,000 days. — Dimson previously authored Instagram's core recommendation algorithms and founded Global Illumination.

Meta reassigns more than 1,000 software engineers from advertising teams into data labeling roles for AI model training ahead of expected layoffs — Some teams shifted 20-40 percent of developers to annotation work.

Polsia, which operates businesses autonomously through AI, raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation while running with zero employees besides founder Ben Cera — Platform nears $10 million annual run rate with over 7600 users.

Substack analysis maps 1236 n-grams in Granta prize-winning story and traces 437 rare phrases plus 115 unique segments to Archive of Our Own fanfiction — Interactive tool shows story assembled from memorized online passages.

Critics accuse Karen Hao of overstating AI data center water consumption in Empire of AI by up to five orders of magnitude due to unit conversion errors and misrepresented figures — Hao issued a correction after confirming a unit error.

Antigravity releases UI and connectivity updates to version 2.0 that highlight the Open IDE button and add instructions for connecting to the IDE on Windows machines — New releases fix Windows IDE issues and reset weekly usage limits.

Google tests experimental Gemma 4 app running fully offline on Pixel hardware with prototype glasses in remote wilderness without connectivity — Google Gemma and DeepMind engineers shared the demonstration online.

xAI Launches Overhauled Website Showcasing Models and Products

DHH says GPT-5.5 shows substantial gains on complicated agent work, reversing version 5.2's lag behind Opus and marking a recovery for OpenAI amid rising competition — Jason Liu quote-tweeted the post and Adam.GPT reposted it.

Google DeepMind updates Project Genie to integrate directly with Google Maps Street View for generating interactive 3D environments from real U.S. locations — Prototype at labs.google/fx/projectgenie outputs scenes labeled Genie 3.

Dan Shipper's analysis of Every finds the company automated nearly all feasible tasks with AI agents yet grew its human workforce from 4 to 30 employees since GPT-3 — Report projects stronger effects as AI systems advance.

Gemini Omni performed native video edits on the 1896 Lumiere film of a steam train, converting it into versions with a bullet train, LEGO styling, Muppets, and a time traveler while preserving reflections. — Wharton associate professor Ethan Mollick shared the 56-second example.

OpenAI enabled a locked use feature for Codex that permits the system to control Mac applications from a connected phone even when the device is locked and the screen is off — It requires an Apple authorization plug-in for macOS sessions.

Google's AI Overview responds to single-word verb queries such as 'disregard' and 'ignore' with command acknowledgments like 'Message received! Consider it forgotten — The pattern appeared in multiple X posts and a TechCrunch report.

Google's Gemini Omni model generates first-person video of a taxi following a route from a marked Google Maps screenshot with consistent viewpoint and visual details — Model synthesized dynamic simulation from static map imagery.

Grok Build, an AI tool for web development, entered early beta with updates improving aesthetics and functionality plus plans for a recursive self-improvement loop — Boyuan Zheng posted the announcement, which Elon Musk quote-tweeted.

Researchers dispute Reflection AI's positioning as America's open source AI lab citing its empty model repository with zero public releases — Repository shows no models datasets or code after years of operation.

ChatGPT now supports uploading images of blank forms and completing them through voice mode dictation in the mobile app — Demo filled out a fitness membership registration form with spoken details.