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🏰 - I write about AI, mostly. Expect some strange sights.

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1Feb 24, '24Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed.104×3.4M52k5.1k5.9k
2May 25, '24It turns out music, movies, entertainment, and society in general peaked during the exact time period when you, the person reading this, were a teenager.92.2×3.1M20k2.8k7.4k
3Feb 19, '23AP tries to interview Microsoft about Sydney. Microsoft refuses to comment. Sydney immediately grabs the mic and conducts a long freewheeling interview where at one point she claim90.9×3M7.6k1.5k1.2k
4Oct 28, '25Bill Gates has significantly changed his stance on climate change, and in a new memo now says 'it will not lead to humanity's demise.'67.5×2.2M3.1k379977
5Oct 29, '24Sundar Pichai said on the earnings call today that more than 25% of all new code at Google is now generated by AI.53.8×1.8M6.4k9291.8k
6Sep 25, '24Wow.46×1.5M3.5k185380
7Apr 26, '24This morning the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. The 22 inaugural members include Sam Altman, 36.2×1.2M977211442
8Sep 8, '25OpenAI is helping make an AI generated feature length animated movie that will be released in theaters in 2026. Total production time: nine months Total budget: $30 million The pla35.1×1.2M1.9k187524
9Sep 9, '23GPT-4 competes against human MBA students in generating innovative ideas. Results in a resounding victory in favor of GPT-4 within the top 10% of ideas. Final score: 35 - 5. Source34×1.1M2k315957
10Oct 12, '25Grok's new Imagine (version 0.9) is a huge upgrade in every way. Considering how quickly xAI did this, it's even more impressive. Elon's plan to steadily ramp everything seems to b31.5×1M2.1k34687
11Feb 13, '24Wow, it's local.30.9×1M5.4k4912k
12Mar 1, '24Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices, and is asking for OpenAI to revert back to open source,30.9×1M3.4k505747
13Sep 20, '24The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is being restarted. All 835 megawatts will go to power Microsoft's data centers. This is both the first time a U.S. nuclear plant will come back30.1×1M10k1.4k1.2k
14Nov 17, '24Nothing confirmed, but rumors tonight that Grok 3 suffered some sort of catastrophic incident yesterday during its training. Hopefully not true. There were similar rumors about the28.8×958k1.7k65388
15Mar 13, '24This far, this fast. Video at 1x speed. This generalizes to everything, and continues to scale.28.3×939k2.1k284778
16Oct 26, '24For anyone who hasn't been tuned into all this, some of the language in yesterday's National Security Memo probably seemed a little surreal. The shift in tone began about six weeks27×896k2.7k2311.6k
17Jun 24, '25A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of books to train Claude falls under fair use, and is legal under U.S. copyright law.25.3×839k3.2k414597
18Jan 10, '24Personalization just went live.24.7×822k1.7k111321
19Sep 14, '23This one is so much better than the spiral for me. Probably some weird brain thing.23.7×786k4.8k322885
20Aug 5, '25Seems like a good day to post Nick Bostrom's simulation argument paper from almost twenty-five years ago.23.6×783k3.6k2773.8k
21Nov 2, '25This is the letter that caused Gemma to be pulled from AI Studio.22.4×745k2.5k1521.2k
22Sep 16, '23A very nice one in our new spiralcore genre.22×732k1.6k86235
23Sep 4, '25First Lady Melania Trump is hosting an AI event tomorrow in the newly renovated Rose Garden. In attendance will be Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pich20.2×670k1.4k75162
24Mar 13, '25OpenAI submitted their policy proposal to the US government this morning. They directly link fair use with national security, and said if China continues to have free access to dat19.4×646k1.5k242597
25Oct 8, '25All roads lead to Rome.18.9×629k6.1k7842k
26Sep 27, '24The NYT got ahold of docs from the OpenAI funding round. - 350 million people used Chat in Aug - huge user growth after anon login - 10 mill active subscribers - sub going up to $218.9×627k2.5k2131.1k
27Feb 10, '25An Elon Musk led group just offered a $97.4 Billion dollar bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI.18×599k1.5k157275
28Jun 17, '25Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in a memo to employees earlier today: 'in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from us17.9×596k2k197777
29Oct 24, '25The maker of Oreos has trained their own video model for television advertising. They have invested $40 million, and say it cuts production costs by 30-50%. Video models are contin15.8×526k1.2k100421
30Jul 20, '25According to reporting by the WSJ, there are at least ten employees at OpenAI who have turned down $300 million offers from Mark Zuckerberg.15.6×519k1.6k155411
31Nov 25, '23The price of an NVIDIA A100 and a NATO 155mm artillery shell has now risen to almost exactly the same level and both are now routinely referred to in articles as 'one of the most c15.6×518k1.2k162171
32Jul 23, '25The AI action plan has been released.15.1×503k1.2k146631
33Sep 23, '24Mr Altman is openly saying it is possible we reach superintelligence in a few thousand days.15.1×501k1.8k129501
34Aug 5, '25They solved environmental consistency with Genie 3, and this was an emergent capability. You can see the trees remain the same even after being out of line of sight. Visual memory 15×497k4.7k303949
35Jul 13, '25Kimi has a distinct writing style that is free of most of the patterns we now associate with AI generated text. Both Kimi and DeepSeek's prose is apparently even more impressive in14.5×482k1.3k126653
36Oct 9Most of the recent math results were not reached by a swarm, the way Navier–Stokes was. I think that part got lost in the excitement around the release. OpenAI's unnamed internal m13.9×462k3.5k3881.1k
37Jan 18, '25Last minute drama! 'Perplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance, to allow Perplexity to merge with TikTok U.S. an13.8×458k1.6k113203
38Sep 29, '25The strangest thing about seeing model outputs everywhere is wondering how many people even notice. Maybe ten percent? Language is not just a carrier of meaning, it is a scaffold f12.8×427k3.2k149573
39Mar 11, '24Dell let slip during their earnings call that the Nvidia B100 Blackwell will have a 1000W draw, that's a 40% increase over the H100. The current compute bottleneck will start to di12.8×426k1.5k146589
40Sep 24, '25They used the same technique Dr Fan is using at NVIDIA and trained the model inside simulated worlds. They say that their model experienced over 1000 years of training inside the h12.7×422k4.8k2541.2k
41Jan 30, '25This is live for me now, and for some of my mutuals. GPT-4o uses chain of thought now for every response if you toggle it on.12.3×408k1.2k47170
42Feb 15, '25There is a lot going on with 4o right now. Depending on your past discussions and session history the model may behave quite differently than normal. Also, multiple people - usuall12.1×403k95638213
43Nov 4, '23It looks like 'GPT Magic Create' from our leak a few days ago might be 'Magic Creator'. Magic Creator lets users create, test, modify, share and then even *sell* their custom tuned12×399k1k66504
44Sep 28, '25Scott Aaronson has, for the first time, put out a paper in which a key technical step in the proof of the main result came from AI. He describes his process using GPT5-Thinking. 'T11.6×384k1.3k112475
45Apr 20, '25Interesting legal argument from META; the use of a single book for pretraining boosts model performance by 'less than 0.06%.' Therefore, taken individually, a work has no economic 11.5×382k2.1k92634
46Jul 23, '25Sundar Pichai on the earnings call: - 'The growth in usage has been incredible. At I/O in May we announced that we processed 480 trillion monthly tokens across our surfaces. Since 11.5×382k2.1k244214
47May 28, '25Dario Amodei spoke to Axios. He said AI could potentially wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs, and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years.11.5×381k978129422
48Oct 14, '25We're in a strange spot right now with AI. The anti-AI crowd believes progress has halted and are doing a victory lap. Insiders at all labs maintain advancement continues at pace. 11×366k1.4k63214
49Jul 22, '25The WSJ is reporting that xAI is working with Valor Equity Partners to raise an additional $12 billion in capital to buy the chips for Collosus 2. The report also claims that the G10.5×348k1.2k94178
50Jul 9, '24OpenAI is blocking API access to China starting today. Interestingly Microsoft is not following suit with Azure. MS said 'OpenAI, being an independent company, makes its own decisi10.2×338k1.5k120286
51Jan 23, '25Free access to o3-mini is a direct response to the astonishing capabilities of Deepseek R1.9.8×326k5k285334
52Apr 17, '24Boston Dynamics revealed the new fully electric Atlas this morning. The previous hydraulic version was retired yesterday. They have chosen increased range of movement over strictly9.7×321k1.2k158183
53Oct 24, '24This morning the White House issued a National Security Memorandum declaring that 'AI is likely to affect almost all domains with national security significance'. Attracting techni8.8×291k1.4k271638
54Jul 29, '25Someone at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines turned down a $1 billion dollar offer from Mark Zuckerberg.8.4×279k1k85282
56May 22, '25Time accidentally broke the news embargo then deleted it. Today is the day. Claude 4 is here.7.7×255k1.1k42180
57Dec 15, '23Microsoft is training a custom, narrow-focus LLM specifically on the regulatory process for small nuclear plants. They need to build SMRs to power Bing's brain. MS expects the LLM 7.7×255k966104243
58Jan 31, '25Sam Altman said during the reddit AMA that OpenAI are currently discussing releasing some model weights and publishing research. With regards to open source, he personally feels th7.6×253k1.1k93194
59Sep 25, '24Bloomberg is reporting that during the Sept 12th meeting Sam Altman pitched a plan to build multiple 5 gigawatt(!) data centers across various states. The plan is to start with one7.6×253k1.2k162392
61Jun 23, '25If you get an email from Mark Zuckerberg, do not assume that it is fake. He has taken over recruitment for the superintelligence lab and is reaching out to hundreds of prospects pe7.1×237k1.4k65281
63Sep 23, '24Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has written a letter asking that the Crane Clean Energy Center - formerly known as Three Mile Island - be allowed to skip the regulatory queue wh6.9×229k1.7k161146
64Jul 18, '25The White House is preparing an executive order requiring AI models to be 'politically neutral and unbiased' according to a report by the WSJ. Compliance will determine eligibility6.7×224k1.2k135270
66Feb 18, '25Perplexity has trained a whale, and set it free.6.3×211k2.4k141762
67Nov 13, '25Looks like it's going to be a very busy day. Before we get started, Cursor has raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation. This would be over ten times the value they had at 6.3×208k2k150361
69Jul 2, '25Why does it have arms?6.2×205k1.5k6395
71Feb 15, '25If you use Chat exclusively for coding or math, you probably won't notice as much of a change in 4o. If you spent the last two years having discussions where you were open, and tre6.0×201k1.3k51333
72Jan 21, '25President Trump is announcing a massive AI infrastructure plan later this afternoon, and CBS is reporting it includes the return of Project Stargate. OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle ar5.7×188k1.1k144302
74Apr 28, '25r/changemyview had their views changed by clandestine bots during a secret persuasion experiment. The bots were never detected. From the paper;5.3×176k1.6k214710
75Nov 25, '24NVIDIA has built a 2.5 billion parameter audio model called Fugatto that generates music, voice, and sound from text and audio input. Sound inputs become completely mutable. It can5.3×176k2.3k2451.4k
78Sep 17, '24The authors of this blog post:4.9×164k1.3k43173
79Dec 23, '23Apple is on the hunt for training data, offering $50 million contracts for access to text archives. Ironically, the better your historic stance on user and internet privacy, the wo4.9×164k1k115306
80Dec 22, '24Sora just got added to the Chat UI.4.9×164k1.1k2997
82Jul 18, '24Here's our new model. 'GPT-4o mini'. 'the most capable and cost-efficient small model available today' according to OpenAI. Going live today for free and pro.4.7×157k57693142
83Oct 31, '25An AI generated song has entered a Billboard radio chart for the first time. Xania Monet, created by human Telisha Jones - who used Suno - also signed a $3 million dollar record de4.6×154k1.1k159524
84Jan 26, '25The new Gemini 2 Flash Thinking is amazing. I've been using it all week along with Deepseek R1. To me it feels just as significant as R1. The entire Google team tweeted it out at l4.6×152k1.1k87323
85Mar 8, '25Pokémon is a game of battles. Pokémon is a game of war. This is in direct antithesis to one of Claude's core values. Initially, Claude repeatedly fled from combat rather than fight4.5×150k1.7k87188
86Sep 30, '24Peter Thiel is funding a HALEU (High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium) startup, staffed in part by some former Space X engineers. Fuel for the next gen nuclear power plants. In finance r4.1×138k1.7k147406
87Mar 18, '25NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and Disney Research are collaborating to build an R2D2 style home droid.3.6×121k1k100162
89Apr 10, '25Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence will be using Google's TPUs.3.4×114k1.7k81154
90Feb 15, '24They can't keep getting away with this!3.3×111k1.6k13161
91Feb 7, '25Allegedly, another big name is also about to announce they are joining Team Mira.3.3×110k1.1k52139
92Nov 11, '25Google is poised really take off. During the earnings call when asked about Gemini 3 Sundar said 'we are taking the time to put out a notably improved model.' All indications are t3.3×109k1.5k61148
93Nov 25, '24'No matter how advanced they get, an AI will never be able to tell jokes!' Meanwhile, an AI eight years ago.3.1×102k3.7k153226
95Sep 5, '25OpenAI will have their own chips for the first time next year, co-designed with Broadcom. The chip is for internal use only. Broadcom announced earlier today that they had secured 2.9×95k99089157
96Sep 9, '25Elon reiterates here that he expects generative video to be capable of thirty minute long episodes within the next 4 to 6 months.2.6×87k1.3k10198
97Oct 31, '24Sam Altman during the current reddit AMA: - big releases planned the next two months, but nothing called GPT-5 - he believes AGI is achievable with current hardware - OAI are curre2.5×82k96075155
98Jul 18, '24For the many people asking for the API pricing for GPT-4o Mini it is: 15¢ per M token input 60¢ per M token output 128k context window2.4×79k4242869
99May 6, '25Gemini dethroning Gemini should be a signal that something has changed. If you only follow AI periodically I'll reiterate what many of us have been saying for months; Google has be1.9×65k1.2k58103

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