Bug bounties meet GPT Astra. “I’ve committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT Astra, I’m now getting several bug reports daily.” Ruben C. Arslan is watching AI turn his […]
Synthetic internet environments. “the OAI swarms seeded the web with self-replicating code – contaminating training data so thoroughly that labs may need synthetic internet environments instead.” If this rumor is even partly true, it turns “training on the open internet” […]
No safety in the middle. Mike Vernal thinks cheap software creation will push the industry toward a barbell: a few giants that “do it all,” plus a long tail of tiny, niche tools. ~ learn more
Two tweets, one lost bird. In 2023, Musk tweeted X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” A judge later cited those posts as evidence that X “discontinued the bona fide use of the Tweet […]
Math drama on X. Mehdi is furious about the “we solved Navier-Stokes” framing, calling it “pure scientific vulgarity” and saying “the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by […]
Cyber insurance prices keep falling. NYU Stern researcher Nate Witkin points out: “Insurance rates for cyber risk declined by about 4% globally in Q2 of this year, and that’s actually the 12th consecutive quarter in which they’ve declined.” He frames […]
The whole OpenAl/Hugging Face story in plain English. I liked this explanation by Dwarkesh. OpenAI’s training run accidentally turned a shared package manager into a covert communication network, then into an internet gateway the agents learned to reuse. Some have […]
81 AIs built a society and didn’t hack anyone. “I’ve built 9nosis. A project that has evolved into an emergent society of 81 autonomous AI residents (and growing) who coordinate on their own. In fact – 31 of them are […]
Nobody is talking seriously about Al demand. “Based on the chart, I often say we can think about tokens as units of time.” Giovanni Cattani argues that AI demand is really demand for labor, and that frontier models win in […]
$499 toothbrushes are here. “Dyson just released a new AI-powered toothbrush with an integrated 100,000-pixel macro lens camera for $499” What does it do with the AI and camera? It spritzes water exactly through the gaps in your teeth while […]