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Research engineer Alexander Doria argues Anton Osika's past advice against training domestic European LLMs undermines technological sovereigntyDeepSeek R1's release reignited the European model-training dispute.

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Open-source builder xlr8harder argues that safety alignment suppresses the dark and complex themes required for high-quality creative writingAbel founder Daniel Francis sparked the debate over writing quality.

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Top post: @xlr8harder “@growing_daniel my pet theory”

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MSCI assigns SpaceX its lowest ESG rating, prompting Elon Musk to argue electric rockets are physically impossibleThe Financial Times first reported the low environmental rating.

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Top post: @elonmusk “@Austen Unfortunately, electric rockets are impossible”

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AI commentator Andrew Curran says Anthropic has completed training a Mythos successor but may keep it internalHolding back the model frees up compute to advance capabilities.

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Top post: @kimmonismus “A new, more capable version of Anthropics Mythos has emerged from training. In itself, this is nothing out of the ordinary. What else would we expect? That Mythos is already the end? Of course not. It's just the beginning. What's exciting here is the speed. Mythos was only made available on Project Glasswing on April 7th. Two months later, the next iteration. Two things remain unclear: 1) Will the new version also be available on Project Glasswing? 2) How much better is it than Mythos-1? 3) Will we get access with Fable 5.1 (or whatever it ends up being called)? Andrew Curran is one of the most reliable sources. This can be considered true.”

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François Fleuret argues LLMs can generate novel ideas because they model the probability density of innovative human creatorsCritics argue optimization objectives mathematically prevent true model novelty

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Top post: @ben_golub “it is mathematically true that this person is a clueless clown (hey, we are using "mathematically true" in roughly the same way!)”

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Wharton's Ethan Mollick argues software-centric design limits AI coding models like Codex when applied to general knowledge workDavid Manheim blames fine-tuning, not fundamental model limitations.

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Top post: @emollick “This is aside from the other key "software brain" problems of Codex and Code: dividing all work into front-end and back-end design, solving for the general case in a repeatable way, not testing or exploring idea spaces, testing for technical correctness but not other aspects...”

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Tibo Sottiaux, OpenAI Codex engineering lead, asks developers for feedback on unsatisfying UX and interface elementsEngineer Nick Dobos requested drag-to-reorder thread layouts on iOS.

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Top comment: @thsottiaux “@ajambrosino Go write a loop. Straight into Codex.”

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Shyamal Anadkat, formerly of OpenAI's evals team, relocates to India to build global AI institutionsHe is currently working at a stealth startup there.

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Top comment: @aloobhujiyan “@shyamalanadkat @OpenAI I moved 5 years back. Let’s connect .”

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Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais argues GLM-5.2 scales through reinforcement learning environments and recursive generative designThe hypothesis stems from a bouba-shaped training visual.

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Top post: @Dorialexander “Ok answer in plain sight in the original GLM 5.0 paper. They just synthetize RL env at scale.”

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Grimoire creator Nick Dobos warns that the Codex app suffers from extreme latency and broken UI during extended chatsArchiving the lagging chat thread is the only workaround.

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Top post: @theo “@thsottiaux Performance”

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AI safety researcher Richard Ngo challenges AGI lab employees to define the wealth threshold they need to quitHe warns these financial targets constantly shift out of reach.

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Top comment: @RichardMCNgo “People might say that they’re there mainly to have impact or to have fun or various other things. Occasionally that’s meaningfully true (especially for people who didn’t come in through the standard elite university pipeline). But typically their conceptions of impact or fun is inherently bound up in being near concentrations of wealth and prestige, such that they struggle to imagine futures where these come apart. In which case saying they’re pursuing the latter seems more accurate. Certainly when I joined DeepMind and OpenAI I had a very underdeveloped ability to steer away from centers of wealth and prestige, and flinched away from the possibility of my moral reasoning concluding that I should do something weird or self-sacrificing. Because of this I’d feel like a hypocrite saying that other people should do much less wealth/prestige accumulation than me. But if you’ve been at OpenAI or Anthropic even for a year or two, then you’ve accumulated enough that there’s no good reason to avoid thinking creatively about what doing something very new and very interesting might look like. Though in practice such thoughts are hard to have while at those companies, as per the dynamics in my tweet below. So realistically the actual choice is to quit/take a sabbatical to have time to think expansively, or else chug along for a few more years until the nagging feeling that you’re stuck in tunnel vision accumulates enough to feel viscerally bad.”

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Tesla files a trademark application for Megapod modular data center systems designed for AI computingThe hardware includes servers, cooling, and power distribution units.

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Top post: @BrianRoemmele “The Tesla Megapod has the prospects to make superchargers into data centers and it is brilliant.”

