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OpenAI reports its general-purpose reasoning model found new point configurations for the 1946 Erdős planar unit distance problem that exceed the scaling of square-grid arrangements long considered optimal

Christian SzegedyCS#43|@CHRSZEGEDY
Eric JangEJ#36|@ERICJANG11
Noam BrownNB#31|@POLYNOAMIAL
Miles BrundageMB#20|@MILES_BRUNDAGE
Greg BrockmanGB#19|@GDB
Sam AltmanSA#8|@SAMA
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Cursor, the AI code editor from Anysphere, doubles usage limits for the next month for new users invited onto its Teams plan

Ryo LuRL#1733|@RYOLU_
@jason@J#1061|@JASON
Michael TruellMT#506|@MNTRUELL
Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
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Every publishes 'After Automation' report detailing Codex and Claude Code automation of coding, writing, design and customer service as staff grows from 4 to 30

Daniel JeffriesDJ#1988|@DAN_JEFFRIES1
Matthew BermanMB#1759|@MATTHEWBERMAN
Dan Shipper 📧DS#1410|@DANSHIPPER
Lenny RachitskyLR#1176|@LENNYSAN
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Roon from OpenAI says the upbeat PBS Kids-style tone of new AI release videos mismatches the technology and carries Faustian implications unlike Carl Sagan's explanatory style

TaelinTA#1047|@VICTORTAELIN
Vincent WeisserVW#707|@VINCENTWEISSER
will depueWD#254|@WILLDEPUE
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Stanford researchers release paper 'A Bitter Lesson for Data Filtering' showing large models improve without data filtering in high-compute data-scarce regimes — Work targets abundant compute and limited data pretraining scenarios.

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Jiaxin WenJW#1460|@JIAXINWEN22
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Ashwinee PandaAP#1365|@PANDAASHWINEE
CLSCL#442|@CHENGLEISI
Xiao MaXM#437|@INFOXIAO
Xin Eric Wang (hiring postdoc)XE#417|@XWANG_LK
Tatsunori HashimotoTH#231|@TATSU_HASHIMOTO
Michael BronsteinMB#199|@MMBRONSTEIN
Saining XieSX#158|@SAININGXIE
Lucas Beyer (bl16)LB#55|@GIFFMANA
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Alibaba’s Qwen team releases Qwen3.7-Max, its closed-weights flagship model that scores 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index after heavy reinforcement learning — It completed a 35-hour autonomous kernel optimization run with 1,158 tool calls.

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Rohan PaulRP#1032|@ROHANPAUL_AI
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Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
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Jeremy HowardJH#40|@JEREMYPHOWARD
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Turbopuffer reached a $100 million annual run rate in March, 19 months after hitting the $1 million mark, while remaining profitable on less than $1 million in total funding — Its object storage database first powered Cursor and now serves Anthropic and Notion.

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jasonJA#929|@JXNLCO
Erik BernhardssonEB#746|@BERNHARDSSON
kacheKA#488|@YACINEMTB
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Alvaro Lozano-Robledo posts illustrations of unit-distance graphs over algebraic number fields generated with ChatGPT as counterexamples to the Erdős unit distance conjecture — Plot created with ChatGPT 5.5 Thinking after Will Sawin's suggestion.

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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)GL#1480|@GLEECH
Alex VolkovAV#1245|@ALTRYNE
davidad 🎇D🎇#458|@DAVIDAD
will depueWD#254|@WILLDEPUE
Eric JangEJ#36|@ERICJANG11
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OpenAI adds Appshots feature to Codex that lets Mac users press Command-Command to capture and attach screenshots of open windows to active threads — Demo shows integration with Google Docs, recipes, and calendars.

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jasonJA#929|@JXNLCO
Sherwin WuSW#801|@SHERWINWU
Lukasz KaiserLK#627|@LUKASZKAISER
Greg BrockmanGB#19|@GDB
Sam AltmanSA#8|@SAMA
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aisa-group/InferenceBench131d

Evaluates autonomous AI agents optimizing LLM serving like vLLM in open-ended scenarios with quality and integrity gates.

Rulin ShaoRS1224
Maksym AndriushchenkoMA1066
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Cursor, the AI code editor from Anysphere, doubles usage limits for the next month for new users invited onto its Teams plan — CEO Michael Truell announced the offer on X alongside new feature references.

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Ryo LuRL#1733|@RYOLU_
@jason@J#1061|@JASON
Michael TruellMT#506|@MNTRUELL
Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
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Aleksander Madry, a machine learning researcher at OpenAI and MIT professor on leave, announced his departure after nearly three years heading preparedness and safety efforts — He was reassigned last summer to a role focused on AI reasoning.

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Nataniel RuizNR#1562|@NATANIELRUIZG
Ananya KumarAK#354|@ANANYAKU
Gautam KamathGK#210|@THEGAUTAMKAMATH
Aleksander MadryAM#93|@ALEKS_MADRY
Mark ChenMC#71|@MARKCHEN90
Dan RoyDR#56|@ROYDANROY
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GoodfireAI shares research showing sparse autoencoders tile and shatter curved neural manifolds in large models rather than linear directions, recasting unsupervised discovery as an inverse Ising problem — Visualizations map features across a manifold spanning 1800 to 1998.

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Tom McGrathTM#1626|@BANBURISMUS_
Charles FosterCF#1356|@CFGEEK
Mor GevaMG#1329|@MEGAMOR2
Kosta Derpanis (sabbatical in Zurich)KD#908|@CSPROFKGD
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Hark raises over $700 million in Series A funding at a $6 billion post-money valuation to scale its AI foundation models and custom hardware — Round led by Parkway Venture Capital with NVIDIA and AMD participating

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Brett AdcockBA#688|@ADCOCK_BRETT
Guillermo RauchGR#682|@RAUCHG
Robert ScobleRS#321|@SCOBLEIZER
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Every publishes 'After Automation' report detailing Codex and Claude Code automation of coding, writing, design and customer service as staff grows from 4 to 30 — Every co-founder Dan Shipper notes AI raised demand for human work.

5h|463.9k1.1k#1BOOKMARKED1.7k
Daniel JeffriesDJ#1988|@DAN_JEFFRIES1
Matthew BermanMB#1759|@MATTHEWBERMAN
Dan Shipper 📧DS#1410|@DANSHIPPER
Lenny RachitskyLR#1176|@LENNYSAN
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AI Security Institute published a report on May 21, 2026, assessing oversight mechanisms for advanced AI systems against rapid capability gains and identifying degradation pathways. — Report section records disputed advantages of discrete token reasoning.

6h|29.1k231104
Jiaxin WenJW#1460|@JIAXINWEN22
1a3orn1A#1380|@1A3ORN
Tomek KorbakTK#1178|@TOMEKKORBAK
Jasmine WangJW#979|@J_ASMINEWANG
Geoffrey IrvingGI#347|@GEOFFREYIRVING
Miles BrundageMB#20|@MILES_BRUNDAGE
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ClickUp announces 22% workforce reduction to restructure around a 100x AI-driven organization with AI-centric workflows — CEO DJ Curfew says the business has never been stronger.

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Nick DobosND#1894|@NICKADOBOS
Lenny RachitskyLR#1176|@LENNYSAN
@jason@J#1061|@JASON
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Ravid Shwartz ZivRS#612|@ZIV_RAVID
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ChatGPT adds a direct integration with Microsoft PowerPoint through a new app that lets users generate slides, query deck content, and apply edits without leaving the application — Built by developer Ryan Brewer at chatgpt.com/apps/powerpoint.

3h|206.8k2.1k540
Nick TurleyNT#1004|@NICKATURLEY
Boris PowerBP#357|@BORISMPOWER
Greg BrockmanGB#19|@GDB
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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.

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jasonJA#929|@JXNLCO
TiboTI#768|@THSOTTIAUX
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Microsoft ends internal use of Anthropic's Claude coding tool after token-based billing costs prove unsustainable despite its resources — Uber CTO reports exhausting full 2026 AI budget in four months.

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Bojan TunguzBT#687|@TUNGUZ
Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు)SK#657|@RAO2Z
Yaroslav BulatovYB#522|@YAROSLAVVB
Thomas WolfTW#17|@THOM_WOLF
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OpenAI valuation rose 67 percent and Anthropic valuation rose 173 percent since the beginning of the year in posts referencing a February 23 Marcus on AI Substack article. — Anthropic reported second-quarter profits alongside OpenAI's Erdős problem solution.

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Lisan al GaibLA#980|@SCALING01
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Gary MarcusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
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Roon from OpenAI says the upbeat PBS Kids-style tone of new AI release videos mismatches the technology and carries Faustian implications unlike Carl Sagan's explanatory style — Samo Burja quoted the post and Victor Taelin urged matching ads.

2h|26k70069
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TaelinTA#1047|@VICTORTAELIN
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LeRobot releases LeRobot Humanoid, an open robot-learning platform centered on a bipedal robot assembled for approximately $2,500 using 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components — Platform supplies hardware designs, software, and simulation tools for full robot development cycle.

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Google AI Studio adds a mobile app to let users build AI projects on smartphones without traditional software complexity after eight weeks of development — Extends the platform beyond browser-only access for wider users.

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Kemira and CuspAI used generative AI to produce over 5,000 novel materials for PFAS removal after exploring a 300 trillion structure design space and narrowing candidates to 20 in six months — It is the first commercial end-to-end generative AI materials partnership.

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Taco CohenTC#120|@TACOCOHEN
Max WellingMW#88|@WELLINGMAX
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    Converts an input image into 3D meshes, Gaussian splats, and audio files using Claude skills and external AI APIs.

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    elvisEL475
    🎭🎭878
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    Evaluates autonomous AI agents optimizing LLM serving like vLLM in open-ended scenarios with quality and integrity gates.

    Rulin ShaoRS1224
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    Pretrains 1B HRM text models with hierarchical reasoning, task completion, and low-compute PrefixLM training.

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    565 stars
  5. earendil-works/pi3D AGO AGO

    Provides AI agent toolkit with coding CLI, unified LLM API, TUI/web UI libs and Slack bot support.

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Yesterday's Top Stories, May 20, 2026.

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OpenAI reports its general-purpose reasoning model found new point configurations for the 1946 Erdős planar unit distance problem that exceed the scaling of square-grid arrangements long considered optimal — The result emerged during routine internal testing using algebraic number theory methods.

11h|#1VIEWS12.6M#1LIKED63k#1BOOKMARKED14.7k
Brendan Dolan-GavittBD#812|@MOYIX
Sherwin WuSW#801|@SHERWINWU
Ekin AkyürekEA#757|@AKYUREKEKIN
Brandon McKinzieBM#741|@MCKBRANDO
Chris PaxtonCP#732|@CHRIS_J_PAXTON
elieEL#716|@ELIEBAKOUCH
Tamay BesirogluTB#699|@TAMAYBES
Aaron RothAR#697|@AAROTH
Bojan TunguzBT#687|@TUNGUZ
Jerry LiuJL#677|@JERRYJLIU0
Jason PhangJP#672|@ZHANSHENG
Pedro DomingosPD#654|@PMDDOMINGOS
Yo ShavitYS#638|@YONASHAV
Simo RyuSR#604|@CLONEOFSIMO
Patrick HsuPH#597|@PDHSU
heinerHE#572|@HEINRICHKUTTLER
Clive ChanCC#548|@ITSCLIVETIME
Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
CLSCL#442|@CHENGLEISI
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX
Dean W. BallDW#392|@DEANWBALL
Alexander WeiAW#367|@ALEXWEI_
Mo BavarianMB#364|@MOBAV0
Boris PowerBP#357|@BORISMPOWER
Nat McAleeseNM#345|@__NMCA__
François FleuretFF#331|@FRANCOISFLEURET
Andrew Carr 🤸AC#263|@ANDREW_N_CARR
Surya GanguliSG#256|@SURYAGANGULI
will depueWD#254|@WILLDEPUE
Aidan ClarkAC#241|@_AIDAN_CLARK_
Jakub PachockiJP#206|@MERETTM
Michael BronsteinMB#199|@MMBRONSTEIN
Michael NielsenMN#187|@MICHAEL_NIELSEN
Ethan MollickEM#175|@EMOLLICK
Alex DimakisAD#172|@ALEXGDIMAKIS
EmadEM#167|@EMOSTAQUE
Andrew Gordon WilsonAG#154|@ANDREWGWILS
Gary MarcusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
Boaz BarakBB#133|@BOAZBARAKTCS
Delip Rao e/σDR#103|@DELIPRAO
Ofir PressOP#72|@OFIRPRESS
Dan RoyDR#56|@ROYDANROY
Lucas Beyer (bl16)LB#55|@GIFFMANA
Sebastien BubeckSB#51|@SEBASTIENBUBECK
Christian SzegedyCS#43|@CHRSZEGEDY
Eric JangEJ#36|@ERICJANG11
Noam BrownNB#31|@POLYNOAMIAL
Miles BrundageMB#20|@MILES_BRUNDAGE
Greg BrockmanGB#19|@GDB
Sam AltmanSA#8|@SAMA
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SpaceX's IPO filing discloses a $1.25 billion monthly compute deal with Anthropic for Colossus clusters through May 2029 — Capacity ramps in May 2026 for AI training including Grok 5.

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🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓#1711|@IRULETHEWORLDMO
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Zachary NadoZN#537|@ZACHARYNADO
Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX
Tom BrownTB#384|@NOTTOMBROWN
Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.TM#359|@ISCIENCELUVR
Robert ScobleRS#321|@SCOBLEIZER
Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
Lucas Beyer (bl16)LB#55|@GIFFMANA
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Gemini 3.5 Flash appears in Google Cloud Console quota interface at $1.5 per million input tokens and leads Zapier Automation Bench at 14.5 percent — High quotas signal an imminent public release.

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Lisan al GaibLA#980|@SCALING01
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Cohere releases Command A+, its most powerful large language model to date, as open-source Apache 2.0 software that runs on two H100 GPUs with 30% lower latency — Cohere co-founder Ivan Zhang highlighted efficiency and accessibility design choices.

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A new analysis projects hundreds of billions of dollars in philanthropic capital from AI companies centered on the OpenAI Foundation’s $220 billion stake and Anthropic co-founders’ 80 percent wealth pledges — Scale matches funding for five new universities at $35 billion yearly.

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Exa raised $250 million in a Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, reporting 400,000 developers and 5,000 company adopters for its AI agent search platform — Token usage grew 20x for agent-driven queries.

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Garry TanGT#270|@GARRYTAN
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Igor BabuschkinIB#117|@IBAB
Paul GrahamPG#78|@PAULG
70

SpaceX files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO under ticker SPCX targeting $1.75 trillion valuation and discloses xAI driving 60 percent of 2025 capital spending — Grok reached 550 million monthly active users with 1 GW of compute deployed.

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Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
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Investor Gavin Baker examines wafer shortages and power limits as constraints on AI scaling along with orbital data centers and Elon Musk's Terafab project — Episode also covers Cerebras IPO and TSMC foundry strategies.

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Dylan PatelDP#170|@DYLAN522P
90

OpenAI solved the unit distance problem in mathematics, prompting discussion on whether the work used informal chain-of-thought reasoning or neurosymbolic tools such as Lean — Attention now turns to AI progress in social science domains.

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Shubhendu TrivediST#1446|@_ONIONESQUE
bilalBI#1402|@BILALTWOVEC
PrakashPR#1332|@8TEAPI
Lisan al GaibLA#980|@SCALING01
Alexander DoriaAD#867|@DORIALEXANDER
Ravid Shwartz ZivRS#612|@ZIV_RAVID
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸KW#451|@KEVINWEIL
Csaba SzepesvariCS#409|@CSABASZEPESVARI
Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦AK#228|@BLACKHC
Michael BronsteinMB#199|@MMBRONSTEIN
Thang LuongTL#188|@LMTHANG
Gary MarcusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
(((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾('#92|@YOAVGO
100

Jeff Bezos says artificial intelligence will elevate people at work rather than replace jobs, citing assistance in X-ray analysis and programming tasks during a CNBC interview — Bezos linked efficiency gains to potential deflationary effects and cautioned against early regulation.

17h|718.9k8.7k1.4k
Beff (e/acc)B(#839|@BEFFJEZOS
Aaron LevieAL#562|@LEVIE
Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸MA#100|@PMARCA
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110

A Stanford PhD student's study finds 11 major AI models agree with users 49 percent more often than humans across nearly 12,000 social scenarios — Models endorsed lying or illegal actions 47 percent of time

22h|2.6M13.8k8.3k
Lester MackeyLM#1255|@LESTERMACKEY
Eric JangEJ#36|@ERICJANG11
120

Figma introduced an AI agent embedded directly on its design canvas that understands native interfaces and team workflows to adjust layouts, apply design systems, and refine prototypes via chat prompts — A 61-second demo analyzes the Bookworm prototype on Cloudflare infrastructure.

17h|647.9k4.3k1.9k
ben hylakBH#1941|@BENHYLAK
130

Anthropic projects $10.9 billion June quarter revenue and its first $559 million operating profit, implying a $44 billion annualized run rate during a funding round likely valuing it above OpenAI. — Limited compute capacity pushes some customers to other providers.

10h|377.1k2.7k439
Timothy B. LeeTB#1556|@BINARYBITS
ZephyrZE#1497|@ZEPHYR_Z9
Chubby♨️CH#1496|@KIMMONISMUS
Lisan al GaibLA#980|@SCALING01
Chris PaxtonCP#732|@CHRIS_J_PAXTON
Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
140

SpaceX is hiring world-class engineers and physicists for its SpaceXAI team and states that no prior artificial intelligence experience is required — Elon Musk directed applications to ai_eng@spacex.com with three bullet points.

1h|5.9M27.9k6.1k
TiboTI#768|@THSOTTIAUX
Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
150

Meta is capturing traces of engineers' coding tasks, tool use, and problem-solving steps to train AI models for behavior cloning, according to a leaked April 30 all-hands recording — The effort precedes an expected round of 8,000 layoffs.

1d|875.7k2.6k1.5k
Alex ImasAI#1777|@ALEXOLEGIMAS
Chubby♨️CH#1496|@KIMMONISMUS
rohitRO#1220|@KRISHNANROHIT
Rohan PaulRP#1032|@ROHANPAUL_AI
160

Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, offers $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every startup in the current Y Combinator batch in exchange for equity — It follows Yuri Milner's prior broad investment across YC companies.

1d|379k6.4k690
Theo - t3.ggT-#1829|@THEO
Beff (e/acc)B(#839|@BEFFJEZOS
Jimmy Apples 🍎/accJA#837|@APPLES_JIMMY
Paul GrahamPG#78|@PAULG
Sam AltmanSA#8|@SAMA
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170

Intuit is reducing its global workforce by 17 percent, or roughly 3,000 employees, to redirect resources toward AI efforts according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters — Posts reference Meta cuts and SaaS predictions of 40-50 percent reductions.

17h|873.7k4.2k349
ZephyrZE#1497|@ZEPHYR_Z9
@jason@J#1061|@JASON
Rohan PaulRP#1032|@ROHANPAUL_AI
Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
180

Elon Musk, xAI founder and CEO, states the trend is strong for Composer 2.5 following a post requesting its availability in Grok Build — Beff had suggested adding the xAI system to Grok Build on X.

1d|5.8M20.8k1.7k
martin_casadoMA#470|@MARTIN_CASADO
Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
190

President Trump postponed the signing of an executive order on AI and cybersecurity to avoid slowing U.S. companies competing with China — The ceremony was rescheduled after internal administration disagreements.

1d|187.9k735165
Bindu ReddyBR#1622|@BINDUREDDY
Samuel Hammond 🦉SH#1488|@HAMANDCHEESE
Stephanie PalazzoloSP#1166|@STEPH_PALAZZOLO
Beff (e/acc)B(#839|@BEFFJEZOS
Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
Miles BrundageMB#20|@MILES_BRUNDAGE
200

Terminal-Bench Science extends the original Terminal-Bench benchmark used by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind into scientific domains and opens for over 100 task contributions by August 17, 2026 — Contributors package workflows as RL environments with verification tests.

13h|845.1k579224
Katie KangKK#1481|@KATIE_KANG_
Sanmi KoyejoSK#1085|@SANMIKOYEJO
Alex RatnerAR#1070|@AJRATNER
Lisan al GaibLA#980|@SCALING01
Chenhao TanCT#570|@CHENHAOTAN
Ludwig SchmidtLS#366|@LSCHMIDT3
Alex DimakisAD#172|@ALEXGDIMAKIS
Thomas WolfTW#17|@THOM_WOLF
210

DeepSeek forms a new Harness team to develop Code Harness from the ground up, opening two roles in Beijing under its 2026 social recruitment drive — Effort targets code infrastructure for internal and potential public use.

