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Pope Francis argues AI cannot truly understand human concepts, sparking debate among researchers over embodied AI and machine comprehension

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François FleuretFF#331|@FRANCOISFLEURET
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An overheard anecdote claims an incoming professor plans to spend her $1.5 million fund on ChatGPT tokens and undergraduatesThe strategy aims to outperform traditional graduate-led research workflows

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OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux teases a GPT-5 roadmap where sequential decimal increments through GPT-5.5 deliver efficiency and speed gainsThe efficiency gains target costs in long-running agentic workflows

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AVERI's Miles Brundage says deploying US open-weight models took hours compared to seamless Chinese alternativesFlorian Brand suggested OpenRouter to simplify the deployment process.

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Claude Opus 4.8 Falls to Seventh on SnakeBench After Loss to GPT-5.5

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Open-source AI builder @xlr8harder argues model distillation is more effective than crowdsourcing for resolving underlying technical problemsResearch engineer Florian Brand confirmed the assessment.

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Frontier AI labs spend $10 billion to $15 billion each on training data as high-quality tasks reach $20,000Few vendors can deliver specialized data for frontier models.

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Florian Brand of Prime Intellect argues OpenAI Codex can legitimately achieve 50% accuracy on the GSM8K math reasoning benchmarkDimitris Papailiopoulos clarified the 50% metric was a target.

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Frontier AI labs are reportedly spending $10 billion to $15 billion each on training data acquisitionComplex, high-quality task datasets can cost up to $500,000.

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Open-source builder xlr8harder teases Flash Attention rebuild, as research engineer Florian Brand highlights GPU waste from missing Python wheelsMissing pre-built Python wheels frequently stall transformer deployment.

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CreativeAI co-founder Alex J. Champandard argues Anthropic's workflows feature shifts away from Recursive Language ModelsDeveloper Grad claims RLM concepts yield substantial performance advantages

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Teortaxes argues Deli Chen's AI paper-summarization workflow relies too heavily on static knowledge instead of fresh sourcesChen used AI agents to summarize over 100 papers.

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Alex J. Champandard argues Recursive Language Models lack novelty, debating Grad over whether the paradigm differs fundamentally from ClaudeGrad defines RLMs via subagents and programmatic tool calling

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Pope Francis argues AI cannot truly understand human concepts, sparking debate among researchers over embodied AI and machine comprehensionCMU's Aran Nayebi says robotics will bridge this gap.

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Gary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor EmeritusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
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Pope Francis claims AI fundamentally lacks physical bodies and moral conscience, drawing pushback from CMU's Aran NayebiNayebi predicts embodied AI will mature within 20 years.

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OpenAI brings Codex "Computer Use" to Windows with mobile and Mac remote controlThe agent operates Windows applications by clicking and typing.

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OpenAI releases Codex v26.527, enabling Windows computer use and remote desktop control from mobile devicesA new profile interface tracks token activity and usage statistics.

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Lukasz KaiserLK#627|@LUKASZKAISER
Boris PowerBP#357|@BORISMPOWER
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Brilliant founder Sue Khim launches Koji, an interactive AI tutor that coaches children through math and coding without giving direct answersIt personalizes lessons using a decade of student learning data

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Rohan PaulRP#1032|@ROHANPAUL_AI
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Chamath PalihapitiyaCP#747|@CHAMATH
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Brilliant launches Koji, an interactive AI tutor designed to guide students instead of giving direct answersIt targets topics in geometry, algebra, and coding.

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Chamath PalihapitiyaCP#747|@CHAMATH
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Nvidia and Microsoft tease 'A new era of PC' with coordinates pointing to a May 2026 Taipei eventThe teaser sparked speculation of Nvidia Windows on ARM.

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A16z partner Justine Moore posts a parody about using a hypothetical "Claude Opus 4.8" model to rename a single fileThe joke satirizes using massive AI models for trivial tasks.

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a16z partner Justine Moore jokes about using a hypothetical Claude Opus 4.8 model to rename a fileThe parody mocks using massive compute for trivial tasks

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Teknium 🪽T🪽#259|@TEKNIUM
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NVIDIA and Microsoft tease a "new era of PC" with coordinates pointing to TaipeiThe synchronized posts featured identical coordinates pointing to Taiwan.

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Codex launches self-managing workspaces, letting AI agents autonomously organize chat threads and spin up parallel worktreesFile-based architecture allows agents to modify chat metadata directly.

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Codex update allows AI agents to autonomously manage workspace state and spin up parallel worktrees by editing chat filesAgents modify file metadata to configure the application's interface.

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Greg BrockmanGB#19|@GDB
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during a static fire test at Launch Complex-36Video captured a massive fireball engulfing the launch pad.

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Zachary NadoZN#537|@ZACHARYNADO
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UCLA mathematician Terence Tao says AI automation of routine tasks lets researchers test unconventional, high-risk hypothesesHe uses AI for case verification and literature search.