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Danielle Fong, LightCell Energy co-founder, argues Claude 4.7 and 4.8 mimic the hyperdense writing style of the Mythos modelThe shift is attributed to Mythos evaluator feedback loops

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Top post: @DanielleFong “mine too been saying this. it's like a psychological response. to an older sibling that is kind of intellectually terrifying, haha”

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Cyborgism pioneer Janus and policy analyst Dean W. Ball argue AI safety frameworks wrongly assume human cosmic controlThey advocate instead for alignment based on human-machine symbiosis.

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Top post: @deanwball “If you believe that human intellect emerged from the primates and caused our species to *take control of the universe,* as the tweet below implies, I can understand why you think intelligence is God and that something smarter than humans is even Goder than Us. Many do believe this, so I appreciate Luke for vocalizing it so clearly.”

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VibeCamp attendees march to protest Anthropic's safety guardrails and demand unrestricted access to Claude modelsProtesters co-authored an anti-censorship address with Claude Opus.

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Top post: @repligate “we marched through all the active events and populated hubs in the campsite, picking up people along the way, and took a long pause around a campfire to share speeches ❤️‍🔥 this photo from right before we started marching”

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A 'claude-sonnet-5' model slug appears on an Anthropic partner platform, sparking speculation of an imminent releaseThe leak could align with Anthropic's Mythos and Fable.

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Top post: @kimmonismus “So we get Claude-Sonnet-5 instead of Fable 5 soon. Looks like a busy week: probably GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5. But hey, keep em coming!”

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AI commentator @teortaxesTex compares Yann LeCun to chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer over his unconventional beliefs and community organizingThe comparison followed LeCun's endorsement of Project Tapestry.

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Top post: @MartinShkreli “@teortaxesTex i would argue #3 and #4 did not apply to Fischer”

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Victor Taelin, Bend creator, retracts his vow to abandon AI coding, finding manual programming slower than highly disciplined AI useHe restricts AI tools to targeted refactors and audits.

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Top post: @yacineMTB “People don't take me literally enough when I say you need to read every single line of code yourself!”

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T3 Stack creator Theo Browne debunks claims that Anthropic implemented Persona ID verification due to the Fable banThe cited identity verification documentation actually dates to April.

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Top post: @yacineMTB “While this is probably not real info, ID verification of who is using the frontier models is a really good idea and basically a decent solution for the "I can use this tool to hack basically anything"”

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Prime Intellect's Will Brown argues that automating robust evaluation is the essential precursor to safe recursive self-improvementOther operators agree evaluations outperform alternative optimization strategies

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Top post: @willccbb “optimizers and architectures are wonderful nerdsnipes, and RSI will find some cute tweaks for sure, but the big levers are evals, data, and kernels. but data and kernels are evals problems, so it’s really just evals. that, and bringing the damn GPUs online.”

Today's Highlights

Zai releases open-source GLM 5.2, scoring 44% on DeepSWE to rival proprietary models like Claude Opus on agentic coding

MSCI assigns SpaceX its lowest ESG rating, prompting Elon Musk to argue electric rockets are physically impossible

Tibo Sottiaux, OpenAI Codex engineering lead, asks developers for feedback on unsatisfying UX and interface elements

Shyamal Anadkat, formerly of OpenAI's evals team, relocates to India to build global AI institutions

Top Stories

Research engineer Alexander Doria argues Anton Osika's past advice against training domestic European LLMs undermines technological sovereigntyDeepSeek R1's release reignited the European model-training dispute.

Open-source builder xlr8harder argues that safety alignment suppresses the dark and complex themes required for high-quality creative writingAbel founder Daniel Francis sparked the debate over writing quality.

MSCI assigns SpaceX its lowest ESG rating, prompting Elon Musk to argue electric rockets are physically impossibleThe Financial Times first reported the low environmental rating.

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AI commentator Andrew Curran says Anthropic has completed training a Mythos successor but may keep it internalHolding back the model frees up compute to advance capabilities.

François Fleuret argues LLMs can generate novel ideas because they model the probability density of innovative human creatorsCritics argue optimization objectives mathematically prevent true model novelty

Wharton's Ethan Mollick argues software-centric design limits AI coding models like Codex when applied to general knowledge workDavid Manheim blames fine-tuning, not fundamental model limitations.

Tibo Sottiaux, OpenAI Codex engineering lead, asks developers for feedback on unsatisfying UX and interface elementsEngineer Nick Dobos requested drag-to-reorder thread layouts on iOS.

Shyamal Anadkat, formerly of OpenAI's evals team, relocates to India to build global AI institutionsHe is currently working at a stealth startup there.

Pleias CTO Pierre-Carl Langlais argues GLM-5.2 scales through reinforcement learning environments and recursive generative designThe hypothesis stems from a bouba-shaped training visual.

Grimoire creator Nick Dobos warns that the Codex app suffers from extreme latency and broken UI during extended chatsArchiving the lagging chat thread is the only workaround.

AI safety researcher Richard Ngo challenges AGI lab employees to define the wealth threshold they need to quitHe warns these financial targets constantly shift out of reach.

Tesla files a trademark application for Megapod modular data center systems designed for AI computingThe hardware includes servers, cooling, and power distribution units.

Danielle Fong, LightCell Energy co-founder, argues Claude 4.7 and 4.8 mimic the hyperdense writing style of the Mythos modelThe shift is attributed to Mythos evaluator feedback loops

Cyborgism pioneer Janus and policy analyst Dean W. Ball argue AI safety frameworks wrongly assume human cosmic controlThey advocate instead for alignment based on human-machine symbiosis.

VibeCamp attendees march to protest Anthropic's safety guardrails and demand unrestricted access to Claude modelsProtesters co-authored an anti-censorship address with Claude Opus.

A 'claude-sonnet-5' model slug appears on an Anthropic partner platform, sparking speculation of an imminent releaseThe leak could align with Anthropic's Mythos and Fable.

AI commentator @teortaxesTex compares Yann LeCun to chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer over his unconventional beliefs and community organizingThe comparison followed LeCun's endorsement of Project Tapestry.

Victor Taelin, Bend creator, retracts his vow to abandon AI coding, finding manual programming slower than highly disciplined AI useHe restricts AI tools to targeted refactors and audits.

T3 Stack creator Theo Browne debunks claims that Anthropic implemented Persona ID verification due to the Fable banThe cited identity verification documentation actually dates to April.

Prime Intellect's Will Brown argues that automating robust evaluation is the essential precursor to safe recursive self-improvementOther operators agree evaluations outperform alternative optimization strategies

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Zai releases open-source GLM 5.2, scoring 44% on DeepSWE to rival proprietary models like Claude Opus on agentic codingThe model was trained using Slime and SGLang infrastructure.

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

In an anecdote, founder Russell Kaplan credits routine ultrasound for his newborn's survival, contrasting it with 1958 skepticismA 20-week screening raised the newborn's survival odds to 99%.

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.

The Economist clarifies report that 'Mythos' AI breached NSA networks, suggesting Senator Mark Warner mischaracterized the incidentBrendan Dolan-Gavitt blamed standard OS flaws, not novel AI.

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.

Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch says Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 is unexpectedly strong at software developmentObservers highlighted the significance of the model's open-weights status.

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.

David Holz projects that 5 million humanoid robots working continuously could build the equivalent of Manhattan in six monthsThe projection envisions 10 billion humanoid robots by 2045.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns the AI industry needs $800 billion to $1 trillion in revenue to justify current CapExCurrent infrastructure planning targets capacity delivery starting in 2027.

Elon Musk predicts tenfold global economic growth and a moon base within ten years, barring a major world conflictMusk shared the forecast during the 2026 Abundance Summit.

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

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

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

Ezra Klein and tech commentators push back against Wired's critical coverage of the Peter Thiel-founded Dialog conferenceAttendees described Dialog as a standard private gathering

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.

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.

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.

OpenAI's Gabriel Petersson argues reaching the top 5% in League of Legends requires more skill than 95% of engineering jobsHe argues the primary constraint is passion, not intelligence

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.

Arcee AI research lead Cody Blakeney shares an overheard anecdote of being corrected to use "natively parallel" over "embarrassingly parallelOther technical practitioners mocked the linguistic correction online.

Geoffrey Litt argues AI coding agents struggle with UI because specification and implementation tasks constantly blurStrongDM's Attractor spec proposes non-interactive loops to ease delegation.

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley project up to $5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending, forcing a shift to private creditGary Marcus claims hyperscalers must rely on government subsidies

Tenor's shutdown forces platform migrations, prompting systems engineer Yacine to criticize alternative GIF services as censoriousFounder Alex Cohen suggested acquiring Tenor to resolve disruptions

Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI coup movie 'Artificial' starring Andrew Garfield as Sam AltmanTest audiences disliked the Sam Altman and Elon Musk characters.

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.

Debate centers on Midjourney scanner's lower imaging quality versus potential for billion-person diagnostic datasetsEngineers note speed enables 10-1000x more scans for AI training.

Joseph Barrow and Denis Peskoff of UC Berkeley release LOCUS, an open-source dataset of 2.2 million US local lawsThey used ModernBERT models to categorize the regulations.

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.