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General Reasoning's Ross Taylor says updated KellyBench shows leading open-source models remain six months behind closed frontier modelsTaylor says benchmark optimization pressure hides the true performance gap

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Top comment: @xeophon “@rosstaylor90 Looks like it’s pretty much on par with 5.4 here?”

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Sutter Hill's Kevin Kwok and fofr question the skull-penetration capabilities of David Holz's open-scanner medical hardwareThe design aims to keep patients outside traditional scanning tubes.

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Midjourney founder David Holz launches Midjourney Medical to develop AI-powered diagnostic health scanning technologyThe initiative is funded by reinvesting company profits.

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Top comment: @Hiraweb3 “@micsolana Midjourney Medical? Clearly running on genius-level AI.”

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A satirical Effective Altruism memo addressed to Samuel Hammond mocks shifting AI safety arguments for Donald TrumpIt followed rumors of a White House frontier AI pause.

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Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after departing Google, with developer experience head Romain Huet welcoming him to the companyVenue phone restrictions delayed industry reactions to the news

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Simo Ryu argues raw chain-of-thought traces are unreadable and only look legible due to UI summarization layersRaw internal traces contain excessively long and bizarre terminology

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Top comment: @cloneofsimo “@teortaxesTex I dont mean the summarized CoTs, i mean the raw ones. Raw ones are so long and full of weird words, unlike the summarized ones we see on interfaces”

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Developer @xlr8harder jokes about tool-use inefficiency after an AI assistant searches the web to find the current timeFlorian Brand joked the model mimicked a European employee

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OpenAI develops a safety simulation pipeline that replays real ChatGPT conversations to predict model failures with 92% accuracyIts failure estimates are 1.5 times closer to actual outcomes.

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Prime Intellect's Florian Brand jokes about whether General Reasoning is a hedge fund, drawing a shushing emoji from Ross TaylorThe exchange provided no concrete technical or organizational details.

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Transformer co-author and Gemini co-leader Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAIGoogle reportedly spent $2.7 billion to rehire Shazeer.

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Midjourney launches a healthcare division and unveils a conceptual 60-second, radiation-free full-body ultrasound scannerThe device targets tissue resolution down to 200 microns.

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AI CEOs Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Arthur Mensch met privately and with President Trump at the G7 summitThe two-hour session covered regulatory challenges and export restrictions.

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Z.ai launches GLM-5.2, an open-weights LLM with a 1-million-token context window that beats GPT-5.5 on FrontierSWEChris Lattner's Modular Cloud provides day-zero serving.

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US orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally over foreign national access restrictionsThe government gave Anthropic a 90-minute compliance deadline.

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Capital Factory co-founder and CEO Joshua Baer dies in a business jet crash near Laredo, TexasTech and investment leaders shared tributes honoring his legacy.

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Anthropic's Dario Amodei and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis propose a US-led coalition to block China from frontier AI and chipsThe pitch was made during a closed-door G7 meeting.

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Digg Deeper question: “Why did Dario and Demis take this stance? What's their argument?”

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OpenAI Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux says Codex tools can now be configured to run any open-source modelUsers can route client traffic to self-hosted local endpoints.

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Elon Musk predicts complete AI-generated movies by the end of the year following a brief xAI video model teaserThe prediction followed a trailer showcasing xAI's video model.

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Cal Newport argues AI companies must either halt development or accept full product liability instead of warning about existential doomHugging Face founder Clement Delangue supported ending "doom marketing.

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Former OpenAI Sora developer Gabriel Petersson leaves to found a startup building a final product prior to AGIThe startup is flying candidates to Sweden for interviews

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Former Webflow CTO Bryant Chou launches Ploy with $27 million in seed funding to automate website operationsEarly adopters of the platform include Hex and Clay

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OpenAI joins the Rust Foundation as a Platinum Member, committing $600,000 to support open-source maintainersOpenAI is adopting Rust for its systems programming infrastructure.

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David Sacks, former White House AI czar, warns defensive teams to secure codebases before Anthropic Mythos-level capabilities diffuse to ChinaHe rejected media reports claiming he dismissed these cyber threats

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel debuts bulky new Specs AR glasses, triggering design criticism and a stock declineCritics compared the bulky frames to IMAX 3D glasses.

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Leaked Anthropic Slack messages reveal employee panic over Trump administration restrictions and a disputed $200 million defense contractOver-aggressive cyber protections in Fable 5 drew industry mockery

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Martin Shkreli claims WSJ reporters hold liberal biases while its favorable editorial profile of Elon Musk is accurateMusk joked the paper might not be so unfavorable

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Trump administration demands Anthropic guarantee Fable 5 cannot be jailbroken, a mandate experts call technically impossibleThe mandate effectively requires solving the AI alignment problem.

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Block deploys Builderbot, an internal AI agent system that makes 15% of its production code changesThe system merges 1,500 pull requests weekly via Slack.

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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signs a 0.2% cryptocurrency transaction tax that applies to personal wallet transfersThe Crypto Council calls it the most punitive US tax.

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xAI releases Grok 4.3 on Amazon Bedrock to bring real-time X data to AWS developersAzure, Google Vertex, and Oracle also host the model.

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Odyssey ML raises $310 million Series B to develop general world models that simulate physical environmentsCEO Oliver Cameron and Jeffrey Hawke co-founded the startup

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Robotics startup XDOF exits stealth with $70 million and releases ABC-130K, the largest open-source bimanual robot manipulation datasetThe dataset was gathered using the YAM hardware platform.

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PPO creator John Schulman reveals the foundational Proximal Policy Optimization paper was rejected from NIPS 2017He shared the anecdote while posting new RLVR research.

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Will Manidis, ScienceIO founder, argues SpaceX could leverage its cheap capital to acquire Stripe and FigmaLevelsio suggested Stripe could power X as an everything app.

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Mark Zuckerberg's memo urging Meta employees to "have fun" at an AI hackathon draws pushback following 8,000 layoffsThe internal memo aimed to revive Meta's "hacker culture.

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Next.js creator Guillermo Rauch's Vercel launches Eve, a file-based AI agent framework with a unified Agent StackIt uses Markdown for instructions and TypeScript for tools.

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OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, a benchmark of 750 expert tasks to evaluate AI in life science researchThe benchmark covers seven distinct biological research workflows

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AI commentator @teortaxesTex says GLM 5.2 has a seven-month developmental lag, predicting Chinese frontier parity by late 2026Elon Musk expects parity to take until early 2027.

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Lenny Rachitsky, creator of Lenny's Podcast, teases upcoming guest lineup featuring AI leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMindGuests include Jeff Dean and Netflix's Elizabeth Stone.

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