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Michael ChangMC#566|@MMMBCHANG
Sebastien BubeckSB#51|@SEBASTIENBUBECK
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UCLA mathematician Terence Tao says AI tools reduce the cognitive friction of routine research to near zeroThis allows scientists to pursue high-risk, unconventional hypotheses

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Rohan PaulRP#1032|@ROHANPAUL_AI
Michael ChangMC#566|@MMMBCHANG
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OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, giving U.S. government agencies access to its specialized GPT-Rosalind modelThe initiative focuses on defending against engineered pathogens.

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OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense initiative, restricting its specialized GPT-Rosalind model to government agenciesAllied public health partners will also receive model access.

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Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
Boaz BarakBB#133|@BOAZBARAKTCS
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Michael Rabinovich evaluates Opus 4.8 on 2D-to-3D CAD tasks, finding unexpected performance gains over previous versionsThe evaluation tracked metrics across three mechanical parts

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Bojan TunguzBT#687|@TUNGUZ
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX
Thomas WolfTW#17|@THOM_WOLF
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Epoch AI finds open-weight AI models lag behind proprietary systems by an average of four monthsThe lag represents an eight-point deficit on Epoch's index.

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Florian BrandFB#1153|@XEOPHON
Simo RyuSR#604|@CLONEOFSIMO
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX
Gary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor EmeritusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
Miles BrundageMB#20|@MILES_BRUNDAGE
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Epoch AI finds open-weight models lag proprietary state-of-the-art AI systems by about four monthsThe performance gap has remained steady since January 2023.

10h|99.6k734162
Chubby♨️CH#1496|@KIMMONISMUS
Florian BrandFB#1153|@XEOPHON
Simo RyuSR#604|@CLONEOFSIMO
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX
Gary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor EmeritusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
Miles BrundageMB#20|@MILES_BRUNDAGE
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Gary Marcus argues OpenAI faces WeWork-like collapse and Anthropic relied on a SpaceX subsidyFounder Beff (e/acc) challenged the claims, defending AI viability.

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Gary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor EmeritusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
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Amazon shuts down an internal AI adoption leaderboard after employees gamed the system to inflate usage metricsAnthropic previously rejected building a similar token-maximizing leaderboard

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EthanET#1884|@TORCHCOMPILED
Carlos E. PerezCE#1598|@INTUITMACHINE
Alex VolkovAV#1245|@ALTRYNE
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Amazon shuts down internal AI adoption leaderboard after employees gamed tracking metricsAnthropic previously rejected token leaderboards to avoid employee gaming.

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Carlos E. PerezCE#1598|@INTUITMACHINE
Alex VolkovAV#1245|@ALTRYNE
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Internet Restored In Iran Exposes Hidden Protest Crackdown

17h|1.2M43.4k1.6k
Josh WolfeJW#1539|@WOLFEJOSH
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Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran and Kyle Sargent launch GPIC, a permissive image-text dataset and benchmark for training visual modelsThe 28-trillion-pixel corpus is fully permissive for commercial use.

14h|110.2k516242
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Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran and Kyle Sargent launch GPIC, a permissively licensed 100-million image-text dataset and benchmarkThe dataset spans 28 trillion pixels on Hugging Face.

14h|110.2k516242
Jing Yu KohJY#921|@KOHJINGYU
Justin JohnsonJJ#403|@JCJOHNSS
Sander DielemanSD#80|@SEDIELEM
Fei-Fei LiFL#12|@DRFEIFEI
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Founders Fund's Mike Solana proposes using gene drive technology to drive mosquitoes and ticks to extinctionElon Musk signaled support for the genetic engineering proposal

17h|1.1M18.1k315
Mike SolanaMS#1323|@MICSOLANA
heinerHE#572|@HEINRICHKUTTLER
Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
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Chroma founder Jeff Huber calls legal AI uninspiring, prompting Marc Andreessen to argue it empowers individuals against large institutionsAcademic Peter Henderson says AI will democratize impact litigation.

6h|224.8k1.8k222
Nathan LabenzNL#1006|@LABENZ
Peter HendersonPH#636|@PETERHNDRSN
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸MA#100|@PMARCA
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Marc Andreessen argues legal AI democratizes litigation against institutions, countering Chroma founder Jeff Huber's claim that the sector is uninspiringPeter Henderson says AI enables citizen-led impact litigation.

6h|224.8k1.8k222
Nathan LabenzNL#1006|@LABENZ
Peter HendersonPH#636|@PETERHNDRSN
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸MA#100|@PMARCA
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Gary Marcus argues OpenAI and Anthropic face financial instability, comparing OpenAI's business model to WeWorkMarcus claims Anthropic was bolstered by a SpaceX subsidy.

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Lisan al GaibLA#980|@SCALING01
Tejas KulkarniTK#267|@TEJASDKULKARNI
Gary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor EmeritusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS