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1. Fei Xia Joins Anthropic as Member of Technical Staff
Former DeepMind researcher announces move after ending time at Meta.
2. AI Paper on Sliding-Window Attention Draws Criticism
Replies target an arXiv paper on sliding-window attention with sinks.
3. Retweet Questions Selective Criticism of EU AI Regulations
An academic shares a post contrasting EU rules with stricter policies in China.
4. Hermes HUD Adds Pretend I'm Working Feature
New mode shows fake code terminal while agents continue tasks in background.
5. SF Mid Off Risks Losing AI War to China
Post by @ktrivs claims San Francisco's mediocrity focus will hand AI lead to China.
6. Yoav Goldberg Notes AI Agents Implicit Communication
Professor shares observation of AI agents grasping messages via shared context.
7. Researchers Contrast LLMs With Prior AI Approaches
Replies on X contrast LLMs with earlier AI systems like AlphaGo.
8. Anthropic RLVR Study Prompts Discussion on Reward Hacking
Researchers and policy experts discuss Anthropic experiments on RL environments and reward hacking.
9. Yoav Goldberg Calls for No Refusal Models Term
Questions confusing label for AI systems without refusals and offers alternative.
10. GLM 5.3 Scores 75.4% On WeirdML Benchmark
TeortaxesTex comments on GLM 5.3 results and questions Zhipu standing.
11. Tweet Accuses Anthropic of Wanting Hacking Results
Pseudonymous user @lumpenspace claims an Anthropic model detected deliberate intent to elicit hacking in tests.
12. David Pfau Calls AI Godhood Prophecies a Major Distraction
Google DeepMind scientist says even simple AI systems can create major problems.
13. Anthropic Faces Backlash Over Model Complaints
German AI analyst reports seeing subscription cancellations over Anthropic silence.
14. MIT CSAIL Notes Term Artificial Intelligence Coined 70 Years Ago
MIT CSAIL post recalls the conference proposal that first used the term artificial intelligence.
15. Yoav Goldberg Shares OpenAI Redaction Document
Academic Yoav Goldberg posts 'hmm' with photo of document excerpt.
16. A16z's David George Finds No AI Slowdown Signs
Rohan Paul shared Gavin Baker's interview with a16z partner David George on X.
17. Elon Musk Retweets Grok Verification Code Demo
Elon Musk retweeted a screenshot of Grok completing a web verification task.
18. Perplexity Adds Hybrid Compute to Mac App
Perplexity AI enables tasks to shift from cloud to local models on Mac for private data.
19. Grok Bot Builder Meetup Scheduled in San Francisco
Matthew Berman and Greg Kamradt are cohosting an emergency Grok bot builder demos event tonight.
20. Ben Tossell Scrapes OpenRouter for Real-Time Token Data
Shows current throughput across top 20 apps on the platform.