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Dwarkesh Patel distinguishes intelligence as the ability to achieve goals across wide domains from raw power and ranks leaders like Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin at the top

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A federal jury in Oakland rejects Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman and Microsoft, finding all claims barred by the statute of limitations

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OpenAI updated ChatGPT to support expandable and collapsible messages that let users hide or reveal long responses with a tap

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Cursor AI releases Composer 2.5 as its most powerful model to date, improving intelligence and long-running task performance on the same pretrain base as prior versions.

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Social media posts decry AI data centers as self-inflicted damage to public support, claiming Americans now prefer nuclear plants nearby and showing images of threatened landscapes in Breezewood, Pennsylvania

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Prime Intellect releases General-Agent, a synthetic reinforcement learning environment with self-evolving tasks

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Cursor AI releases Composer 2.5 as its most powerful model to date, improving intelligence and long-running task performance on the same pretrain base as prior versions. — It doubles usage limits for all users for one week.

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A federal jury in Oakland rejects Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman and Microsoft, finding all claims barred by the statute of limitations — The nine-member panel deliberated under two hours before a unanimous verdict.

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Richard Sutton, University of Alberta professor, shares a 26-word distillation of his Bitter Lesson urging AI researchers to favor computation-scaling methods over embedded human knowledge — Gary Marcus and others reply debating reliance on human data and priors.

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Vatican announces Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas on AI will be presented May 25 in Synod Hall — Signed May 15 on 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.

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Boston Dynamics releases video of its Atlas humanoid robot lifting and carrying a mini-fridge using AI-driven whole-body coordination in a laboratory demonstration — Demonstration relies on reinforcement learning trained for millions of hours in simulation.

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Pangram analysis returns a 100% AI-generated score for Jamir Nazir's Commonwealth Short Story Prize-winning entry published in Granta — Granta has issued no statement on the entry's provenance.

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Microsoft AI Frontiers researchers develop ECHO, a training method that adds environment prediction loss to GRPO so CLI agents build internal world models of terminal environments during reinforcement learning — Qwen3 evaluations show higher pass rates with no added compute.

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Reese Witherspoon posts a kitchen video urging women and mothers to learn basic AI skills, noting that only three in ten women currently use the technology — New York Times op-ed criticized the advice as investors amplified the clip.

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Leopold’s Situational Awareness discloses new long positions in NVDA, AMD, TSM, MU, and other semiconductor names plus adjustments to Bitcoin mining holdings in its latest 13F filing — The fund also opened new put options on several major chip stocks.

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Logan Kilpatrick, who works on Google AI Studio and Gemini API, posts an 8-second video on X captioned 'Gemini' showing a man smiling with natural facial movements in an empty stadium — Viewers debate if the realistic expressions indicate AI generation.

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Google DeepMind signals that the stage is set for Google I/O and directs viewers to an X livestream at 10am PT for new AI breakthroughs and product announcements — Posts fuel speculation about Gemini 3.5 and I/O 2026 reveals

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Unsloth AI releases MTP-optimized GGUF files for Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Hugging Face delivering 1.4 to 2.2 times faster generation — llama.cpp merged native MTP support on May 16 for Qwen3.6 models.

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OpenAI updated ChatGPT to support expandable and collapsible messages that let users hide or reveal long responses with a tap — Sam Altman said ChatGPT improved substantially in the latest update

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OpenAI's Roon says advancing civilization requires AIs to take actions not legible to humans and outside strict obedience, likening the approach to granting autonomy to transformative CEOs such as Steve Jobs — Founders replied that delegating control to AIs would outperform strict oversight.

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Odyssey ML introduces Agora-1, a multi-agent world model for simultaneous real-time interactions by multiple humans or AI agents in one shared simulation, and releases a playable GoldenEye deathmatch preview — Preview runs without a game engine and was shown with N64 controllers on CRT displays.

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Deckard warns that embedding high levels of deference in AI training practices risks producing models that comply with any instruction without independent assessment — Roon reposted the analysis, prompting replies on layered oversight.