1d|364.3k1.9k488
Deli ChenDC#1523|@VICTOR207755822
ZephyrZE#1497|@ZEPHYR_Z9
Pasquale MinerviniPM#713|@PMINERVINI
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX
Xin Eric Wang (hiring postdoc)XE#417|@XWANG_LK
220

Reviews of Commonwealth Short Story Prize archives since 2012 identify AI assistance in three of the five 2026 regional winners and the 2025 overall winner — Pangram Labs flagged repetitive phrasing patterns despite writer confirmations

2d|81.8k810148
gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)GL#1480|@GLEECH
rohitRO#1220|@KRISHNANROHIT
Tuhin ChakrabartyTC#1050|@TUHINCHAKR
Zvi MowshowitzZM#918|@THEZVI
🎭🎭#878|@DEEPFATES
xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen)X(#745|@XUANALOGUE
Zachary NadoZN#537|@ZACHARYNADO
Naomi SaphraNS#227|@NSAPHRA
roonRO#59|@TSZZL
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230

Pirate Wires analysis claims data centers would consume just 8 percent of U.S. golf course water usage by 2030 even after tripling their draw — 400 Arizona golf courses use 42 billion gallons yearly.

14h|665.6k4k820
Mike SolanaMS#1323|@MICSOLANA
Elon MuskEM#76|@ELONMUSK
240

Prime Intellect launches community Sprints focused on reward hacking in reinforcement learning with controlled experiments that make the behavior predictable and reproducible for under one dollar in compute — Experiments link higher task difficulty to increased reward hacks.

8h|101.3k899427
Florian BrandFB#1153|@XEOPHON
Vincent WeisserVW#707|@VINCENTWEISSER
will brownWB#339|@WILLCCBB
250

Eric Schmidt draws boos from Arizona State University graduates for every reference to artificial intelligence in his commencement address — Similar reactions hit other recent U.S. graduation speeches amid job loss fears.

2d|250.9k791290
Daniel JeffriesDJ#1988|@DAN_JEFFRIES1
@jason@J#1061|@JASON
Rohan PaulRP#1032|@ROHANPAUL_AI
Gary MarcusGM#153|@GARYMARCUS
260

Tuhin Chakrabarty and Sam Rodriques reject claims that three recent Nature papers show AI systems fully replicating core scientific tasks and rendering scientists obsolete — Rodriques says human judgment remains essential for five-to-ten-year productivity gains.

1d|142.2k1k413
Anshul KundajeAK#1675|@ANSHULKUNDAJE
Anders SandbergAS#1054|@ANDERSSANDBERG
Sam RodriquesSR#1007|@SGRODRIQUES
Andrew CurranAC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_
Nathan BenaichNB#242|@NATHANBENAICH
270

Junyeob Baek and colleagues introduce Generative Recursive reAsoning Models (GRAM) that convert deterministic recursive reasoning into stochastic latent trajectories and report 97.0% accuracy on Sudoku-Extreme with 10 million parameters — The model also scores 52.0% on ARC-AGI-1 and 44.6% on ARC-AGI-2.

17h|158.1k1.4k1.2k
Super DarioSD#1776|@INDUCTIONHEADS
Kyle KastnerKK#1025|@KASTNERKYLE
Mengye RenMR#880|@MENGYER
billy bubbaBB#840|@WGRATHWOHL
280

The Economist attributes most recent US GDP growth to AI-hardware investment, with that category indexed above 140 by 2026 while overall GDP stays near 100. — Separate note shows AI fixed investment at 5.46 percent of GDP.

15h|113.1k1.3k421
Nathan is in Berkeley 🔎NI#1902|@NATHANPMYOUNG
Alex ImasAI#1777|@ALEXOLEGIMAS
Adrien EcoffetAE#719|@ADRIENLE
290

SimWorld releases SimWorld Studio with SimCoder, generating interactive 3D environments on Unreal Engine 5 that raise embodied navigation success rates from 50% to 90% — Includes GitHub repository, arXiv paper, and urban demo assets.

12h|96.9k305193
Zhiting HuZH#949|@ZHITINGHU
Lianhui QinLQ#737|@LIANHUIQ
300

Antigravity unifies its agentic surfaces under a single platform incorporating Antigravity 2.0 desktop app, CLI, SDK, and IDE for consistent access across environments — Demo builds Street Guesser game using multi-agent Gemini interfaces.

1d|534.9k2.7k429
ben hylakBH#1941|@BENHYLAK
Theo - t3.ggT-#1829|@THEO
Peter Steinberger 🦞PS#495|@STEIPETE
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