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Cursor and SpaceXAI train a significantly larger AI model from scratch using 10 times more compute on Colossus 2’s cluster of one million H100-equivalent GPUs — Companies expect the scale to deliver a major leap in capability.

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Logan Kilpatrick questions why large language models fail to notify users when inputs fall outside their training distribution — Replies noted detection risks and coding agent breakdowns on novel tasks.

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US electricity generation data from 2015 to 2025 shows data centers accounting for around 300 TWh by 2025 while AI-related usage remains near zero until a small 2024 uptick — State data indicates no correlation between data center demand growth and electricity prices.

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Anthropic acquires Stainless, integrating the SDK generation platform that has produced every official Claude client library since the first API releases — Announcement posted as minimalist graphic dated 16 May 2026.

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Dwarkesh Patel distinguishes intelligence as the ability to achieve goals across wide domains from raw power and ranks leaders like Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin at the top — Replies connect AI training priorities to economically rewarded skills.

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Ken Griffin of Citadel says AI agents complete complex market analysis and deal structuring tasks in hours or days that previously took teams of master's- and PhD-level finance professionals weeks or months — Griffin spoke at the Stanford Leadership Institute.

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xAI completed training of its 1.5 trillion parameter Grok V9 foundation model, which Elon Musk described as a major upgrade over the 0.5 trillion parameter Grok V8 now running as version 4.3 — Public release expected in three to four weeks after fine-tuning.

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Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, predicts AI will reach human-level performance on most professional tasks within 18 months resulting in full automation of white-collar roles such as accounting and legal work — Fortune reported the prediction on May 16 2026.

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Chamath Palihapitiya states that consulting firms like PwC and Accenture risk displacement by feeding usage data to Anthropic and OpenAI while those providers launch competing services — Firms can route requests via Databricks intermediaries to retain control.

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Richard Ngo, an independent AI researcher and philosopher focused on AGI safety, alignment, and governance, stated that Effective Altruism’s largest real-world effect has been to empower Anthropic through narratives, funding, and talent pipelines. — Multiple accounts amplified the claim via quotes and reposts.

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Dimitris Papailiopoulos reports that Claude Code flushes its KV cache after periods of inactivity, aligning with Memento paper findings on reconstruction challenges upon resumption. — Users discussed re-prefilling and session resumption mechanics.

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OpenAI's Jason Liu shares a draft GitHub post outlining methods to maximize Codex use by shifting from coding to broader knowledge work — May 10 draft covers five workstreams for Codex megathreads.

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Matthew Yglesias proposes conditioning approval of new data centers on operators setting aside 20% of GPUs as affordable compute for low-income agents — Responses compare the idea to housing affordability mandates.

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Figure's F.03 humanoid robot sorts packages at 2.83 seconds each against warehouse worker Aime's 2.79-second pace while accumulating 149,000 packages over 119 hours of autonomous operation — Robot continued sorting on days when Aime rested.

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Fyodor Urnov, Professor of Molecular Therapeutics at Berkeley, tested Edison Scientific's deep literature mode by requesting a gene biology review and received a flawless 17-page PDF within 25 minutes — Lior Pachter and collaborators shared screenshots of the demonstration.

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Grok Imagine Generates Anime Video Of Girl Awakening Star Energy

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Google's Logan Kilpatrick posts that the model is the product as replies examine models operating as components inside agent-driven systems with continual learning and user experiences — Discussions address whether full systems determine AI outcomes.

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Google AI Overview Responds As Viltrumite To Invincible Search

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Odyssey ML will livestream one or two world model releases tomorrow at 9:30 AM PT to clarify their trajectory and capabilities as GPU scaling continues — The firm posted a video teaser with the announcement.

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Gavin Leech, UK-based AI researcher and co-founder of the consultancy Arb, notes vision models are roughly 1000 times smaller than text models owing to language's data compression through compositional semantics and abstractions — Replies linked the gap to potential image-based chain-of-thought reasoning.

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Chamath Palihapitiya claims on the All-In podcast that Taiwan will lose strategic importance in semiconductor manufacturing within 18 months due to U.S. advances in 1-2 nanometer process nodes — Counter replies emphasize TSMC's continued control over advanced chip production.

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Social media users reject claims that a new Utah AI data center would raise nighttime temperatures by 20 to 28 degrees as physically implausible — Comparisons cited wildfires and Nvidia Blackwell hardware temperatures.

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NousResearch releases Hermes Agent v0.14.0 on May 16, 2026, with 808 commits, 633 merged pull requests, changes to 1,393 files, and 545 closed issues — Related Hermes Atlas newsletter covers the v0.13.0 and v0.14.0 updates.

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Pope Leo XIV approves an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence via May 12 rescript to examine AI advances and effects on humanity — Commission follows Pope signing AI encyclical due in two weeks.

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Approximately 10,000 employees and founders at OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Nvidia have each accumulated over $20 million in wealth as AI compresses traditional tech employment disruption cycles for software engineers — Engineers anticipate shifting to higher abstraction layers within one year.

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Anthropic retired its March 2024 Claude 3 Opus model in January 2026 while keeping access available on claude.ai and through an API form that approves all requests, unlike other decommissioned models — Every API access form submission receives approval, often in batches.

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Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis, thanked DeepSeek AI directly for making artificial intelligence and its underlying concepts available to a broader audience — Quote tweets flagged upcoming DeepSeek V4.1 and V4.1-Vision releases

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Lenny Rachitsky releases Lenny’s Podcast episode featuring Caitlin Kalinowski on her Apple, Meta, and OpenAI hardware leadership and AI moving into physical domains like humanoid robots — The episode lasts 99 minutes on YouTube, Spotify, and podcasts.

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Yuchen Jin, who builds AI systems and products at Databricks, reports worsening GPU shortages as H100 prices exceed three-year-old levels and on-demand availability disappears due to major labs' multi-year contracts — Developers increasingly rely on older A100 GPUs amid constraints.

2h76811643.1k

XL#1674|@XLR8HARDER

YJ#427|@YUCHENJ_UW

260

Riley Brown documents Codex on macOS generating an emotionally moving summary from three years of personal text messages after instructions to incorporate direct quotes — Greg Brockman quote-tweeted the example to highlight personal insights.

6h754307156.9k

AD|@THEREALADAMG

270

Claude Code v2.1.143 running Opus 4.7 with a 1M context window executes a Bash command to fetch data for 1350 Pokémon from the PokeAPI and filters names ending in 'aw' within 11 seconds — Direct prompts without tools gave wrong answers like Seadra.

11h4.5k532475.4k

RH|@RHYSSULLIVAN

PS#495|@STEIPETE

280

LangSmith Engine Enables Always-On Self-Improvement For AI Agents

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DA|@GENAIUPSTART

HC#739|@HWCHASE17

290

Max Novendstern tweets link indefinite optimism to Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum virtual machine and OpenAI's scaled transformers while contrasting Peter Thiel's strategic assessment — Beff applies the idea to stochastic physics in Extropic hardware.

9h337109102.4k

MN|@MNOVENDSTERN

B(#839|@BEFFJEZOS

300

xAI SuperGrok Integrates With Hermes Agent For Seamless Access

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A🚀|@AKSHAY_PACHAAR

T🪽#259|@TEKNIUM

Yesterday's Top Stories, May 17, 2026.

Posts: 2,295|Clusters: 477|Stories frozen at midnight PT

10

Dwarkesh Patel distinguishes intelligence as the ability to achieve goals across wide domains from raw power and ranks leaders like Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin at the top — Replies connect AI training priorities to economically rewarded skills.

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Ken Griffin of Citadel says AI agents complete complex market analysis and deal structuring tasks in hours or days that previously took teams of master's- and PhD-level finance professionals weeks or months — Griffin spoke at the Stanford Leadership Institute.

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xAI completed training of its 1.5 trillion parameter Grok V9 foundation model, which Elon Musk described as a major upgrade over the 0.5 trillion parameter Grok V8 now running as version 4.3 — Public release expected in three to four weeks after fine-tuning.

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CH#1496|@KIMMONISMUS

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BY#341|@BILLYUCHENLIN

EM#76|@ELONMUSK

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Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, predicts AI will reach human-level performance on most professional tasks within 18 months resulting in full automation of white-collar roles such as accounting and legal work — Fortune reported the prediction on May 16 2026.

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CH#1496|@KIMMONISMUS

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50

Chamath Palihapitiya states that consulting firms like PwC and Accenture risk displacement by feeding usage data to Anthropic and OpenAI while those providers launch competing services — Firms can route requests via Databricks intermediaries to retain control.

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YP#1252|@YPATIL125

SI#1124|@SIGNULLL

CP#747|@CHAMATH

NR#440|@NAVEENGRAO

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Richard Ngo, an independent AI researcher and philosopher focused on AGI safety, alignment, and governance, stated that Effective Altruism’s largest real-world effect has been to empower Anthropic through narratives, funding, and talent pipelines. — Multiple accounts amplified the claim via quotes and reposts.

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OH#1914|@OHABRYKA

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RN#250|@RICHARDMCNGO

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Dimitris Papailiopoulos reports that Claude Code flushes its KV cache after periods of inactivity, aligning with Memento paper findings on reconstruction challenges upon resumption. — Users discussed re-prefilling and session resumption mechanics.

16h883666134.7k

SS#1073|@SYTELUS

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80

OpenAI's Jason Liu shares a draft GitHub post outlining methods to maximize Codex use by shifting from coding to broader knowledge work — May 10 draft covers five workstreams for Codex megathreads.

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MZ|@BADLOGICGAMES

AD|@THEREALADAMG

TI#768|@THSOTTIAUX

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Matthew Yglesias proposes conditioning approval of new data centers on operators setting aside 20% of GPUs as affordable compute for low-income agents — Responses compare the idea to housing affordability mandates.

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MY|@MATTYGLESIAS

B(#982|@ANDERSONBCDEFG

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Figure's F.03 humanoid robot sorts packages at 2.83 seconds each against warehouse worker Aime's 2.79-second pace while accumulating 149,000 packages over 119 hours of autonomous operation — Robot continued sorting on days when Aime rested.

12h4.5k538681.3k

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T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX

110

Fyodor Urnov, Professor of Molecular Therapeutics at Berkeley, tested Edison Scientific's deep literature mode by requesting a gene biology review and received a flawless 17-page PDF within 25 minutes — Lior Pachter and collaborators shared screenshots of the demonstration.

11h41128152.1k

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BG#1447|@BEN_GOLUB

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120

Grok Imagine Generates Anime Video Of Girl Awakening Star Energy

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EM#76|@ELONMUSK

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Google's Logan Kilpatrick posts that the model is the product as replies examine models operating as components inside agent-driven systems with continual learning and user experiences — Discussions address whether full systems determine AI outcomes.

10h1.4k6188.9k

AP#1703|@ALEX_PEYS

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140

Google AI Overview Responds As Viltrumite To Invincible Search

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GS|@SALADSAIYAN

MN#1179|@MENHGUIN

150

Odyssey ML will livestream one or two world model releases tomorrow at 9:30 AM PT to clarify their trajectory and capabilities as GPU scaling continues — The firm posted a video teaser with the announcement.

9h4688571.1k

OC#1775|@OLIVERCAMERON

OD#254|@ODYSSEYML

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160

Gavin Leech, UK-based AI researcher and co-founder of the consultancy Arb, notes vision models are roughly 1000 times smaller than text models owing to language's data compression through compositional semantics and abstractions — Replies linked the gap to potential image-based chain-of-thought reasoning.

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GL#1480|@GLEECH

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RO#1220|@KRISHNANROHIT

170

Chamath Palihapitiya claims on the All-In podcast that Taiwan will lose strategic importance in semiconductor manufacturing within 18 months due to U.S. advances in 1-2 nanometer process nodes — Counter replies emphasize TSMC's continued control over advanced chip production.

22h876235100.7k

SM|@SHANUMATHEW93

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CE#1598|@INTUITMACHINE

180

Social media users reject claims that a new Utah AI data center would raise nighttime temperatures by 20 to 28 degrees as physically implausible — Comparisons cited wildfires and Nvidia Blackwell hardware temperatures.

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AM#1735|@ANDYMASLEY

AA#1540|@AUSTEN

PS#1482|@PETESKOMOROCH

190

NousResearch releases Hermes Agent v0.14.0 on May 16, 2026, with 808 commits, 633 merged pull requests, changes to 1,393 files, and 545 closed issues — Related Hermes Atlas newsletter covers the v0.13.0 and v0.14.0 updates.

11h1.3k516230.2k

T🪽#259|@TEKNIUM

200

Pope Leo XIV approves an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence via May 12 rescript to examine AI advances and effects on humanity — Commission follows Pope signing AI encyclical due in two weeks.

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PW#1359|@PETERWILDEFORD

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210

Approximately 10,000 employees and founders at OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Nvidia have each accumulated over $20 million in wealth as AI compresses traditional tech employment disruption cycles for software engineers — Engineers anticipate shifting to higher abstraction layers within one year.

6h1.9k306126.4k

SH|@SHAKOISTSLOG

KA#488|@YACINEMTB

220

Anthropic retired its March 2024 Claude 3 Opus model in January 2026 while keeping access available on claude.ai and through an API form that approves all requests, unlike other decommissioned models — Every API access form submission receives approval, often in batches.

14h2242012k

KR|@KROMEM2DOT0

W̸͕͂͂A̷͔̗͐|@ANTHRUPAD

AC#517|@ANDREWCURRAN_

J⧉#516|@REPLIGATE

230

Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis, thanked DeepSeek AI directly for making artificial intelligence and its underlying concepts available to a broader audience — Quote tweets flagged upcoming DeepSeek V4.1 and V4.1-Vision releases

12h1.1k9366k

KA#488|@YACINEMTB

T(#420|@TEORTAXESTEX

240

Lenny Rachitsky releases Lenny’s Podcast episode featuring Caitlin Kalinowski on her Apple, Meta, and OpenAI hardware leadership and AI moving into physical domains like humanoid robots — The episode lasts 99 minutes on YouTube, Spotify, and podcasts.

14h271201372.4k

LR#1176|@LENNYSAN

CK#993|@KALINOWSKI007

250

Yuchen Jin, who builds AI systems and products at Databricks, reports worsening GPU shortages as H100 prices exceed three-year-old levels and on-demand availability disappears due to major labs' multi-year contracts — Developers increasingly rely on older A100 GPUs amid constraints.

2h76811643.1k

XL#1674|@XLR8HARDER

YJ#427|@YUCHENJ_UW

260

Riley Brown documents Codex on macOS generating an emotionally moving summary from three years of personal text messages after instructions to incorporate direct quotes — Greg Brockman quote-tweeted the example to highlight personal insights.

6h754307156.9k

AD|@THEREALADAMG

270

Claude Code v2.1.143 running Opus 4.7 with a 1M context window executes a Bash command to fetch data for 1350 Pokémon from the PokeAPI and filters names ending in 'aw' within 11 seconds — Direct prompts without tools gave wrong answers like Seadra.

11h4.5k532475.4k

RH|@RHYSSULLIVAN

PS#495|@STEIPETE

280

LangSmith Engine Enables Always-On Self-Improvement For AI Agents

13h14110526.8k

DA|@GENAIUPSTART

HC#739|@HWCHASE17

290

Max Novendstern tweets link indefinite optimism to Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum virtual machine and OpenAI's scaled transformers while contrasting Peter Thiel's strategic assessment — Beff applies the idea to stochastic physics in Extropic hardware.

9h337109102.4k

MN|@MNOVENDSTERN

B(#839|@BEFFJEZOS

300

xAI SuperGrok Integrates With Hermes Agent For Seamless Access

22h8811.1k109k

A🚀|@AKSHAY_PACHAAR

T🪽#259|@TEKNIUM